Romney Being Mocked For Worst 2012 Photo-Op Gaffe of 2012!!
by joelgp
Mitt Romney is an idiot. There's no way to spin it or tease it out, it's just a fact: this dude is missing a few screws. He's desperately trying to prove he's a regular guy by taking time off from the campaign to go grocery shopping. Check this out:
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney engaged in arguably the most blatant "I'm a regular guy, just like you" campaign stunt Monday. The "Best Pandering to Date" award of the 2012 season was won by the GOP's standard-bearer by using a rare day off from the trail to go shopping at his local hardware and grocery store in Wolfeboro, N.H.
Just how "everyman" is Romney?
Like you and me, Mitt Romney gets chauffeured to the store in a tinted-out black Chevy Suburban, Secret Service agents in tow. Much like the rest of us, he procures his ears of corn and tools with a press gaggle dutifully snapping pictures."
He actually thinks Americans are stupid enough to believe a man with a 78K per year dancing horse would come off the presidential campaign to go grocery shopping?
Wow??
He wanted you to see the picture below. Unfortunately, someone messed it up with a nasty lil caption.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/07/1117531/-Romney-Being-Mocked-For-Worst-2012-Photo-Op-Gaffe-of-2012
Mitt, like the Bush tax cuts, it didn't work the first time.
To overcome the image that had damaged him in the 1994 Senate race – that of a wealthy corporate buyout specialist out of touch with the needs of regular people – a series of "work days" were staged throughout the campaign, in which Romney performed blue-collar jobs such as herding cows and baling hay, unloading a fishing boat, and hauling garbage.[164][166][167] Television ads highlighting the effort, as well as one portraying his family in gushing terms and showing him shirtless,[166] received a poor public response and contributed to his being behind his Democratic opponent, Massachusetts State Treasurer Shannon O'Brien, in polls as late as mid-October.[164][167] He rebounded with ads that accused O'Brien of being a failed watchdog for state pension fund losses in the stock market and that associated her husband, a former lobbyist, with the Enron scandal.[154][167] During the election he contributed over $6 million – a state record at the time – to the nearly $10 million raised for his campaign overall.[168][169] Romney was elected governor on November 5, 2002, with 50 percent of the vote to O'Brien's 45 percent.[170]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney#2002_gubernatorial_campaign
From a 2002 article:
Now what's funny about this attack ad is that a Republican is tarring a Democrat with the Enron brush. More to the point, a venture capitalist, Mitt Romney, is smearing the state treasurer, Shannon O'Brien, with corporate greed and fraud.
The not-so-subtle implication of the ad is that O'Brien is personally responsible for the loss of pension funds in the Incredible Collapsing Market. The subtext is, of course, that Romney, the former top dog at Bain Capital will protect us from the corporate mess. Don't you love this stuff?
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http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Republicans-strive-to-close-the-Enron-gap-2759905.php
Mitt, how does it feel?
You can end the speculation by releasing your tax returns.
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Just throw enough money at the problem to offset the negatives, no problem if the money is unlimited. That's the new negative feedback loop of American politics.
It only ends when just one capitalist has all the money 
Credit: President Calvin Coolidge (1873-1933) posing as a farmer during a vacation in Vermont (b/w photo), American Photographer, (20th century) / Private Collection / Peter Newark American Pictures / The Bridgeman Art Library
Coolidge was mocked for his shiny dress shoes and luxury presidential car in the background - A clumsy photo-op that backfired.
I would love to know if he just grabbed that cart handle or he sneaked a sanitizer wipe over it first
... seems to me Bachmann still might have
an edge for worst photo-op gaffe.
Trying so hard to be what you aren't always backfires in the end.
In the laundry room his son posted several months back. Although this was a good pic-a tool purchasing tools.
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George HW Bush bedazzled by the magic grocery store scanner.
Dweeb!
I don't know if this is the worst-- I still like the one of him standing on a picnic table with, like, three people around. 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=65162
. . Massachusetts to become a pawn shop owner, then he retroactively moved to Florida to become an orange juice salesman, then he retroactively moved to Michigan to get in touch with his old hometown homies, and then he retroactively moved to New Jersey to put tanning oil on Snookie's back.
Romney can't release his income tax returns yet.
He has to wait until he decides which state he wants to claim that he lives in!!!
Let's keep up making sure his dream will go away, forgotten forever in some 80 nights or so!
I don't think we'll ever see anything that come close to this
