Jon Huntsman is. People keep calling Romney a robot but that’s not quite accurate; Huntsman proves this by comparison perfectly because the guy actually IS a robot. When Huntsman speaks, people fall into comas. The guy has no passion, no fire, and he doesn’t even sound like a polished politician (a la Romney); he sounds like a guy making announcements over a PA system. There’s a reason you call someone a robot; it means they’re emotionally dead. You ask them a question and they give you a canned, lifeless response that doesn’t hit ANY sort of nerves; they give you a clinical response which, in Huntsman’s case, typically doesn’t even end up being very substantive anyway. It’s a lot of “When I’m elected president…”, “You know, this is what this country is suffering from…” etc. etc. in that rote, coma-inducing way he has of talking. If he actually WAS a robot it would be ok but coming from a guy who’s running for president and trying to inspire people, it is just absolutely painful to watch; they won’t put on Buddy Roemer (who is at a minimum not coma inducing) but they give this jackass airtime?? Somebody smack him. I have not seen ANY candidate in the last couple elections that doesn’t at least provide some entertainment value. Bachmann? Perry? Santorum (aka frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter)? Obeezy? Clinton? Dubya? Entertainment value all around. (Ok maybe John Kerry was pretty useless entertainment-wise too.) But no this Huntsman fool, he just comes and takes up valuable time in my popcorn political junkie cable news TV viewing, how dare he. Nothing inspiring, nothing irritating, nothing infuriating, no entertainment. Totally useless.
Romney is not that. Romney is a regular ass slick pol. Obviously he’s not in the Bachmann/Perry/Cain bucket; he’s not a retard. He’s not in the Gingrich bucket; no blunt ad-lib speak for this guy. He’s not slick like Clinton because he (Romney) is all veneer; Clinton was the real deal. What Romney is is a withdrawn, aloof, walls-up family-oriented Mormon who clearly does not seem dumb in the slightest. He’s a numbers guy, an organizer and it doesn’t seem like he’s wealthy by accident. (There was a lengthy piece on him in a Vanity Fair article.) He’s obviously COMPLETELY prepped for any kind of news event, he’s a poll-driven campaigner, he’s a panderer and a flip-flopper and he’s an agile debater. But…the bottom line is that there is a soul there; it’s the soul of a calculator and a triangulator, and he’s not even close to being bad at what he does. Hunstman has no soul; he doesn’t represent ANY kind of quality. Nothing. Nada. Jero. He’s useless. He should be a high school civics teacher where he properly puts students to sleep and is immediately forgotten the second they step out of class. He should earn $40k a year, mingle with parents and faculty in a completely unremarkable fashion and be thought of by no one when he’s not around except maybe his family.
1/9/2012 – Christ
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