Is it possible to be "cool" and support Mitt Romney?

[angus]

it's possible, at least in the abstract.  

the supercool would support people like Stein or Johnson or Rocky, of course.  Fonzie, for example, is probably a Libertarian.  I can't see him supporting a major party candidate.  Che Guevara would lay waste to the major party candidates in scathing, inflammatory speeches.  Mark Twain would probably make fun of both of them continuously in biting, satirical articles.  

But there are a handful of cool people who support Romney (Captain Kirk, maybe), and a few who support Obama, for that matter (Charlotte Brontë, and maybe John Lennon).  Mostly cool people wouldn't support Romney/Obama, but I wouldn't preclude the mere possibility.  

[angus]

You left out Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Ronald Regan, etc. etc.

Clint Eastwood was cool.  Now he's making political speeches.  The whole point of cool is to tune in, turn on, and drop out.  Now, there are a few people capable of being politically active and remaining cool.  They are the supercool.  It's easier to pull that off if you're on the far right or the far left, by the way, which is why the supercool will mainly support fringe candidates (socialists, libertarians, scorchers, constitutionalists, etc.), but there are some who are cool enough to support a major party candidate openly and still be cool.  They are the coolest of the supercool.  I'm not sure Clint Eastwood is among them.  Elvis was, for sure.  He was a Nixon man, and still cool.  Andy Warhol was cool enough as well.  He could get away with supporting Romney or Obama and still be cool.  Most people can't pull that off, because the cool factor derives from being above this sort of thing.  The Buddha, for example, probably the coolest dude ever, would avoid endorsing any candidate.  Certainly he'd avoid supporting the likes of modern American politicians.

[angus]

it's possible, at least in the abstract.  

the supercool would support people like Stein or Johnson or Rocky, of course.  Fonzie, for example, is probably a Libertarian.  I can't see him supporting a major party candidate.  Che Guevara would lay waste to the major party candidates in scathing, inflammatory speeches.  Mark Twain would probably make fun of both of them continuously in biting, satirical articles.  

But there are a handful of cool people who support Romney (Captain Kirk, maybe), and a few who support Obama, for that matter (Charlotte Brontë, and maybe John Lennon).  Mostly cool people wouldn't support Romney/Obama, but I wouldn't preclude the mere possibility.  

John Lennon was a Reagan supporter by the time he died.

Indeed, and I think he'd still support a major party candidate.  Which one?  Flip a coin.  

I was thinking about Spock.  I think he would be less likely to support Romney than the Captain.  Not Obama, though.  He would probably go with a Libertarian.  Sulu probably likes Obama, though.  
(Sulu ≠ cool.)