Posted on 03/13/2012 5:20:37 AM PDT by Zakeet
Mitt Romney’s transformation into a cheesy grits- and catfish-loving, ya’ll-uttering good ol’ boy in the face of tight contests in Mississippi and Alabama today is being panned by critics — skeptical Southern party officials and pundits.
“If you’re going to pander, at least pander well, and this isn’t pandering well,” said Stephen Gordon, a Republican consultant based in Birmingham, Ala. The former Bay State governor is a Yankee, Gordon said, and will always face skepticism no matter how many catfish filets he raves about.
“People in the Deep South have a bit of a natural distrust for Northerners, especially folks from the Northeast,” said Gordon, who is not affiliated with any campaign in the Republican presidential contest. “There are cultural differences, stemming all the way back to the Civil War, and they affect the way people perceive Mr. Romney.”
Romney, who praised the local delicacy known as cheesy grits during a campaign stop in Jackson, Miss., last week, told a crowd in Mobile, Ala., yesterday that he’s developing a taste for catfish, after telling a South Carolina restaurant owner that he’s “not a catfish man” earlier this year.
“I’m learning to say ‘y’all’ and I like grits. Strange things are happening to me,” Romney joked while stumping in Pascagoula, Miss., over the weekend.
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Yup. You nailed it. John Kerry 2.0.
Disgusting and slimey with his garages full of Cadillacs.
By the way, I made my man eggs, country ham, CHEESE grits and biscuits for breakfast today. We ain’ nevah heared of no chaesey gruhts bafoh.
Do you know the difference betweet yankees and damn yankees?
Yankees go home.
And "sweet tea" says it all.
There is no need to say "ice sweet tea" cause it's is unnecessary.
Sweet tea is ALWAYS served with lots of ice!
Otherwise it's like saying, "Can I have a hamburger with a bun please?"
Never could stomach sweet tea in the North. Gotta ask for iced tea with sugar. Pour in the sugar to tea that's cold and has maybe 3 ice cubes in it, stir like Hell to try and dissolve it, and then think why did I bother to order this? Imagine ordering a Co-Cola and the waitress bringing you an unsweetened Co-Cola with a pack of sugar.
ONLY way to make sweet tea is to put sugar in it while it's still hot from boiling. Cool it and grab a half gallon jug, fill it with ice, sit down and commence to supperin'.
My cheese-lover son uses cheesy grits as a dip for his biscuits :-)
I don’t care for the cheesy grits at all. But give me a plate of soft scrambled eggs, bacon, and grits with butter and salt and I’m in southern cuisine heaven.
Hold muh beer while I start up my Cadillac!
I heard this discussion this morning driving into work (Huntsville, AL). The radio host never heard of “cheesy grits” either. I figure Romney was thinking of Eric Cartman’s favorite snack and got all flummoxed and tongue tied.
Anyway, why should Romney respect the intelligence of all us Yahoo’s in Crackerland? Unless, of course, you are a Yahoo in Crackerland Mississippi.
LEE PAPA: “Who’s saying she’s hurting Obama because of the GOP’s stance on women’s issues now. You can’t turn back the clock, and that’s what they want to do. They don’t want to conserve what exists, they want to actually turn it back.”
STEPHANIE MILLER: “So what happens in Crackerland this week, as we like to say? We have, what, Alabama and Mississippi coming up tomorrow.”
PAPA: “I think Santorum and Gingrich split the yahoos in Alabama and Romney just flat out wins Mississippi.”
The NappyOne
"Awww don't feel no ways tard...ahve come too farrrrr from where I started frum."
My niece, who just turned 20, is model-gorgeous, sweet and pleasant as the day is long, and loves hunting and pickup trucks (she got a new shotgun for Christmas and was running around, showing it off to everybody). Her mom's husband---her stepfather---was from up north, and he was so worried that she might end up marrying some Southern redneck.
They're divorced now, and he's back up north. :)
LOL. I hate grits---just the sight of them makes me sick. But no one I know eats them. And the only restaurant I know of that serves "cheesy grits" is a jumped-up pretentious place that is more into "presentation" than serving edible food.
I learned that the hard way. Got quite a culinary jolt when ordering iced tea for the first time in Huntsville, AL. I learned then and there to order unsweet iced tea (this Westerner perfers it that way), but I still get sweetened tea half the time at the drive-through window.
The NappyOne
This southerner does love pizza. :)
Saving that act for Nebraska. ;)
Pop? Coke? Where are you from? It’s Co-Cola, no matter what it is.
“Then these same people run for office and change the very things they like! We’ve had enough of those kind of outsiders.”
How are these people getting into office? Obviously, they’re getting votes from somewhere.
I still voted for Santorum.
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