Rare bipartisan agreement on Mitt Romney taking credit for the rescue of the auto industry:
“Romney said that he was responsible for the auto bailout?” asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in disbelief, unaware that Romney had told a local affiliate in Ohio he should be credited for having saved the industry. “I’d have to look at the context of his remarks. I know that if the auto companies had gone into bankruptcy like thousands of small businesses had to do across America, they could’ve emerged without the sweetheart deal for the unions like was orchestrated by the Obama administration.”
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) laughed at Mitt Romney’s claim to “a lot of credit” for the auto bailout.
“I just – he cannot be serious,” Kerry told TPM in the Capitol Tuesday.
All through the primary, when Romney would travel to New Hampshire and say one thing on the auto bailout and then go to Ohio and say something else, and then travel 40 miles right over the Michigan line and say something completely different, I have waited for the day he would be the national candidate and responsible for what he says no matter the state he happened to be standing in when he said it, and now it’s finally here.
So enjoy.
Brachiator
Mitt Romney invented the Internet.
Hunter Gathers
Mitt Romney invented the cell phone.
dm
I hear that Erich Segal’s Love Story was based on Mitt and Ann’s romance in college.
g
“Sweetheart deal for unions” = AKA continuing to honor the contract that was negotiated in good faith.
SatanicPanic
Someone on a previous thread brought this up, but the “if we talk about the economy we’re going to lose” ad should have been an early indication of how slimy the Romney campaign should be. I told my wife who doesn’t follow these things about that one and she was shocked- “He has no morals!”
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Chuck Norris wishes he was Mitt Romney.
Carnacki
My prediction: Washington Post Factchecker will say Romney’s statement is “mostly true.”
Carnacki
Mitt Romney invented going into Pakistan and killing bin Laden.
pk
Loo I’ll make it easy for Romney’s people (in fact I wish they’d hire me as their ideas person). Everything good was Romney’s idea. Everything bad is Obama’s fault. This should be the official slogan.
eemom
I was also reminded of McCain yesterday when memeorandum was bleating the story of Romney’s “silence” when some teatwat in the crowd got the mike and said Obama should be tried for treason.
Y’know, how EVEN fucking John McCain had the decency to speak out when that crazy old crone at one of his rallies back in ’08 said Obama was an Ay-rab.
I’m tellin y’all, McCain is gonna look like fucking Abraham Lincoln before this is over.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
The interesting thing is McCain showed it how it’s done “what about all the small business that got no bail out?” never mind the GOP moved heaven and earth to constrict any bail outs or stimulus that would have saved those businesses. Mittens just doesn’t have a clue.
gogol's wife
Mitt Romney was the inspiration for “Love Story.”
beltane
There’s lying and then there is fabricating pure bullshit up out of thin air. All politician lie to an extent, but Mitt Romney is the only presidential nominee I’ve ever seen that just makes up his own facts and passes them off with a straight face. He is like the Baron Von Munchhausen of presidential candidates.
Kay
@eemom:
I know. We’re going to have to grapple with that, eemom. Well, I’m not. Reconsidering. I’ll say that right now.
dmsilev
@eemom:
I dunno. He was on one of the Sunday gabfests recently and claimed that (a) the most important factor in choosing running mate was picking someone who could do a good job as President and that (b) he totally did an excellent job picking someone who met that criteria.
I’m just going to go with “the incipient senility that he showed in 2008 has gotten worse”.
Ripley
Mitt Romney invented 9/11.
Turgidson
McCain shows right there that despite being a shitty candidate himself, he still runs circles around Romney in delivering political doublespeak in a way that’s not immediately ridiculous, laughable, and/or insulting.
Forum Transmitted Disease
The one where the unions agreed to take on all health care costs for retirees in perpetuity?
Fuck, if that’s a “sweetheart deal”, then McCain really was staying in a Hilton in Hanoi during the war.
Keith
Mitt Romney came up with an idea for a new game console: it’s called the Playstation 4.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@eemom:
Which because it fits the narrative of Principled War Hero has been allowed to overshadow the moment when one of his howler monkeys screamed out “Kill him!”, McCain visibly blinked, decided to ignore it and went on reading his speech.
Randy P
Actually we have a rare moment of truth from Romney. He didn’t say the bailout was his idea. He didn’t say he deserves credit. He just said he’s TAKING credit for it. Which is truthy.
gocart mozart
Next Romney will deny that he ever was a Mormon and that he was raises a poor black child, just like Obama.
dmsilev
Also, too, the RNC inadvertently told the truth about Romney:
My advice to Ms Inclan is to pick whatever position you personally find most attractive; sooner or later, Mitt Romney will (temporarily) endorse it.
bemused
I just saw the video of Mitt saying he was not aware of paying any foreign income taxes (youtube and Randi Rhodes site). The questioner even knew the page number of Mitt’s tax returns to quote from, heehee.
MItt’s nervous titter-laugh drives me up a wall. I think we’re going to be hearing that laugh a lot in the next 6 months.
eemom
@Kay:
No, not reconsidering, of course. It’s just kind of an interesting philosophical exercise.
I mean I personally thought the republican party hit rock bottom when McCain picked Palin.
Now a mere four years later, that particular rock bottom seems like a soaring skylight above the reeking sewer that they’re just STARTING with this time around.
What will 2016 bring forth, I wonder….
gocart mozart
Romney wrote all of MCA’s best rhymes.
redshirt
Mitt Romney once put a dog on top of a car and drove to Canada, just to watch it cry.
Mike in NC
Mitt Romney creates his own reality wherever he goes. It’s an awesome super power!
rlrr
So, McCain’s only objection is that employees won’t be treated like chattel…
Hunter Gathers
Mitt Romney is The Hulk.
Steve in DC
@dmsilev
Oh I have no doubt McCain thought she was when he picked her. His people were supposed to vet her and make sure she wasn’t a fool. But, they didn’t. It wasn’t till well after her convention speech that they realized she was a dangerous idiot.
The disaster that was Palin trickled out in small steps. First people started to realize she might have abused her power. Then her baby situation was called into question. Soon after she imploded as a being utterly ignorant about anything. Then we saw the vindictive culture warrior in her and the sheer nastiness out there.
However McCain wasn’t the one that started the fires to whip up the crazies. And he did try to stomp them out. He also tried to make sure Palin didn’t whip up riots after they lost.
He’s not perfect, but Romney seems completely willing to play with gasoline to win.
Turgidson
@eemom:
Yep. I mean, even Sarah f’ing Palin had kind words for cap and trade back then.
Those were the good ol’ days when the parties got along so famously. oy.
gocart mozart
Romney wrote “Dreams From My Father” except for the dog eating part which was written by Bill Ayers.
Culture of Truth
I think using examples of former candidates getting trashed, like Gore or Kerry, could actually get some traction. The media are not all right wing, but they are easily cowed by the right because the keeps bullying them. Pushback and shaming could have some effect, desperate though they are to prop Mittens up.
rlrr
Romney invented shankroids…
eemom
@dmsilev:
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
ummm……..he gave a gracious concession speech…?
Yikes. I need help.
mdblanche
@gogol’s wife: Running for office means never having to say you’re sorry, for Pete’s sake.
Hunter Gathers
Sir Romney the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot,
who nearly faced the fierce dragon of Angnor,
who almost stood up to the vicious chicken of Bristol,
and who personally wet himself at the Battle for Badon Hill.
dedc79
And if GM went out of business tomorrow, I’m sure he’d say good riddance while blaming it all on Obama.
David Fud
RMoney invented the roof rack pet carrier.
Now available in all 50 states for rubes travelling with their families that don’t give a spit about their dog.
gocart mozart
@Mike in NC:
Mitt can travel to alternate universes at will but sometimes he forgets which one he is currently inhabiting. Cut him some slack, you try doing that.
Betty Cracker
I’ve known several shameless liars, and the more successful ones had this ability to filter the crap that came out of their pie-holes in such a way as to avoid becoming an object of ridicule for telling dumb, unbelievable lies. Romney seems to lack this ability.
I am sacrificing elbow macaroni to the FSM tonight, praying that He will touch Stewart, Colbert, SNL, Leno, Letterman, etc., with His noodly appendage so that His faithful servants mock Romney relentlessly for his shameless lies. WE all know Romney is a lying sack of shit. Rachel Maddow has documented it thoroughly.
But this latest outrageous lie has the potential to jump into mainstream consciousness and reach the people who watch nothing but American Idol and other crap so that they too see what a big fat liar Romney is. Mockery can make it happen.
jl
At this rate Romney, or maybe whoever is advising him to say this stuff, will destroy his own candidacy.
However, much the corporate media wants to make it a tight race for ratings, or fluff Romney because he represents the interests of the corporate media oligarchy masters (those brave brave journalists , sorry, Edit: corporate hacks with corporate issued press credentials!), too much of this will wreck him with the public.
And too much will force media celeb hacks to put their audience popularity on the line in trying to sell blatant garbage. And they will be forced to throw up their hands and say ‘no mas!’ ‘can’t do it!’ at critical points in the campaign.
If Romney continues, why? He doesn’t need to.
If he does continue, my theory is simple: Romney is truly and only, a cheesy, classless, foolish arrogant heel.
pragmatism
mitt rmoney invented the hunger games and twilight in order to capture the future tween girls vote.
gaz
@Brachiator: Al Gore invented the environment.
eemom
hey, y’all forgot the best one of all from back in ’08: Romney invented civil rights!
(He said he marched with MLK. TBogg fucking killed on that.)
gocart mozart
@David Fud:
Romney invented the game “rock, paper, scissors”
Forum Transmitted Disease
Mitt Romney played all of Hendrix’s guitar parts on the records.
The Dangerman
Only 6 more months of this lying sack of crap.
rlrr
@pragmatism:
Well, Twilight was written by a Mormon…
Waynski
@bemused: “MItt’s nervous titter-laugh drives me up a wall. I think we’re going to be hearing that laugh a lot in the next 6 months.”
Notice that laugh comes out if he’s lying. It’s one of his tells. Faux outrage is another.
rlrr
@Waynski:
I wonder if Romney plays poker…
Alex S.
Romney has to say it, because he needs to win Ohio. But everytime he tries, he just digs a little deeper. When I look at the Iowa and Virginia polls, I see no way Romney can win.
MoeLarryAndJesus
@Carnacki:
Why stop there? Mitt Romney actually fired the shot. Osama was just his latest varmint.
rlrr
@The Dangerman:
Let’ hope he loses, otherwise it will be 4.5 years…
Tonal Crow
Another day, another claim by the rooster that he caused the sunrise. What bullmitt.
pragmatism
@rlrr: rmoney and stephanie meyers are related.
Jay in Oregon
I’m sorry, Senator McCain, but Senator Kerry did have the correct answer for that.
RP
Romney assembled the Avengers.
JPL
So is Mitt compulsive or pathological liar? Maybe he’s a pathological, compulsive liar. In fact he admitted that he lied in his pro-choice comments and support for planned parenthood.
When will MSM ask Mitt how to tell he’s telling the truth?
haha
kay
@Turgidson:
If you read Romney’s (original) NYTines editorial on the bailout, he supports investment in green energy.
But that was the 2008 Romney. That’s the now-famous “let Detroit go bankrupt” Romney.
There are tens of examples like that. He’s really in a class by himself on cowardly pandering.
Turgidson
@jl:
What makes you think they’ll do that? They never did it with Bush until Bush became less popular than anthrax in spite of their fluffing. And they never did it with McCain or Palin. They still haven’t done it with Paul Ryan.
I suppose you could be right, since Mitt’s brand of mendacity is far more transparent and insulting than the aforementioned. And like I said in an earlier thread, we can at least be comforted in the knowledge that Mitt, like Gore and Kerry, isn’t the kind of cool kid the Villagers usually like to have in their clique, so they might just give him wedgies on that basis alone.
rlrr
@pragmatism:
Another reason to dislike Twilight…
MoeLarryAndJesus
And Mitt Romney’s not ready to say it just yet, but he’s been looking at pictures of the Obama kids and he’s thinking about going on “Maury” to demand paternity tests. They just have a Romney look about them, Mitt thinks.
Villago Delenda Est
McCain continues to disgrace himself with his remarks. “Sweetheart deal with the unions.” My ass.
What a fucking dickweed he is. Now I know why he survived the POW camp…the North Vietnamese wanted to punish us.
pseudonymous in nc
Mitt Romney wrote the English-Reformed Egyptian dictionary that Joseph Smith used to translate the golden plates.
pragmatism
@rlrr: my wife forced me to go see the 3rd one with her. i only agreed because we went to cinepolis where they have waiters to bring you booze. it still sucked.
General Stuck
Mitt Romney is a mega disaster in the making as a presidential candidate. He has ventured so far off the reservation of basic plausibility there is no way back from the pandering bullshit on steroids. So, he might as well just barrel ahead and hope for a miracle.
He doesn’t even maintain a sense where the wingnuts he represents on the issues are, and everything is free associative campaigning to blend in to whatever audience he is faced with at any given point in time.
There has already been a twenty five point turn around in voter enthusiasm with dems leading now in that cat. A factor that is critical when crunch time comes to get voters to the polls. And he isn’t even the official nominee yet, with the GE campaign still in nascent stages.
It is going to be interesting, and likely embarrassing, as it should be obvious this guy is running for president driven by some compulsive demons inside, that have little to do with a healthy ambition to use the POTUS power to make changes according to some vision he has. His reasons for running, could better be confined to a therapists office specializing in daddy complexes. His entire existence up to this point is to be somebody. He used his silver spoon to garner great wealth, but that hasn’t brought the satisfaction of success, so now he wants to lead America along his personal road to salvation – from a deeper sense of not measuring up to his pappy.
MoeLarryAndJesus
@RP:
Romney smash!
rlrr
I wonder what George Romney would have to say if he were alive today…
Villago Delenda Est
@Betty Cracker:
I have no doubt that Letterman sees Rmoney, like the deserting coward and Dan Quayle, as a sign from FSM that Letterman is blessed, because the material practically writes itself.
Bulworth
Yeah, they could’ve. Or they could’ve just sunk themselves, the industries that depend on and support the auto industry, and the tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of jobs along with them. But, you know, we could’ve given the teabag option a try.
Davis X. Machina
He’s not lying, because he can’t lie…
He’s a big business macher. In that world he could announce that he was Madame Curie and the flunkies would start polishing lab glassware and looking around for radium
The boss is never wrong. You never contradict the boss. If necessary, you adjust the world to agree with the boss’s Weltanschauung — never the other way around.
You’re looking at the real meaning of ‘running America like a business’ — a country run by a non-funny Jack Donaghy.
rlrr
Speaking of Twilight…
RP
From now until November every person connected to Obama should say this when discussing Romney: “Why doesn’t Romney take credit for the things that he actually did help create? Like Obamacare.”
JPL
@kay: I think it’s more than that. When he bankrupted factories, did he speak about saving them or closing them? If I were a betting person, he used the word save or something close to that. He talks about being a job creator to this day and that has some truth to it because he created jobs overseas.
He’s a compulsive liar and made millions deceiving people.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Mitt Romney IS the cure for cancer.
Culture of Truth
Romney won a Tony Award for How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Villago Delenda Est
@General Stuck:
Rmoney will be crushed, utterly, by Obama.
The only question now is will Rmoney manage to take Boner and the GOP majority in the House down with him.
Martin
I’m not sure which was the better moment – when Mitt Romney landed that USAir jet on the Hudson or when he lead Seal Team Six in Abbottabad and shot OBL in the face.
pragmatism
@rlrr: LOL. then felt sad for humanity.
Culture of Truth
Romney created Facebook, but Mark Zuckerberg totally stole his idea.
jl
@Turgidson:
You may disagree, but my recollection is that they did throw up their hands with McCain/Palin in 2008.
Bush was a disciplined campaigner, who stayed away from issuing statements that contradicted factual history.
His big pitch on the first campaign was an income tax cut, where there were no well known historical facts, and the media could rely on purported experts to shill a ‘he said she said’ story. And no media celeb risks his audience cred going along with a policy that will save taxpayers a few bucks at tax time.
But, as I said, others may disagree.
Just Some Fuckhead
Mitt Romney is inventing for President, for Pete’s sake.
pragmatism
dick cheney shot Rmoney on a hunting trip but the buck shot did no harm to him.
David in NY
Look, all he said was that he was “taking credit” for all that stuff he didn’t do (except the dog carrier, which was totally Ann’s idea). He didn’t say he actually did any of it!
Cris (without an H)
Mitt Romney recorded the first hip-hop record.
Betty Cracker
@RP: Genius!
jibeaux
Mitt Romney mapped the human genome.
Culture of Truth
Romney’s website is FreeTakingCredit.com
redshirt
@rlrr: Get me out of this damn coffin!?
pragmatism
@Cris (without an H):
ftfy
Alex S.
@Cris (without an H):
Didn’t he write ‘Who let the dogs out’?
jibeaux
Mitt Romney saved 6 next-door neighbors from burning houses.
Give it a minute, you’ll get it.
Villago Delenda Est
You can land a 737 on Mitt Rmoney’s shoulders.
Oh, wait…Tweety said that in 2008!
Culture of Truth
“No Wonder Banks Won’t Give Credit, Mitt Romney Took It All”
Zandar
No more than one Pinocchio from Kessler.
Calling it now.
jibeaux
Mitt Romney put the dip in the dip-de-dip-de-dip.
gene108
What choice does Romney have, then to keep flopping around his positions on issues?
You can please the Republican base or you can please most of the electorate.
You cannot do both, yet a Republican Presidential candidate has to try to do both.
Jewish Steel
Kay, eemom, are you guys saying this is good news for..?
The Dangerman
@rlrr:
He’s toast (and he knows it).
I pity the poor souls in Ohio and Florida that will get saturation bombed between now and November. Thank the Heavens I’m not in a swing state; I couldn’t afford the bar tab it would take to numb myself after listening to this asshole.
rlrr
@redshirt:
Touché!
David Koch
Mitt Romney invented Obamacare.
Culture of Truth
Romney 2012
“It ain’t bragging if you never did it”
schrodinger's cat
Mitt Romney landed on the moon.
redshirt
This might be the most Post-Modern candidate ever. He in fact does not exist, but merely materializes in a given moment, taking the shape of whatever container he finds himself at the time. There is no “Mitt” there, except Mitt is everywhere.
jibeaux
Mitt Romney invented Post-Its, and later wrote the dialogue for “Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion” where they claim to have invented Post-Its as an in-joke.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Mitt Romney invented three-field crop rotation. And the wheel, also, too.
Turgidson
@jl:
I’ll grant that Bush, for all his faults, crimes, and atrocities, stuck to the message when he was campaigning. Although he and Cheney and the entire GOP team were lying their asses off with complete and utter impunity during the 2004 campaign and were never once called to account that I can remember. Heck, they got Rather fired for trying to nail them and screwing it up. But the lies in that campaign were a lot smoother than Romney’s – no doubt about it.
I guess, once the starbursts wore off, they weren’t completely in the tank for Palin, but I think that ticket got off pretty easy overall though. Fucking Bill Ayers was a bigger deal to them than pretty much anything McCain/Palin said or did.
McCain was the “awesome bbq guy” though. Romney’s just a soulless stiff. That works in our favor, at least.
jl
Also, some one needs to monitor exactly how well, or not well, the Romney campaign corporate press ego massage effort goes. That will be important too.
My prediction is that Romney will give lousy tire swing and BBQ.
Probably roll out some crummy cookies look like they come from 7/11 or something and heated up composite BBQ ‘rib product’ (hey, pink slime is going pretty cheap these days. And Romney, from his Staples story, is very impressed with low margin high volume business plans).
McCain was pretty amiable strolling around the BBQ, and introducing all the freshly made and perfectly crusty fried chicken and whatnot. Romney not so much.
I don’t even want to think about Romney’s plans for ‘regaling’, assuming he has any.
Cris (without an H)
Strangely, #RomneyTakesCredit only has four tweets as of this posting.
gene108
@General Stuck:
Oooooohhhhhhhhhh….New SiFi Channel 9:00 p.m. Saturday original movie…Mega Disaster:Mitt Romney.
I can’t wait for it.
I just wonder, who they’ll cast to play Romney?
Culture of Truth
Mitt Romney survived 7/11
rlrr
@The Dangerman:
I think the Republican establishment (Rove, etc.) knows it. They’re going to concentrate their efforts on the downstream elections and hope to regroup in 2016.
jibeaux
@The Dangerman: Mitt Romney invented toast.
JCT
I’m sort of shocked that there is no twitter feed running some of Romney’s imaginary accomplishments. There are so many.
As I noted on the other thread — this blatant falsehood may have finally tipped the balance a bit.
Now we just have to put up with him for another 6 months.
I’m really hoping someone asks him to weigh in on that odious Kansas bill from the other thread..
jibeaux
@Cris (without an H): Mitt Romney deleted them all before anyone could even read them.
ira-NY
Mitt sang Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” while campaigning in Harlem.
Culture of Truth
Mitt Romney has spent years building up an immunity to iocane powder
The Other Chuck
Mitt Romney taught Chuck Norris everything he knows.
Brachiator
@gaz:
Mitt Romney invented both climate change and the solution to it.
@jibeaux:
Michael Nesmith’s mom was one of Mitt Romney’s wives.
gene108
@The Dangerman:
I’m not in a swing state, but I’m in the Philly TV market, so I expect a fair bit of PA-centric Presidential advertising to be on my TeeVee…
schrodinger's cat
@jl:
Plus remember, no booze or coffee. Obama should ply them with the best scotch and cappuccinos.
jibeaux
Mitt Romney knows where all the morels are.
SatanicPanic
@The Dangerman: As a CA resident who lived through Meg Whitman campaign, I feel their pain. Romney’s vanity campaign is showing all the sigsn of being as stupid as hers was.
Citizen_X
Mitt Romney founded Mormonism.
jl
@redshirt: Romney does like France. He might be a post structuralist candidate. Most of those fartastic French frauds are gone now though, so we on our own in terms of doing a really absurd analysis.
Sorry, may have let my personal opinions on some of those dudes leak into this very considered and objective comment on this august blog of political analysis.
jibeaux
Mitt Romney was the first woman in space.
I may only be amusing myself, but these are damn fun.
rlrr
@jibeaux:
One should be thankful. After all, who wants to eat raw toast?
Culture of Truth
Mitt Romney was the sixth Beatle
jibeaux
@jl: Mitt Romney started this blog.
Villago Delenda Est
@gene108:
It has to be Bruce Campbell. Just has to be.
Culture of Truth
Mitt Romney is one of the Avengers
rlrr
@SatanicPanic:
Demon sheep!
jl
@jibeaux: Thanks. I did not know that.
The Other Chuck
Mitt Romney was on the grassy knoll.
jibeaux
Mitt Romney knows how to take out his own appendix, if he has to.
Villago Delenda Est
@The Other Chuck:
Mitt Romney was seen swimming near the USS Maine.
The Other Chuck
Mitt Romney doesn’t often drink, but when he does, he prefers Dos Equis.
SatanicPanic
@rlrr: Demon Sheep was a clever ad campaign dreamed up by none other than Mitt Romney
Villago Delenda Est
Chekov: Ah, quadrotriticale! I’ve read about this, but never seen it before.
Kirk: Does everyone know about this wheat but me?
Chekov: Not everyone, Captain. It’s a Mitt Womney inwention!
Alex S.
@redshirt:
You can either measure his speed or his location but not both.
Brachiator
@Culture of Truth:
Mitt Romney is all of the Avengers.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Mitt Romney taught Teddy Roosevelt to ride a horse.
Tonal Crow
Mitt Romney created the first rooster that caused the first sunrise.
trollhattan
Willard’s new campaign manager has given him a standard answer for any question, from this point forward: “Awwww, shucky ducky.”
“ShEEEEeeeeyIT!” was considered but rejected as unpresidential.
Who let the dogs out?
Culture of Truth
@Villago Delenda Est: I have a very good friend named Mitt Womney
El Cid
Mitt Romney saved Cory Booker’s neighbor from that fire.
jibeaux
Mitt Romney is why the chicken crossed the road.
rlrr
@The Other Chuck:
His father was born in Mexico…
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Mitt Romney has a secret plan to get us out of Vietnam.
Culture of Truth
@Villago Delenda Est: Mitt Romney developed nuclear wessels
trollhattan
Willard invented infinity, and has counted to it. Twice.
jibeaux
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Mitt Romney, motherfucker.
The Dangerman
@SatanicPanic:
I’m a SoCal guy; Whitman’s campaign was brutal.
ETA: Wasn’t Whitman campaigning the same time as Fiorina? I’m trying to block out those memories even though it’s only been a short while. How did California survive it?
jl
Off topic, but haven’t seen it noted. sorry no time for link. But looks like drop in labor force over last few months was due more to retirements, close to expected retirement age, than discouraged workers.
So, as far as typical voter experience goes, drop in unemployment rate will be seen as a positive development.
Maybe some one brought it up in the post on long run trends in labor force participation rate a few days ago, but I did not see it.
Things still looking slightly up on the economy for Obama, lets hope recent signs of weakness in the admittedly weak economic recovery are mostly statistical issues, and not early signs of a stall out.
Culture of Truth
Mitt Romney wrote the Book of Love
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Mitt Romney taught Ben Franklin how to fly a kite.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Culture of Truth: and that’s why it’s long and boring?
John D
@Bulworth: The US auto industry is over seven MILLION jobs, including the supply chains. The big 3 going bankrupt would have permanently eliminated well over 1 million of them, possibly as many as 3 million. Most people have no clue just how big the american manufacturing sector truly is.
trollhattan
@Culture of Truth:
Willard pitched the first wang dang doodle.
Villago Delenda Est
@Culture of Truth:
He wrote the Book of Love AND let the dogs out?
He’s a busy guy!
Is he our daddy, too?
Did he write Tommy?
scav
Touching Mitt Romney will cure scrofula and his coming was foretold in all reputable books of prophesy.
jibeaux
Mitt Romney is the Unknown Soldier.
jl
@The Dangerman: The Whtiman campaign media shelling was brutal in SF Bay and Central Valley too, from my memory.
Metaphorically makes Verdun look like a picnic, in terms of epic marathon media carpet bombing.
I still have media shell shock from it, and political ads make me jump and run for cover.
MikeJ
Mitt Romney saved children, but not the British children.
Culture of Truth
Mitt Romney bought a chocolate factory and fired all the oopa-loompas
rlrr
@jibeaux:
Neat trick for someone who avoided military service…
LanceThruster
Mitt Romney doesn’t have to wait for the Mormon afterlife to command his own planet.
trollhattan
Willard has his own sharks. With frickin’ lasers.
Culture of Truth
Mitt Romney knows where Jimmy Hoffa is. No really.
David Koch
Romney was around when Jesus Christ had his moments of doubt and pain. Made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands and sealed his fate.
Tonal Crow
@trollhattan: Mitt Romney jumped his own laser-bearing sharks!
jl
My friends. Mitt Romney invented the epically bad, transparent and counterproductive, and truly cut rate discount dime store political lie.
And that may be close to truth. If we search the annals of cheesy cheap jack candidates, we may find that Romney only reinvented it.
pk
@rlrr:
He’d say “Kill me now”!
LanceThruster
@David Koch: Pleased to meet chew!
The Other Chuck
Mitt Romney is the Nine Billionth Name of God.
jibeaux
Mitt Romney is Anonymous.
Brachiator
Mitt Romney is the Un-cola.
Villago Delenda Est
@jibeaux:
Mitt Romney personally wet himself at the battle of Baden Hill.
patrick II
Notice he doesn’t say “I deserve a lot of credit…”
He is comfortable taking things he doesn’t necessarily deserve.
The Other Chuck
@David Koch: Mitt Romney was born in a crossfire hurricane and howled at his ma in the driving rain.
LanceThruster
It’s not only, Mitt would if he could…He *can*!
Villago Delenda Est
@David Koch:
Killed the Czar and his ministers, Anastasia screamed in vain.
jibeaux
@rlrr: How do you think he stayed so damn unknown?
SatanicPanic
@The Dangerman: yes, that was the year of the smug Republican CEO vanity campaign. Just like this year.
scav
Ah, the Little Mittler. Putting the I’m in plausible and then queue-jumping and insisting on top-billing.
Villago Delenda Est
@David Koch:
Mitt Romney to God: Hey! You! Get off of MY cloud!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Well, if you wanna go with the musical, Mitt Romney is the god of hellfire, and he brings you FIRE! He’ll teach you to burn.
LanceThruster
When in danger, when in doubt
Run to Mittens, scream and shout
Load the cannons, fire the guns
Raise the signal flag, “Well Done!”
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Culture of Truth:
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Dammit! John Boehner’s gonna need to down another double Scotch after hearing about that.
The Other Chuck
Steve Allen ripped off all of Mitt Romney’s jokes.
David Koch
Romney is the walrus.
goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Villago Delenda Est:
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On the seventh day, while God was resting, Mitt Romney fired all the angels and replaced them with cheap labor from down under.
burritoboy
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of Mitt moved upon the face of the waters.
And Mitt said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And Mitt saw the light, that it was good: and Mitt divided the light from the darkness.
JPL
This post is funny but it’s doubtful that it will be covered by the networks. They have decided that lying is appropriate for repubs.
Villago Delenda Est
Who are you? – The Vorlon question.
What do you want? – The Shadow question
What do you want to hear? – The Rmoney question.
mdblanche
@Alex S.: Mitt Romney lacks mass and charge but does have spin.
burritoboy
Your bill from Bain Capital will arrive shortly
Jacquelyn
So, which auto makers are in South Carolina? I mean, no one jumped on that line! If they weren’t Ford or Euro-Asian, then they were BAILED OUT!
Villago Delenda Est
@David Koch:
Here’s another clue for you twits
The Walrus was Mitt
Culture of Truth
Mitt Romney was born a ramblin man
LanceThruster
Little Mittler Lyrics (apologies to Nick Lowe)
Little Mittler, what you doin’
Is the passion inflamed again, again
Little Mittler, where you goin’
Is it go go night again tonight
Ever searchin’ for the action
But the action don’t want to know
I said all along you’re a tough one
(Little Mittler)
Little Mittler, what’s the matter now
Can’t you settle for the center of attention
Little Mittler, now I’m serious
Let me guess why you knocked me
Off your guest list
As the world turns
Atthe edge of night
And the seed is shot and sown
l’ll make a Little Mittler of my own
(Little Mittler)
When the goin’ gets tough
The tough get goin’
Every now and then
l can see ’em runnin’, runnin’
You can talk with them
You can be shot with them
But you’ll get no change
Only shootin’ at ’em long range
See you someday soon (Little Mittler)
Selfish pleasure, yeah (Little Mittler)
With the one I Iove (Little Mittler)
Now you’re not alone…yeah (Little Mittler)
With the one I Iove (LittLe Mittler)
David Koch
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he’s doing alright
You shoulda heard Mitt just around midnight
LanceThruster
Mitt’s stump speeches make Vogon poetry seem bearable.
mdblanche
@The Dangerman: Booze.
Villago Delenda Est
You say you want to spend the winter in Firenza
You’re so afraid you’ll catch a dose of influenza
You live your life like a Canary in a Mitt mine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line.
David Koch
Romney invented “New Coke”
Romney directed “Ishtar” and “Hudson Hawk”
LanceThruster
Mitt doesn’t always not drink beer, but when he does, he not drinks Dos Equis.
canuckistani
Mitt Romney invented differential calculus, twice over.
The Other Chuck
Mitt Romney wrote Shakespeare’s plays.
ira-NY
Mitt has been named the new spokesman for Dos Equis.
stratplayer
@Citizen_X:
Actually, he personally dictated the Book of Mormon to Joseph Smith from the inside of a hat.
Villago Delenda Est
Lies, lies
I can’t believe a word you say
Lies, lies
Are gonna make you sad someday
Some day you’re gonna be lonely
But you won’t find me around
The Other Chuck
@stratplayer: After dictating the Quran to Mohammed.
VincentN
Mitt Romney is the fifth Cylon.
scav
Mitt paints each every rainbow to make us all happy after it rains.
Chris
@Villago Delenda Est:
I LOL’d.
mdblanche
When the first wrong was done to the first Indian, Mitt Romney was there. When the first slaver put out for the Congo, Mitt Romney stood on her deck. Is Mitt Romney not in your books and stories and beliefs, from the first settlements on? Is Mitt Romney not spoken of, still, in every church in New England? ‘Tis true the North claims Mitt Romney for a Southerner, and the South for a Northerner, but Mitt Romney is neither. Mitt Romney is merely an honest American like yourself-and of the best descent-for, to tell the truth, though Mitt Romney doesn’t like to boast of it, Mitt Romney’s name is older in this country than yours.
ira-NY
When Mitt falls the trees yell timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
trollhattan
Q: Who’s the unusually white private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks?
A: Mitt!
Q: You’re damn right. Also, too, who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man?
A: Mitt!
Q: Can ya dig it? Who’s the cat that won’t cop out
When there’s danger all about?
A: Mitt!
Q: Right on. You see this cat Mitt is a bad mother–
A: Shut your mouth!
Q: But I’m talkin’ ’bout Mitt!
A: Then we can dig it!
Q: He’s a complicated man, but no one understands him but his woman.
A: Marie Osmond!
And, scene.
ira-NY
Waldo is looking for Mitt.
bemused
Over at Think Progress: next week Mitt will fundraise at the home/manse of Phil Frost, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Teva, major manufacturer of contraceptives including Plan B. Huh. Mitt is really making my head hurt. Howza he gonna ‘splain this to the fundies?
LanceThruster
Call me Mitt the breeze
I keep blowin’ down the road
Well now they call me Mitt the breeze
I keep blowin’ down the road
I ain’t got me nobody
I don’t carry me no load
Ain’t no change in the weather
Ain’t no changes in me
Well there ain’t no change in the weather
Ain’t no changes in me
And I ain’t hidin’ from nobody
Nobody’s hidin’ from me
Oh, that’s the way its supposed to be
Well I got that green light baby
I got to keep movin’ on
Well I got that green light baby
I got to keep movin’ on
Well I might go out to California
Might go down to Georgia
I don’t know
Well I dig you Georgia peaches
Makes me feel right at home
Well now I dig you Georgia peaches
Makes me feel right at home
But I don’t love me no one woman
So I can’t stay in Georgia long
Well now they call me Mitt the breeze
I keep blowin’ down the road
Well now they call me Mitt the breeze
I keep blowin’ down the road
I ain’t got me nobody
I don’t carry me no load
Oooh Mitt the Breeze
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Mitt Romney discovered a truly marvelous proof of why he should be President. Unfortunately the margins of our political system are too narrow to contain it.
scav
@bemused: what part of believing in the trilogy would be your first clue? Speaking of which, that’s no doubt what Mitt sees when he looks in the mirror.
ira-NY
Mitt put the bop in the bop sha bop sha bop!
eemom
So this good man dies and goes to heaven, and he’s waiting in line outside the Pearly Gates, when suddenly this car with a dog carrier on top comes speeding by and crashes right through. The man demands angrily, “Hey, who is that guy, who does he think he is?” and St. Peter whispers “Hush! That’s God! He sometimes likes to pretend he’s…..”
Carnacki
@MoeLarryAndJesus: Well it does tie in well with Romney saying he was against something before he was for it
mdblanche
Mitt Romney has a portrait of himself in his attic that is growing older even as his own appearance stays the same. He is claiming the depreciation on the tax returns he won’t release.
Spaghetti Lee
Mitt Romney solved Fermat’s last theorem, repaired the Hubble, and beat Deep Blue at chess.
(Damn, hate getting to these threads so late.)
The Other Chuck
@scav:
Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers, and Mitt.
ira-NY
Mitt buys his suits at JoS A Bank for full retail price!
LanceThruster
Then Mitt’ll be all around in the dark – Mitt’ll be ever’where—wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, Mitt’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, Mitt’ll be there… Mitt’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—Mitt’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folk eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, Mitt’ll be there.
JPL
The local Atlanta CBS news just covered Mitt’s latest lie…
I’m shocked..
Villago Delenda Est
I met Mitt Romney on the street last night
He seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled
And we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers
Still lying after all these years
LanceThruster
Mitt determined the answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42!
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
There’s a man in the newspapers we all know
He’ll take us back to a long time ago
He don’t eat nothin’ but Santorum’s shit
Well, this cat’s name is-a Romney-the-Mitt
He got a policy advisor that’s a dinosaur
And he can knuckle your head before you count to four
He got a big ugly club and a head fulla hair
Like great big lions and grizzly bears
He’s the toughest man there is alive
Wearin’ clothes from a Gingrich’s hide
He’s the king of the GOP jive
Look at that caveman go!!
Cris (without an H)
@LanceThruster: Mitt is in your jeans. He’s in your cheeseburgers. Mitt is in Nutty Buddies! Mitt is in your mom!
Brachiator
Mitt Romney is Keyser Söze
MikeJ
@Cris (without an H): Mitt is in Joan Rivers , but he’s trying to get out.
The Other Chuck
Mitt is the Kwisatz Haderach
scav
@LanceThruster: Blasphemy! That was a mere abacus compared to the Mitt, whose merest operational parameters it is not worthy to calculate!
ira-NY
The Shadow told Mitt everything he knows.
Brachiator
Mitt Romney is your huckleberry.
burritoboy
Mitt is the Emperor of Mankind!
(for all you Warhammer 40,000 buffs out there)
trollhattan
Has Willard been anywhere near Indiana lately?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2018164746_apuskidsonhood.html
stratplayer
@The Other Chuck: And before that he chiseled the Ten Commandments on the tablets God gave to Moses. He remains a chiseler to this day.
Jibeaux
Mitt Romney makes a killer souffle.
Ash Can
Mitt Romney taught Gregory Hines how to dance and Michael Jordan how to dunk.
Ash Can
Mitt Romney hit Babe Ruth’s famous “called shot.”
RalfW
@Davis X. Machina:
Yep, that’s our Mitt! (whah-whah sad trombone)
ira-NY
Mitt once arranged M%Ms in alphabetical order.
ira-NY
Sharks have dedicated a week to Mitt.
Canadian Shield
“That is not dead which can eternal lie
and with strange aeons even Mitt may die”
Evolving Deep Southerner
@David Koch: Win.
var
Mitt Romney created social security after democrats wanted to cut spending on the poor during the Great Depression. And funded it with tax cuts for the rich that defeated Hitler and Tojo.
mdblanche
Hiero II may have been King of Syracuse and Archimedes may have discovered the principle of displacement in his service, but the man who forged the king’s new crown out of base metal and covered it with gilt was Mitt Romney.
Evolving Deep Southerner
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with Mitt Romney …
Valdivia
is this a meme on twitter yet?
mitt taking credit for it?
what is the Twitter soros army waiting for????
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@rlrr:
,..a country that Mitt Romney discovered in 1942.
Spaghetti Lee
Mitt Romney is the only one Voldemort ever feared.
Mitt Romney threw the winning pass to David Tyree in Super Bowl XLII.
Mitt Romney built the Pyramids and summitted Everest 50 years before Sir Hillary.
ira-NY
Mitt lives vicariously – through himself.
LanceThruster
@Cris (without an H):
Man, there’s a lot of unexplained phenomenon
out there in the world.
Lot of things people say
What the heck’s going on?
Let me tell ya!
Who built the pyramids?
MITTENS!
Who built Stonehenge?
MITTENS!
Yeah, man you see guys
walking down the street
pushing shopping carts
and you think they’re talking to Allah,
they’re talking to themself.
Man, no they’re talking to MITTENS!
MITTENS! MITTENS!
You know whats going on in that Bermuda Triangle?
Down in the Bermuda Traingle
Mittens needs boats.
Mittens needs boats.
Mittens Mittens Mittens
Mittens Mittens Mittens
Mittens needs boats.
Aahh! The Sailing Mittens!
Captain Mittens!
Commodore Mittens it is.
ira-NY
Mitt’s personality is so magnetic he can’t carry a credit cards.
ira-NY
Mitt’s personality is so magnetic he can’t carry credit cards.
LanceThruster
@scav:
True, but seeing as he was at the restaurant at the end of the universe (Mittenways), he did that also, too.
LanceThruster
Mitt Romney was Kilroy.
mdblanche
Mitt Romney is fully functional. His Chief of Security could vouch for that if only she hadn’t been conveniently killed by that tar monster.
danimal
When your public statements are this easily mocked, you’re in real trouble. Keep it up, Mittens and your SuperPac money will be concentrated on South Carolina, Georgia and the Dakotas. OTOH, Utah still looks safe.
LanceThruster
Mitt Romney is a foo fighter fighting foos!
Pity the foo.
ira-NY
Mitt built Rome in a day.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@LanceThruster:
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Mitt Romney gave Mojo Nixon his mojo.
LanceThruster
Mitt Romney is Valentine Michael Smith.
LanceThruster
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: And Skid his roper.
The Other Chuck
Mitt Romney used to be an adventurer, then he took an arrow in the knee.
The Other Chuck
Who controls the British pound?
Who keeps the metric system down?
Romney! Romney!
LanceThruster
@The Other Chuck: Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?
WaterGirl
@JPL: Somebody here needs to buy a domain, appropriately named for romney’s lies, and just have a simple form for entering these sorts of comments.
I’m sure it would catch on like wildfire and I guarantee the media would cover it.
Edit: Or, alternately, this could be a running thread with a constant link on the front page of BJ throughout the campaign. That would eventually get press coverage, too, I think.
Hungry Joe
Mitt Romney cooks better than Heisenberg.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Mitt Romney was there in the temple, when Jesus threw the moneychangers out.
LanceThruster
Mitt Romney is the essence of “grok.”
LanceThruster
Compared to Mitt Romney, Buddha is just a fat bastard.
Steve in DC
@burritoboy
If we are going all 40,000 here
“money for the money god, dividends for the throne of the Mittens”
or
“in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only austerity”
LanceThruster
“Now, I am become Mitt, the destroyer of worlds.”
LanceThruster
Fast food employees ask, “You want Mitt with that?”
LanceThruster
Mitt is the reason there can be only one.
LanceThruster
To be Mitt means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man.
mdblanche
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: Technically, he was on his way out the door at that moment.
LanceThruster
Mitt Romney is aware of all internet traditions.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@mdblanche:
He was proactively engaged in an involuntary departure from the premises.
gaz
@Evolving Deep Southerner:
I’m pretty sure you just made baby jesus cry.
LanceThruster
It’s a hell of a thing, Mitting a man. Take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.
SiubhanDuinne
@jibeaux:
Yeah, a morel is still just a mushroom when all’s said and done. Keep ’em in the dark and throw shit on ’em.
LanceThruster
Mein Mittens! I can walk!
LanceThruster
“Well, I’ve been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that’s the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure Mitten’s got today’s codes?” ~~ Major T. J. “King” Kong
burnspbesq
Mitt Romney jumps so high that when he dunked on Michael Jordan, his knee hit Mike in the forehead.
Hell, he lies about everything else, why not lie about this?
JoyfulA
@jl: Whitman was another Bain graduate.
Renie
Here you go, have fun and post away; let’s see how far this can go.
http://mittromneytakescreditfor.websitetoolbox.com/
Juju
Mitt Romney put the white cream in the Twinkie.
Thoughtcrime
Mitt Romney deserves “a lot of credit” for the resurgence of the Etch-A-Sketch industry.
LanceThruster
LSOM* = the new “santorum”
*Lying Sack of Mitt
LanceThruster
Nothing comes between me and my mom jeans ~ Mitt Romney
LanceThruster
BREAKING NEWS – Rmoney video taped himself trickling down on underwealthed Americans.
LanceThruster
This is the World of Commander Mitt Bragg
Your hair will curl in the World of Mitt Bragg.
He fights monsters galore
And then asks for still more
Or so says the brag of Mitt Bragg.
When on the hill the marines plant a flag
They may be led by Commander Mitt Bragg.
With a cannon in hand
He can beat any band
Or so says the brag of Mitt Bragg.
Fencing and fighting and round table knighting
And slaying of dragons, too.
Shipping and sailing and great harpoon whaling
There’s nothing Mitt Bragg can’t do.
Hunting and trapping and gold miner mapping
And flying to Timbuktu.
Roping and riding and Indian guiding
Commander Mitt Bragg comes through.
This is the World of Commander Mitt Bragg
Your head will whirl in the World of Mitt Bragg.
He can do anything
In his world he’s a king
Or so says the brag of Mitt Bragg.
source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/theworldofcommanderMcBragglyrics.html