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Drenched in Campaign Silliness
Romney, off the rails at the Whistle Stop.
The weather did no favors for birthday boy Mitt Romney Monday morning in Mobile, Alabama. Romney may have done himself no favors, either. But that isn’t much below par for the course: Oddly enough, despite the frenetic campaign activity by three presidential campaigns in the Gulf Coast states before Tuesday’s primaries, none of them seems to be hitting on all cylinders.
After my coverage of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich last week, I looked forward to completing the troika when Romney appeared at a Mobile diner called the “Whistle Stop” for what was billed as a 6:45 a.m. breakfast appearance. But there wasn’t much to cover.
The morning was noticeably overcast and intermittently drizzly. Romney was inside with some pre-selected locals doing a Fox News appearance. Outside in the parking lot, some 200 members of the public, plus a gaggle of local and national media, waited for Romney’s speech. And waited. And waited. Fox apparently took precedence. At about 7:15, Ann Romney came out to say her husband would be out soon. They knew it was important to do it soon, she said, because they were looking at weather forecasts and were afraid everyone would get drenched.
Then she made her mini-pitch for her husband. It amounted to this: “He’s gonna win anyway, so you should help him win.”
Actually, what she said was this: “It is more and more clear that Mitt is going to be the nominee of the party.” And it’s important, because “I know women, and women are talking about the economy. They are mad. I am mad.” They are all mad about the debt that Barack Obama is leaving as a “burden on our children.” Her husband understands this. That’s why he’ll be out in a minute to tell you about why he should win the race we all know he is going to win.
Alas, after about 10 more Mitt-less minutes (with a brief cameo by comedian Jeff Foxworthy, speaking for about 90 seconds on Romney’s behalf), the feared downpour arrived. It was a gully-washer. Huge sheets of rain swept down on the crowd and within about two minutes the parking lot was full of puddles and/or little rivulets of water rushing toward the nearest drains. The Secret Service, which had previously kept people from seeking shelter under the awnings of the diner and its neighboring businesses, relented, and everybody who could do so crowded under the overhangs while others huddled under umbrellas that kept heads dry but couldn’t possibly keep shoes and legs from getting drenched.
Suddenly, at about 7:34, Romney’s voice emerged over a loudspeaker. He had come out under the overhang, too. Some people even said they could see his forehead. The candidate launched right in.
“About three and a half years ago, the voters sent a message to Washington. I think it is time to send a president to Washington.”
Obama doesn’t understand the economy, said Romney, “but I understand this economy because I’ve actually had a job in this economy. We need somebody who actually has run something, who understands it. I have had businesses and fixed them. I have gone to the Olympics and fixed them. But this president is out of ideas and out of experience. Now we’re going to make sure he is out of a job.”
By this time, the nine minutes or so of downpour had slowed again to a more gentle rain. Everybody who was there outside had already gotten drenched. Romney so far had spoken for just three minutes.
“You know, I was in Mississippi yesterday and had some catfish for just the second time in my life,” he said, apropos of nothing. “It was just as good as the first time.” And now it was good to be next door in Alabama, where he really hoped people would support him. “You guys can all help by voting multiple times,” he said, then paused as if expecting some laughs that never came.
“Anyway, I don’t want to make you keep getting wet [by then, the rain was back to intermittent drizzle], so I’ll cut it off here. Thanks for coming.”
It was 7:38. The big event was over. It’s tough to fight Mother Nature.
Then again, despite careening across both Alabama and Mississippi at a pace that would wear most mortals to a frazzle, none of the three major campaigns are finding a groove. The Santorum ads don’t match his strong message of “freedom” that the former senator emphasized Thursday night and that the Wall Street Journal’s Dan Henninger praised earlier that day. And Santorum hasn’t done much to localize national issues, nor to try to gin up a “bandwagon” feeling to build on his huge win in Kansas.
Gingrich events are erratic, with some relative hits and some weak misses. He sounds okay, but looks pale and tired, adding to the sense that he is now no more than a spoiler in the race, completely unable to win the nomination himself but unwilling to admit that he is helping Romney by splitting the “not-Mitt” vote.
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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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Bill| 3.13.12 @ 6:38AM
"Romneycare Boy" is still live and alive!
Vern Crisler| 3.13.12 @ 10:19AM
He will rain on the American parade.
Alan Brooks| 3.13.12 @ 8:12PM
Romney's wife sure looks better than Nancy Reagan ever did.
Clint| 3.13.12 @ 6:38AM
You're Probably A Romney, If You're Named After A Baseball Glove.
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.
spike59| 3.13.12 @ 6:41AM
...and leaves DrRonPaul, the Tinfoil Hat Tinhorn, outside, parking cars and wiping windshieldsfor 'loose change'
Moe Blotz| 3.13.12 @ 6:47AM
What baseball glove is called a "Willard"?
SpiralArchitect| 3.13.12 @ 2:56PM
Spaulding? Wilson? Rawlings?
Hmm...
Clint| 3.13.12 @ 6:55AM
That Leaves You Israel Firster Smear Bund RINO-CINO's Scared Of A Brokered Convention.
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention
Jack in Wi.| 3.13.12 @ 8:47AM
Romney or Obama, just means more of the same. They are the banksters best friends. We get the shaft and they get the gold. The Republican Party is long past it's buy sell date.
Oldefarte| 3.13.12 @ 2:41PM
No Jack, a Romney win means sanity and economic survival [which is what your governor Scott Walker is now delivering to you without the corrupted labor unions being involved]!!!!!!
SpiralArchitect| 3.13.12 @ 2:57PM
+1
Oldefarte| 3.13.12 @ 1:26PM
'Israel Firster' MEDIA MATTERS BOY-TOY, why do you use that phrase.......explain??????
Clint| 3.13.12 @ 6:33PM
Figure It Out Israel Firster RINO-CINO Buffoon.
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention
Oldefarte| 3.15.12 @ 9:57AM
I already have done so......you're a MEDIA MATTERS FLUNKIE STOOGE!!!!!!!
The Late George Appley| 3.13.12 @ 8:28AM
A Romney win in either or both states will lock up
the nomination for him. But please don't patronize us.
John Daniel| 3.13.12 @ 7:10AM
Nothing worse than a damnyankee trying to patronize us...as if we're so gullible and stupid that a few you'lls and references to grits and catfish will win the rubes over. Who's advising this guy? Certainly nobody south of philly....
aware| 3.13.12 @ 5:19PM
Damn right on the damnyankees.
KnownUnknowns| 3.13.12 @ 7:34AM
well, if there's any place where a phony like Romney can get away with being a phony it's Mississippi and 'Bama. Did you guys SEE the Pelosi video on Maher's show where she interviewed folks from the south?
Those people are STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPID!!!
Deborah D| 3.13.12 @ 8:08AM
Yeah, we in the south are stupid -- funny, but not as stupid as liberals wherever they live. We're smart enough not to watch Maher and really smart enough not to believe any video Pelosi would be associated with.
Von Mises Jr.| 3.13.12 @ 4:44PM
Deborah, don't let a liberal troll give you a false impression of all Northerners. If you go to the major cities or certains states such as MA or VT, you may not find many real people. But Upstate NY, most of Jersey and most of PA as you move into the Mid-Atlantic are rural and not at all like Unknowing Incompetent.
lkyle3930| 3.13.12 @ 5:59PM
Love your comments, Deborah D.
Teaghan| 3.13.12 @ 8:28AM
Those people who were used and mocked are the salt of the earth and shame on you MFer for your meaness and cruelty. And the fact that you would pay to watch such trash proves that your are incredibly stupid.
KnownUnknowns| 3.13.12 @ 8:32AM
Calling a bunch of folks 'stupid' is mean and cruel ? You dont blog much do you ?
if you want to see REAL meanness and cruelty, go to the 'Sandra Fluke, Welfare Queen' thread on this very web site and read some of the comments there by the "party of morals" members.
Warning, hide the women and children.
Teaghan| 3.13.12 @ 8:47AM
Ms Fluke is a political operative and she let herself be put up in front of Pelosi's phoney panel to distract from the real issues this nation is facing. She spouts her liberal/progressive theology of "you have to pay for my sexlife" and then demands to be treated with respect and dignity? Those people who were interviewed were done so in order to make fun of them.
You have lost the argument.
albert constantine jr.| 3.13.12 @ 9:03AM
KU;
I seem to recall your vigorous defense of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann when their reputations were trashed for having the temerity to express their opinions on public policy and entered the political arena. You are a fine spokesman for the virtue of consistency and elevating the discourse.
SUBVET| 3.13.12 @ 10:29AM
And what was wrong with that ???????
Maddox| 3.13.12 @ 9:51AM
Stupid here. I am just as offended at being labeled by you just as much as Mrs. Pelosi. I am offended at Romney's patronizing us by referring to grits, by his appearing on a sports talk radio(as if we only know football), and by the hundreds of robo calls his campaign made denigrating Gingrich rather than Obama.
The people of Alabama and The South are as diverse as any other State in this country. We have intelligent and educated people, we have ignorant people, we have caring people, and we have bigots, like you.
Al Adab| 3.13.12 @ 12:20PM
The Romney campaign is adrift, unable to find common ground w2ith voters, it is reduced to pandering to regional differences and special interests. That is not the type of administration we need to replace the current one which panders to regional and special interests. A difference without a distinction.
Maddox| 3.13.12 @ 1:01PM
It is painfully obvious and this is what we are told to hand our hopes on to defeat Obama. If he does win election and is advisers are this ignorant the country is not going to be saved.
Von Mises Jr.| 3.13.12 @ 4:49PM
Exactly, Al. This is the RINO version of the Obama campaign. Instead of "Hope" and "Change," we are getting "I have an MBA." Obama was supposed to fix the racial divide while giving no particulars of his intended policies. Doesn't it seem like Romney is running on a vague "Wall Street" aura with very few particulars. Disturbing.
RCV| 3.13.12 @ 11:23AM
My wife and I recently spent a week in Mississippi, touring the state and visiting various prominent sites from the civil rights movement. We met many, many Mississippians, black and white, and without exception found them to be thoughtful, gracious and caring people.
Al Adab| 3.13.12 @ 12:15PM
RCV:
As are, I believe, most Americans. Certain regions rub other regions the wrong way, for example Jersey and Texas, but individually I do think we enjoy one another.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 3.13.12 @ 2:03PM
I don't without no exception find Mississippi to be a prominent Tea Party red state, without exception people who are thoughtful and gracious and caring people, on without exception people like these who are also the following type voters matters . . .
RCV (4.28.11 @ 1:02PM):
"The strength of the tea party, in contrast, is in those economically depressed red states where the education level is low, and where people believe the birthism and other right-wing nonsense."
RCV (10.23.10 @ 9:30PM):
"I abhor sanctimonious conservatism of the tea party brand, an ideology wholly lacking in intelligence or a shred of real Christian love and compassion. It espouses policies dangerous, damaging and detrimental to our country and it's future. It will have a lifespan much like its forebearer, Know-Nothingism."
RCV (12.7.10 @ 6:27PM):
"At least I belong to a party that cares about human beings AFTER they're born."
. . . these being the people I don't without no exception find thoughtful and gracious and caring people like these Mississippian voters, on the sanctimony and hypocrisy of a pompous ass, matters.
RCV| 3.13.12 @ 4:20PM
Skip, they were all a hell of a lot smarter and more decent folk than you will ever be.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 3.13.12 @ 6:29PM
I don't thoughtfully or graciously confuse with caring who it is exactly who wrote exactly of their exact abhorrence of tea partiers, and exactly who thoughtfully and graciously wrote with caring of their complete lack of intelligence, and exactly who thoughtfully and graciously wrote with caring of their complete lack of real Christian love, and exactly who thoughtfully and graciously wrote of their complete lack of real Christian compassion, and exactly who thoughtfully and graciously wrote with caring of the damage they are doing to our country, and exactly who thoughtfully and graciously wrote with caring of, at least, thoughtfully and graciously and caringly belonging to a party that thoughtfully and graciously and caringly thoughtfully graciously cares about thoughtful and gracious and caring human beings AFTER they're thoughtfully and graciously and caringly born, on who exactly is a hell of a lot smarter and who exactly is a hell of a lot more decent thoughtfulwise and graciouswise and caringwise not to mention sanctimoniouswise and hypocriticalwise and pompouswise matters.
RCV| 3.13.12 @ 7:26PM
Your hardon is showing again, Skip.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 3.13.12 @ 8:20PM
I don't thoughtfully or graciously confuse with caring who it is exactly who thoughtfully and graciously with caring exactly wrote the smart and decent "Your hardon is showing again, Skip" thoughtfully and graciously and caringly, who exactly is the thoughtful gracious caring one who exactly is a hell of a lot smarter, and who exactly is the thoughtful gracious caring one who exactly is a hell of a lot more decent, who exactly is smartly and decently and thoughtfully and graciously and caringly the one who, at least, smartly and decently and thoughtfully and graciously and caringly belongs to a smart and decent and thoughtful and gracious and caring party that smartly and decently and thoughtfully and graciously and caringly cares for human beings who are smart and decent and thoughtful and gracious and caring, at least, AFTER they're born smartly and born decently and born thoughtfully and born graciously and born caringly, exactly, on not confusing who exactly is caring and gracious and thoughtful and decent and smart matters.
RCV| 3.13.12 @ 8:35PM
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 3.13.12 @ 9:32PM
I don't thoughtfully or graciously or caringly or smartly or decently hold myself personally accountable for my own sanctimonious and hypocritical words of a pompous ass matters.
BOStinks| 3.13.12 @ 11:57AM
You're stupid.
SpiralArchitect| 3.13.12 @ 3:05PM
Seemingly so.
martin j smith| 3.13.12 @ 7:36AM
Romney is the candidate of the Washington Elite --The average voter
he would never meet.
Romney thinks he is hot S--T
But really that is the end of it
Romney may be the nominee
but he will never be for me--or you
Like Obama he is above it all-and that my friends
will be his--and our downfall.
Indy| 3.13.12 @ 7:39AM
So he forgot to remind them he has friends who own NASCAR teams?
Catfish and grits references...as Charlie Sheen would say - winning!
He's been running for President for years and this is the best he can do?
KnownUnknowns| 3.13.12 @ 8:33AM
Shut up and support the eventual GOP candidate !
Boar Hunter| 3.13.12 @ 12:06PM
not if its Romney
McCandles| 3.13.12 @ 7:46AM
Romney and his grits and catfish...unbelievable. He is slowly but surely becoming the manic leprauchan that McCain was. Dancing around the stage trying to appeal to the common man, gesturing madly to get his point across. He may end up being a good president, but I'm starting to believe this campaign is really hurting our cause.
daddio| 3.13.12 @ 1:09PM
I wouldn't vote for this clown for dog catcher.
Indy| 3.13.12 @ 8:06AM
Willard, it's late in the game but if you are trainable, take notes - (and forget the catfish/grits)
"The far Left continues to believe American voters are not smart enough to grasp the diversionary tactics it employs to distract us from the issues our President just doesn’t want to talk about – issues that affect us all every day and must be addressed.
Exhibit A in these diversionary tactics is an absurd new attack ad President Obama has released taking my comments out of context. I’m not running for any office, but I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about. (Remember when I said you don’t need a title to make a difference?)
Just off the top of my head, a few of these concerning issues include: a debt crisis that has us hurtling towards a Greek-style collapse, entitlement programs going bankrupt, a credit downgrade for the first time in our history, a government takeover of the health care industry that makes care more expensive and puts a rationing panel of faceless bureaucrats between you and your doctor (aka a “death panel”), $4 and $5 gas at the pump exacerbated by an anti-drilling agenda that rejects good paying energy sector jobs and makes us more dependent on dangerous foreign regimes, a war in Afghanistan that seems unfocused and unending, a global presidential apology tour that’s made us look feeble and ridiculous, a housing market in the tank, the longest streak of high unemployment since World War II, private-sector job creators and industry strangled by burdensome regulations and an out-of-control Obama EPA, an attack on the Constitutional protection of religious liberty, an attack on private industry in right-to-work states, crony capitalism run amok in an administration in bed with their favored cronies to the detriment of genuine free market capitalism, green energy pay-to-play kickbacks to Obama campaign donors, and a Justice Department still stonewalling on a bungled operation that armed violent Mexican drug lords and led to the deaths of hundreds of innocent people.
I’m sure I missed a few things, but the list is just for starters. Along with millions of others, I’m willing and free to discuss these issues with the President anywhere, anytime; and I’m sure any of the four patriots currently running for the GOP nomination would also welcome the opportunity to talk about the problems everyday Americans face due to the abject failure of our current administration’s policies. The President will dismiss all of these problems by saying, “Well, uh, ‘change isn’t easy.’” But considering that candidate Obama promised to turn back the waters and heal the planet, the American people had at least a reasonable expectation that, at the bare minimum, he wouldn’t bankrupt our country.
This latest ad is quite odd, but also quite telling. It shows that our President sure seems fearful of discussing the economy, energy prices, and all the other problems people need addressed. And intended or not, now that his ad opens up the discussion of Barack Obama’s radical past associations and the radical philosophy that shaped his ideas about his promised “fundamental transformation” of our country, I welcome the media to join ordinary Americans in finally vetting Barack Obama. The media failed to do so in 2008 to the detriment of us all. Maybe this time around they can do their job.
They might start by noting the President’s heavily edited attack ad. Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro helps them out in this piece. Please read it all.
- Sarah Palin"
http://www.facebook.com/note.p.....2033023435
Teaghan| 3.13.12 @ 8:33AM
Gotta love that gal! She's the shizzz.
KnownUnknowns| 3.13.12 @ 8:36AM
Just because Sarah Palin once glanced at a statue of Plato, does not mean she understands the Greek economy, culture, political system or their people.
MM| 3.13.12 @ 9:45AM
Plato? Are you kidding? Where are you in Plato's Republic?
He was never so smart as his famous teacher or famous student. Know who they are? Or will you have to go and search it?
Indy| 3.13.12 @ 11:02AM
Indeed, you post is spot on. I think KU needs to read Ameritopia
Al Adab| 3.13.12 @ 1:25PM
Ameritopia would be a start. Plato was a totalitarian, wishing as a self-annointed elite to be the "benevolent ruler". I prefer Cicero De Officiis.
megapotamus| 3.13.12 @ 4:46PM
Yeah, good pick. Where does Obama get his knowledge of the Greek economy? Or Jon Corzine? Besides I think Plato and probably Aristotle are silent on the matter of sovereign debt derivatives but I'm not sure as I don't read classical Greek. I bet this guy does. Obama too.
Al Adab| 3.13.12 @ 5:09PM
Mega: (Greek by the way, big water)
Homologoumenos = ordered, in the sense of stable, organized
JimH| 3.13.12 @ 8:15AM
Maybe the Romney campaign song can be ‘What Do The Simple Folk Do?’, though it might, coming from Camelot bring reminders of another Massachusetts millionaire.
Granny Jan | 3.13.12 @ 8:15AM
What do you want? A performance like Obama gave in 2007 when at a campaign stop in Aiken, SC he gave a good imitation of Steppin FetchIt?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Le1IYB8f98
Teaghan| 3.13.12 @ 8:34AM
I understand he's going to use Springsteen the tax evader's song, "We take care of our own".
Is that effin' rich or what!
artinocala| 3.13.12 @ 8:46AM
"No more than a spoiler in the race" writes this man with a resume. He uses the default approach to Newt and I suspect he never really listens to what Newt says, especially about important matters. This writer, along with Krauthammer, Rove, et al NEVER discuss just what sort of a president Mitt, or Rick might be. It's all about how they campaign. My suggestion to Mr. Quiller is to examine what the three candidates say they CAN do as president, not just these "the first day I'll. . ." Romney has no idea how difficult it will be to do his executive level job in D.C. He thinks dealing with the congress will be just like dealing with a CEO of a company he wants to resurrect. And Santorum, now has ANYONE delved into how he might perform as president? Not in my judgement. Newt is the only one of the three who knows how to get things done there. Don't be a dufous and just write him off as a spoiler.
megapotamus| 3.13.12 @ 4:48PM
Romney is the spoiler. He spoiled it by lacing up his shoes as a Progressive. Since we're picking on Newt I question why Romney wants to be President. Is it any more than to vindicate his father's humiliating failure in his attempt? If it is more than that it is that he also wants to be a First, like Obama. The First Mormon President. Check it out, that is no joke.
shane teton | 3.13.12 @ 9:03AM
ATTENTION, MOVE AWAY FROM THE CITIES AND GET A RELIABLE SOURCE OF WATER AND POWER. Just thought I'd alert a few somnabulators.
aware| 3.13.12 @ 5:28PM
So you're sayin' Mitt won't save us?
joan| 3.13.12 @ 9:06AM
Does Romney not understand how insulting it is to hear him talk about ya'll, and catfish, and the many other southern things that make us so unique. He doesn't have one clue about the south, and that's why he won't carry the south. As for Quinn...hey, get out of Mobile - head to Birmingham, and I'll take you out for some ribs that will melt in your mouth, the best sweet tea this side of the Mississippi, and homemade 'nanner pudding.
Quin| 3.13.12 @ 10:10AM
Sounds good to me! :)
Nick| 3.13.12 @ 9:14AM
Santorum never patronizes. Forget about his fake blue collar schtick(his dad was a government VA shrink). Or saying he can't afford to put his kids through college(really,you are a millionaire Dick).Or admitting once he never really became pro-life until he ran for office. Oh well.
aware| 3.13.12 @ 5:38PM
If you took away the privileges of pretending to be something you're not, promising things you have no intention of doing, and saying things that aren't true what kind of politician or political discourse would you be left with?
somnolence| 3.13.12 @ 9:16AM
I'm for Romney, so I guess I'm going down in flames. Hold the oxygen, you quavering, flatulent lot. Somehow though, I believe a reprieve will be coming my way, along with millions of others on the wayward Willard path come that fateful day in November, just judging by how breathtakingly close the polls are. Pretty good for a Yankee Doodle Dandy, now isn't it?
Nick| 3.13.12 @ 9:21AM
It makes a guy want to throw up,right Mr.Hillyer?
gearjammer| 3.13.12 @ 10:07AM
The bluer the state the more likely it is bankrupt. The closer a municipality is to say an ivy league college-bingo financial ruin is beckoning. California home of Stanford, Berkely, and so much more claimed to be elite is now the Greece of America. Can we all learn something from Dixie ?
Indy| 3.13.12 @ 11:13AM
Speaking of Dixie, if you get a chance catch the show on the History Channel, "You Don't Know Dixie"
http://www.history.com/shows/you-dont-know-dixie
It was on this weekend, funny and informative.
martin j smith| 3.13.12 @ 10:10AM
As I have said numerous times--Romney and his supporters are in the same bubble as the Socialist/Communist Left. It is time to wake them up--believe it or not no matter who the nominee on the Republican Ticket might be --the key thing in 2012 only--is to vote against-vote against Obama and his media. And you know what it might be time to take really drastic action and you know what that might be ? Throw out your TV. Advertisers would lose a lot of money that way .
Tenn Slim| 3.13.12 @ 10:23AM
The Left will never go quietly into the night.
SURVIVE
Semper Fi
Purple Lips| 3.13.12 @ 11:07AM
Ah, Mitt in Hillbilly Hell; I'd love to hear what he says to his effette, metrosexual advisors when the cameras are off.
The Deep South - the land of crystal meth labs, obesity, Wall Mart, and where the Moomoo is considered "hautelook".
Oldefarte| 3.13.12 @ 2:38PM
Better the Deep South than the Yankee iceland hell tundra wasteland whose idiot residents migrate to the 'deep south' to avoid the painful bitter frigity of their Siberia-like conditions. You'll find millions of Yankee car tags on vehicles throughout the Gulf Coast, but alternatively no 'deep south' car tags in Yankee country. Who in their right mind would insanely want to travel up to or live in your Siberia wasteland; when they could instead have grits, sun, beaches, great seafood and the company of sane friends and neighbors??????????
Fielding Mellish| 3.13.12 @ 11:42AM
Mitt's a "Good Lookin', Sharp Dressed Man" and his wife will see to it alcohol, caffeine, cola drinks, and non-compatible behavior will ever be present in a Romney WH!!! No [beer] summits allowed!
Must there be guilt associated with a desire to partake in a glass of wine or a cold beer? There will now!
Derek Leaberry| 3.13.12 @ 11:45AM
Most campaigning is silly. Better to go back to the campaigning of the long past- barbeques, whiskey and hard cider provided by the candidate. George Washington of the House of Burgesses was always willing to give sustenance to thankful voters.
Conservative Bob| 3.13.12 @ 12:24PM
Mitt on Catfish and regrits reminds me of Kerry in Iowa a few years ago walking out of a field carrying a shotgun and a goose someone shot for him to show his connection to the 'folks'. Or that other paragon from MA Dukakis in a tank. Nothing beats genuine like fake...
Conservative Bob| 3.13.12 @ 1:21PM
should be gits.
Should Have Impeached?| 3.13.12 @ 9:15PM
gits?
Oldefarte| 3.13.12 @ 1:40PM
JC, what a failed/disguised attempted hit job. Gingrich looked frail and tired and Romney wouldn't get soaked in the rainstorm and doesn't know how to pronounce CHEESE GRITS [well from one who grew up eating grits, CHEESE is an asinine carpetbagging attempt to ruin the taste of grits anyway; some idiot-fools even serve up shrimp and grits which is a further bastardization of the wonderful taste of crustacians IMHO]. Well anyway, I just returned from CASTING MY VOTING BALLOT FOR NEWT GINGRICH FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR POTUS within the great state of Alabama and home of the Alabama Crimson Tide, NCAA football champions of the BCS Bowl in 2012 over the LSU Pussycats. Rooolllll.....Tide! No doubt sadly Newt will come up short [as the political odds are stacked against him]. If that Pennsylvanian so-called conservative Super Catholic politically alive through labor union corrupted support disguised as a conservative were to selflessly drop out and allow the conservative votes to go toward the only qualified to be POTUS candidate Newt [haggard and pale from THINKING OF SOLUTIONS TO REMOVE THE PILES OF EXCREMENT FROM THE CURRENT SUBVERSIVE CONQUERER OF THAT OFFICE, then maybe this country would have a small chance of survival in 2013. Hey, but wait, a major survey poll yesterday indicated that Obama now trails Romney [not the Rickster Catholic either] with voters nationally......SHAZAM! Predictably when the Newt comes up short after this southern voting, I'll hold my nose and vote enthusiatically for Romney as opposed to the domestic terrorists now controlling this country. It'll be a no-brainer, but for some moronic imbiciles, they'd prefer to vote for Mr. H&C YES WE CANNOT instead or to not even vote at all. G-d, ol' Forrest was a genius I guess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JJ| 3.13.12 @ 2:12PM
We don't want RomneyCare any more than ObamaCare.
We don't want Cap and Trade or some dufus who actually bought into global warming nonsense.
We don't need the guy supported by losers John Mc Cain and Bob Dole.
Oldefarte| 3.13.12 @ 2:30PM
Then what YOU DO WANT OBVIOUSLY is a a bunch of Muslim domestic terrorist sympathisers running your country, right? You want NON-STIMULUS TO LABOR UNIONS, right? You want $800 million of taxpayer money paying off these labor unionists, right? You want taxpayer funded bailouts to auto companies all so that labor union Detroit overpaid car workers can keep their jobs, while private industry employees are losing theirs by the millions, right? You want your US Justice Dept suing individual states over their legislated immigration laws, right? Your want the US Interior Dept withholding drilling permits and forcing oil companies to pull out of Gulf offshore locations and move their rigs to Africa and India, right? You want your US Justice Dept filing suit against states for legislating VOTER ID LAWS,right? Don't be a dumbars!!!!!!
megapotamus| 3.13.12 @ 4:50PM
So the alternative to Obama is Romney? I remember the old Seinfeld show where George was explaining the Show About Nothing and the exec asks him, So why would I watch it?
Because it's on TV! the exasperated Costanza says.
The suit answers, Not yet.
Oldefarte| 3.15.12 @ 10:04AM
DUH, yeah maybe. WHATEVER/WHOEVER the ALTERNATIVE to Obama ends up being will be preferable, right? [maybe NOT SO in your world, as you may have been one of the reasons why Obama is now president by pulling the lever for his H&C excrement in 2008 possibly]. Finally, Seinfeld was a sitcom/fantasy TV show.......Obama/Democrats are a REAL LIFE DRAMA [and hopefully you know the difference]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scorpio51| 3.13.12 @ 2:41PM
Bless you for voting for Newt.
howard lohmuller| 3.13.12 @ 2:05PM
Ann Romney may make the difference for Mitt winning or losing. She seems to be taking a larger speaking role and is terrific at it, sincere and believable, better than Mitt.
Santorum has been using his daughter and we will see if she can make a difference for Rick.
JJ| 3.13.12 @ 2:11PM
If Romney is such a shoe in, why is he and his PACs still spending all that money? Shouldn't he be saving it for Obama?
megapotamus| 3.13.12 @ 4:55PM
And the sad reality, as Romney has himself publicly stated, he will NOT use his slash-and-burn ad tactics with Obama. He will roll over with a speed and certainty that will make John McCain look like Allen West and if he doesn't? Obama will outspend him 5:1 not even counting the active media support. No, Romney is a disaster of tactics as much as he is a disaster of policy, philosophy, character and consistency, the foremost issue on all these questions being Obamneycare. No Romney, no how no way. As Santo put it for the ages he is Uniquely Unqualified and I am sick of idiots masquerading as conservative tough guys trying to drive him through. Down with Mitt!
Oldefarte| 3.15.12 @ 10:07AM
Are you also SICK AND TIRED of a recent poll that indicated Romney leading over Obama [and not so for the Rickster] as the public's choice for president???????????????????
Scorpio51| 3.13.12 @ 2:43PM
Don't believe that Romney is inevitable. Newt is fighting this all the way to the convention.
Jethro| 3.13.12 @ 2:57PM
I want my gubmint checks to keep comin, so I went and voted for Obammy. But the gubmint people sez I gotto vote for a Publikan. They sez that that Mitt guy is the one for me. So I voted for Mit .
Well gotta go. Got a frig of Blatz beer and a bag of Funions waiting for me.
megapotamus| 3.13.12 @ 4:57PM
You see more clearly than many others, Jethro. That must have been a purty good sixth grade.
Bert| 3.13.12 @ 4:20PM
South Carolina,Alabama and Mississippi have really high welfare and food stamp rates. Also receive a disproportinate % of federal money.
Oldefarte| 3.13.12 @ 4:53PM
Yeah Bert, and all them there WELFARE RECIPIENTS within those listed southern states are [1] Democrats and [2] vote overwhelmingly for Barack Obama and other Democrats. They's bees good Democrats and follow their Democrat political leader-massas' orders by votin for them there non-Republicans!!!!!!!!!
megapotamus| 3.13.12 @ 5:03PM
The Dems will vote Santorum or if they are especially mischievous, Newt.
Oldefarte| 3.13.12 @ 8:37PM
Why in G-d's name would a Democrat ever vote for a Republican [when in fact they're PAID to vote for Democrats] ......that makes about as much sense as A SCREEN DOOR IN A SUBMARINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 3.13.12 @ 8:38PM
PS: Democrats are too stupid to vote for Republicans!!!!!
Shaboe Delucks| 3.13.12 @ 5:22PM
So Romney doesn't cater to big-ego "journalists" by going out in the rain even though the journalistas waited a whole half hour? Wow, thank you for deciding me to vote for Mitt. Arrogant newsies, go away now.
M Bauman| 3.13.12 @ 8:46PM
If we draft you Mr Hillyer, would you run?
POST American| 3.13.12 @ 10:41PM
------------AMERICAN DREAM SCENE------------------
Before a REAL audience, before cameras,
and with a large Bible opened before him
and the palm of his hand placed thereon
---a question for Romney:
"Sir, knowing the origins of Mormonism in
the stealth 'MAY--SIN--Re' of the early 19th
century ---and knowing, as we do, Mormonism's
record on such horrifying topics as EUGENICS
--and 'May-sin-Re's capstone character regarding
the same --and aims for elite authoritarian world
tyranny ---DO YOU, here and now, disavow
and repudiate your connections to these
groups?"
---------------------------------------DREAMING--------
-------------------------American DREAMING. . . .
PS: And it's mainstream news today that Google
is in fact Darpa/NSA and has been spying on you
ALL this time.
CHECK IT OUT