Thank You, Mitt
For a couple of months now I have argued with Verdelia that Mitt Romney has been sitting back, waiting for a brokered convention so that he has a shot of being the Republican nominee.
Verdelia says I’ve been watching too much House of Cards.
Maybe so, but Mitt stepped out last week to remind everybody that he’s still alive, has a lot of money, and is almost exactly like Donald Trump except with better table manners.
And we all took note that every shot he lobbed at Trump was … ta da! … something Mitt Romney did.
For example —
Mitt: “His [Trump’s] bankruptcies have crushed small businesses and the men and women who worked for them.”
Yeah, unlike Mitt Romney, venture capitalist at Bain, who never laid off anybody.
And —
Mitt: He inherited his business, he didn’t create it.
Yeah, not like Mitt, whose father was a poor sharecropper and died penniless in a dog cage on the top of Mitt’s car.
Charles Pierce concludes,
But what is very clear is that Willard sees the perfect Romney scenario unfolding before him. If the party declines to nominate He, Trump, then maybe it will hand the nomination to Willard Romney—the nomination that always should have been his.
This ain’t politics, it’s show business. And you just gotta love it.
All Trump needs now is binders full of women. Oh, wait.
Thanks to Carol for the heads up.
Willard. Wasn’t he a rat in an old movie or a book?
1Need plenty of popcorn for this circus
2For F’s sake, the nomination was already his once and he blew it out his gold plated ass.
3Yeah, not like Mitt, whose father was a poor sharecropper and died penniless in a dog cage on the top of Mitt’s car
I hereby declare my undying love for your sense of humor.
Willard the rat had a friend named Ben(Carson) that Michael-I wished I was white-Jackson sang about. Notice how rats tend to have wingnut names.
4Romney fits right into “The Battle of the Cons”. (I stole that from Paul Krugman.)
5These are men who are absolutely oblivious to their own sins, yet hysterically outraged about those of others. The RKlan is flushing itself down the political drain. Hope they don’t forget to wash their hands.
Ben
Michael Jackson
Ben, the two of us need look no more,
We both found what we were looking for.
With a friend to call my own,
I’ll never be alone, and you, my friend, will see,
You’ve got a friend in me.
Ben, you’re always running here and there,
You feel you’re not wanted anywhere.
If you ever look behind and don’t like what you find
There’s something you should know, you’ve got a place to go.
I used to say I and me, now it’s us, now it’s we.
I used to say I and me, now it’s us, now it’s we.
Ben most people would turn you away;
I don’t listen to a word they say.
They don’t see you as I do;
I wish they would try to’
I’m sure they’d think again if they had a friend like Ben,
A friend like Ben
(Like Ben)
Like Ben
Oh what fun it is to change lyrics to fit the times and persnicketalities like Drumpf and others.
6Apparently he relishes having his a$$ handed to him two elections in a row.
7Willard. Wasn’t he the weather person on the Today show… and the original Bozo the Clown?
8JAKvirginia, don’t know about the others, but “the original Bozo the Clown” was Reagan, if my history doesn’t fail me.
9So what Miz JJ alludes to is the snacilbupeR regard Willard as the 2016 understudy to Drumpf, the nominee presumptive. Thus when Drumpf shows up to Cleveland wounded or stoned or otherwise incapable of serving as the nominee, Willard is right there saying, “I’m tanned, I’m rested. I’m HERE. Nominate ME ME ME ME! Besides Ann has already measured the White House for drapes!
10Ohhhhh I’m gonna need Alka Seltzer! A lot of it! Pretty obvious, isn’t it, what Mitt is aiming for. Couldn’t be more obvious if it was in neon lights!
Mitt also had a very helpful and moneyed daddy, George, a truly self-made millionaire who worked his way up the ladder. Unfortunately, George dumped a load of stocks on Mitt when he married Ann (both collegians at the time) which Mitt used to live decently in his very prolonged students years – undergrad, grad, law school – while building a family. Mitt had a gift of gab and persuaded a number of people to run their businesses in a certain way which had nothing to do with Matthew 25. It was mournfully evident from early on that employees et al. were simply collateral damage. As for the poor who have come to depend on government help – which a lot of them pre-paid from their taxes when they were working – well, to hell with them. That video of the speech at the overpriced fund raising dinner will live forever. And I really do need that Alka Seltzer. I better get to the CVS before it closes!
11There are differences between Romney and Trump: Romney has considerable experience in misgovernment of a state, and he originally created what turned into Obamacare before turning around and declaring it evil. Trump is just sliming on his coattails. He’s Romney with the manners of a second-grade bully.
12El Gonzo – As someone who works in a second grade classroom, we would NEVER allow our students to behave the way Trump has. They have much better manners than he does, are much kinder, smarter, respectful, and tolerant of differences.
They DO occasionally pick their noses and pee on the bathroom floor (well, the boys do, anyway) but they are very responsible with their ice cream money and none of them have EVER filed for bankruptcy!
13No no PKM, that was Bonzo the Chump, not Bozo the clown!!
14(Nancy went to join him, so she won’t get to vote either!)
The only thing in the universe that could make Rmoney look even remotely viable is the current crop of campaigning clowns! How sad for our nation.
15Back in the day, I watched “Dynasty”. Remember that show? Billed as a night-time drama but more like a night-time soap opera. The trials and tribulations of the super rich. Of course now there’s the Kardashians and others. Talk about life imitating “art”. And I use the term “art” loosely. I truly wish I was from another country because I wonder what they must be thinking about us now. Looking at it from the inside I see it as a surreal version of “One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest”.
16Aggieland Liz, I must have the presidents confused. Thought “Bonzo the Chump” was Dubya. Although “chump” is interchangeable with all the snacilbupeR.
Check the early and absentee ballots. Would not expect less of old Nancy than to vote two or three times on her way to the exit.
17And then there is this: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mitt-romney-no-one-refuse-nomination
Nah, he didn’t try to torpedo Trump to get the nomination for himself! Perish the thought! Except…..
18Nancy Raygun has left the building.
19Darned if I didn’t predict about a month ago that the desperate GOP “establishment” would float the idea of Mitt as nominee. Now that we are saddled with Ryan as the last ditch standard shredder, it’s poetic that Mitt would be pulled in as a last ditch nominee.
20I’ve been saying this for months, folks. Mittens is just waiting to be asked, and he will jump through that door. When Annie starts being booked on “Today” to share her recipes, we’ll know that Reince has been talking to him. At least he’s sane..well…sort of. Trump and Cruz are even bigger egomaniacs than Palin, and more dangerous to this country. Mittens will be beaten by Hillary/Bernie…please proceed, GOP! Watch Trump sue the GOP for his money back!!
21http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/former-first-lady-nancy-reagan-dies-age-94
22With Citizen’s United putting a price on politics, I look forward to watching Trump and Romney bid on eBay for Republican delegates this summer. With a brokered convention, delegates may as well trade their votes for cold, hard, Republican cash. Don’t miss the last minute of every auction, that’s when the prices really start rocketing upward. Free shipping!
23PKM-Bonzo was actually human,dumbass dubya,otoh,was not.
24ps-if you watch Genesis video “Land of Confusion” you will see Nancy and Bonzo trying to kill Ronnie so they could elope after the world is destroyed by Ronnie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHmH1xQ2Pf4
🙂 🙂
25I heard Mitt state, quite emphatically, the other day … maybe it was yesterday [Saturday] that he was NOT now, nor in the future, running for President again. I can’t remember who it was that he was talking to … Chuck Todd or Charlie Rose … one of those guys or someone else … and I just happened to be watching when he said he was not and would not be running … not matter what, regardless of anything else!! I have to believe he might actually be honest about that statement!!
26e platypus onion … Scalia, Nancy …. shall we tell Cheney he’s next?
27and spoil the surprise,PKM?
28e platypus onion, decisions, decisions and that is a tough one. You could make it easier, if we were to deliver the surprise in person.
29Afraid I couldn’t do Cheney’s demise justice, He can’t be punished enough for what he has done.
30e platypus onion, tie him to a chair and make him watch as Anonymous drains every one of his war criminal bank accounts, then ship him to The Hague. Or, ISIL; they probably have something sufficiently creative and appropriate for him.
31@ PKM, at least Nancy R could vote only in primaries. She’ll probably possess some poor medium so she can vote in November…
@ JAK, pretty sure “ugly art” covers all that nauseating crapola!
@ Marcia, Mitt is NOT running, and Rick Perry is NOT gay…
32PKM and epo, I vote for an ISIL destination for the Evil Darth Cheney. Have a good time you bloodless bast**d.
33If there is a brokered republican convention, Rience-and Repeat has only one untainted player he can advance. Mitt has lost the Trump crowd’s vote, Cruz and Rubio are dead on arrival, and Kasich could be indicted before the convention.
That leaves Paul Ryan, a relatively likeable jacka$$ with reliable conservative bonifides. He can throw red meat and sound smart doing it. They just have to ask him in the right way.
34What is this, “All About Eve”?
They like me! They really like me!
Don’t worry Mitt, you can put that nomination where your heart is supposed to be.
35At this point the Repub choices are narrowing to “None of the Above.”
So Mitt qualifies.
36Ann is already working with a crew to figure out how many floats must be built to accommodate the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, which will have first place honor in the inaugural parade.
37I remember a Mitt story that they were so poor in their early marriage that, lacking a kitchen table, they used the ironing board. Darn, I was so poor I didn’t have an ironing board so I had to iron on the kitchen table, like most poor folk.
38Dang it,Myrnatoo! I was fixing to buy Dairy Queen stock because of all them floats until you spoiled it with the parade comment. Maybe should have considered A&W stock. They had excellent rootbeer floats.
39Why Linda, however do they keep the crumpet crumbs and Darjeeling drops from staining their clothes?
40Charles, Darjeeling not a problem since Mitt considers caffeine a deadly sin. It’s practically crack.
41I have an 82 year old friend who lives 600 miles from me so our daily communications are via email. Today I asked her if she’d vote for Rmoney if he became the nominee. She said yes, but if the choice was Drumpf or HRC, she’d vote Drumpf. I like her a lot so I’m not going to talk about politics with her any more.
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