Willard: Lamest, Most Inauthentic, Most Out-of-Touch Politician in Human History?

Unbelievable (4.00 / 2)

The whole event was a disaster: the trees, the small crowd, protests and two Cadillacs.  

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by: Jamie @ Fri Feb 24, 2012 at 21:03:50 PM UTC

AFSCME had some fun with this appearance (4.00 / 1)

http://action.afscme.org/authe...

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by: virginia_aflcio @ Fri Feb 24, 2012 at 21:15:51 PM UTC

Also note, the stadium's basically empty. (0.00 / 0)

Feel the Mitt-mentum!!! LOL

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by: lowkell @ Fri Feb 24, 2012 at 21:21:55 PM UTC

Romney really knows how to draw a crowd! (0.00 / 0)

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by: lowkell @ Fri Feb 24, 2012 at 21:28:38 PM UTC

Is He for Real??? (0.00 / 0)

I can't believe how out-of-touch Romney is with the 99%. He was born into privilege (even though Dad only had a few millions), made really big money, never associated with "those others." Every time he opens his mouth, he plants his inept foot it. With Dubya some of us kept a list of his dumb statements. With Willard we can start the list of elitist statement he doesn't even know are elitist:
"I like to fire people."
"I'm not concerned with the very poor."
"Corporations are people, my friend."
"I know what it's like to worry about losing a job. I've gotten a couple of pink slips." (NOT)
"I understand. I'm unemployed, too (chuckle)."
"Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs."

And, of course, for us animal lovers there is the infamous incident where the family dog was put in a crate on top of the family vehicle and driven from Massachusetts to Quebec, a four-hour trip at Interstate speeds. No wonder, the poor thing had an accident that the kids saw running down the back seat windows. Willard's solution? Put the dog and the car through a car wash....

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by: Elaine in Roanoke @ Sat Feb 25, 2012 at 13:03:30 PM UTC

Or his $10,000 bet offer in a debate! (0.00 / 0)

Among my crowd, we bet six-packs of beer, or cases if the stakes get really high. Add his $10k wager offer in the debate a few months ago to the list.

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by: jack hughes @ Sun Feb 26, 2012 at 00:56:00 AM UTC

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Nixon was much more effective (4.00 / 1)

Tricky Dick was not born to privilege, which gave him a certain appeal to blue collar audiences (the "hard hats" as they called them), though much of that appeal was based on bitter resentment against so-called "elites" -- even as Nixon was pocketing secret millions from the actual corporate elites.   And Nixon was also a brilliant political strategist - unlike R-money.   Gingrich is more the inheritor of the Nixon style in this race.  

Stylistically, Romney reminds me more of Gore when he ran -- the son of a well-known politician with a cloistered upbringing, stiff, with poor people instincts.  Indeed, some of the reasons Repub voters are rejecting Romney make perfect sense.  Others don't: anti-Mormon prejudice, desire for a candidate who touts conspiracy theories and is far to the right of the electorate, etc.  

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by: kindler @ Sat Feb 25, 2012 at 13:35:55 PM UTC

Romney makes Gore look like a natural (0.00 / 0)

FDR, JFK, Clinton and Obama all rolled into one. That's how stupefyingly lame Willard is as a candidate. Just no skills whatsoever, except for lots of money to bash his opponents into the ground. Charming.

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by: lowkell @ Sat Feb 25, 2012 at 14:02:59 PM UTC

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I don't know... (0.00 / 0)

who could forget "Joementum?"

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by: GretchenLaskas @ Sat Feb 25, 2012 at 16:08:51 PM UTC

Romney's greatest political skill... (0.00 / 0)

is his ability to shamelessly lie and misrepresent his own record without a hint of embarrassment or, apparently, even any self-awareness that he is doing it.

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by: aznew @ Sat Feb 25, 2012 at 18:21:50 PM UTC