That Whole Convicted Felons for Romney Leadership Opportunity
So yesterday, Mitt went to Miami to try to apologize to all the old people for Ryan trying to kill them all.
They didn’t take it too well, so he tried another tactic – sew up the drug trafficker vote! And it would have worked out just fine, but, dammit, convicted felons can’t vote in Florida.
A campaign stop by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Miami on Monday was held at a restaurant owned by a convicted drug trafficker.
Romney, hoping to get support from the Cuban-American community in Miami, held an event at El Palacio de los Jugos, famed for its tropical juices, fruits and Cuban-style snack food.
Court documents show restaurant owner Reinaldo Bermudez pleaded guilty in 1997 to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. The case in federal court in Miami led to a three-year prison sentence for Bermudez.
Bermudez got caught importing over a ton of cocaine from Trinidad with some colleagues known as “Fat Boy,” “Ali Baba,” “Skeletor,” “Mogley” and “Buckwheat,” which just sounds like your average Republican board room.
Now, you’d think this was just a simple mistake, but Bermudez says it was no mistake.
The New Times report quoted Bermudez as saying the Secret Service vetted everything about him when the campaign asked to use his restaurant, one of several he owns throughout Miami-Dade County.
“They absolutely knew about my record,” Bermudez told the New Times. “The Secret Service checked everything. was not a problem. Everybody deserves a second chance.”
Everybody? You mean even old, sick people who need Medicare?
Oh, not them. Okay, sorry I mentioned it.
It’s a mistake anyone could have made. Mitt’s people told him he needed the support of dopes to win. So…..
1LOL … I got so excited I forgot to fill in the requirements!
Well, Uncle Dave, it will only be the dopes who vote for R & R … anyone not using anything illegal will have the good sense to not go that route!!
2Vulture Capitalists
Salvadoran Death Squads
Mormons
FOX News
Tea Partiers
Ted Nugent
Cuban Drug Dealers
Republicans
Scott Walker
Mitt hangs with some pretty unsavory characters.
3You say scum of the earth convicted felon, Mitt says “job creator”.
4Don’t pick on the Mormons, lots of them are very nice. Lots of them are not. Sounds like most people, to me.
Republicans used to be like that but they have purged all the nice people.
5Really, Willard? The Palace of the Juices? Ay yi yi.
Medicare? I had a guy on HuffPo tell me his wasn’t paid for with tax dollars. It came out of his paycheck for 45 years, and it was an entitlement. I think he was serious. Even though Medicare is a payroll tax deduction, his Medicare wasn’t paid for by tax dollars. Who knew we have tax dollars and entitlement dollars.
6It’s like Willie Horton, but in reverse. This time we have Mitt Romney going in, then out the revolving door that belongs to the felon.
7Liz, I grew up in Mancos, CO and Moab, UT. Mormons are a lot like Catholics and Baptists. The members are fine but the church leadership is rotten. People in these churches are willing to do and say things as a group that they never would as individuals. The threat of disapproval or banishment from the church family is a powerful force. Mormons as people are warm and loving; as a church they’re repressive and misogynistic.
8Well, it beats eating Catfood, and if you get caught, the federal prison has health care, and who knows- might improve your sex life!
9I think it’s just Mitt’s last hope to try to corral the Latino vote. Well, good luck with that. Ya’ know, just showing up at a Taco Bell at lunch time ain’t gonna help. Nice try, rich white guy!
10Maybe Mitt can give the Taco Bell dog a ride on his car! Dogs seem to like that until they get sick.
11Ok Sam, I can easily accept that-been a dam’ Catholic all my life. Even the leadership is mixed in our group, but I would say it’s declining on the whole. Or maybe that’s the way it has always been? All I know is ever since 1973 a whole buncha catholics have been voting a lot of unChristian jerks into office, which is partly how we got where we are now. Abortion has been a huge divide and conquer issue for republicans, causing people like my parents to become single-issue voters and thus ushering in a huge number of problems. Large sigh.
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