Posted on 01/30/2012 2:14:04 PM PST by Steelfish
Mitt Romney: The Man Behind The Perma-Smile Mega-Rich, Mormon, Chilly and Ruthless
Mitt Romney may emerge as the Republicans' candidate to take on Barack Obama, but he has a good few obstacles to get over first
Ed Pilkington
'Well, it's just great to be here!" Mitt Romney says as he bounds on to the stage at a campaign stop in January, just one of hundreds he has made in his epic journey he hopes to the White House. It is the first of three rallies he will be packing into a single day, this one held in the open air at a small liberal arts college in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
"This is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous," he continues, a perma-grin glued to his face. He has a way of talking down to the crowd, pausing after every sentence to allow them to soak it up, that is disconcertingly suggestive of that old pantomime favourite, Widow Twankey. "What kind of tree is that?" he says, looking up at the branches that arch over him with an expression of mock surprise. "I don't even know. Is it a Mitt Romney tree?"
The crowd laughs heartily, which is peculiar given the quality of the "joke" and the fact that, unlike a pantomime, there are few three-year-olds in the audience. (Besides, as any motley fool could tell you, the tree under which he is speaking is a laurel oak, Quercus hemisphaerica.)
It has been a rum old fortnight for the former governor of Massachusetts. Since 2007 he has been on the campaign trail virtually without pause, laying down a nationwide network of volunteers, fundraisers and supporters that his rivals Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul can only dream of.
I poop on Backstabber Romney for RomneyCARE and his lies.
If Mitt happens, true conservatives will get frustrated.
If true conservatives get frustrated, they will speak out against Mitt.
If true conservatives speak out against Mitt, they will be placed in a FEMA detention camp.
If true conservatives are placed indefinitely in a FEMA detention camp, they won't be able to vote in future elections to throw Mitt out.
Don't end up in a FEMA detention camp and give up your right to vote to throw Mitt out.
Throw him out now!
I can’;t even write what I think of the establishment and Romney but I will say I’;ve had it with them and they will never get my support, money or vote.
They’ve spat in the eye of all conservatives, he has never bothered to meet with conservatives and when I see the likes of Coulter etc , well it makes me sick.
I went and did a few rounds sparring to get some energy out and that did not work as I;m all fired up
Romneys stoogies will be on here soon saying hoe we have to be with each other, the talking heads on TV will say the same and think that all of us are stupid enough to fall for it again.
There is no difference from Romney to obama, homosexual agenda, health care, spending, gun rights etc.
The establishment are telling us that we should not decide who our nominee is and have forgot how the process is to work so I’m forgetting them when they want money, boots on the ground and votes
oh and check Mi-kael or how ever he spells it
Not for Romney but calls Newt amnesty and ignores all about flip flopping Romney
This is what we are having to put up with ,idiotic voters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2840133/posts?page=24
I’ll vote third-party before I vote for Romney.
and what;s with thise 5 ir 6 hairs of his that hang down from his head? What’s that all about? Is it supposed to be hip or cool or something? It’s so old hat it reeks of lounges. come on mitt...it’s 2012 NOT old days when that was supposed to be something. Rich? I don’t care. That;s his business but Presidential? That weak looking smile that he grins at his opponents? Wow... why is he always speaking as if he is in a race? not me....i will never be convinced and never will vote for him. He is plastic and not to be trusted. He may think he is slick and he may be but... I KNOW I am not STUPID.
What YOU said! (Ditto! Ditto! Ditto!, etc.)
Romney at the Villages just now
“Lets keep America the hope of the Earth”
Romney the sacrilegous pagan...
It’s the LORD Jesus Christ who is the Hope of the Earth, you anti-Christian fool...
That's the dirty little secret about a Romney run. If he wins, the economy is poised to go in the dumpster beginning in 2013 - thanks to all the wonderful things they DemocRATs have done since 2006. A President Romney will be blamed for the economy (you KNOW they're going to do this) and in the 2016 campaign, the DemocRAT message will be "we TOLD you this would happen! Vote DemocRAT!" Hell, they could even bring Obama back since he only served one term!
Romney wins, we lose. Romney loses, we lose.
Amen and God will not be mocked by his sick, blasphemous cult
Ode to the Grand Olde Party, and their BFF, the Obamanator.
When Newt or Paul rocks the Establishment Boat,
The GOP oarsmen pull knives from their boots.
The hacking and slashing puts extreme fighting to shame,
Never, no NEVER rock the Establishment Boat!
They cannot win elections, by choice of their suits,
A RINO Nominee is a Democrat, - - - - one and the same.
Two Party as One Party is what they adore.
Never give voters a choice, or politicians
Are out of life-time jobs, forever more.
As we pay our bills,
And hold our noses
As we vote,
The Obamanator holds
His cold, steel knife
To Americas throat - - - - .
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