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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitt Romney tells 'interrupters' at rally to 'take a hike'
By Maeve Reston
January 22, 2012, 4:25 p.m.
Reporting from Ormond Beach, Fla.
Mitt Romney opened an aggressive new phase of the Republican presidential campaign as he cruised into Florida on Sunday night casting Newt Gingrich as an unethical politician whose temperament and unreliability led to his ouster as speaker of the House in the 1990s.
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At one point during his outdoor rally at a building supply company in Ormond Beach, Romney was interrupted by protestors chanting We are the people but he quickly dismissed them.
No actually, these are the people, Romney shouted back. These are the people; Youre the interruptors. We believe in the Constitution. We believe in the right to speech. And you believe in interrupting. Take a hike.
Romneys supporters drowned them out by chanting U-S-A.
Though it was unclear to most of the crowd who the protestors were representing, Romney suggested that they were attacking free enterprise.
I love these guys by the way who dont like America and our free enterprise system and they have something else in mind, he said. Take a look at Cuba; Take a look at North Korea; Take a look at the former Soviet Union. Our system works. What theyre fighting for does not work. I believe in America.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-mitt-romney-tells-interruptors-at-rally-to-take-a-hike-20120122,0,3694348.story
JI7
(89,279 posts)BAchmann etc.
FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)liberal N proud
(60,347 posts)Twice I have witnessed Obama welcome interuptions, even going so far as to quiet the crowd who tried to stifle the interruptions and asking one protester to lead the pledge of allegiance.
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)So Romney says.. "I love these guys by the way who dont like America and our free enterprise system and they have something else in mind, he said. Take a look at Cuba; Take a look at North Korea; Take a look at the former Soviet Union. Our system works. What theyre fighting for does not work. I believe in America."
All the 'catch phrases"--
don't like America
don't like free enterprise
Cuba
North Korea
Soviet Union
And because of the destruction of the American educational system started by RR, and supported by the Xtian right wingers. monster corporations, banks, investment companies, et al. at least half of Americans believe this nonsense.
What an absolute piece of shit this man is. All of them, every one. No exceptions.
Raine
(30,541 posts)he can't even fake it.
JBoy
(8,021 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)"Interruption" does not = "Speech"?