Romney: My Dad had a golden ticket for a free lunch at McDonald's

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://wonkette.com/480398/romney-my-dad-had-a-golden-ticket-for-a-free-lunch-at-mcdonalds-and-my-wife-has-a-magical-pony#more-480398

ROMNEY: MY DAD HAD A GOLDEN TICKET FOR A FREE LUNCH AT MCDONALD’S AND MY WIFE HAS A MAGICAL PONY
BY DOKTOR ZOOM

As a sign of his willingness to help out political bloggers and cartoonists everywhere, Mitt Romney yesterday generously told another dumb story about his family’s near-magical life of privilege and ease:

“I found a little paper card, a little pink card, and it said, ‘This entitles George W. Romney to a lifetime of a hamburger, a shake and French fries at McDonald’s.’ It was signed by the hand of Ray Kroc. My dad had done a little training lesson or whatever for McDonald’s when there was just a handful of restaurants and I saw this thing and was like, this is a gold mine, dad! What are you doing?”

Romney said he laminated the card for his father, who he said went “almost every day” to McDonald’s for either a hamburger or a fish sandwich.

“He would present this little card and of course the person behind the counter would look and say, ‘Well, what is that?’ They’d never seen something like that, but he said it was never turned down. They always honored it,” Romney said.

As he related the anecdote, Mr. Romney periodically emitted that goddamned laugh of his, causing small children in the audience to burst into tears and hug their parents closer.

A spokesperson for the fast-food chain said that she was unable to verify whether the elder Romney ever had such a card, but would “strongly caution against” anyone with pink paper and a laser printer “getting any smart ideas.”

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. P.S. The lamination further strengthens my theory that Myth is anal retentive

[Javaman]

10. romney is laminated. nt

[Happyhippychick]

2. Did he treat Martin Luther King to McDonald's when they marched together?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. LOL....just add this one to the "out-of-touch" category...people who have to scrape

up change to eat there will LOVE this story

[renate]

3. "... emitted that goddamned laugh of his...:

[ladjf]

5. So what!

[renegade000]

6. evidently, if your rich

there is such thing as a free lunch.

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. Someone told him that "you people" like McDonalds.

He was just trying to fit in.

Worked for him when he was "relating" to the NASCAR fans when he told them that some of his best friends own teams.

I like this approach A LOT, and hope he keeps it up.

[louis-t]

8. You know, it would be a cute story if it wasn't coming from

this asshole.

[Wait Wut]

9. Yep.

It would be a cute story if it was about someone who couldn't afford to buy lunch at McDonald's. Hell...that wouldn't be cute, it would be heartwarming.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. yes. like from a homeless person who found the card

[Aerows]

11. Oh my

That's about the worst story he could tell considering his entitlement issues and lack of offering tax returns.

Did his dad write off his lunches at McDonald's? Somehow, I don't think so, and I think Mitt fabricated this out of thin air to make him seem like he came from a thrifty family, thereby implying that he is thrifty, too.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. he's prone to get free stuff. how much he can get for nothing. like government services that

other taxpayers pay for.

[jmowreader]

21. "Thrifty" isn't the word that comes to mind, now is it?

"Cheap bastards" is more apropos when it comes to the Romney clan.

[NightWatcher]

14. ate McD's everyday just because he had a coupon?

That shit will warp your DNA. Would Daddy have eaten shit from a dumpster just because it was free while his bank accounts were in the millions? That shows HORRIBLE judgement.

[Whisp]

16. Daddy's sperm may have been altered from all that McD special sauce consumption

[amandabeech]

23. His dad was a old-time moderate to liberal R who must be embarrassed by his son.

His dad said that one or two years of tax returns wasn't enough to get the real picture.

His dad thought that 12 was enough and released those to the public.

That special sauce must have altered something, because Mitt is not George.

[WI_DEM]

15. Someone who could have bought out Ray Kroc given a free lunch

typical.

[SoCalDem]

17. Gee Mitt, why don't you SHOW it to us.

Surely such a sweet memento from his beloved dad was not tossed into the shredder when he died..
or it's just another made-up Romney-fable


My husband still has his father's draft notice..and his father died in 1963

[FSogol]

18. Willard Romney and the Hamburger Factory

The story centers around a boy named Charlie Bucket Willard Romney, who lives in extreme poverty luxury with his extended family, and his adventures inside the chocolate hamburger factory of Willy Wonka Ray Kroc. One day Mr. Wonka Kroc decided to allow five children to visit the factory. Each child will win a lifetime supply of chocolate hamburgers after the factory tour...

[Tikki]

19. Heard on the TV by a single mother as she digs around the bottom of her....

purse, under the sofa cushions and on the car floorboards to find
enough change so her son can join his friends for a gab session at MacDonald's.


Tikki

[Enrique]

20. it's like food stamps for rich people

[Tabasco_Dave]

22. Romney's dad stole some beverage cups from Micky D's as well.