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Are there any takers out there? From an e-blast from Ann Romney, an opportunity to “Donate $45 today to receive your “Make Mitt #45″ Bumper Sticker.”
After all, Mrs. Romney is miffed at her fellow Republicans for criticizing the craptastic campaign to date:
“Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring,” she said. “This is hard and, you know, it’s an important thing that we’re doing right now and it’s an important election and it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know-how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.”
I’m sure these epic additions to the PR disaster known as the Mitt Romney for President will make it all better, Ann. After all, we now have a declaration from your husband’s’ official physician, Randall Gaz of Massachusetts General Hospital, that Mitt is tanned (!), rested, virile and ready to serve.
“He has shown the ability to be engaged in multiple, varied, simultaneous activities requiring complex mental, social, emotional, and leadership skills. He is a vigorous man who takes excellent care of his physical health. He has reserves of strength, energy, and stamina that provide him with the ability to meet unexpected demands. There are no physical impairments that should interfere with his rigorous and demanding political career as the next President of the United States.”
It’s a laff-a-minute, isn’t it? However, no matter each day looks like a new #FAIL, we have to remember:
AND YET, ROMNEY CAN ABSOLUTELY STILL WIN THIS THING: Not bet-hedging, just a fact. For all the dire pronouncements that this gaffe or that flub has doomed Romney’s campaign to the Admiral Stockdale Memorial Dustbin, he is definitely not out of the running. And we should perhaps see this as a feature, not a bug, of life in America, land of opportunities and second chances. Only in America can one pursue Bigfoot hunting or UFO chasing as an actual job. Only in this country could Joe The Plumber be Joe The House Candidate, and not Joe The Guy Who Is Usually Elbow Deep In Human Excrement And Specializes In Extracting Plugs Of Human Hair From Underground Tubes.
The list of nations in which a man like Mitt Romney could plausibly contend to be head of state is not a long one.
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Why bother?
Ann’s arrogance is worse than Mitt’s and is equally as offensive. I will be so glad when this election is over. It has been the most awful one I’ve ever seen for sheer stupidity, racism, dog whistles and outright lying. Begone!
The second paragraph is a Class C felony against the English language. Whoever wrote it ought to be beaten about the head and shoulders with a hardbound edition of the works of Shakespeare.
She makes Cindy McCain look like Jackie Kennedy.
The gullible always love the numbers. It’s a religious thing, I guess. Numerology: the last refuge of fools and scoundrels.
Dave’s Rule of Presidential Thumb : if you have grandkids to brag about, you’re too damned old to run for President. Sorry, Mitt (age 65), try 20 years ago (BTW when a Republican could still get elected).
I’m not sure Ann is any more arrogant than Lord Mittens, but she can’t hide it, at all, even for a moment. Must be a nightmare to work for those people.
LOL Agree
Have to say that our corp masters in the 1% get Two Thumbs Down for the craptastic “production” of the Kabuki Show called USA Pres campaign 2012. Sheesh. Not only is it pathetic & absurd, but it’s frickin boring.
Where can I get my money back??
Unreal.
I look at the electoral map and see that Pennsylvania and Ohio are consistently in the D column. I am not so sure. I think that PA, IA, MN, OH, FL, and VA are going to break Republican because of voter restrictions. Mittens is still in this fight.
Book Salon up with Jonathan Moreno’s Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century hosted by Jeff Kaye
Semi-serious question for people: can you remember Ann Romney’s face? I can’t for the life of me ever remember it, and I’m trying to figure out what that might mean. My wife says it could be a sign that a lot of plastic surgery has just kind of fuzzed her into a rich Republican everywoman, but. . . maybe? I have always had a really good memory for faces so this baffles me.
I do get a kind of Cheshire Scowl when I try to recall it. . .
P.S. Bonus question: is it hauntingly strange in a sort of Portrait of Dorian Grecian Formula Gray way that the bazillionaire is out of money and asking people for $45? Like he’s trying to get up enough for the Greyhound back to Lansing?
I don’t think Ann Romney ever had any idea of how much actual work would be involved with Mitt running for President, both for her and her trusty Mittens, her rock, her man who is solid when unzipped, where the trees are all the right height. Oh I digress.
Who is forcing Ann to almost work, err, fly around the country in a customized jet with servants? And how much more contact with the common folk, AKA “you people” does she have to put up with?
Ann and Mitt are royalty, to be looked up to right? Right?????
Yeah, so much hard work. Hmmm.
As opposed to say, making beds in a shitty motel all day for minimum wage. Or cleaning out the pipes of hair and feces of some crapper in a rest stop or a truck stop or any other high-traffic restroom facility. Or shoveling shit in a barn, or a kennel. Or cleaning poopy diapers in a rest home where all the residents have Alzheimer’s.
How about those guys who fix the potholes in the streets, or replace the bulbs in the streetlights? Or the people who wash the acres of windows in all the shiny buildings? and vacuum the miles of carpets and empty the hundreds of waste baskets every day (night actually)?
Or all those people who work in the dry cleaners pressing all the clothing in the steam and heat? How about those people picking crops in the fields in the cold mornings or the summer heat?
What about those guys in the lumber mills shoving boards through the saws day after day? Or on the auto assembly lines heaving parts and screwing in bolts all day long. Or the guys digging black coal out of the ground in the dark?
As someone so elegantly put it, the people who have to take a shower when they come home from work, rather than before they go.
Now THAT’s hard work. Mrs. Romney wouldn’t know the meaning of the word. So don’t make me laugh with her pitiful whining. She expects us to feel sorry for her because she has MS. Apparently she ‘suffered’ for one whole year and has been in remission ever since. I’m so sorry for her I cannot believe it. What a trial. Cry me a river. She had the luxury of being able to stay home in her bed and be waited on hand and foot while millions of other people with much worse cases had to drag themselves out of bed and off to work. And still are doing that. Yet her husband would deny them insurance coverage to pay for their basic healthcare, and would sell their companies and send their jobs overseas, and when their disability and Medicare kicks in he assigns them to the ranks of the 47% moochers.
FU Ann Romney.
“Donate $47today to receive your “Make Mitt #47″ Bumper Sticker.” would be easier to remember.