Posted on 03/11/2012 9:45:37 AM PDT by bkopto
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Friday defended GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney from critics who mocked him for calling himself an "unofficial Southerner" at a campaign stop the previous day.
"Now they’re attacking Romney for joking about learning to say “y’all”? According to the left, no one can have a sense of humor - lighten up!"
In Mississippi, Romney told the crowd that his bodyguard, a Mississippi native, was turning him into an "unofficial Southerner." "I'm learning to say 'y'all' and I like grits, and strange things are happening to me!" the former Massachusetts governor added.
Critics were quick to jump on Romney's comments as just a poor attempt to connect to Southern voters, something observers have said he has struggled to do so far in his campaign.
MSNBC morning show host Joe Scarborough, who was born in Georgia, suggested Friday morning that Romney's Southern impression wasn't fooling any true Southerner.
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Ugh! That jerk just does not ever go away.
Earth to McCain, SHUT UP!
Anything resembling the slow realization of what a lying sack you are Mitty boy?
ESAD McWeevil.
Alas, John McCain has been senile for a decade or more; perhaps it’s time for him to retire and work on his stamp collection?
Romney ISN’T a Southern nor will he be one, ever. Even those who have been adopted as southerners at least like the culture when they live down there, and aclimate to the area. I donn’t see Romney doing that.
He’s just a panderer.
Mccain is an old geezer, Hey McQuack: Shut up!
STFU, McLame, and that goes for your fat daughter as well.
Mind your own business you crotchety old fart!
Mittens had better grow a set of core convictions quick or he'll limp to the nomination only to be tied up in knots and destroyed by the Husein slime machine. He needs to face Romney care head on and say "it was wrong, it backfired and we can't repeat the mistake in a federal level. If elected with a conservative congress I will rip 0bamacare out root and branch." Waivers can be a start but it needs to be killed. A waiver won't erase the new powers the fed has assumed for itself, those federal powers will just be hidden so to speak ready for a future administration to repeal the waiver and put 0bamacare back on track where it left off.
I wonder if Juan finds it hard to breathe with his head up his @$$ all the time...
The more you talk, the more you will alienate voters from Romney.
“...no one can have a sense of humor - lighten up!”
Nobody on the left, or the right, is “attacking” Romney for having a sense of humor. It’s all because Romney doesn’t have one!
Romney critic to McCain: “Go to Hell!”
All I got to say is F-U McCain. You’re a loser just like Romney.
If he is our nominee, he will fold just like a cheap suit. Romney is a loser just like McShame !
Don’t the people of Arizona find him humiliating?
Are they asleep?
How is it, he keeps getting elected???
That was what he said to Obama’s critics when he was campaigning WITH (not against) Obama.
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