Guest Post: Romney at Fenway
Sorry about being lazy yesterday but Bubba and I had a small dinner party for the Democratic National Convention delegates from Fort Bend County, and as you other pathetic counties know, I had to rent a ballroom. Seriously, Bubba had to barbeque a cow to feed everyone. Agreed, it was a small cow, but a whole cow nonetheless.
Gidget Commando sent me this email and since I’m going to the Democratic National Convention with Fenway Fran, I thought we all would enjoy it.
So, while we’re waiting on the Supremes, take it away, Gidget.
Dearest Susan,
I don’t know about Texans, but we Bostonians take our baseball seriously. Eighty-seven years of longing for a championship, only to see victory snatched away over and over again, does that to folks.
Anyway, there’s not a soul in these parts who can’t tell you exactly where they were when the Sox beat St. Louis in 2004 to reverse the Curse of the Bambino. (Me, I was at a little neighborhood bar that no longer exists, around the corner from my suburban apartment, with a bunch of locals who gave me bubbly when we won and a shot of something stiffer when one of the dudes was too chicken to down it. Yours truly, however, did, to the enduring cheers of those gathered. Ah, those were the days.)
Except, as it appears, one former governor of Massachusetts who’s now the presumptive nominee of those danged Republicans. From April, though it’s timeless, IMHO:
Earlier this week Red Sox season-ticket holder Mitt Romney gave a national network interview at Fenway Park. This led someone to bring to my attention that Romney, who was governor at the time, was there at Fenway Park for the historic championship-clinching Game 4 of the 2004 World Series. Or at least, he told an Air Force pilot he was:
When he told me he was Massachusett’s governor, I politely asked him to leave the flight deck, declaring the cockpit off limits to all Red Sox fans. He laughed and made a few cracks my way, regarding the Yanks, and we hit it off pretty well. I asked him if he was at Fenway when the Sox finally won the World Series, and with a huge boyish grin he replied, “Yes I was.”
No, he wasn’t. I could go to a lot of trouble proving to you that Romney was actually in New Hampshire campaigning for George W. Bush that day, but it doesn’t really matter because — as every New Englander has been screaming while reading this post — Game 4 was played at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri.
The whole thing’s good. He’s as phony as Paris Hilton’s…well, everything.
Love and kisses,
Gidget
Astonishing, not only that he would claim that, but that he DIDN’T KNOW. I live in Boston too, and everybody up here who had a pulse that day knows that the last game was played in St. Louis.
Not to mention his predilection for impersonating cops – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/07/classmates-mitt-romney-im_n_1575680.html
The man’s a creep.
1My husband and I are going to Fenway Park this weekend to hear the lead singer from Pink Floyd!
Then we are going to spend some time at my daughter’s house visiting with my daughter, son and son in law. Can’t wait to leave.
Glad he is out of Boston. Can’t stand the man. Not much of Boston like him either, but they sure liked his health care!!!!
2Perhaps he was sitting in the stands with a TV set?
3He was at Fenway? I though he was in Detroit marching with Martin Luther King, Jr. http://thegrio.com/2012/01/18/mitt-romney-martin-luther-king-problem/
4Can’t count on anything Mitt says–but you can count on anything he says being consistently untrue.
5The man is apparently pathological, just what we need in a President! Oh wait, we did that once didn’t we? That’s right Nixon! And as we all know, that worked out so well….
6I keep saying: If his lips are moving, he is lying! He’s got those lying lips and those lying eyes … and that pursed little tight-lipped smile that says it is a lying smile as well! He’s a real piece of work this one!!
7I suppose he was also at Woodstock where, during Jimi Hendrix’ set, he was inspired to come up with a new system of heathcare which he named Romneycare.
Then he woke up in a luxurious villa in France and said, “That was a weird dream”.
8This reminds me of all the people who will tell you they remember seeing Wilt Chamberlain score 100 points in Madison Square Garden in 1962. The game was played in Hershey, PA.
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