You know what's a lot of fun?

Comparing voter turnout from 2008.

Its very...meh.

Romney reminds me of this guy

Yes, we got trouble
Right here in (insert name) City
With a capital T
And that stands for trauma
And that rhymes with Obama

Jimmy Smitts: Mitt Romney likes to eat food that's grilled in foil.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: Dude can't even relate to white people.

This. I think he's got the same problem that Kerry did in 2004 - he's completely out of touch with the majority of the country and repeatedly keeps sticking his foot in his mouth, further proving that he has really NO idea what is actually going on in the day to day lives of the country he wants to lead.

I couldn't care less about his net worth, but his professions of "oh, I know what it's like to think you're going to lose your job" and "I'm unemployed" just are beyond the pale.

CorporatePerson: My bet is the Republicans will give up courting the Hispanics and come election time, their Super PACs will just run a bunch of "If you're Mexican don't vote" ads.

The best way for the GOP to court hispanics will be to play the religion card in some fashion. It's also their best way to appeal to blacks. Play the religious and gay cards.

Quagdingo: It's a shame, all this time and effort being spent on this when Obama is simply going to win over whoever. We have better things to be discussing as this issue has already been decided.

If the economy keeps its upward movement going into the late summer, Romney's "but Obama killed the economy" argument will be useless....and falling back on culture war arguments will only make it worse on him.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: Basically it. This whole schtick where he's trying to pretend he knows what it's like to feel anything other than warm contentment and the assured knowledge of his own eventual success is a farking joke. He might as well not even be a human. Homo opulen is his species, and he's as distinct from us as we are from homo erectus.

"I'm like you, I don't have have job either... now watch me add this 2 million dollar expansion to one of my mansions!"

The dude has clearly been insulated by wealth, opportunity, and lots of money his entire life, to the point where his ability to relate to laypeople is dysfunctional. And the GOP laughed at Kerry for being a rich elitist... Romney blows him out of the water in that department.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: Basically it. This whole schtick where he's trying to pretend he knows what it's like to feel anything other than warm contentment and the assured knowledge of his own eventual success is a farking joke. He might as well not even be a human. Homo opulen is his species, and he's as distinct from us as we are from homo erectus.

Mormon missionaries are taught to be empathetic even when they have no clue about what the other person is feeling. He's employing the same tactic.

sprawl15: DarnoKonrad: He didn't buy the George Lopez show on DVD for nothing.

"If I were racist, would I own all the Mind of Mencia DVDs?"

after seeing him try to relate to the average joe out there... i don't think these two predictions are too far off from any efforts he may make to relate to the average jose.

A Dark Evil Omen: Well, we do have that LDS ad campaign going on that boils down to "Mormons: We're nearly indistinguishable from normal Earth humans!"

Yeah, those are particularly amusing. I've seen a couple on Hulu.

fenianfark: It's interesting that George Romney ran for president when he was born in a Mormon settlement in Mexico. I wonder if birthers would have thrown a hissyfit over that?

They did. Didn't matter, because he never even really sniffed the nomination. Was an issue with Goldwater in 1964, too, as Arizona wasn't a state when he was born. Similarly, some of the progressive whackjob groups started murmuring about it with McCain, but backed off after the birther nonsense started about their guy; McCain was born in Panama, which was a US territory.

Mitt's problems are less about daddy than they are about his unusual lifestyle. No coffee, no cigs, no beer, doesn't cuss......people aren't quite sure what to make of that.