Movies with Mitt (Don't tell Ann)

I haven't seen the film, but perhaps, given the Mittster's reputation as a venture capitalist, perhaps, judging from the title, he saw it as being an inspirational documentary? While he himself was not involved in these, I'm sure that thousands of people formerly employed at Gillette, Fleet Bank, Bank of Boston, Shawmut and other firms stripmined by management of his ilk would get a gallows laugh out of it.

Maybe someone pointed this out already. Matricide is the killing of one's MOTHER!

Having lived in Massachusetts while Romney was governor, and see all of the deferred maintenance that is now haunting the place just so he could balance the budget and not raise taxes, you now describe another act of this political chameleon. He will only do what it takes to get nominated and elected president--then watch out.

Given what has happened over the last year or so, I'm less and less impressed by people who make money from money, and more impressed with people who make something useful, or provide a useful service. Mitt Romney may be a brilliant manager, but so far he hasn't seemed to do anything really significant. He seems to be more of a pretty face than anything else.

Hello! Its a comedy!

Hmm... maybe commenters should READ the actual words in the post before postings snarky comments. It's about mariticide, the killing of one's spouse, not matricide.

Ann,

Michael did not write "matricide." He wrote "mariticide." That's murdering one's husband, as Michael said. It's what Clytemnestra did to Agamemnon for all his crimes before, during and after the Trojan War. Wife-killing is uxoricide - Latin, uxor, wife.

Good to know the Mittster has a sense of humor. Does that mean he knows the Claissics, too?

Yes, but he said MARITICIDE, not MATRICIDE.

I've seen the film. It is fun.

EdA should examine Romney's record instead of going off on him like he was a raider. He wasn't.

I guess it is also too much to expect that someone writing an article for the Globe would use the proper words to describe things.

Ann, the word used is mari-ti-cide, not ma-tri-cide. Mariticide is the killing of a spouse, especially the killing of a husband by his wife. Spoken, they sound quite different, but printed the difference is very easy to miss.

Hi, Emoto. I --am-- familiar with Mitt Romney's record.and broadly familiar with that of Bain Capital.

Being an opportunist may be advantageous in business, but is considerably less admirable in government and/or politics. If Mr. Romney had thought that he had a better chance at running for governor in Utah than in Massachusetts, do you think that that he would have repudiated the claim, blamed on his wife, that their Utah cabin was their primary residence?

Incidentally, as far as I know, exactly none of his five sons, all of whom are eligible to serve in the Armed Forces, have done anything to support their country other than trying to help their father become President. Given Romney's strong support for other people's children to make sacrifices in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, It's not too late for any of them to enlist.

Now, in honesty, I've never met the guy. But given his enthusiasm for adopting and switching positions depending on what is most expedient at the moment, if we were to shake hands, I'd be sure to count my fingers.

And the point of this blog is ................. ?

Geez If this this story had come out when he was running and shown he was human, it could have helped. Instead we got those appalling "oceans of pornaography" commercials delivered by religo-right wing focus group generated robot.

I hate to admit it, but apparently Mitt knows his movies. In my view, anyone who can watch Mike Myers performing "Harriet" without laughing is simply unworthy of holding elected office.

ROMNEY 2012

HEAD! It's like an orange on a toothpick!

Oh my god! A Mormon watched a movie with the words, "Ax Murderer" in the title! He should be thrown out of the church immediately! Alert the Media!

Oh wait. It's the PG-rated dumb comedy from Mike Myers, "So I married an Ax Murderer". And the writer (or should I say tattler) admits he's never actually watched the movie himself, so he doesn't actually know what it's about.

My how salacious.

Really, can you put that leer back in your pocket where it belongs? I've seen this movie. I think you'd actually be hard-pressed to find a more family-friendly film at your local Blockbuster.

I think you should have gone all the way and demanded that the Globe titled your inane article, "Mitt Romney Pushing People to Buy Lurid 'Ax Murderer" Videos!"

I'm a Massachusetts Democrat and I'd never vote for the guy as President, but please, have we sunk so low?

"One time, I was at the library, and Mitt Romney was there, and he asked the librarian if they had any restricted dirty books! Really! It's true! I saw it!"

Weak. Weak, weak, weak.

I bet the friends of both Michael Paulson and McKay Coppins do indeed have cocktail parties, they just don't invite witless cretins who get titillated about Mitt Romney watching a Mike Myers romantic comedy.

well the Mittster had no problem sitting on baords of hotels where X rated movies make up a large part of the revenue. That is fine, except for him to pretend he turns down opportunities that involve things he doesn;t agree with. Flip Flop, Mitt, you only have 3 more years until you have to figure out which way the wind is blowing and 'evolve' your values.

Whoa, John Casey needs to relax and learn to enjoy a funny little blog entry. It didn't seem to me that Paulson was ripping on Mitt, and if John Casey had actually taken the initiative to read McKay Coppins' article at Mormon Times, he would have known that Coppins actually made fun of stories like these.