"I wish this president would learn how to be an American"
--former New Hampshire governor and Romney surrogate John Sununu, on a conference call early this morning
No, wait, he misspoke.
Asked later to explain his comment, Sununu said he was referring to Obama's economic philosophy, and apologized for not being clearer.
Uh-huh.
Sununu then appeared on Fox:
[Obama] spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia, and, frankly, when he came to the U.S., he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure, and then got into politics in Chicago.
"When he came to the U.S"--that's post-clarification.
Is this upsetting? Not in the least. In fact, it's a kind of deliverance. The Romney campaign is now shooting for 100 percent of the lunatic fringe vote, but not much else. Happy hunting, guys. You deserve each other.
John Sununu, heh... when he was Governor folks printed buttons that said:
"Will Rogers would not like this man."
Figures this is who the Rombots have fronting for them.
Posted by: Susan Zoon | July 17, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Does anybody remember not so long ago during the primaries when the Romney campaign and various superpacs were spending way more money than was necessary to prey upon the weak field of republican rivals? The punditry used to say that Willard was boxing himself into a corner because he was appealing to the far right crazy base but would have to move back to the center to appeal to the broader electorate? In fact isn't that what the whole etch-a-sketch thing was about? Well apparently that is no longer true if it ever was. Even his appearance at the NAACP conference last week was dog-whistle blowing to the racist republican base. Especially given his "free stuff" comments at the hoity-toity fundraiser later that night. Don't republican politicians ever feel dirty and ashamed for staking their elections on the votes of such nasty people?
Posted by: AnneJ | July 17, 2012 at 01:03 PM
If you can't get more voters to take your side the the only real alternative is to motivate as many of your supporters as possible to actually get out and vote. This is going to get very, very ugly and, no doubt, even more overtly racist. I concur that it is a sign that the Romney campaign is abandoning any pretense of seeking to persuade sent voters.
Posted by: Peter G | July 17, 2012 at 01:19 PM
AS someone pointed out on Kevin Drum's blog, Sununu was born in Havanna, his father was raised in Jerusalem and his mother was born in El Salvador.
Shame on John Sununu.
Posted by: You Don't Say | July 17, 2012 at 01:22 PM
It is a very welcome change of pace to be supporting the team that is consistently on the offensive.
And I'm almost gleeful to watch the Romney campaign lash out incoherently. Couldn't happen to a nicer pathological liar.
Posted by: Turgidson | July 17, 2012 at 01:25 PM
And, I guarantee you, the Obama campaign will not ask for an apology. In fact, they may actually use this as an example of some of the crap thrown their way, but they are adult enough to deal with it and not whine about it.
Posted by: japa21 | July 17, 2012 at 02:02 PM
^^ The campaign's response to Sununu's initial verbal vomit was basically to point and laugh.
Which is all it deserves.
Posted by: Turgidson | July 17, 2012 at 05:30 PM