It's official. Mitt Romney is dumber than a stick

[CoffeeCat]

I'm watching the Romney speech in New Hampshire and Romney steps up to the plate after Paul Ryan does his bit.

Romney begins his speech and what comes out of his mouth?

"So many friends here. I feel like I'm almost a New Hampshire resident! That would sure save me some tax dollars!"


This is a campaign that prematurely and furiously announced the Paul Ryan pick to detour the conversation off of the tax issue. Romney has filed only one year of taxes, refuses to release multiple returns as all recent Presidential candidates have done and the firestorm did not let up.

So, in some boardroom filled with suits and strategists--the campaign, that was supposed to announce the Ryan pick in New Hampshire this week, announced in Virginia because their polls were sinking and Romney flying solo was a disaster. Can you imagine the hours of conversations, strategizing and marketing that have been logged--all with the specific goal of distracting the electorate away from Mitt Romney's tax crisis?

And what does Mitt Romney do? He makes a wishful crack about being a New Hampshire resident--and how it would save him some tax dollars.

I had to rewind to make sure that this is what he said. This may be one comment--one sentence, but folks--this is not a smart man. He's a bungling goofball. He may be an ace at vampire capitalism--gutting corporations, advising them to outsource and slash jobs without conscience. However, the man is a dunderhead. Romney may be able to sit on boards and act as a figurehead, but he lacks basic common sense.

This is the kind of man who straps the family dog to the roof of the car and thinks nothing of it. This is a man who thought he could just run for the President and that the entire country would fall in line and nod in approval when he refused to release his taxes.

And yes, this is a man who--while embroiled in his tax-release controversy--reminded everyone today--that wouldn't it be great if he was from New Hampshire and how neat it would be if that saved him some tax dollars.

Oy vey.

[luvspeas]

1. stunning!

Wow

[The Wielding Truth]

32. His mind runs to the idea of more money for himself. Don' worry Wrongney, I'll pick up your slack

with the extra money I saved to pay for my fuel oil this winter. You have to take care of your horse and such.


WOW is right. I hate these selfish greedy snipes.

[Voice for Peace]

41. I think it's strategic, stupid but strategic. Think of Palin, how she'd make fun of

the things people were making fun of her about..
it was clever and it worked for her.

I don't think it's going to work for Mitt.
This looks like another very badly advised strategy,
probably to make people like him, try to make a joke
out of Democrats.

[handmade34]

2. "lacks basic common sense"

and any sense of empathy

[progressivebydesign]

3. He is Dan Quayle. n/t

[treestar]

4. And the idea of saving money is for him, unsympathetic.

He thinks he is being funny. Conservatives are sense of humor impaired, and what they think is funny rings hollow.

[Berlum]

21. Face rubbing. That's what this is.

Romney is rubbing his Republican Tax Dodging into the face of honest, decent Americans. Ugly gloaty thing of the 1% RepubliWanikers; "Ha ha, you decent people have to pay for roads and schools. We Repubbies get 'special treatment.' Ha ha." - Willard & Fatcat Republican Cronies

[nc4bo]

5. It is really stunningly insane. nt

[HopeHoops]

6. Yes, but we knew that.

[hifiguy]

7. Jeebus, he makes the Chimpleton look like effing Pericles.

[CoffeeCat]

13. Yes, but W was being himself...

W was admittedly, a good ol boy--the kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with, doncha know?!

Junior played the part well, playing up some kind of "I'm just like you!" campaign talking point. He made mistakes, but the campaign repeatedly positioned those mistakes as the errors of a regular guy who was outside of Washington.

Not with Romney. We're constantly told how smart and how savvy he is. Ohhhhh, look at how he turned around the Olympics. Why he's the smartest business man the universe has ever seen! And those smarts will save our economy!

That is why Romney has such PR problems. What they're selling us and what's inside the outside packaging--do not jive. I think that is why he has such a tough time with speeches; and why he seems so discombobulated and fake during speeches. The disparity between who he really is and what the campaign forces him to project--is wider than the Grand Canyon.

This makes him nervous. Hence the unforced errors and bizarre smiling that makes him look like a constipated anchorman.

[Aerows]

25. "bizarre smiling that makes him look like a constipated anchorman"

That was an awesome summation of how Romney looks when he speaks. That's EXACTLY how he looks. It's like the one said about Eric Cantor. "That guy looks like the manager of the asshole store."

[laundry_queen]

58. ROTFLMAO! Both of those descriptions are beyond apt. nt

[cleduc]

8. No problem, Mitt. This is the one thing you're good at:

1. Lie to media
2. Refile tax returns to claim NH residency retroactively
http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/a-tour-of-romney-s-10-million-lakefront-new-hampshire-getaway-20111028
3. Siphon tax savings to overseas tax havens!

[renate]

31. I hadn't heard about his NH lakefront house...

Nice catch, cleduc, and thanks for walking right into that one, Mitt!

I wonder who has more houses, Romney or McCain?

[DonRedwood]

9. A stick is a useful tool....Romney is just a tool

I believe you owe sticks an apology

[CoffeeCat]

23. I'm so sorry!

I apologize to sticks, trees and all stick-like objects out there.

It was difficult to come up with an appropriate noun for Romney.

Ham sandwich?

Toolbag?

Egg Carton?

Kronk from Emperor's New Groove?

[Aerows]

27. I believe

"doucherocket" was offered up a while ago. A doucherocket doesn't seem very useful and sounds pretty dangerous - like Mitt.

[Pachamama]

49. We have a winner...

[uponit7771]

10. Ocoms razor.....He's trying to lose?

[Blue Owl]

57. More like Occam's Fuckstick

n/t

[blackspade]

74. .....

[AngryAmish]

11. I bet he was drunk

[BumRushDaShow]

12. He has a mansion on Lake Winnipesauke

so he theoretically IS a NH resident.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. That makes him more an NH resident than a Mass resident, tho he frauded Mass vote

Apparently Mitt Romney voted in several Massachusetts elections even after he sold his residence there and took up residence elsewhere. I read that he gave the unfinished basement of his brother's house as his address. It seems like voter fraud.

Aren't the Republicans a little bit against voter fraud?

[On edit: KurtNYC beats me to it by minutes below]

[BumRushDaShow]

42. It boggles the mind how much this snake

keeps managing to slither and slide out of the hands of the law.

[matt819]

48. Well, not really

You can own homes in lots of places, but you can be a resident of only one place at a time. (Except if you're the Mittster. If you are, you can be a resident of MA and/or Utah depending on the circumstances, and you can retroactively assert residency in one or the other if you need to for tax and running for president reasons.)

McCain owns who the hell know how many homes, but he is a resident of AZ and so runs for office there.

Some elected reps get all screwed up when they give up the home state homes and buy something in the Washington area. That fucks things up because then you really can't claim to be a resident, and thus run for office there. Some pols have screwed that one up.

So, I'll grant that Rmoney is not a resident of NH, but, as I mentioned in another post, the tax savings would be meaningless, which makes his remark all that more stupid. And I'll bet no one pointed that out at his little gathering. And god forbid the msm should make that observation.

[BumRushDaShow]

68. "Except if you're the Mittster."

And he always considers himself the "exception".

[KurtNYC]

14. No -- Romney is not "dumb." This is his strategy and many here fall for it:

Pretend the tax return issue is about how much he made and how much he paid.

It was NEVER about what his rate is. It is about voter fraud:


and Sheldon Adelson and many other issues which point to influence peddling and not observing the laws of the United States.

You're being spun if you think this is about HOW MUCH Romney paid or what rate it works out to.

[DonRedwood]

16. how do we get him up on charges for voter fraud?

If a Dem did that they would be on him like flies on... (rhymes with "mitt&quot

[KurtNYC]

22. All of the demanding of the tax returns is laying the groundwork

to prove these charges in the open. That graphics is a meme on FaceBook with 300,000 likes.

We should keep demanding the returns in the context of Mitt clearing himself of these charges (or, not clearing himself).

We should steer away from statements that feed Mitt's spin that this is jealousy and people simply hating on the rich.

[DonRedwood]

63. it should about just how easy it would be for him to prove his case

show us the goods, mittens, show us the goods

[DonRedwood]

15. who is the resident artist? this needs to be a meme.....

[matt819]

17. Not only supremely stupid, but wrong

He already pays property taxes in New Hampshire. No way around that.

When he's in NH, he doesn't pay any sales tax anyway. Let's say he lived full time in NH and spent $1 million on stuff that he now buys in CA. Let's say the CA sales tax is 8%. So, by living in NH he saves $80,000. Based on the one partial tax return he made public, that's a whopping one and one-half days of income. In other words, the savings is meaningless to someone that wealthy.

Even apart from all the tax return furor, he doesn't earn any income in NH, so the fact that there's no NH income tax is meaningless. It doesn't apply to him now and wouldn't apply to him if he moved here full time.

So not only was he supremely stupid in making this remark, he was supremely wrong. And tone deaf. And did I say supremely stupid?

[bigtree]

18. he's just not a sharp man

. . . in fact, he's absolutely dense. He also conveys a lack of real-world knowledge; much less of an understanding about the issues he's supposed to represent.

[nc4bo]

20. Perfect fit for the Gop voters wouldn't you say? nt

[CoffeeCat]

26. I've just figured out...

...that Romney is Kronk from Disney film, The Emperor's New Groove.

Seriously. I can totally see Romney saying, "My spinach puffs!"

[Skittles]

65. people will see the kind of guy who can make a quarter billion off the backs of real workers

Romney is an utter fucking TOOL

[Arugula Latte]

19. D'oh!

That sound is his aids simultaneously clapping their hands to their foreheads.

[valerief]

28. I scratch my head whenever I read that Mittfalca is smart. He may be smart enough to have smart

people working for him, but he's definitely a halfwit.

[INdemo]

29. What I noticed as I watched it for a few was that

the questions asked were obviously scripted especially the one from a Veteran about Afghanistan..
So Romney is going to cut the deficit do away with wasteful programs (not sure which ones yet) and promised that he would not raise taxes on anyone or business.. I agree Romney is dumber that a box of rocks but with that statement I would be willing to bet that the RNC would bring in a spokesman to declare that actually" a box of rocks is pretty smart" and Faux and CNN would no doubt back them up..

[Amonester]

36. I'd 'risk' it and say those 'you people' who intend to vote for him and the puppet

R dumber than a box alone (with no rocks inside) if they truly believe his lie about not raising their (income) taxes...

They don't make any sense whatsoever.

[Richard D]

30. This deserves an infographic.

[heaven05]

33. yep

[magical thyme]

34. um, Mittens, one of your many properties is in NH

Your estate on Lake Winnepesaukie, for example, is in NH. And, as I recall, NH has some of the highest property taxes around to make up for the lack of state income tax.

Idjit doesn't know where his houses are. McCain didn't know how many. Mittens can't remember where his are. What is with these morans?

And still bragging about not paying taxes. What an effing piece of work.

[Javaman]

35. lost mittens once again displays his inability to act like a human.

I'm of the belief that his is a sociopath, but now more so, I think he's actually a robot.

[NRaleighLiberal]

37. The Hubris that comes from extreme greed/wealth....or is it vice versa? n/t

[ananda]

38. LOLOLOL

Great thread.

Still laughing.. loud.

[Madmiddle]

39. NH taxes are just as bad as anywhere.

They tax quite heavy in everything but income tax. So, Romney makes another ignorant statement.

[secondwind]

40. HILARIOUS! I really think he has no common sense.. just business acumen

[Aviation Pro]

43. Stick, no...

...at sometime sticks allowed vascular movement of water and nutrients through them into leaves making them pretty fucking intelligent to me.

I prefer 'sand stupid' as sand can't do anything on its own except respond to wind and water.

That's the ticket, Lurch the Fucking Stiff^TM is sand stupid.

[CoffeeCat]

44. That is perfect...

"sand stupid." I've never heard that before. It is perfect.

It's too late to use it here, but I will use it often in real life. I'll credit you of course!

Although, sand under a microscope is quite beautiful and stunning. The closer you get to Romney, the uglier it gets. But still, "sand stupid" fits Romney very well.

[Dawgs]

45. Don't worry. Gallup and Rasmussen will make sure this race stays dead even. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

46. Hey! I'm a stick.

and i resent that comment. I am much smarter than Mitt Romney.

[grantcart]

47. I thought he was a NH resident. Stupid on stupid.

[Cha]

50. He thinks he's funny but his "trees are the right height"

jokes fall flat. He always comes off as a greedy unpatriotic asshole.

[Lint Head]

51. The sticks in my yard are insulted by RMoney.

[D23MIURG23]

52. After he loses to Obama the RNC should give him colorful clothing and a hat with three tassles.

They can bring him out at official party events to lighten the mood by giving campaign advice.

[CanonRay]

53. Also the man the would start a war and think nothing of it

Lord I hope they don't steal this election and stick us with this idiot.

[spanone]

54. we learned from juni*r that the right adores ignorance

[BrainMann1]

55. Bungling goofball (Perfect)

My Mom told me you can have all the book knowledge you want but if you have no common sense, you are going to say or do something stupid.

[samsingh]

56. its a freudian slip

[BadgerKid]

59. It's the GOP's race to the bottom.

Romney seems to be striving to make * look good. Shudder.

[Riley18]

60. Arrogant

[napkinz]

61. Republicans say LOTS of dumb, insane, horrible things ...

[jillan]

62. Is that all these selfish bastards think about? How NOT to invest in America?

Well -

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[Skittles]

64. I swear Romney may be even dumber than Dubya

seriously

[L0oniX]

66. What a dumb fuck stick!

[tblue37]

67. You know the old idea that if someone says, "Don't think about a white elephant,"

then you cannot help thinking about a white elephant?

Well, I think a lot of these Romney foot-in-mouth manifestations on taxes are of that sort. He wants the public to not think about his taxe, and he wants to not think about his taxes, so all he can think about is the tax issue and how it won't go away.

I am sure that a major factor is that he is completely out of touch and cannot think of any appropriate way to speak to real people. But I do think that part of the problem is that he is trying so hard to get away from the tax issue that he cannot thik about much else, so remarks about taxes keep bubbling to his lips.

[northoftheborder]

69. I've known he was a dimwit for months; he just keeps proving it; dumber than W even.

[Mopar151]

70. "NO TAX" is so ingrained in NH politics that it becomes quantum effect

For instance, RW Nh audiences have to hear the no tax mantra, or they are apt to panic, like domestic turkeys - not thinking that the NH Interest and Dividends Tax might cost Mitt a healthy pile if he declared residency here. Or that statewide equalization of property taxes for education could cost him $50K/yr.

The act of observing affects the observed.........

[pitchforksandtorches]

71. He adds new meaning to the word dolt.

[Ilsa]

72. It's like he's a one-trick pony.

He's running on cutting taxes for rich people. Nothing else. That's all he cares about. That's why he has no plans to lay out to review.

Oh yeah, he's also a bully.

[GETPLANING]

73. Cue Jon Lovitz

"I can't believe I'm losing to this guy!"

[awoke_in_2003]

75. I once thought bush was the dumbest...

man on the planet, then Romney started opening his pie hole.