Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up, please stand up, please stand up?

Yesterday I watched GOP flack, after GOP flack telling various Sunday show moderators that we had finally seen the REAL Mitt Romney during the debate last Wednesday, and that is why he emerged victorious.

Well first of all I have to question if THAT could honestly be called a "victory" since he essentially lied his way all the way through it, but I also have to wonder if we have EVER actually seen the real Mitt Romney?  And I mean ever.

Here watch this fascinating compilation of the many different Mitt Romneys and you tell me WHICH one is the one that will ultimately run this country if elected.

Personally after watching that I don't want ANY of those Mitt Romneys anywhere near the Oval Office. But I still have no idea if Romney has any sense of self other than his overriding compulsion to win.

And having said that, who does it remind us of?

Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone article on Mitt Romney is a MUST read.

The set design in perfect for Romney's big convention speech.

Courtesy of Rolling Stone:

The great criticism of Mitt Romney, from both sides of the aisle, has always been that he doesn't stand for anything. He's a flip-flopper, they say, a lightweight, a cardboard opportunist who'll say anything to get elected. 

The critics couldn't be more wrong. Mitt Romney is no tissue-paper man. He's closer to being a revolutionary, a backward-world version of Che or Trotsky, with tweezed nostrils instead of a beard, a half-Windsor instead of a leather jerkin. His legendary flip-flops aren't the lies of a bumbling opportunist – they're the confident prevarications of a man untroubled by misleading the nonbeliever in pursuit of a single, all-consuming goal. Romney has a vision, and he's trying for something big: We've just been too slow to sort out what it is, just as we've been slow to grasp the roots of the radical economic changes that have swept the country in the last generation. 

The incredible untold story of the 2012 election so far is that Romney's run has been a shimmering pearl of perfect political hypocrisy, which he's somehow managed to keep hidden, even with thousands of cameras following his every move. And the drama of this rhetorical high-wire act was ratcheted up even further when Romney chose his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin – like himself, a self-righteously anal, thin-lipped, Whitest Kids U Know penny pincher who'd be honored to tell Oliver Twist there's no more soup left. By selecting Ryan, Romney, the hard-charging, chameleonic champion of a disgraced-yet-defiant Wall Street, officially succeeded in moving the battle lines in the 2012 presidential race. 

And oh yeah, you DEFINITELY want to read the rest! Just click the link at the top to do so.