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Ok, hear me out......

What if Ted Bundy had been non-violent?  (After all, most psychopaths aren't violent.)  And instead of women, what if Bundy had craved power?  Perhaps his college major would have been business instead of psychology.  Good looking, wealthy, intelligent....and a master at manipulation with a total lack of empathy.  Hopefully you see where I'm going with this but if not, let me help you out.  Mitt Romney may be a psychopath.

Now before you go crying foul, keep in mind that being psychopathic isn't all that uncommon. Especially for guys.  Roughly 1 in 100 men are psychopaths. (true!) And again, most of them are non-violent.  But they also have no sense of compassion, guilt, shame or embarrassment.  Instead, the psychopath will lie, cheat and manipulate to get what he wants with a total disregard for those he has hurt along the way.

Which brings us back to Mitt.  I'm not sure why everyone is so quick to give Mitt Romney the 'good guy' tag.  Has he done anything to deserve it?  Maybe so, but I haven't seen it.  We all want to believe that a man so close to occupying the Oval Office is a decent human being....perhaps so much so that we're willing to lie to ourselves when the evidence shows otherwise.  Romney is a man who has made a living by fucking people over.  Think about that.  It's one thing to not care about helping people (i.e. W), but it's something else entirely to knowingly wreck people's lives for the sake of profit.  Frankly, I don't think Mitt Romney has an empathetic bone in his body.  Quite the contrary. What I see is a man who chuckles whilst being reminded of his days as a schoolyard bully.

So the Real Question becomes, what if he wins?  What happens when America becomes one giant schoolyard for Mitt Romney?  Will you be one of the rich few cheering him on?  Or will you be on the ground with the rest of us, crying for help, while that chuckling psycho cuts your hair?

-TRS