National Review: Romeny should flaunt money cuz hoes love dough, yo!

Carl Herrera · Aug 22, 2012

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ould_get_100_percent_of_the_female_vote_.html

https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/313504/boss

Williamson's take on female voters' evolutionary psychology is just about as good as Todd Akin's take on the workings of female physiology.

At least he's not an elected GOP official, just a writer for a leading right wing magazine.

What do women want? The conventional biological wisdom is that men select mates for fertility, while women select for status — thus the commonness of younger women’s pairing with well-established older men but the rarity of the converse. The Demi Moore–Ashton Kutcher model is an exception — the only 40-year-old woman Jack Nicholson has ever seen naked is Kathy Bates in that horrific hot-tub scene. Age is cruel to women, and subordination is cruel to men. Ellen Kullman is a very pretty woman, but at 56 years of age she probably would not turn a lot of heads in a college bar, and the fact that she is the chairman and CEO of Dupont isn’t going to change that.

It’s a good thing Mitt Romney doesn’t hang out in college bars.

You want off-the-charts status? Check out the curriculum vitae of one Willard M. Romney: $200 million in the bank (and a hell of a lot more if he didn’t give so much away), apex alpha executive, CEO, chairman of the board, governor, bishop, boss of everything he’s ever touched. Son of the same, father of more. It is a curious scientific fact (explained in evolutionary biology by the Trivers-Willard hypothesis — Willard, notice) that high-status animals tend to have more male offspring than female offspring, which holds true across many species, from red deer to mink to Homo sap. The offspring of rich families are statistically biased in favor of sons — the children of the general population are 51 percent male and 49 percent female, but the children of the Forbes billionaire list are 60 percent male. Have a gander at that Romney family picture: five sons, zero daughters. Romney has 18 grandchildren, and they exceed a 2:1 ratio of grandsons to granddaughters (13:5). When they go to church at their summer-vacation home, the Romney clan makes up a third of the congregation. He is basically a tribal chieftain.

Professor Obama? Two daughters. May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.

From an evolutionary point of view, Mitt Romney should get 100 percent of the female vote. All of it. He should get Michelle Obama’s vote. You can insert your own Mormon polygamy joke here, but the ladies do tend to flock to successful executives and entrepreneurs. Saleh al-Rajhi, billionaire banker, left behind 61 children when he cashed out last year. We don’t do harems here, of course, but Romney is exactly the kind of guy who in another time and place would have the option of maintaining one. He’s a boss. Given that we are no longer roaming the veldt for the most part, money is a reasonable stand-in for social status. Romney’s net worth is more than that of the last eight U.S. presidents combined. He set up a trust for his grandkids and kicked in about seven times Barack Obama’s net worth, which at $11.8 million is not inconsiderable but probably less than Romney’s tax bill in a good year. If he hadn’t given away so much money to his church, charities, and grandkids, Mitt Romney would have more money than Jay-Z.

It is time for Mitt Romney to get in touch with his inner rich guy.

Some Occupy Wall Street types, believing it to be the height of wit, have begun to spell Romney’s name “Rmoney.” But Romney can do better than that — put it in all caps: R-MONEY. Jay-Z can keep his puny little lowercase letters and the Maybach: R-MONEY doesn’t own a flashy car with rims, R-MONEY does billion-dollar deals with Keystone Automotive and Delphi. You want to make it rain? R-MONEY is going to make it storm, like biblical. Rappers boast about their fat stacks: R-MONEY’s fat stacks live in a beachfront house of their own in the Hamptons, and the bricks in that house are made from tightly bound hundred-dollar bills. You have a ton of money? R-MONEY has 200 metric tons of money if he decides to keep it in cash.
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I hope Mitt does follow this advice, maybe we'll get some fun rally entrance music out of it. I am sure Vince, whose wife is running for Senate on a GOP ticket, will be happy to let Mitt use his. I hope Mitt does the walk, too.

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SamFisher · Aug 22, 2012

That's great. And great timing too...basically he should be 50-shades of gray guy - sort of an "illegitimate rape" type that women LOVE!

I see much awesomeness here.

mc mark · Aug 22, 2012

Seriously?

Does Mr. Obama even need to campaign this year? Just lead these misogynic knuckleheads to a microphone and let em at it.

Carl Herrera · Aug 22, 2012

Lol

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Clearly the Romney campaign needs to do a version of this François Hollande video: <a href="http://t.co/NIn2IkNe" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOXhp0BuaiM">youtube.com/watch?v=BOXhp0…</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23swag"><s>#</s><b>swag</b></a></p>— Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/238342711915184128" data-datetime="2012-08-22T18:31:45+00:00">August 22, 2012</a></blockquote>
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