I think Nate is right to say that Mittens makes a good deal of geographical sense. But I may have never seen a more insincere, wooden candidate in my life. The qualifications for VP are different, but I'd pay to see Biden and Romney in a debate. Anyway, more to the point, the possible entrance of Mittens gives us an opportunity to reminisce on the color-line. The saddest thing about this clip that the folks are clearly excited to see Mittens, and man, he'd rather be anywhere else.
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Wooden and insincere? How about George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole and John McCain? All of them give RomneyDroid a good run for his pandering money, and the speeches they inflicted on the American public deserved some sort of prison sentence.
The local paper has a poll out this morning showing Obama up by 7. Romney won the GOP primary here and he might swing some independents, but I just don't get the gut feeling that a ton of people in Michigan see him as a hometown boy. He still has family here and all, but he made his name and fortune elsewhere.
I live fairly close to where Romney grew up, and people just don't really talk much about him. I think his pull in Michigan is overrated.
He reminds me of Michael on The Office. Totally cringe-inducing but hilarious.
Romney may make sense from one perspective to McCain, but in my opinion he's probably one of the worst picks possible. He gives the Dems new and improved lines of attack, probably won't be enough to help in Michigan or Colorado, and will scare off evangelicals.
Watching Mitt lurch to the right after running as a moderate in Massachusetts was amusing. I wonder how "the base" will react to his past as a donor to Planned Parenthood, or his pledge to be "more gay-friendly than Ted Kennedy"? And his corporate raider days at Bain haven't even begun to be explored. Bring him on!
I only got to 0:19 before I had to hit pause. I can't stand to see that kind of humiliation.
McCain is going to pick a buddy. It's going to be Fred Thompson.
This is one of the funniest. Being reminded of this clip, Mitt Romney IS the spokesperson for white people.
How did he not make the white spokesperson list?
Oh Lord, please let it be Mitt...
This is cringe-inducing. But all his videos are like this. Mike Wallace tried to call him out on his flip-flops in a "60 Minutes" interview last year and Mitt had the balls to say that a good public servant must be able to his mind.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2796103n
This dude has made more waffles than an IHop cook. If you go to "On The Issues" site http://www.ontheissues.org/Mitt_Romney.htm you can read his sordid record.
Guns? He supported the Brady Bill and a ban on automatic weapons. Then he turned around and became a lifetime member of NRA.
Taxes? In 2002 he said: "I will NOT pledge for no new taxes." Now he says absolutely no new taxes.
Abortion? He's like Fay Dunaway getting slapped around by Jack Nicholson in "Chinatown:"
Q: Governor, do you support abortion?
A: She's my sister! She's my daughter! She's my sister! Wait...can I go again?
As for him delivering Michigan? I was born and raised there and yeah, I remember his dad but I'm older than dirt. I suspect any Michiganders under 50 will see a slick rich Massachusetts dude with four houses who's trying to ride dead dad's coat-tails.
He's not insincere at most things (he did pretend to be further to the right than he is during the primary though). It's a Mormon thing: successful Mormons (and there are plenty of them) seem so happy and well-adjusted that they seem wooden and insincere to the rest of us. He's pretty much the real deal though: smart, phenomenally successful business career, one beautiful wife, five healthy kids who don't hate him, etc. He's like a rich Flanders from the Simpsons, but guys like Romney exist in places like Utah. It's a shock to bitter and cynical coastal elites, but they do exist.
(inside Mitt's head): Okaaaaay. Black people. I've seen them before. You can do this Mitt, you can. You cool, you cool. Shrug a bit, slouch, oh that's good. They like me, they really like me.
I was terribly disturbed by that incident. Who Let the Dogs Out!? I think Fat Joe's 'I Make it Rain' while throwing some of his money in the air would have been more appropriate and better use of money.
When I read this at first I was like, when did Beanie Sigel become a Republican Vice Presidential candidate?
Fred writes: "He's like a rich Flanders from the Simpsons, but guys like Romney exist in places like Utah. It's a shock to bitter and cynical coastal elites, but they do exist."
Mitt is a Harvard-educated gazillionaire and the former governor of Massachusetts, Fred. He also still lives here. If he's not a "coastal elite" the term has no meaning.
And as for cynicism, he's got that going for him as well, since he can change his positions at the drop of a hat. Plus he's cruel to dogs.
"It's a Mormon thing: successful Mormons (and there are plenty of them) seem so happy and well-adjusted that they seem wooden and insincere to the rest of us."
I'll just take Barney Frank's word for it:
"The real Romney is clearly an extraordinarily ambitious man with no perceivable political principle whatsoever. He is the most intellectually dishonest human being in the history of politics."
who let the dogs out!
woof! woof!
one of the most embarrassing moments in all of campaign history.
romney as veep candidate would be a gift that kept on giving.
He reminds me of Michael on The Office. Totally cringe-inducing but hilarious.
This is exactly what I was thinking at the end when he says
It was an incredible Michael Scott moment.
That "who let the dogs out" comment always makes me cringe when I see it.
"Mitt is a Harvard-educated gazillionaire..."
This reminds me; weren't the GOP making bones a week ago about going after Obama for his Columbia and Harvard education? What happened to that?
Flipping Mitt is the choice of the GOP Money Men. Period. This was decided in that secret meeting in Utah where he was the ONLY Presidential Candidate invited. It's a way past done deal. They wanted him in the White House proper. But, the GOP Money Men will settle for him being #2.
hate him. hate him worse than rudy giuliani. if he doesn't hate gay people, he sure made a good pretense of it here during the gay marriage debate.
that was my weekly gay-marriage post.