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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
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He should seriously consider canceling his trip to Israel. Because if his statements caused that much of an uproar in Britain, I cannot even imagine the kind of damage he is about to do in the Middle East.
1If you get on Twitter type in #romneyshambles and enjoy the fun. You could also google it. Comments will make you snort.
2I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning…
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/07/26/romney_book_britain_is_a_tiny_island_that_makes_stuff_nobody_wants
3I think my favorite may have been this one:
“Carl Lewis, who spoke to The Independent as the First Lady, Michelle Obama, arrived in London to lead the US delegation, said: “Every Olympics is ready, I don’t care whatever he [Romney] said. I swear, sometimes I think some Americans shouldn’t leave the country. Are you kidding me, stay home if you don’t know what to say.”
The Guardian is keeping a running count of his various missteps—from demeaning the London Olympics to accidentally revealing classified information—and it’s not pretty but it is genuinely funny in a sad, pathetic sort of way.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/jul/26/mitt-romney-britain-gaffes
“Can I get an etch-a-sketch here? Anybody? Anybody?”
4Imagine the conversation back in Boston when they were planning the summer. We need to get Mitt some positive exposure, and get him out of this toxic anti-Bain atmosphere. We can’t talk about his business experience. We clearly can’t talk about his liberal flip is Massachusetts prior to his right-wing flops to try to become the GOP nominee. What’s left?
The Olympics, yes! He ROCKED the Olympics. We’ll send him to London. It’s perfect! The PM is a Conservative, Britain just loves austerity, and we can collect a bunch of money from our British banking friends before they all go to jail for rigging the international money market. (Which, what’s wrong with that?)
All he has to do is stand around looking Presidential, cheer for his horse whose annual write-off value is nearly double the average wage-earner’s income in the US, kiss a few hands, shake a few babies, then it’s off to Poland and Israel.
What could possibly go wrong?
It took the Brits all of a day to realize what half of the US either cannot or willfully will not: Mitt is a gaffe-prone empty-suited upper class twit, capable of taking what should be an innocuous, upbeat, win-win PR situation and turning it into an international diplomatic incident.
London Mayor Boris Johnson (clearly, a “Soviet Union” plant, eh, Mitt?) was characteristically hilarious in calling Mitt out, but the sweet, sweeter, sweetest part of it was when the crowd started chanting “Yes We Can.”
Soon, it’s off to Poland and Israel, with an entourage that thinks the “Soviet Union” is still our biggest threat, and that “Bomb bomb bomb | bomb bomb Iran” is the next song on Mitt and the NeoCon’s Comeback Tour set list.
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
5Thank you for that link, Deb – the comments are priceless. I don’t see how (knock on wood) Rmoney can possibly win this election, except the same way 2000 and 2004 were “won.”
6I’m a Yankee Mormon dandy
A Yankee Mormon, come what may
A real live descendant of polygamy
Who thinks you were born yesterday
I’ve got a Yankee Mormon sweetheart
She’s got a Yankee Mormon horse
Yankee Mormon went to London
7Just to watch my pony
I pissed off everyone, of course.
DaChipster, I should know better than to read your post when I am drinking coffee! Lord that burns when you snort it!
I do so hope that before he visits Israel his advisers explain to him that “Hi, I baptized your dead grandmother!” is not an acceptable greeting.
But wait – there is video!
8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lnhVWtT0YQ&feature=youtu.be
tbyg -Talking about the election, I am concerned after reading that this month again the rethugs are outraising Obama in cash, so please folks if you possibly can – join me in dipping into your pockets and send a few more dollars to Obama. Having the repubs in control is my worst nightmare!
9For heaven’s sake, keep that man away from Israel and the Wailing Wall. He might break it. Or worse.
10daChip
very nice.
11Wait till he gets to Poland and tells them about all the cool jokes he knows and then goes to Israel and asks Netanyahu about that famous Jerusalem Pulled Pork sandwich.
12Today’s headlines in London – Mitt the Twit
13DaChipster: You Da MAN!
14Why can’t Romney retroactively cancel his birth?
15Seriously, “Yes we can”? Oh dear lord I would pay hard cash to have heard that. Please tell me there is a link.
16Found this tweet – it’s almost on a scale with daChipster’s genius:
Stupidcallousfascistrichie-extraMittatrocius – Romney Poppins: http://bit.ly/Ankyml #romneyshambles #mitthitsthefan
17Well you can look at the positive – he makes Bush look articulate. And that really saying something. Thanks for the links Deb. I think I’m gonna have to wait until my head settles down before I attempt the video.
18Don’t want to harsh anyone’s mellow over Willard’s demonstrated lack of Presidential-ness, but I think we don’t want the Repressives paying too much attention to all that either. I smell Jeb Bush in the wings on his white charger ready to ride in at the Convention and save the Repressives by being their 2012 Candidate. And I don’t want to spend four years posting wild-eyed comments about Bush 45 either!
Gotta go wash my hands now from typing all that. I feel unclean.
19@Sgt Mike: Oh, PLEEEEZZZZ, let that scenario come to fruition! A GOP in complete disarray with a nominee nobody voted for! Yes, that’s the ticket!
Actually, the Goppers know they are stuck with this clueless automaton. And, there’s absolutely nothing they can do about it.
20In Britain “Yes we can” is mostly associated with the animated children’s show “Bob the Builder”. When Bob and his crew of talking construction machines get a tricky job, the cry is “Can we do it? – Yes we can!”
21Short but brilliant post!
22All I know is that this man is starting to look dumber than Rick Perry–imagine that! 😉
23OK, you probably had to be there but….saw my first Romney sticker on a car today. We’re on 35 headed into San Antonio in stop and go traffic. Woman in a Romney Volvo barges on into our lane, then she notices the other lane moving a nanosecond faster so she’s off over there. Then, she’s back. This went on several more times. Finally it hit my husband and I at the same time “What a flipflopper!”
24Shambles means slaughterhouse in Medieval/Old English–I have visited “The Shambles” in York and other cities–its posh shops now but was knackers row before–I think that is a good word for RMoney’s visit–a ”
25shambles” no doubt!
Just one more, I promise.
Another verdit from Whitehall: “Apparently devoid of charm, warmth, humour or sincerity.”
The Sun, the UK’s biggest-selling paper, screamed “Mitt The Twit,” while Chapman’s Daily Mail asked, “Who invited party-pooper Romney?”
BTW – the term is derived from “omnishambles,” a label increasingly applied to the British government’s handling of the economy that has its roots in the political satire The Thick Of It, which is hysterical and laced with profanity (Juanita, your Mom shoudl probably not watch this one). The show’s creator Armando Iannucci recently took the idea across the Atlantic in the form of Veep. And Romney’s visit to Britain could easily be screened as an episode in its next series.
I don’t know if they were thinking what Elise was thinking but it sure works doesn’t it?
All things considered, maybe he should have stayed at the Holiday Inn? Ah well, just Poland and Israel to go…..
26His campaign needs a new slogan: “Let’s win one for the Gaffer!”
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