South Carolina Tea Partiers Wish Romney Would Just Go Away

[LetTimmySmoke]

Last edited Thu Jan 5, 2012, 12:28 AM - Edit history (1)

Talk with Tea Party leaders here in South Carolina and you quickly realize that the toughest job in the Mitt Romney campaign would be the assignment of doing outreach to these activists. Maybe not a mission impossible, but close.

They really want no part of Romney. And there appears to be little he could say or do between now and Jan. 21, the date of the South Carolina primary, to change that.

The Massachusetts health law Romney enacted as governor with its individual mandate called Romneycare by critics is just one of several reasons they give for their animus.

There are Romney's policy-position switches that some have less charitably called flip flops. And there's Romney's failure, at least in Tea Party activists' eyes, to reach out to them directly.

Read More: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/01/04/144695977/south-carolina-tea-partiers-wish-romney-would-go-away

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The best part is the picture:



What kind of nitwit goes to the airport in a revolutionary war costume. Some neurons, not sure which, aren't firing on all cylinders.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The picture is great.

But best not to use the term "retard" - it's considered offensive on DU.

[LetTimmySmoke]

6. Well, I could just use the word "nitwit"

which means the exact same thing but is not "offensive."

[Angry Dragon]

2. Makes sense to me

They say they want to take their country back
Seems they want to take it back aways.............

[monmouth]

3. I remember seeing him at Sarah events..n/t

[LetTimmySmoke]

7. Just don't touch his Sarah Palin pariphenalia without a glove.

[tanyev]

4. Look, a macaroni!

A macaroni (or formerly maccaroni)in mid-18th century England, was a fashionable fellow who dressed and even spoke in an outlandishly affected and epicene manner. The term pejoratively referred to a man who "exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion"in terms of clothes, fastidious eating and gambling. Like a practitioner of macaronic verse, which mixed together English and Latin to comic effect, he mixed Continental affectations with his English nature, laying himself open to satire:

There is indeed a kind of animal, neither male nor female, a thing of the neuter gender, lately [1770] started up among us. It is called a macaroni. It talks without meaning, it smiles without pleasantry, it eats without appetite, it rides without exercise, it wenches without passion.

The song "Yankee Doodle", from the time of the American Revolutionary War, mentions a man who "stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni," the joke being that the Yankees were naive enough to believe that a feather in the hat was a sufficient mark of a macaroni. Whether or not these were alternative lyrics sung in the British army, they were enthusiastically taken up by the Yankees themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_(fashion)

[Odin2005]

8. The 18th century Metrosexuals!

[Ter]

5. I hope he's against the Patriot Act

Because he's surely on the "terrorist suspect" list for that outfit at an airport. The tea baggers are split on this, but each year more and more oppose it.

[LynneSin]

9. Ironically the rest of the world wishes that Tea Partiers will just go away

What assholes!