To Mitt Romney, a vote is a vote is a vote...
But, while speaking in front of the NRA, the support of whose members he desperately needs, he's so obviously uncomfortable talking to people he considers 'foreigners' and the 'peasantry' that he had to put Anne out there to do it, since they might as well be women, and that's what he's got a wife for, right, to clear his way for him. Nice try, but his audience is used to his stiff and apparent discomfort. She, on the other hand, comes across as condescending, forgetful, and arrogant. Bet their servants, who've stayed with them and who remember their places a la Downton Abbey (or for those old enough to remember, Upstairs, Downstairs), can't stand them. Privately, of course. Keeping always to their proper places.
After the election, of course, forget it. Gun people are louts as far as Mittens is concerned. Tell them what they want to hear, make them go away and and things will return to their proper spheres, just the way he likes it and needs for it to be. As a rich man, as an extremely religious and rigid rich man, his speech patterns have indicated his preferences for exclusivity, for all things to be in their proper places, with the gates that keep the wrong kinds out and let the right kind in.
I've seen video of him ironing his shirts; what I would like to see are the videos of someone ironing him (or, for shits and giggles, of him ironing someone else's clothes). The stiffness that Anne Romney was talking about unzipping (unsuccessfully, by the way) was good for a few puerile snickers but his stiffness seems to be a whole-body, mental, and certainly a verbal thing.
I can't believe there are still so many Republican voters who don't see this guy and his party for what they represent. It's all about control; controlling himself, controlling his environment, controlling your environment, etc. Mitt tries so hard to say exactly what he knows his audience wants to hear, they all fall over themselves clapping for him, and are so amazed when he flip-flops the very next time he opens his mouth in front of a different audience. Because he simply can't maintain the act, keep up the facade. Even when his own staff gives it away (Etch-a-Sketch, oopsie), the rest of the electorate giggles and shrugs it off.
And he gets away with it and the media lets him. Just like the rest of this Republican clown-car jackass ride, they've all gotten pass after pass after pass. Mitt's a total vote whore and understands that he has to say and do almost anything (you really think he'll eat grits or any authentic Southern or Mexican food after the election? I think not. I don't think he even eats anything with real vanilla; too bean-y.) to haul in every vote, to reach his goal. Beyond that, his puppet masters will let him know on a day to day basis, although there is a firm foundation of federal Wall Street deregulation and Supreme Court case ruling to divide the country's money even further, from 1% and 99% to...what, his vaguely amorphous 'very poor' becoming vaster and cemented in place, his 'very rich' becoming very richer and their riches becoming vaster and safer. Man's gotta have a plan.
Every once in a while, though, the hard plastic Mitt-shell unzips, and the real less-than-naughty bit that is the whole near-Mitt pokes itself out. Embarrassed or ashamed or just properly, blushingly shy, Anne? Are you the one who really wants this? What's your plan going forward for being First Lady? Already got your china pattern picked out?
If straightforward election fraud and plain old district gerrymandering doesn't work, I see his high-dollar masters helping him pull a SCOTUS Bush v. Gore out of his ass, although I believe he's more the Wall St. callboy than the military/industrial phony puppet shill fratboy gig that George Bush so successfully pulled off.