Mitt Romney: Ann Drives A Couple of Cadillacs
This comment at the end of what was billed as a major economic speech was just about as out of touch as the venue for the speech itself -- Ford Field. Mitt Romney gave a speech, yes. He said nothing specific, nothing new, and nothing realistic. He did, however, roam off his script long enough to declare his love for all things Detroit, and tell the crowd of one thousand people at a venue that seats 70,000 that he loves cars so much. And then he proceeded to name the cars they drive.
ROMNEY: I love this country. I actually love this state. This feels good, being back in Michigan. You know, the trees are the right height, streets are just right. I like the fact that most of the cars I see are Detroit-made automobiles.
I drive a Mustang and a Chevy pickup truck. Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, actually. And I used to have a Dodge truck so I used to have all three covered.
It might be just a tiny bit out of touch to be in a city hit hardest by the recession, one where the candidate was perfectly at peace with allowing the United States auto industry to die a harsh death in 2008, and declare to the audience that Ann Romney drives not one, but two Cadillacs, with a starting price of around $47,000 or so.
Meanwhile, here's what was going on right outside. There may possibly have been more protesters than supporters at this event.
I'd like to see her drive a couple of Caddies.
Ah Mittens, you just can't tell a car story without mucking it up. Whether it's the story about your dog or your wife, you just feel compelled to screw yourself right into the ground. Perhaps you should have run as the mute politician.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Who eats his KFC with a knife and fork.
Not the dumbest thing about him but it does say more than a bit.
(Corporate) welfare queen.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
That's a couple of Cadillacs out of a corporation-sized fleet of vehicles. Mitt worked hard firing people to earn his money. And I hear he loves that work, too. Bless his heart.
How many dressage horses was that, Ann? Too many to count? Of course!
me-oww!
What is Romney's issue with the height of Michigan's trees? I've seen plenty of Michigan trees and can't really distinguish any difference in terms of their height from anyone else's trees in the upper midwest.
He talks about trees and lakes and other trivial stuff because he has no message and he has lots of time to kill. He tries to keep his speeches so simple so he won't screw up and say something he might have to take back. Then while he's waxing poetic, he says something like the two car comment and digs himself a bigger hole every time.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
One impulse was to pander to the GOP extremists with his usual crap, but then he was also thinking how this would play in Michigan in the general election. So he chose to show off his knowledge of trees.
in Arborist.
Karoli, be sure and check out Chris Matthews' show tonight. He's all over this. It happens at the beginning of his show.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
He clearly wanted to defend Shittens, but he knew Matthews was gonna grill him.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Warren Zevon-- Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me=> Cadillac Ranch
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY1v3qpg9oo
"No one ever said these people were logically consistent."
- watchdog -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WQ9MJzeIxw&fe...
at only two of their four homes. Probably uses public transport at the other two...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I'll bet it's Bentleys. Rollin like a gangsta'
me-oww!
"I actually love this state"
maybe it's best not to make it sound like a surprising and unexpected claim
It covers the mental ellipses for what he really wanted to say: "[In spite of doing everything in my power to f*ck it over,] I actually love this state."
If Mitt sold one of those Caddies he could buy 3 or 4 houses in Detroit.
Detroit is so beautiful in late February with the gray skies, slush, abandoned houses and cars, vacant downtown. He had to think of something flattering to say for the common people when his gut reaction was - good God what a fucking desolate shithole - and all he could come up with was just right tree height.
Reminds me of an Onion piece about Al Gore in Pennsylania
http://www.theonion.com/articles/visiting-gor...
Which states don't you love?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
When MMitt Headroom utters---" "Some of my best friends are--gay (or you fill in the blank)."
What a ridiculous, cardboard like panderer. This hack ought to get a clue. That stadium was empty for a reason.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
A crowd of 1,000? Give him credit, that's more seats than the Lions fill on game day...
(Just teasing, Lions fans!)
that was unveiled to a crowd about the same size as those that would be helped by it.
you'd think he'd just pay a bunch of extras to show up on the movie set. Of course, getting ones who wouldn't misbehave might be problematic...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
No doubt Faux News will clean up the footage a bit before they air it. The crowd shots will show a packed stadium. With palm trees swaying in the background. Really tall ones.
Is there any wonder why this jerk cannot connect with anybody? He thought is was good to mention his wife drove a Caddie. Then in an instant he thought it was better to mention that she had two Caddies. I'll bet you $10,000 somebody told him he should have mentioned all the other cars he has too.
Trees are the right height? At lest twice he has mentioned this. WTF is he talking about??????????????? Maybe he should just say that he likes Michigan because it has a lot of businesses that are ripe to take over and bankrupt so he can make more millions $$$$ ?
I don't believe for one second that a man worth a couple hundred million dollars with multiple homes only drives a truck, a Mustang and a couple of Cadillacs. What crap.
Shitt's known as a cheap f*ck, and that's what cheap-f*ck rich people drive.
He's not a believer in Zero Mostel's "If you got it - flaunt it, BABY, FLAUNT IT!!!"
rich people don't drive, they are chauffeured. I am sure his chauffeur drives a Maybach, and that there is a private company created by Romney that owns a car pool that Romney gets to access exclusively. Romney does not "own" or "drive" those cars, the company does.
This is how these ratfucks sleep so well at night, see... technically he is telling the truth.
I am sure those caddies are for when more discretion is required and they have to do the driving themselves, like going to the special doctor who sings all those happy pill prescriptions for Mrs. Romney.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
mitt romney, being a member of the paleocon party, should be credited with allowing his wife to drive. i can only assume that that will be the next issue for the GOP candidates: 'wives: should they be allowed to leave the house unaccompanied?'
this is turning into a nightmarish cartoon, where the GOP is racing the taliban in the quest to see who can go medieval faster
Good analysis of how the GOP is devolving:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/23-13
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
luv taibbi, i hadn't read this yet, so thanks for posting
I always wondered where the right-wing trolls went to hide when they weren't polluting the comments section of progressive sites. Now I know.
"These candidates are behaving like Stalinist officials in the late thirties, each one afraid to be the first to stop applauding. These people have run out of others to blame, run out of bystanders to suspect, run out of decent family people to dismiss as Godless, sex-crazed perverts. They’re turning the gun on themselves now. It might be justice, or it might just be sad. Whatever it is, it’s remarkable to watch."
We know how much they hate each other. Wait and see how much havoc they wreak on the rest of us if one of them should happen to squeak into the White House.
off balance, and consequently they went full redtard since "national security" was their game. I don't think they have been able to regain their bearings ever since.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
i would add to that the trouble the GOP has with:
- a slightly improved* economy
- the good news from detroit that really undermines their criticism of the auto bailout
* or so has been reported by the msm; greenshoots part deux
My biggest fear is that the GOP is doing this consciously, meaning that they are throwing this election, and they are just giving some red meat to the most passionate idiots in their base letting them think they are now in charge of the asylum.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
they are throwing this election
a vote from the establishment heard 'round the land
I even drive Murkin cars. LOT'S of 'em.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
"I love owning lots of 'Murkin cars. I just think all the people who build them should have lost their jobs."
Especially when they're built by Chinese slave laborers."
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Be sure to vote in November and encourage you friends to vote. No matter how horrible the final republican ticket looks, this is something that shouldn’t be left to chance.
I have seen posts from people who are not happy with President Obama and say, “why bother voting for the lesser of two evils?” If you think there is no value in getting out there and voting, you are not thinking hard enough.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Dr. Suess
it is so totally like not intellectually lazy and stuff.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
Does his wife park the Cadillacs in the houses John McCain doesn't remember he owns?
It's slightly less stupid in context--she has one each at their houses on either coast--but it still shows how out of touch he is.
is that all we have? i used to have a boss, an african-american gentleman (and in this case the word gentleman fit) who experienced segregation, did 20 in the army, owned his own home, a pickup, a motor home, and yes, he and his wife owned a couple of brand new cadillacs, of course he (and I) worked for a living.
when we have headlines like this
An Updated List of Goldman Sachs Ties to the Obama Government Including Elena Kagan
http://my.firedoglake.com/fflambeau/tag/obama/
i think i would stick to the social issues, not that poverty, endless war, and the police state are not social issues.
Obama NY Fundraiser With Hedge Fund Bigwigs
http://news.hedgefund.net/default.aspx?story=...
Occupy Beverly Hills: Protesters Plan to Shame Obama’s $35k-a-Plate Fundraiser
http://www.theoccupypost.com/2012/occupy-beve...
damn that must be some good food.
But only when they are found in publications that have credibility or readership. FDL? The home of Obama Derangement Syndrome? Who cares?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
to wade through some pretty hefty ODS ( especially in the comments), there are some excellent sources at FDL. Should we discount everything because it is posted there? I think under that standard C&L could also have problems.
Besides, I have no intention of giving up my daily TBogg.
Does have such problems. Just not nearly as bad. My larger point would be that the ability of the august publications cited to influence the coming election borders on the infinitesimal.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
a fat joke?
And Karoli, you are right there seem to have been more people outside protesting Romney, than inside the stadium listening to him.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
(Points.)
this man meets the minimum standard of 'STUPID"!
...simply cannot say shit right.
Poor Shitt.
have enough expensive cars. He is so so disconnected from the reality of everyday Americans. It's just the world he lives in, never even brushing elbows with the have nothings or even have lesses.
I guess the media failed to show the peaceful protest that was going on outside the stadium. I guess the stadium was one of the only places to go where the protesters could be completely blacked out from corporate news coverage. I guess the media is firmly under the control of plutocrats such as willard romney.
I guess the average American needs to replace corporate media as their news source.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Doesn't everyone drive a couple of Cadillacs?
Mrs Romney has one Cadillac for herself and another for her money.
I just can't get the image of Richie Rich, the Poor Little Rich Boy out of my head whenever I see Romney. Remember that cartoon? He'd have servants with wheelbarrow's full of money follow him around when he went shopping.
That's what Ann Romney does. A guy walks up to ask her if she's got the correct time and she gives him $50. "Oh, look at that poor man, Benson. He must not be able to afford a Rolex." "Yes, ma'am. Very good, ma'am." "Now let's go to Neiman-Marcus, I understand they have a sale on Caribbean islands." "Yes, ma'am, very good ma'am. But didn't you buy an island just last week?" "Oh, Benson, that island's been used. If someone were to find out I've gone there again, I'd just DIE of shame." "Yes, ma'am. Very good, ma'am".
Yep, that's how it goes at the Romney house. That's how they roll. I mean, what's-his-name, the old George Bush. Remember when he didn't have a clue as to the price of a gallon of gas? Romney takes being out of touch to a whole new level. He doesn't have a clue as to the price of a Cadillac.
Mitt Romney strikes me as the kind of guy who would make this kind of offhand statement even though it's not true. He'd get caught up in the moment and would say something just to pander to an audience, not thinking he could ever get caught.
BullSHIT he ever owned a Dodge truck. Mitt Romney has not set foot in any actual truck (not a unibody vehicle) in the past 25 years.
Maybe one of the C&L slaves could check to see if there are any "Dodge truck(s)" registered to Mitt Romney. I would be shocked.
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