January 30, 2020
Mitt Romney: The Dumbest Smart Person?
By Mark Anderson
There's a great line from the movie I, Robot that often springs to mind when it comes to politicians. Will Smith plays a cop, and he is the only one in the city to realize there's a problem with the newest line of robots, which have already killed at least one person — despite hardwired programming to the contrary. In the scene, he's confronting one of their design scientists, who is brilliant but willfully blind to the obvious problems. He yells, "You are the dumbest smart person I know!"
"Dumbest smart person" should be engraved on an award. Mitt Romney and the three other Republicans considering calling witnesses in President Trump's impeachment trial would be the final four.
Clearly, Romney, Collins, Murkowski, and Alexander are all smart people. They're successful. They've managed to get elected to the Senate. Romney himself is a near-billionaire in his own right. But they are willfully blind to the obvious-to-everyone-else tactics of the Democrats.
Romney especially — as a businessman — should know better. He should know that insiders can become blind to problems that someone from outside the system can see clearly. That's the entire point of business consultants. Romney himself was a consultant. And yet, now that he's a Washington insider, he appears to have forgotten what he once knew about strategy.
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