"My dad's dad didn't have a car elevator, I hate your ASS FACE, I'm going home to bite my PILLOW!"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Pictured above: Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.

GREENCASTLE, Pa. -- Mitt Romney is known as a man with millions of dollars, but he wants Americans to know that his grandfather wasn't one.

"My dad's dad went broke more than once," the former Massachusetts governor told 200 or so people who had gathered Sunday for the local Lincoln Day dinner in this southern Pennsylvania community. "And my dad learned lessons about the importance of family and of faith and had a great and abiding affection for this country – lessons he taught me."

The brief biography was a not-so-subtle rejoinder to a claim Democratic President Barack Obama made last week. "I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth," Obama said – a line his spokesman later said wasn't aimed at his presumptive Republican opponent.

In his Sunday speech, Romney first mentioned his wife, Ann Romney, as "the source of my experience and qualification." Then he added: "And also my parents. I had the extraordinary privilege of being born in America . and I had a mom and a dad and they taught me lasting values."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/22/mitt-romney-wealth_n_1444585.html

[Brickbat]

1. I get so damn sick and tired of hearing about politicians' parents and grandparents.

On both sides. "My grandpa went broke more than once, and there were great lessons!" "My dad was a union member!" "My mom was a single mom with three legs!"

Great. STFU.

[white_wolf]

6. Well, what else does the Nobility have to base their claims on...

aside from their ancestors and religion. I'm waiting for him to start styling himself Willard of the House of Romney.

[LeftyMom]

2. My grandfather was a cabinetmaker, that doesn't qualify me to remodel your kitchen.

I know Mormons are a little obsessed with genealogy, but could he shut up about his family and pretend he's got some qualifications that don't reply on Lamarckian inheritance?

[unblock]

3. "gramps when broke so cut my taxes!"

[CoffeeCat]

4. So what Mitt...your dad still

...raised a son who strapped a dog to the roof of a car and drove for hundreds
of miles!

[Rain Mcloud]

5. 30 years of fascism have ruined this country

and God stood by and did nothing.
Romney learned this from making millions at the expense of American families;
When You buy a Company and steal the retirement money from all the workers then sell the subsidiaries off to foreign investors then reopen the factory overseas paying pennies on the dollar,Mitt makes money hand over fist.(He did it to a company I worked for which is now based out of Luxembourg)
Mitt did not earn that money by by doing actual physical,sweat of his brow labor,he used other peoples money,inherited and otherwise.
Mitt has used offshore banks to keep his true worth a secret from the US Government in order to keep it instead of reinvesting back into this country.
From this we can draw many conclusions.
*Mitt is lazy
*Mitt hates American People
*Mitt is greedy
*Mitt is unpatriotic
As far as I can see,all unredeeming qualities needed for the Presidency and so disqualifies 99.9% of all Asshat Republicans and Teabaggers and especially one scum of the earth,namely,Willard(Mittens)Romney.

[demgrrrll]

7. I saw a bumper sticker tonight. Fairness isn't giving MY money to lazy people.

That's the kind of idiocy we are up against. I think I'll fasten my seatbelt, this is going to be one bumpy ride.