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The Spectacle Blog
Manchester, New Hampshire -- At 8 AM this morning, Mitt Romney was scheduled to appear at a gym at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, NH. This was the scene outside, where a contingent of Ron Paul fans had also shown up:
Inside, New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley stumped for Romney. That's Ayotte in red, and Haley in pink:
When Romney spoke, some interlopers from the Occupy movement appeared with a sign saying something about the 99% vs the 1% (of course), and shouting something along the lines of "Mitt kills jobs!" The crowd drowned them out with a "Mitt! Mitt! Mitt!" chant. Romney was unflappable -- this is obviously not the first time this has happened -- and brushed them off with a comment about how wonderful it is that we live in a country where we're free to express ourselves, adding that he prefers when people do so respectfully. (This was over before I had a chance to snap a photo.) On the way out, both the Paul contingent and the left-wing contigent handed out material; the latter had a flyer that was largely a version of this Washington Post article with bolding, underlining, and/or larger font sizes added to the passages about Romney being rich (which is supposed to mean he's evil, I guess).
At a street corner in downtown Manchester later in the day, where Romney and Paul supporters were across the street from one another raising signs, once again a lefty class warrior showed up (there were more of his ilk a few blocks away); just before this was taken he was arguing with one of the Romney supporters:
While it's pretty common (and not limited to the left), I never cease to find it unsettling when people bring their small children to political demonstrations.
More from New Hampshire to come...
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Clint| 1.7.12 @ 4:15PM
" Pay close Attention to Romney’s appointment of Walid Phares to chair the Middle East and North Africa working group of his Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team. Mr. Phares currently serves on the board of ACT! For America, a lobbying group that Politico described as being part of an "effort to transform anti-Islam crusading into a mainstream lobbying effort". He has stated that global jihad is already in progress and within a short period of time jihadists will have ten million suicide bombers ready to wreak devastation on the West. To beat jihadists he is a strong proponent of preemptive strikes and “putting our allies’ forces on existing and new battlefields.”
We Are Being Set Up By The Israel Firster RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges.
These Are The Israel Firster RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges , Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.
Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....
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Paul McGrath| 1.7.12 @ 6:52PM
The photos did not post. I would love to see them. Can you try again?
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 1.7.12 @ 7:42PM
What a bunch of sad clueless looking blockheads up there in New Hampshire!!
Clint| 1.7.12 @ 8:38PM
That Picture Of Michele Bachmann Streaking The Romney Speech Carrying A Sign Sayin' "Abort This Mittens ", Is Really Funny.
bill| 1.7.12 @ 7:53PM
Romney will buy NH with money and voter fraud, but he will have hard time selling his RomneyCare to the Evangelic voters in SC, and will lose to Rick perry big time. Losing SC will halt Romney-train, and Perry will rebound and win FL, despite of negative ad by the Romney campaign airing in the large FL media market, Perry will win because of his southern heritage and conservative credentials. Santorum will be in the 2nd place in NH, but cannot win SC because his fiscal policy is outdated, and will be in the 3rd place in FL, because he lacks money and organization. Gingrich will evaporate by this time. Ron Paul will never get the nominee, who cares.
Mimi| 1.7.12 @ 8:06PM
No Bill....Newt won't be gone... I think he will rebound some on Tuesday and come back in South Carolina....Mitt blew a wad of dough for NOTHING...we look at him knowing what he did to NEWT to bring him down and literally get sick to our stomach and want to PUKE....He doesn't deserve to be President he's too RUTHLESS!!!
Clint| 1.7.12 @ 8:29PM
Those "Man From Niggershead Rock " Sweatshirts Are Sellin' Like Mad.
Mimi| 1.7.12 @ 8:00PM
Sounds like the Romney affair was in STARK contrast to Newt's Saturday outing at the WWII museem....A VERY successful, informative, Patriotic event that was picked up on C-Span!
Tom| 1.8.12 @ 9:37AM
I am not sure where did Clint get the information about Dr Walid Phares. Phares name is on dozens of boards of NGOs, including on Muslim ones and Arab and Middle Eastern ones. I am not even sure if Phares realizes that his name is on Act's board. Being on Act's Board isn't a big issue, for he is an author of 12 books. We shouldn't go by hear say but by a reading of his material. Phares is supportive of liberal and democratic forces in the Middle East. He published the only book that predicted the Arab Spring, one year before it happened. His assessment of the Jihadists has always been right on target. He was appointed on Romney's Committee simply, in my sense, because he is the best to deal with the changes in the Middle East, no question about that.
John | 1.8.12 @ 12:23PM
Governor Romney's selection of Professor Walid Phares for his national security team and Middle East expertise was a master coup. Phares isn't the guy who is interested in American domestic politics but he has one thing above all: a meticulous knowledge of the Middle East unmatched by any other expert among Republicans and in the Administration. I see him more of above the fray but he accepted the Romney offer and thus he was attacked by a number of lobbies. Ironically those who attacked Phares miscalculated hugely. The Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR waged a campaign against the scholar only to generate more support for Romney from his more conservative competitors. And when CAIR will attack him after nomination, this will bring more votes from the center and independents to Romney (if he is the nominee). The Obama camp should reign on CAIR and the other lobbies because at large Americans do not like them and associate them with the Jihadists. Any one attacked by CAIR will actually get more support from the mainstream, but in a discrete way. I guess Romney understood this and got Phares early on. All what Romney had to do was to claim Phares in his team and the super excited CAIR and others leaped on the attack, falling into the trap. CAIR will cost Obama a large segment of voters because they act on behalf of a foreign group, the Muslim Brotherhood, not the Democratic Party.
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