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(The New York Times) Obvious And so it begins, Romney is getting "loose." Dropping references to 'The Courtyard Marriott' and quoting rap songs in order to "relate" to voters. But boy that whole GOP freakshow was amusing while it lasted, huh?   (nytimes.com) divider line 69
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2011-12-28 09:51:36 AM
It's like the more money he comes across, the more problems he sees.
 
2011-12-28 09:58:22 AM
Trying to be hip is great if you can pull it off. Otherwise you make people uncomfortable by trying too hard. I don't think Mitt's got the skill to pull it off.
 
2011-12-28 10:09:39 AM
AWKWARD!
 
2011-12-28 10:17:55 AM
ginandbacon: AWKWARD!

Are you French Canadian? Are you a 38 year old French Canadian?
 
2011-12-28 10:19:57 AM
James!: ginandbacon: AWKWARD!

Are you French Canadian? Are you a 38 year old French Canadian?


Hahahaha! I'm not the 38 French Canadian's daughter, let's put it that way.
 
2011-12-28 10:23:48 AM
ginandbacon: James!: ginandbacon: AWKWARD!

Are you French Canadian? Are you a 38 year old French Canadian?

Hahahaha! I'm not the 38 French Canadian's daughter, let's put it that way.


I have a telephone with maps on it... Have you been to Milwaukee?


Has anyone considered that Mitt may have Aspergers?
 
2011-12-28 10:24:08 AM
James!: ginandbacon: AWKWARD!

Are you French Canadian? Are you a 38 year old French Canadian?


Is he running for the nomination or a job in a circus booth?
 
2011-12-28 10:27:05 AM
James!: ginandbacon: James!: ginandbacon: AWKWARD!

Are you French Canadian? Are you a 38 year old French Canadian?

Hahahaha! I'm not the 38 French Canadian's daughter, let's put it that way.

I have a telephone with maps on it... Have you been to Milwaukee?


Has anyone considered that Mitt may have Aspergers?


I actually thought he might be on the spectrum when he was Governor. He's just so painfully inept at reading social cues and he really doesn't get humor.
 
2011-12-28 10:27:29 AM
Diogenes: James!: ginandbacon: AWKWARD!

Are you French Canadian? Are you a 38 year old French Canadian?

Is he running for the nomination or a job in a circus booth?


For one dollar I'll guess you weight, your height, or your
sex. The most exciting thing on the midway. Imagine the thrill of
getting your weight guessed by a professional. You can blow up
your cheeks, you can stick out your chest, but you're not going
to fool the guesser. How about you sir? Step right up!
 
2011-12-28 10:44:58 AM
I think the whole Spaghetti with Mitt idea might have legs. After he loses the election, he could give the folks at A&E a call. Each week, a limo shows up at the home of some random American, who is transported to Fazoli's to eat dinner with Mitt Romney. People would watch that.
 
2011-12-28 10:51:42 AM
ginandbacon: He's just so painfully inept at reading social cues and he really doesn't get humor.

That's pretty much part of the Republican platform, isn't it?

/Paula Poundstone said it best: "You can tell that vegetarians don't vote as a group because if they did Mitt Romney would be a vegetarian"
 
2011-12-28 11:12:10 AM
I'd cut Romney some slack. He's really been through the wringer over the last few months, what with all the swings of the polls, and information coming to light about whether or not he might at one time held opinions that are actually compassionate, which are obviously now anathema to the right-wing. But he wasn't actually cut out for this. His Mormon family history is one of sacrifice, mission, and penitence. Politics has really flipped his life, turned it upside down. In Detroit, the motor city, he was born and raised. In private schools he had spent most of his days. He went to France on a mission to convert Catholic dogs, and did a good job Mormonizing the Frogs. Then a couple of guys, rugby hooligan-whos, scared the pee right out of Mitt and his magic Underoos. Well, his mom got the news and she said it right there, "You're going to live with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air".
 
2011-12-28 11:26:46 AM
i236.photobucket.com
 
2011-12-28 11:37:08 AM
This is bullsh*t.

Romney needs to drop out of the race. Like yesterday.
 
2011-12-28 11:39:19 AM
"Will you put Ron Paul in your cabinet?"

Romney: "So he can force the gold standard on my silverware? Not likely!"
 
2011-12-28 11:40:55 AM
Diogenes: James!: ginandbacon: AWKWARD!

Are you French Canadian? Are you a 38 year old French Canadian?

Is he running for the nomination or a job in a circus booth?


Is there a difference?
 
2011-12-28 11:42:32 AM
FTFA: "I don't mind stiff and formal," said Holly Sirois, who spoke to Mr. Romney a few days ago at a pizza shop in Newport, N.H. "I don't want the guy sitting in the backyard drinking beers with his buddies. I want my president to act presidential."

Are you sure you're a Republican, Ms. Sirois?
 
2011-12-28 11:43:24 AM
Quit, Romney. You are less likeable than the sixteen time adulterer, the retarded repressed homosexual from Texas, the stepford wife and the world's droopiest dog. You have no chance.
 
2011-12-28 11:43:49 AM
ginandbacon: James!:

Has anyone considered that Mitt may have Aspergers?

I actually thought he might be on the spectrum when he was Governor. He's just so painfully inept at reading social cues and he really doesn't get humor.




it's called being Mormon.
 
2011-12-28 11:45:35 AM
FeedTheCollapse: ginandbacon: James!:

Has anyone considered that Mitt may have Aspergers?

I actually thought he might be on the spectrum when he was Governor. He's just so painfully inept at reading social cues and he really doesn't get humor.



it's called being Mormon.


I have a Mormon neighbor. Nice guy, but he seems like he might be on the spectrum himself. Of course, he doesn't seem like a very good Mormon, since he loves dirty jokes and Dr. Pepper.

/CSB
 
2011-12-28 11:46:11 AM
FTFA: Mr Romney is "a cautious chief executive who is uneasy with off-the-cuff remarks, unnatural at chitchat and spare with his emotions. "

Yeah, because it went so well last time we had an attention loving, chatty-Cathy, gimme-a-hug good-time-Charlie in the White House. Blow jobs in the oval office and an impeachment proceeding.

/A+A+A+...would vote for Bubba again
 
2011-12-28 11:47:15 AM
dahmers love zombie: In Detroit, the motor city, he was born and raised.

Saw it coming right here haha.
 
2011-12-28 11:48:24 AM
HeartBurnKid: I have a Mormon neighbor. Nice guy, but he seems like he might be on the spectrum himself. Of course, he doesn't seem like a very good Mormon, since he loves dirty jokes and Dr. Pepper.

My all-time "failed to read social cues" story stars a Mormon. I won't get into it, but let's just say it took place at a funeral.

AAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWKKKKKKKWWWWWAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRDDDDD
 
2011-12-28 11:48:32 AM
The Retooled, Loose Romney, Guessing Voters' Age and Ethnicity

Because there's no way he could offend someone by doing that.
 
2011-12-28 11:48:48 AM
We can all get behind forcing badgers on the enemy and stuffing the ice chest!

Stuff The Ice Chest! (new window)
 
2011-12-28 11:49:37 AM
I would venture the opinion that Mitt Romney attempting to work rap lyrics into his campaign appearances would be the 2012 version of Dukakis in the tank.
 
2011-12-28 11:50:23 AM
No one fool themselves, Romney is not getting the nod. It's just not happening. His belief system is out of step with the rest of America. It's sad but it's a cold hard reality. It's just so real.
 
2011-12-28 11:52:01 AM
HeartBurnKid: I have a Mormon neighbor. Nice guy, but he seems like he might be on the spectrum himself. Of course, he doesn't seem like a very good Mormon, since he loves dirty jokes and Dr. Pepper.

All the Mormons I've met seem to be genuinely nice people, but they definitely come across as rather socially awkward.
 
2011-12-28 11:52:33 AM
seventypercent: I would venture the opinion that Mitt Romney attempting to work rap lyrics into his campaign appearances would be the 2012 version of Dukakis in the tank.

Kerry wind surfing.
 
2011-12-28 11:54:28 AM
seventypercent: I would venture the opinion that Mitt Romney attempting to work rap lyrics into his campaign appearances would be the 2012 version of Dukakis in the tank.

Link
 
2011-12-28 11:54:50 AM
StoneColdAtheist: FTFA: Mr Romney is "a cautious chief executive who is uneasy with off-the-cuff remarks, unnatural at chitchat and spare with his emotions. "

Yeah, because it went so well last time we had an attention loving, chatty-Cathy, gimme-a-hug good-time-Charlie in the White House. Blow jobs in the oval office and an impeachment proceeding.

/A+A+A+...would vote for Bubba again


Am I the only one who thought Monica looked like she could give a wicked blowjob?
 
2011-12-28 11:55:08 AM
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2011-12-28 11:55:28 AM
 
2011-12-28 11:57:20 AM
kapaso: Monica looked like she could give a wicked blowjob

She really shouldn't have let any get on her dress.
 
2011-12-28 11:57:44 AM
HeartBurnKid: FTFA: "I don't mind stiff and formal," said Holly Sirois, who spoke to Mr. Romney a few days ago at a pizza shop in Newport, N.H. "I don't want the guy sitting in the backyard drinking beers with his buddies. I want my president to act presidential."

Are you sure you're a Republican, Ms. Sirois?


"Sirois" is suspiciously close to "Soros".

/just sayin
 
2011-12-28 12:01:19 PM
CheddarPants: I think the whole Spaghetti with Mitt idea might have legs. After he loses the election, he could give the folks at A&E a call. Each week, a limo shows up at the home of some random American, who is transported to Fazoli's to eat dinner with Mitt Romney. People would watch that.

I'd sign up, man I miss Fazoli's
 
2011-12-28 12:03:01 PM
kapaso: Am I the only one who thought Monica looked like she could give a wicked blowjob?

No. She fairly clearly transmitted that to everyone around her. Constantly.
 
2011-12-28 12:06:39 PM
I couldn't find the rap lyrics he quoted :-( I was really hoping it would've been from Kanye

"Prince William did it wrong if you ask me
If I were him I woulda married Kate and Ashley"

/cuz he's a mormon

He began a series of rapid-fire calculations to determine how many gallons are in a pound: "Eight-point-three pounds per gallon. So 8 into 100 is going to be about 13, 14, gallons. Oh, 12 - there you go."

I pictured the fountain scene from Die Hard with a Vengence. That would be awesome.
 
2011-12-28 12:07:14 PM
PonceAlyosha: Quit, Romney. You are less likeable than the sixteen time adulterer, the retarded repressed homosexual from Texas, the stepford wife and the world's droopiest dog. You have no chance.

I am curious; which one are you planning on voting for?
 
2011-12-28 12:07:15 PM
Randall Loiacono, Mr. Romney asked, "Now, is that a Northern European name?"

"Sicilian," Mr. Loiacono said



So your mother got farked by a ni***r!, replied Romney
 
2011-12-28 12:09:17 PM
CheddarPants: I think the whole Spaghetti with Mitt idea might have legs. After he loses the election, he could give the folks at A&E a call. Each week, a limo shows up at the home of some random American, who is transported to Fazoli's to eat dinner with Mitt Romney. People would watch that.

Watch it? I'd wanna be ON it! That sounds amazing! I have no intention of voting for the man, but that sounds like it would be a whole lot of fun. It would be the effect of placing an average american up against a blank canvas, almost a clone slug if you like, and seeing what comes out.
 
2011-12-28 12:09:18 PM
StoneColdAtheist: FTFA: Mr Romney is "a cautious chief executive who is uneasy with off-the-cuff remarks, unnatural at chitchat and spare with his emotions. "

Yeah, because it went so well last time we had an attention loving, chatty-Cathy, gimme-a-hug good-time-Charlie in the White House. Blow jobs in the oval office and an impeachment proceeding.

/A+A+A+...would vote for Bubba again


There is a happy medium. As much as I hated his policies, W actually seemed to act like a normal person in crowds. And no one can doubt Obama's ability to connect with people one-on-one.

The informal, humanizing interactions are so essential to the campaign's image that Mr. Romney has scheduled back-to-back bus tours in New Hampshire and Iowa... "No one is an expert at it when they first do it," said Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser to Mr. Romney

I find it funny that after 64 years, Romney is just now learning how to act human.
 
2011-12-28 12:09:22 PM
Why is Romney putting bumper stickers on infant's foreheads?

graphics8.nytimes.com
 
2011-12-28 12:11:10 PM
For a candidate who is exceedingly risk-averse, Mr. Romney has developed an unlikely penchant for trying to puzzle out everything from voters' personal relationships to their ancestral homelands.

"Sisters?" he asked. (Nope, stepmother and stepdaughter.) "Your husband?" he wondered. (No, just a friend from the neighborhood.) "Mother and daughter?" he guessed. (Cousins, actually.)

The results can be awkward. "Daughter?" he asked a woman sitting with a man and two younger girls at the diner in Tilton, N.H., on Friday morning. Her face turned a shade of red. "Wife."

Oh, Mr. Romney said. "It was a compliment, I guess," said the woman, Janelle Batchelder, 31. "At the same time, it was possibly an insult."

Countries of origin are another Romney favorite. When a man in Bethlehem, N.H., stood and introduced himself as Randall Loiacono, Mr. Romney asked, "Now, is that a Northern European name?"

"Sicilian," Mr. Loiacono said, before standing and spelling his name at Mr. Romney's request.


ginandbacon: AWKWARD!

That is all.
 
2011-12-28 12:11:16 PM
ourbigdumbmouth: No one fool themselves, Romney is not getting the nod. It's just not happening. His belief system is out of step with the rest of America. It's sad but it's a cold hard reality. It's just so real.

He'll get it, due to sheer dumb luck. He's going to "win" Iowa with 20 percent of the vote. Ron Paul will get 25 percent, but he doesn't count. Another 45 percent divided equally between Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann and Santorum.

And of course he will easily win New Hampshire. And once he "wins" those two states, Republicans are stupid enough to believe the media when they inform them that since he won both of those states, they have to vote for him in the remaining states.

The guys over at Free Republic will howl, reminiscent of the Hillaryis44 crowd, but nevertheless Romney will win.

Of course it helps that all of his opponents are too chickenshiat to attack him and instead just attack each other. The fact that they aren't nonstop playing in Iowa the clip of him getting angry that someone would call him pro life and saying "I do not take the position of a pro life candidate" is mind boggling.
 
2011-12-28 12:12:31 PM
vernonFL: Randall Loiacono, Mr. Romney asked, "Now, is that a Northern European name?"

"Sicilian," Mr. Loiacono said


So your mother got farked by a ni***r!, replied Romney


Haha that is a good example of why he should just stop doing that... Loiacono doesn't sound Scandinavian at all, really.

/Romney, what is that, Cambodian?
 
2011-12-28 12:14:04 PM
AmorousRedDragon: vernonFL: Randall Loiacono, Mr. Romney asked, "Now, is that a Northern European name?"

"Sicilian," Mr. Loiacono said


So your mother got farked by a ni***r!, replied Romney

Haha that is a good example of why he should just stop doing that... Loiacono doesn't sound Scandinavian at all, really.

/Romney, what is that, Cambodian?


He's part eggplant.

(Dennis Hopper's greatest scene ever)
 
2011-12-28 12:14:17 PM
I'm the android, the Randroid
the mack-daddy, come to fill the void.
Other GOP fools can't rep like I rep,
Rap like I rap, step like I step,
Flip like I flip, flop like I flop -
So stop all the hatin', Newt, you big sop.
Newsflash: ain't no one in this race you can top.
And Rick Perry? Please -
sit yo' ass in the back
with RONPAUL and his weed.
Santorum's just tone-deaf, it's Savage,
Google that shiat, Rick - you've found,
You're wrong-headed and ho-hum
Like the brown note your campaign sounds.
And Michele, the belle of liberal hell,
Can smell the halal and will go to the well
Just don't ask her husband about his fantasy of jail.

Elephants of all kinds feed on my rhymes:
Corporations are my kind of people,
The creation of jobs, feeding cash to the people,
A government that's beheld to the people,
Regulations that money for the people...

Mid-America, can't you see?
I'm-a want to be yo' baby.
So step to me, GOP
And I'll set you free
From Obama's socialist tyranny!

// drops mic
 
2011-12-28 12:58:11 PM
monoski: PonceAlyosha: Quit, Romney. You are less likeable than the sixteen time adulterer, the retarded repressed homosexual from Texas, the stepford wife and the world's droopiest dog. You have no chance.

I am curious; which one are you planning on voting for?


None of them.
 
2011-12-28 01:13:09 PM
HeartBurnKid: FeedTheCollapse: ginandbacon: James!:

Has anyone considered that Mitt may have Aspergers?

I actually thought he might be on the spectrum when he was Governor. He's just so painfully inept at reading social cues and he really doesn't get humor.

it's called being Mormon.

I have a Mormon neighbor. Nice guy, but he seems like he might be on the spectrum himself. Of course, he doesn't seem like a very good Mormon, since he loves dirty jokes and Dr. Pepper.

/CSB


Just make sure you find a second Mormon if you ever go fishing with him.

/ Only knew one Mormon with a sense of humor, and his family had never lived in Utah. I think that's why.
 
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