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Mitt Romney Pumps His Own Gas At La Jolla Station
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| November 21, 2012
Posted on 11/21/2012 6:33:46 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
After losing to President Obama in the election earlier this month, his former political opponent Mitt Romney has kept in the shadows of defeat. The former Republican nominee was spotted at La Jolla gas station Monday pumping gas, looking rather disheveled. TMZ reports that he and his wife were on a movie date, catching the Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 and grabbed some pizza afterwards. The flick of Romney at the tank was snapped up by Reddit user mkb95, who wrote "Mitt Romney at my local gas station. He looks tired and washed up." He even got to interact with the former presidential candidate. "I talked to him for a good three minutes while he was filling his tank," the photographer added. "I guess he's moving to one of his houses in the town I live in, La Jolla." Things aren't entirely bad for Romney. He gets to wallow in his losses as the owner of a $12 million mansion in California.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: lajolla; life; romney
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To: cicero2k
Maybe hell do his Checkers speech and run again. He's certainly no Nixon but Nixon wasn't the first losing candidate to run again and win. He's just the latest. Thomas Jefferson, John Q Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison all did. Cleveland lost reelection but went on to beat his successor Harrison in a rematch.
If the economy falters in the second term of Obama, Romney has a stronger case. I doubt he'd run again but he shouldn't be counted out just because he lost.
He didn't look disheveled in that photo; his shirt just didn't look pressed.
To: FrankR
Romney didn't "connect" with a lot of people, that's the popular meme about him right now...but, I believe him to be a decent and down-to-earth guy. The liberals try to make him out to be Thurston Powell (Gilligan's Island's millionaire), wallowing in limosines and caviar, but I don't see that about him. The bastards in the MSM have been doing this for over a half a century. The MSM portrayed FDR, a multi-millionare who inherited his fortune, as a "man of the people". They portrayed Pres. Hoover, who was born poor and worked his way up as a mining engineer as the evil friend of big business.
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posted on
11/21/2012 7:54:35 AM PST
by
Flick Lives
(We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
To: baddog 219
Republicans pumping gas
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posted on
11/21/2012 8:00:58 AM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth" - Voltaire)
To: SoFloFreeper
Yep, from Hero to Zero in 24 hours....
I know the feeling, Mitt...
God bless you.....
To: CatherineofAragon
At least he doesnt look like a withered, bony, peanut-headed, flap-eared, purple lipped, limp-wristed, effeminate pimp. "Who is Barack Hussein Obama, Alex!"
"I'll take ugly lesbians suing flatware companies for their being fat for $400."
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posted on
11/21/2012 8:11:23 AM PST
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: Buckeye McFrog
Hell, Obama doesn’t even do his own nails.
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posted on
11/21/2012 8:14:15 AM PST
by
dinodino
To: layman
In Cali, we generally have two sets of pumps. One pump your own and the other “full service” for more money.
I’d rather live in a nice house in La Jolla, and pump my own gas, than live in the White House.
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posted on
11/21/2012 8:19:12 AM PST
by
stop_fascism
(Love your country, but never trust its government - R.A. Heinlein)
To: usconservative
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posted on
11/21/2012 8:24:08 AM PST
by
CatherineofAragon
(The idiocracy has come home to roost. God help us.)
To: Oztrich Boy
Why does Sarah Michelle Gellar have 5 o’clock shadow?! Yikes...
To: usconservative
At least he doesnt look like a withered, bony, peanut-headed, flap-eared, purple lipped, limp-wristed, effeminate pimp. "Who is Barack Hussein Obama, Alex!"
"I'll take ugly lesbians suing flatware companies for their being fat for $400."
Who is Mochelle, Alex!
To: wideminded
Perhaps, but he actually had to
earn most of his money unlike the Kennedy and Casey families.
Further, what little cachet the Romney name had in Michigan faded years ago with the auto industry.
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posted on
11/21/2012 9:09:22 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: SoFloFreeper
Mitt went to dinner at one of our local Sammy's Wood fired Pizza shops. The employees were lining up for pictures and he graciously obliged.
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posted on
11/21/2012 9:13:34 AM PST
by
Myrddin
To: SoFloFreeper
Okay, he spent the day at Disneyland, then drove down to La Jolla. Heck, after all that, I’d be tired too.
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posted on
11/21/2012 9:32:18 AM PST
by
Fast Moving Angel
(A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
To: StAnDeliver
Who is Mochelle, Alex! I'm sorry, the correct answer is "Who is Rosie ODonnell."
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posted on
11/21/2012 9:33:36 AM PST
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: stop_fascism
In Cali, we generally have two sets of pumps. One pump your own and the other full service for more money. That's news to me, I live here and wasn't aware of any full service, anywhere, much less "generally".
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posted on
11/21/2012 9:47:11 AM PST
by
ansel12
(The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb FischerÂ’s successful run in Nebraska)
To: Vigilanteman
Somehow, it is immoral to use money you actually earned to run for political office. But it is just fine to use a famous name your father bestowed upon you (like Bob Casey, Jr.) or celebrity status which the media bestowed on you (like BO) for an entitlement to political office. You just described career politician Mitt Romney from the Romney political dynasty, who first entered politics as an intern for his Governor father, who was later a presidential candidate, who worked for the Nixon administration, and who's wife ran for Senator, and even Mitt's wife entered politics on the famous "Romney" name.
Nobody in America had a greater sense of entitlement than the son of George and Lenore Romney, the Golden Child.
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posted on
11/21/2012 9:58:06 AM PST
by
ansel12
(The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb FischerÂ’s successful run in Nebraska)
To: treetopsandroofs
Democrat GOOD, Republican BAD.That made me think of this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIuR5TNyL8Y - adult language at link
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posted on
11/21/2012 10:00:20 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(I don't want to live on this planet anymore.)
To: newzjunkey
You want Romney to run again????
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posted on
11/21/2012 10:05:31 AM PST
by
ansel12
(The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb FischerÂ’s successful run in Nebraska)
To: wastedyears
Hahahaha!
Beer GOOD
Fire BAD
Money GOOD
Napster BAD
Thanks!
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posted on
11/21/2012 10:31:15 AM PST
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: Gettin Betta
This might be news if he was pumping his own gas in New Jersey
That would be illegal. New Jersey's politicial machines have seen fit to protect us from the dangers of pumping our own gas and insist that we have professional gas pumpers pump our gas for us.
A Democrat informer has told me that Romney, when he passes through New Jersey, fills up here:
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posted on
11/21/2012 11:32:04 AM PST
by
PieterCasparzen
(We have to fix things ourselves.)
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