Mitt Romney- Almost a psychopath ?

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“People who are an almost psychopath have an ability to lie that is startling.”
“These people are comfortable with lying because they’re not worried about getting caught."
"They’re not worried about how you feel about anything and they will use you or anybody else, to get what they want."
"When cornered or caught, they will just continue to lie to the extent where people who know the truth, might wonder about themselves."
“People who are almost a psychopath are unlikely to change easily, if at all. They have an ingrained personality disorder and it’s hard to change.”

If you lack empathy, you don’t mind lying to somebody, you don’t mind conning, threatening or using violence, if necessary."

"True psychopaths or almost psychopaths are completely rational. But the only thing they care about is taking care of themselves."

http://www.thealmosteffect.com/

When Mitt Romney ran for Senate in 1994 against the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Romney boasted that he would be a more effective
and outspoken proponent of gay rights than Kennedy: “When Ted Kennedy speaks on gay rights, he’s seen as an extremist. When Mitt Romney
speaks on gay rights, he’s seen as a centrist and a moderate,’’ Romney said at the time. (Speaking of himself, in the third person ?)

Mitt Romney's Big fat Lie

More effective and outspoken proponent of gay rights ? Get back into the closet, and stay there, according to Mitt Romney's Mormon religion.

The Mitt Romney administration’s objection to use of the terms bisexual and transgender smacked of “censorship, and stigmatization, and prejudice.’’
- Kathleen Henry

VS

“These programs were pushing a radical( LGBT ?) agenda. They were trying to indoctrinate* people on the issue of sexual preference."

-Kris Mineau- president of the Massachusetts Family Institute

At Issue-

Former MA governor Mitt Romney’s administration in 2006 blocked publication of a state antibullying guide for Massachusetts public schools,
because officials objected to use of the terms “bisexual’’ and “transgender’’ in passages about protecting certain students from harassment,
according to state records and interviews with current and former state officials.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/a...anguage_on_bisexual_transgender_youth/?page=2

May 2006, Mitt Romney threatened to shut down the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth because it issued a press release
with his name on it promoting a parade to celebrate gay, bisexual, and transgender teens.
(Mitt Romney's religion pits him against MA teens and their parents.)
In July 2006, Romney vetoed a $158,000 budget line item-
that was earmarked for counseling violence victims in the “LGBT community.’’ The appropriation was intended to prevent sexual violence
and rape, and also for suicide prevention.
The move to block the bullying report, immediately followed Romney’s threat to shut down the Gay and Lesbian Youth Commission.

The law VS religious belief-

Her opposition to homosexuality got her into trouble, however, when she enrolled last year in a practicum course that involved
counseling real clients in a university-operated clinic. When she encountered a client who wanted to be treated for depression—
but previously had been counseled about a homosexual relationship—she asked her faculty supervisor whether she could
refer the client to another counselor, explaining that her religious views precluded her from doing anything to affirm the
client's homosexual behavior.

http://chronicle.com/article/Judge-Upholds-Dismissal-of/123704/

Orders from above, from the top 1% of the USA, and the top 1% of the world-
Divide America! Make it weaker.

Set neighbor against neighbor. Set brother against brother. Divide and conquer.

*Our indoctrination is good and healthy. Your indoctrination is evil and harmful."

(Beating a gay teen to death, is healthy ? Cutting LGBT off from support, protection and resources, is healthy ?)

Mitt Romeny is indoctrinated, and feels no compassion or empathy for LGBT members. He feels entitled and empowered
to stir up wrath against a fellow student. He uses gang mentality to use force against a student.
to physically attack a school mate. And risk harming the student while he hacks off the fellow student's hair with scissors.
What is the message? If you are suspected of being LGBT, you will be attacked and overpowered by force. You will be forced to retreat, away.
(After all, Mitt Romney could not tolerate being associated with LGBT. It might harm his political future.)
*
1
: to instruct especially in fundamentals or rudiments : teach
2
: to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle

Examples-

The goal should be to teach politics, rather than to indoctrinate students in a narrow set of political beliefs.
<indoctrinated children in proper safety procedures>
 
Hmm. A lengthy cut & paste to indict Romney. Not sure a nonpartisan jury will take to it.
 
Doesn't matter! Vote RINO 2012! Compromise all your principles just to gain power for your tribe! Republican hypocrisy for the win! RINO RINO RINO RINO RINO RINO!!!!!!!
 
No worse than Obama's I was for it before I was agin it.
 
10,000 copies of the 120-page “Guide to Bullying Prevention’’ were ultimately published in 2008, during Democrat Deval Patrick’s
first term in office. It contains advice for school administrators and teachers on how to curb bullying, cyberbullying, and hazing.
A two-page section describes how gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth are frequent targets of bullying, and it offers
contact information to find help.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/a..._over_language_on_bisexual_transgender_youth/

What was it that Mitt Romney wanted blocked? Knowledge that might help all students combat bullying ?
Or, Mitt Romney did not want LGBT students to have help with combatting bullying.

These events do not make Mitt Romney's campaign claim, into an outright lie ? I can't see how Mitt Romney
being a more effective communicator with the Right Wing, can benefit the LGBT community, if Mitt Romney is
actively working against them.
 
You can be opportunistic without being a psychopath.

The stuff about the police uniforms is weird, though.
 
An aide to Mitt Romney resigned from the campaign yesterday, but he denied allegations that he used fake badges so he and other members
of Mitt Romney's advance staff could gain access to closed areas and, in one instance, avoid paying a highway toll.

Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom confirmed that the campaign had accepted Garrity's resignation. He had been on leave for allegedly
impersonating a law enforcement officer in two states.

Garrity manufactured the silver badges with a Massachusetts state seal while Romney was still governor. Under Massachusetts law,
it is illegal to use a badge without authority, an offense punishable with a fine up to $50.

Garrity, Glanville, and Ritter did not have badges, but "a round metal disc with the seal of the governor's office" ?

http://articles.boston.com/2007-07-21/news/29233545_1_fake-badges-romney-aide-mitt-romney

According to classmate Robin Madden, Romney once brought a group of classmates up to his dorm room where he showed them his Michigan State Trooper’s uniform.

“He told us that he had gotten the uniform from his father,” George Romney, then the Governor of Michigan, whose security detail was staffed
by uniformed troopers. “He told us that he was using it to pull over drivers on the road."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...romney-im_n_1575680.html?ref=mitt-romney-2012

Impersonation, abuse of power, intimidation, and counting on fear, for him to get away with it. Not close to being a psychopath ?

Nothing could be done, for he was the Mayor's (Governor's) son.- Tom Lehrer)
 
Great generals have more than a touch of paranoia.

Great CEOs often have more than a touch of antisocial personality. Steve Jobs found philanthropy only after stealing wysiwyg from Xerox. Bill Gates is not a saint despite his foundation. Wall Street. Examples are endless.
 
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Being a psychopath or an almost psychopath has nothing to do with being psychotic, Mr. Silver noted. Psychotic, he said,
means being delusional and out of touch with reality. True psychopaths or almost psychopaths are completely rational.
But the only thing they care about is taking care of themselves. (In other words- borderline personality.)

http://www.telegram.com/article/20120612/NEWS/106129909/1101/local

A Massachusetts "almost psychopath"-

He took the office, he found an opportunity, he found people to cooperate in his scheme, and he did not stop, even after he was caught.

Lied. Cheated. Schemed. Conspired. Gall!

After he had been caught- McLaughlin caused another uproar on his final day on the job, ordering an office accountant to
cut him three checks worth more than $200,000 for unused vacation time and other perks.

State officials ordered the authority to stop payments on the checks. He had already cashed one, for more than $80,000,
and they have pledged to try to recoup that sum.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-11-...housing-residents-affordable-housing-director

He used and abused everyone and everything-
After Francine Dorrance was evicted from her Chelsea Housing Authority apartment over $276 in unpaid rent, the authority’s housing manager moved in, paying $25 a month.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...using-units/0v71QypOyS8UEqUnVHyiOI/story.html

Residents of the Scrivano Apartments, one of several managed by the Chelsea Housing Authority, say they already had plenty to complain about, from rodent infestations to cracked walls.

McLaughlin’s lavish pay was especially jarring considering that the authority raised their monthly rent earlier this year from $485 to about $635, after accusing them of under-reporting their federal disability benefits, a charge they deny.

Local Boston news channels interviewed Chelsea HUD tenants, and the news filmed the buildings conditions. The tenants were told that they would have to pay for repairs, themselves. That they would have to pay for the problems, themselves. People who could not afford the basics in life. The very poor, and their children. The ill with chronic
and terminal illnesses. The disabled. The mentally ill. The very old. McLaughlin had his goons threaten them. They lived in miserable conditions. The buildings that McLaughlin
had in his care, deteriorated and became further damaged from neglect. OTOH, he was using every penny that he was given to him, for himself and his cronies, stooges, and
goons. Corrupt from the top to the bottom. A huge scam operation.


Maria Gonzalez, 41, said she learned about McLaughlin’s salary Saturday from a neighbor. She said she was surprised, because workers have told her funding is not available to pay for certain repairs, including drafty windows, or to exterminate cockroaches and mice.

The money was supplied, and there were Boston government office accounts to pay for it all. The money was going into state employees pockets. Payoffs. Bribes. Graft. Someone was fudging the books.

“And now they said they want to charge [tenants] for anything they fix,’’ said Gonzalez, a tenant for 14 years. “He doesn’t deserve [that salary].’’

Michael E. McLaughlin resigned as head of the Chelsea Housing Authority Nov. 3 (after the Globe reported that he was receiving $360,000 a year in compensation.)

McLaughlin has already admitted that he concealed his full pay from state officials, reporting that he made only $160,000 a year.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-11-...housing-residents-affordable-housing-director

Federal agents are looking at how the housing authority may have “spun the budget’’ to cover up former director Michael E. McLaughlin’s
salary by transferring money among accounts, said one official with knowledge of the FBI’s involvement. Among other things, investigators
are also scrutinizing McLaughlin’s expense and travel records, said the official, who declined to be named.

Investigators say questions were also raised by the behavior of the agency’s accountant, a longtime McLaughlin family friend
who cosigned the checks to McLaughlin. James McNichols has admitted he recently shredded documents in the authority’s
offices and helped McLaughlin remove boxes of materials from the office on the night he told the Patrick administration he
would resign.

McLaughlin formally applied this week for a state pension that would be by far the largest in state history, based on annual
pay that may be the highest among all US public housing officials. The pension application shows that his pay reached
$370,678 in 2011 and averaged $347,665 over the past three years.

By the time investigators found evidence of the checks, McLaughlin had already cashed one for $81,578.79. The amount
represented 793 hours of unused vacation. State officials ordered Ewing to stop payment on the other two checks and to
make no further payments of any kind to McLaughlin “no matter how they are categorized,’’ according to the letter from
Steven Carvalho, acting director of the state Department of Housing and
Community Development.

http://articles.boston.com/2012-02-02/metro/30646099_1_housing-officials-public-housing-mclaughlin
 
Chilling parallel between Jerry Sandusky the raper of children and Mitt Romney-

Sandusky also had a reputation as a jokester, and he often initiated pranks. He recalled several pranks in his book, but the one that is
missing is the one in high school chemistry class that Stock said he's heard "a couple hundred times." Pizzi remembered that prank, too.

The lab was separate from the classroom, and occasionally, with Sandusky as the ringleader, students would sneak out of class and place
a call to the phone in the lab. Once, somebody rubbed the phone with a piece of charred cork, and when the teacher replaced the receiver,
he had a large, black ring around his ear.

Liptak also was a willing participant in Sandusky's pranks.

"He was a really funny kid when he was around his friends. He had a red Ford truck and a siren, and I'd be in the back of the truck with some
buddies and we'd go chase parkers at Washington Park," said Liptak. "He'd put on his high beams and crank up the siren, and people would
freak out. You'd see clothes flying every which way."

Threats-

An alleged victim of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky testified Wednesday that Sandusky had sexually assaulted him
and then threatened him to prevent him from telling anyone.

"He told me if I ever told anyone, I'd never see my family again," the 25-year-old man, who has been identified only as "Victim #10"
by prosecutors, told the jury.

What kind of threats did the Governor's son, Mitt Romney make ?
(When he was wearing the Michigan state police uniform? To the people in the cars he pulled over, when he was a teen ? Real funny haha (NOT )

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/jerry-sandusky-trial-victim-10-tesimony_n_1593546.html
 
Doesn't matter! Vote RINO 2012! Compromise all your principles just to gain power for your tribe! Republican hypocrisy for the win! RINO RINO RINO RINO RINO RINO!!!!!!!

hahaha
"doesn't matter!!! vote DINO 2012!! he fucked over half his base and kept about 1/5 of his campaign promsises, but vote for blue anyway!!! hope and change!!!!"
 
hahaha
"doesn't matter!!! vote DINO 2012!! he fucked over half his base and kept about 1/5 of his campaign promsises, but vote for blue anyway!!! hope and change!!!!"

You mean close to half right? And a lot of that he had no control over. It's not a lie if Congress doesn't do as it's told. It's a function of our system.
 
You mean close to half right? And a lot of that he had no control over. It's not a lie if Congress doesn't do as it's told. It's a function of our system.

by this logic, the office of president is completely impotent. :rolleyes:
 
by this logic, the office of president is completely impotent. :rolleyes:

Not impotent, simply not omnipotent. When he promises civillian trials and New York and every other state refuses and Congress refuses to do anything that's not a lie.

Once you're older than six years old you understand that if someone tried their best and didn't live up a promise they are failures, not liars. There is an important distinction.
 
Christ it's asinine to assume that being critical of Obromney automatically makes me a supporter of Rombama.

it's asinine (asiTEN, really) and utterly retardiculous (i'm patenting that one) to vote simply along party lines, or to assume that one party is any more moral, ethical, or reasonable than the other party.

yet here we are :(
 
Not impotent, simply not omnipotent. When he promises civillian trials and New York and every other state refuses and Congress refuses to do anything that's not a lie.

Once you're older than six years old you understand that if someone tried their best and didn't live up a promise they are failures, not liars. There is an important distinction.

funny you say that, i think it's about around 6 yrs of age when people learn and understand the distinction between saying you'll try your best, and promising things that aren't in your control.

but hey, maybe he didn't know how government worked when he was campaigning back in '08
 
funny you say that, i think it's about around 6 yrs of age when people learn and understand the distinction between saying you'll try your best, and promising things that aren't in your control.

but hey, maybe he didn't know how government worked when he was campaigning back in '08

The only time people actually say "I'll try" vs "I will" is when they think something is impossible. He knew exactly what he was saying and given how we elect people it's exactly what he should have said.
 
Is this GotSnow chick going to do these type threads all the way until November??

here we go again
 
Being a psychopath or an almost psychopath has nothing to do with being psychotic, Mr. Silver noted. Psychotic, he said,
means being delusional and out of touch with reality. True psychopaths or almost psychopaths are completely rational.
But the only thing they care about is taking care of themselves. (In other words- borderline personality.)

http://www.telegram.com/article/20120612/NEWS/106129909/1101/local

A Massachusetts "almost psychopath"-

He took the office, he found an opportunity, he found people to cooperate in his scheme, and he did not stop, even after he was caught.

Lied. Cheated. Schemed. Conspired. Gall!

After he had been caught- McLaughlin caused another uproar on his final day on the job, ordering an office accountant to
cut him three checks worth more than $200,000 for unused vacation time and other perks.

State officials ordered the authority to stop payments on the checks. He had already cashed one, for more than $80,000,
and they have pledged to try to recoup that sum.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-11-...housing-residents-affordable-housing-director

He used and abused everyone and everything-
After Francine Dorrance was evicted from her Chelsea Housing Authority apartment over $276 in unpaid rent, the authority’s housing manager moved in, paying $25 a month.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...using-units/0v71QypOyS8UEqUnVHyiOI/story.html

Residents of the Scrivano Apartments, one of several managed by the Chelsea Housing Authority, say they already had plenty to complain about, from rodent infestations to cracked walls.

McLaughlin’s lavish pay was especially jarring considering that the authority raised their monthly rent earlier this year from $485 to about $635, after accusing them of under-reporting their federal disability benefits, a charge they deny.

Local Boston news channels interviewed Chelsea HUD tenants, and the news filmed the buildings conditions. The tenants were told that they would have to pay for repairs, themselves. That they would have to pay for the problems, themselves. People who could not afford the basics in life. The very poor, and their children. The ill with chronic
and terminal illnesses. The disabled. The mentally ill. The very old. McLaughlin had his goons threaten them. They lived in miserable conditions. The buildings that McLaughlin
had in his care, deteriorated and became further damaged from neglect. OTOH, he was using every penny that he was given to him, for himself and his cronies, stooges, and
goons. Corrupt from the top to the bottom. A huge scam operation.


Maria Gonzalez, 41, said she learned about McLaughlin’s salary Saturday from a neighbor. She said she was surprised, because workers have told her funding is not available to pay for certain repairs, including drafty windows, or to exterminate cockroaches and mice.

The money was supplied, and there were Boston government office accounts to pay for it all. The money was going into state employees pockets. Payoffs. Bribes. Graft. Someone was fudging the books.

“And now they said they want to charge [tenants] for anything they fix,’’ said Gonzalez, a tenant for 14 years. “He doesn’t deserve [that salary].’’

Michael E. McLaughlin resigned as head of the Chelsea Housing Authority Nov. 3 (after the Globe reported that he was receiving $360,000 a year in compensation.)

McLaughlin has already admitted that he concealed his full pay from state officials, reporting that he made only $160,000 a year.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-11-...housing-residents-affordable-housing-director

Federal agents are looking at how the housing authority may have “spun the budget’’ to cover up former director Michael E. McLaughlin’s
salary by transferring money among accounts, said one official with knowledge of the FBI’s involvement. Among other things, investigators
are also scrutinizing McLaughlin’s expense and travel records, said the official, who declined to be named.

Investigators say questions were also raised by the behavior of the agency’s accountant, a longtime McLaughlin family friend
who cosigned the checks to McLaughlin. James McNichols has admitted he recently shredded documents in the authority’s
offices and helped McLaughlin remove boxes of materials from the office on the night he told the Patrick administration he
would resign.

McLaughlin formally applied this week for a state pension that would be by far the largest in state history, based on annual
pay that may be the highest among all US public housing officials. The pension application shows that his pay reached
$370,678 in 2011 and averaged $347,665 over the past three years.

By the time investigators found evidence of the checks, McLaughlin had already cashed one for $81,578.79. The amount
represented 793 hours of unused vacation. State officials ordered Ewing to stop payment on the other two checks and to
make no further payments of any kind to McLaughlin “no matter how they are categorized,’’ according to the letter from
Steven Carvalho, acting director of the state Department of Housing and
Community Development.

http://articles.boston.com/2012-02-02/metro/30646099_1_housing-officials-public-housing-mclaughlin

Borderline Personality isnt at all about self-absorption. In a nutshell the BPD lives in perpetual angst and does really crazy stuff to deal with the angst. That is, the BPD is Glenn Close in FATAL ATTRACTION.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZHe3GYQp_8
 
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Being a psychopath or an almost psychopath has nothing to do with being psychotic, Mr. Silver noted. Psychotic, he said,
means being delusional and out of touch with reality. True psychopaths or almost psychopaths are completely rational.
But the only thing they care about is taking care of themselves. (In other words- borderline personality.)

http://www.telegram.com/article/20120612/NEWS/106129909/1101/local

A Massachusetts "almost psychopath"-

He took the office, he found an opportunity, he found people to cooperate in his scheme, and he did not stop, even after he was caught.

Lied. Cheated. Schemed. Conspired. Gall!

After he had been caught- McLaughlin caused another uproar on his final day on the job, ordering an office accountant to
cut him three checks worth more than $200,000 for unused vacation time and other perks.

State officials ordered the authority to stop payments on the checks. He had already cashed one, for more than $80,000,
and they have pledged to try to recoup that sum.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-11-...housing-residents-affordable-housing-director

He used and abused everyone and everything-
After Francine Dorrance was evicted from her Chelsea Housing Authority apartment over $276 in unpaid rent, the authority’s housing manager moved in, paying $25 a month.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...using-units/0v71QypOyS8UEqUnVHyiOI/story.html

Residents of the Scrivano Apartments, one of several managed by the Chelsea Housing Authority, say they already had plenty to complain about, from rodent infestations to cracked walls.

McLaughlin’s lavish pay was especially jarring considering that the authority raised their monthly rent earlier this year from $485 to about $635, after accusing them of under-reporting their federal disability benefits, a charge they deny.

Local Boston news channels interviewed Chelsea HUD tenants, and the news filmed the buildings conditions. The tenants were told that they would have to pay for repairs, themselves. That they would have to pay for the problems, themselves. People who could not afford the basics in life. The very poor, and their children. The ill with chronic
and terminal illnesses. The disabled. The mentally ill. The very old. McLaughlin had his goons threaten them. They lived in miserable conditions. The buildings that McLaughlin
had in his care, deteriorated and became further damaged from neglect. OTOH, he was using every penny that he was given to him, for himself and his cronies, stooges, and
goons. Corrupt from the top to the bottom. A huge scam operation.


Maria Gonzalez, 41, said she learned about McLaughlin’s salary Saturday from a neighbor. She said she was surprised, because workers have told her funding is not available to pay for certain repairs, including drafty windows, or to exterminate cockroaches and mice.

The money was supplied, and there were Boston government office accounts to pay for it all. The money was going into state employees pockets. Payoffs. Bribes. Graft. Someone was fudging the books.

“And now they said they want to charge [tenants] for anything they fix,’’ said Gonzalez, a tenant for 14 years. “He doesn’t deserve [that salary].’’

Michael E. McLaughlin resigned as head of the Chelsea Housing Authority Nov. 3 (after the Globe reported that he was receiving $360,000 a year in compensation.)

McLaughlin has already admitted that he concealed his full pay from state officials, reporting that he made only $160,000 a year.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-11-...housing-residents-affordable-housing-director

Federal agents are looking at how the housing authority may have “spun the budget’’ to cover up former director Michael E. McLaughlin’s
salary by transferring money among accounts, said one official with knowledge of the FBI’s involvement. Among other things, investigators
are also scrutinizing McLaughlin’s expense and travel records, said the official, who declined to be named.

Investigators say questions were also raised by the behavior of the agency’s accountant, a longtime McLaughlin family friend
who cosigned the checks to McLaughlin. James McNichols has admitted he recently shredded documents in the authority’s
offices and helped McLaughlin remove boxes of materials from the office on the night he told the Patrick administration he
would resign.

McLaughlin formally applied this week for a state pension that would be by far the largest in state history, based on annual
pay that may be the highest among all US public housing officials. The pension application shows that his pay reached
$370,678 in 2011 and averaged $347,665 over the past three years.

By the time investigators found evidence of the checks, McLaughlin had already cashed one for $81,578.79. The amount
represented 793 hours of unused vacation. State officials ordered Ewing to stop payment on the other two checks and to
make no further payments of any kind to McLaughlin “no matter how they are categorized,’’ according to the letter from
Steven Carvalho, acting director of the state Department of Housing and
Community Development.

http://articles.boston.com/2012-02-02/metro/30646099_1_housing-officials-public-housing-mclaughlin

No. Sociopathy is the correct term for it. Psychopaths, on the otherhand, have always been the folks who color outside the lines, and experience no shame, but what they do isnt usually malevolent. Lady Gaga and Madonna come to mind.

Sociopaths generally take care of business and appetites and problems with whatevers handy or opportune. They have no conscience, ethics, morals, or principles.
 
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