"Mitt": Norwegian, "my", "mine" - well, that explains a lot!

                                  

Knowing the derivation of the man's name tells one a lot about his seemingly endless  appetite to own stuff- money,  his wife,  seven  homes,  offshore bank accounts,  America.  As with Palin and Bachmann, there are numerous examples of his idiocy in his own words, for, as the late Anne Richards said of George H.W. Bush,  "Poor Mitt, he can't help it, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth."  With that in mind, let's take a peek at the Mittster.

·         "I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."  (No you didn't!)

Ahh  Mitt, as it turns out you are either Superman or a liar (I'm betting on the latter).  As it turns out, and as your own staff has admitted, your father never marched in the same postal zip code as Dr. King, never even  on the same day and shame on you for evoking his name in the same sentence.

·         "My sons are all adults and they've made decisions about their careers and they've chosen not to serve in the military and active duty and I respect their decision in that regard. One of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think I'd be a great president."

That's cool; in the absence of a real war they certainly have that right and no censure is due. But "Showing support for the Nation???"  No, dad, they're showing support for you and your 200 millions  alone. Could that be related to the family mega fortune and the consequences to them of the slightest disloyalty..hmmm?

·         "I'm happy to learn that after I speak you're going to hear from Ann Coulter. That's a good thing. I think it's important to get the views of moderates."

Right off the bat, anyone who thinks Ann Coulter is a "moderate" thinks Genghis Khan was a "pussy."  This statement was made just before  Coulter   referred to John Edwards as a "faggot."  (This was probably due to many straight men having told her, "Sorry Ann, I'd rather sleep with a man than with you.") How out of touch with reality and the reality of your own party's  temperament  can you be?

·         "I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I've been a hunter pretty much all my life."  (this while sucking up to those paragons of reason, the NRA)

Mitt,  at another time you said you'd been hunting twice, once at age 15 and again in 2006 during a campaign fundraiser. You're such a whore for any voter who will consider you!  Doing something twice does not make anything  a lifelong endeavor. It makes it a rare occurrence, and if it took running for office to make you do it again 43 years later, you really don't like to hunt, do you?

·         "Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba"

Mitt,  who writes this crap for you?  The phrase "Patria o muerte, venceremos,"  meaning essentially "Fatherland or death, we shall overcome," was coined by and used in essentially every interminable speech by Fidel Castro. In fact he closed every speech with it!  So, can we assume you are a Communist, like Fidel and believe Cuba is free today? Do your south Florida supporters know this? Does Marco Rubio know this? (or are you still just a vote whore?)

·         ''I'm running for office for Pete's sake, we can't have illegals.''

This little gem was Mitt's reaction to finding out that some of the workers in his feudal estates were undocumented aliens. He fired them. Apparently this is Mitt's concern - "how does it look?," not "What can we do about it?"

·         ''Corporations are people, my friend... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings, my friend.''

Lost in translation here is a clear picture of into whose pockets exactly the money goes. By Mitt's logic, as long as the money doesn't go to cats, dogs, or aliens (non-"people") the corporations are benign charitable institutions.  Mitt's invocation of the term "the people" is strange in view of his so obvious disconnect with most  Americans.  Mitt has the same disadvantage as both Bushes - never having had to really work for anything. I don't mean not working in the sense of schooling or corporate affairs, I mean as in putting food on the table or making a car payment.

·         ''Who let the dogs out? Who, who.''  —Mitt Romney, during an awkward photo op with a group of African Americans kids at a Martin Luther King Day parade (January 2008)

(Then he asked where he could score some good ganja, because, you know, that's what black folks are into - KIDDING!) The whitest man in  America , a member of a cult that until recently didn't admit Blacks, (because their skin color was 'the mark of Cain) attempting to get down.  Mitt Romney has about as much soul as Bill O'Reilly, Wally Cox. and Jim Nabors wired in series-parallel.

·         ''I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose.'' —Mitt Romney in 2002

·         ''Look, I was pro-choice. I am pro-life. You can go back to YouTube and look at what I said in 1994. I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice. I changed my position. And I get tired of people that are holier-than-thou because they've been pro-life longer than I have.'' —Mitt Romney in 2007

Well, Mitt, which is it?  I don't care if you've changed your position, I just object to your lying about it. If you weren't pro-choice in 1994, were in 2002, and weren't again in 2007, what conclusions can we draw??? Oh I get it, you're a shameless vote whore who will embrace any ideology that can get you votes!  

·         ''I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.''

Huh? I didn't think upright Mormons dropped acid, man.

·         ''I was a severely conservative Republican governor.''

This conservative Republican Governor worked with a Democratic legislature to pass an assault rifle ban and what has been called "Romney Care," so close to the Affordable Health Care Act that the only essential difference is that Romney called the non-compliance tax  a "fine." (it was a tax)  These would have gotten him lynched in Arizona or some other hotbed of reactionary conservative ignorance. Stated simply Mitt, you're a great big lying liar. (and shameless vote whore)

·         "Well, this person shouldn't have had any kind of weapons and bombs and other devices and it was illegal for him to have many of those things already. But he had them,"

As laudable as the Massachusetts  assault weapon ban was, seemingly the Mittster has had a change of heart, apparently coinciding with big contributions from the NRA. Of course he has to make the Aurora tragedy into a political point of view by denying that any sort of gun control might have made it a bit harder for John Holmes to commit his act of madness. The idiocy here is his insistence that Holmes had the weapons illegally - WRONG. The sad truth is that Holmes armed himself legally, even buying the 100 round magazine for his assault rifle and most of his ammunition, via the internet. However you feel about gun control, shouldn't the would be President at least have some sense of the truth? (or is he just a shameless vote whore)

In conclusion, There are many, many,  more public record statements by Romney which show just how out of touch with American reality he really is. As of today he has also alienated the Lord Mayor of London and many Britons because he can't seem to see that staging an Olympics in the middle of London is not the same as doing it in Utah, the armpit of nowhere. But then again, maybe he's just a shameless vote whore (with a silver foot in his mouth)