I finally "get it." By God they're working in shifts.
It was about the time of Todd Akin's outlandishly buffoonish comment that I was thinking, You know, it's about time for Mitt Romney to say something immensely stupid--it's been a while. But, as noted, Mr. Akin stepped in to take up the slack. Now that that's been a few days, though, Mr. Romney has returned to work. He punched in this morning:
Now I love being home in this place [Michigan] where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born. Ann was born in Henry Ford Hospital. I was born in Harper Hospital. No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.
His staff, feeling legitimately raped--again--by their cretinous candidate, rushed into the press's arms:
The governor has always said, and has repeatedly said, he believes the president was born here in the United States. He was only referencing that Michigan, where he is campaigning today, is the state where he himself was born and raised.
We've 70-how-many-more days of this slapstick absurdity?
Compared to Mitt Romney, Richard Nixon was the Fred Astaire of small talk and human warmth in crowds. Really. No kidding. I've never seen anything like this man. He is, hands down, the world's worst politician.
If the staff's explanation is correct, Romney would have stopped after "I was born in Harper Hospital." The mere fact that the staff was rushing around makes me wonder if this was something that Romney did not run by his staff first.
Posted by: japa21 | August 24, 2012 at 02:24 PM
If he wanted to be a little bit clearer in his statement, he could have added, "I am white".
Posted by: Peter G | August 24, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Mitt truly thought this was funny... PS- so did the sociopathic crowd ( a paltry 1000 in the reddest of districts) he was spewing to. They cheered. It turns my blood to ice.
Bullying bastard thinks he rubbing salt into the wounds the birthers have opened up in Obama's hide. HAHAHA hilarious!
What a POS!
Posted by: Susan Zoon | August 24, 2012 at 03:10 PM
What is this I don't even
SCUM SCUM SCUM SCUM
I can't be coherent I'm too furious maybe later
Posted by: Janicket | August 24, 2012 at 04:32 PM
President Obama's answer was a tweet: Song of the Day followed by a link to Youtube video of "Born in the USA"
Perfect way of dealing with that sociopath.
Posted by: Beauzeaux | August 24, 2012 at 05:58 PM
One day as Mark Twain was taking a clean shirt out of the drawer, he saw it was missing a button. He tossed it aside and took out another shirt only to see it was missing a button too. So was the next one. And the next one. Once he saw that every one of his clean shirts was missing a button, he let off a long string of profanity so loud that it disturbed his wife who came upstairs and in a cold tone of voice repeated every word he just said back to him. Twain replied, "My dear, you know the words, but you don't know the tune."
Like Mrs. Clemens, Romney knows the words to Nixon's song but he doesn't know the tune. His base is the same group of people resentful at a world with the audacity to change without their permission and who probably blame the President whenever their shirt is missing a button. But while Nixon was one of those people, Romney is not. Romney has lived a charmed life from birth, so why should he suffer from free-floating anger issues? Nixon really was speaking on behalf of his strongest supporters, while Romney is doing what he's done ever since he first started breaking into politics; he calculates what his current audience wants to hear and panders shamelessly. No matter that it contradicts what he said a decade or an hour ago. No matter whether he feels it himself. Genuine feelings are the one luxury Romney can't afford.
Nixon was an authentic bastard while this is just Romney's latest software patch. But even an ugly personality beats an artificial one.
Posted by: mdblanche | August 24, 2012 at 07:01 PM
The idea that these bastards think this is acceptable angers me to no end. They have no idea what it's like to not be able to go certain places and do certain things. I do because I lived that way the first 18 years of my life in the "land of the free and the home of the brave." It's a shame that one has to prove one is a U.S. citizen in the 21st Century in a nation in which the crowd that always talks about "American Exceptionalism" is constantly demonstrating how unexceptional they are. The most shameful thing is having a candidate for president who wants to be the leader of all the people that engages in something as despicable as playing the race card in an attempt to convince Americans to vote for him.
Posted by: majii | August 24, 2012 at 07:45 PM