Mittsy Has A Bad Week

Mittsy's had a tough week. First, he basically told half of the country that he doesn't give a rat's ass about them; and then his wife took to the airwaves to chastise the GOP for picking on him because, and this is rich, "this is hard"; and then it was alleged that he went a little heavy on the self-tanner before speaking to a group of Hispanic voters on Univision.

Yeah. It's not good. And then this happened:

During a round table meeting with a teacher, Mittsy apparently rudely told her, when she tried to speak, that “I didn’t ask you a question.”

That teacher, identified as Cheryl, says: 

"When I was asked to speak with Mitt Romney it seemed like a very important thing to me, and I wanted to put a lot of careful thought into what I would say. So, I went to the round table discussion very optimistic and interested in hearing what he had to say. When he sat down, one of the first questions he asked was, he said “I understand there is a teacher here today, which one of you is a teacher?”

So, I raised my hand, thinking that’s a good thing, he’s interested in education, but it wasn’t a good thing. I felt like his view was a little old-fashioned and I was surprised by it. He went on to kind of lecture me about schools and how bad they are. He talked bad about the teacher’s union. He was talking about the importance of private schools and voucher systems.

At one point, I said to him, “I have an answer for that.” And he said, “I didn’t ask you a question.”

Now, to be fair, this could be a case of "he said-she said" but, well, let's see with whom we are dealing: a man who says one thing, then changes his mind, then changes it, back, then says he never said what he said, though he doesn’t remember ever saying anything.

Or Cheryl. Yeah, I'm Team Cheryl.

And then.....

When Mittsy spoke before that packed crowd at the Univision Forum, aka SprayTanGate, earlier this week, it now appears that the crowd wasn't all Univision audience.

Mittsy apparently bussed in local supporters “after exhausting the few conservative groups on campus” and his people threatened to “reschedule” the event if organizers did not allow the “rowdy activists from around southern Florida in order to fill the extra seats at their town hall.”

And then during the talk, Mittsy dodged questions as to whether or not he would maintain President Obama’s directive allowing young undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States on a temporary basis.

That’s Mittsy. He pads the audience with his minions, and the refuses to answer questions that are extremely important to his audience. See, he doesn't want the Latino community to know his true feelings on immigration because...

A] He hasn't had anyone tell him what to think yet, or....

2] He doesn't care about illegal immigrants because they are part of the 47%.

And, well, there's this....

Univision is now saying that, not only did the Romney campaign pack the hall with non-students because they couldn’t find enough supporters on campus for his townhall meeting, but when Mittsy didn’t like the anchor’s introduction, he refused to go on until it was r-taped.

A Republican present called it a “temper tantrum”.

While introducing Romney, Jorge Ramos noted that Mittsy promised them just 35 minutes, while the president offered up a full hour for his townhall meeting the following night. Ramos then introduced Mittsy but Mittsy wouldn’t come on the stage.

This is his idea of presidential.

But this isn’t the first time we’ve seen a Mittsy Hissy Fit. Apparently, back in ’06, while still Governor of Massachusetts, Mittsy threw another tantrum after the GOP lost the Midterm Elections. He then spent 212 days of the next year campaigning for president rather than governing his state.

That’s his idea of leadership.

That’s Mittsy.

It’s been a bad week for him, but think how bad it would be for the country if he was elected president.

Romney Disrespects Teacher

Romney Threatened To Cancel Univision Forum

Romney Threw A 'Temper Tantrum'

The Height of GOP Stupidity, Part Fifteen: Mittsy Doesn't Care About Half Of All Americans

So, yesterday I posted a short clip of the Dina Lohan/"Dr." Phil interview. it looked like an utter trainwreck, so, naturally, I watched. And it was a trainwreck; I mean, Lindsay is quite the cracktress and seeing her mother and father on TV shows that she didn't fall far from the trainwreck tree.

But that wasn't the only trainwreck this week. It may have been a monumental pop culture trainwreck, but the massive implosion by Mittsy Romney this week counts as an almost-national disaster.

Last week we had Mittsy bashing the President over the uprisings against the US Embassy in Libya before he even knew the facts, which is Problem One with the Mittsy campaign.

Problem Two--and rapidly becoming Problem One--for the campaign is Mittsy's mouth, and the fact that he cannot control what spews from it.

Now, in a secret videotape, Mittsy is heard saying that the overwhelming majority of voters who back President Barack Obama do so because they are "dependent on government" and "believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing."

His horse flies first class and I feel entitled?

The video shows Mittsy talking about Obama supporters, immigrants, privilege and a host of other controversial issues, and yet it's his comments on Obama supporters that are drawing the most heat:

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right -- there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing."

Yes, Mittsy says that half of Americans want the government to buy us homes and feed us and give us free medical care because, well, we want it. Dammit. Foot stomp. And then he steps in it even deeper:

"[M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

There you have it, straight from the horse's ass: Mittsy does not care about roughly half of all Americans because they don't like him and he can't win 'em over.

Of course, then in a case of the Pot calling the Kettle Black, Mittsy claims that 47% of Americans, those who, naturally, support the president, do not pay income taxes. Yet I wonder, say Mittsy's right....let me take a giggle break.,....Mittsy's right....hee hee.....and half of us don't pay taxes--in part because of deductions like the child tax credit--I would wonder how anything in this country every gets built or fixed or maintained. Half of us don't pay taxes--except perhaps in the form of  Social Security and Medicare payroll deductions and gas levies, as well as state and local sales and property taxes--and folks like Mittsy pay next to nothing? How does this thing work at all?

Don't ask Mittsy. He doesn't care.

And now he's trying to spin it, by holding a brief, uncomfortable, news conference saying his remarks were "not elegantly stated" and was "spoken off the cuff."

Sadly, Mittsy, at least 47% of Americans--and I think it's more--don't believe you.

The Mittsy Chronicles: An Olympic-sized Douche

Pity poor Mittsy....I giggle at that.

I mean Mittsy went to Great Britain to show what a great president he'd be in dealing with foreign powers, and decided to shove both Italian loafers in his mouth at the same time. An Olympic feat for most of us, but, well, just another day for Mittsy.

His trip was meant to illustrate his command of the international relations, but it has become, as one newspaper, The Guardian, said:  "Mitt Romney's Olympics blunder stuns No. 10 and hands gift to Obama."

The Guardian went one further, and began running live Tweets about RomneyGaffe2012: "Romney in London....It's a little comic relief. Kind of like Mr. Bean, only he's an American."

Mittsy in the UK has been a d-i-saster from the moment he arrived, and one of his--and I use the term loosely--"advisors," said that Romney's "Anglo-Saxon heritage" meant he could forge closer ties to Britain than Obama.

Cuz, you know, Obama's Black, y'all.

Now, Mittsy did try The Step Back from those remarks, and instantly started more drama when he suggested that, maybe, just days before the start of the Olympic Games, that London wasn't ready: "You know, it's hard to know just how well it will turn out....There are a few things that were disconcerting, the stories about the private security firm not having enough people, the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials; that obviously is not something which is encouraging."

Oh, but he did.

Then he questioned whether or not the British people had the "spirit" for the games:  "Do they come together and celebrate the Olympic moment? That's something which we only find out once the Games actually begin."

Foot.Meet mouth.

Prime Minister David Cameron was not amused: "You're going to see beyond doubt that Britain can deliver...We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. Of course it's easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere." AKA Salt Lake City.

Suh-nap. In Wimbledon-speak: point Mister Cameron.

And Cameron wasn't the only one dogging Mittsy's idiotic, and really, derogatory, statements. London mayor, Boris Johnson, said, at the Games' opening ceremonies: "There's a guy called Mitt Romney who wants to know whether we're ready. Are we ready? Are we ready? Yes we are!"

And 50,000 people cheered Johnson, while the rest of the world booed Mittsy.

And, again, Mittsy did The Step Back, AKA The Flip Flop. After a meeting at 10 Downing Street, with the prime minister, Romney tried to spin his stupidity: "I am very delighted with the prospects of a highly successful Olympic Games. What I have seen shows imagination and forethought and a lot of organization and I expect the Games to be highly successful."

Doesn’t sound like high praise to me, it sounds like he wants the world to know about "his" Olympics, because, with an ego the size of a Swiss Bank account, Mittsy is all about Mittsy.

And, naturally, the White House joined in with the Mittsy Smackdown: "In keeping with our special relationship, the president also made it clear that he has the utmost confidence in our close friend and ally, the United Kingdom, as they finalize preparations to host the London Olympics."

But Romney's Olympic Douchebaggery didn't end with just The Games. He also spoke openly about meeting the head of Britain's top-secret MI6 intelligence agency, something which is considered a lapse in protocol, causing even the most conservative Brits to sound the anti-Mittsy alarm.

"Who invited him?" The Daily Mail asked, calling his visit "humiliating." The paper's political editor, James Chapman, provided a Twitter play-by-play of Romney's very bad day, one of which called Romney "worse than Sarah Palin."

Okay. I need a giggle break. Worse.Than.Palin. Two birds. One stone. God, I love the Brits.

Another Tweet from Chapman said Romney was "devoid of charm, warmth, humour or sincerity."

Honey, you are preachin' to the choir. I, and a lot of my fellow Americans, have been saying that for, well, years.

The Daily Mail also reported another gaffe, calling it "cringe-worthy" when Romney referred to British opposition leader Ed Miliband as "Mr. Leader," while other reports said he used the term because he'd forgotten Miliband's name.

Oh Mittsy. It's nice that the world gets to see what we've known all along. You aren't presidential. You don't know what to say, how to say it, or even when you should be speaking, and to whom.

An Olympic-sized douche, you are, Mittsy.

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