"Cheesy Grits"

[Stinky The Clown]

Geeeze . . . . every time I think about that I have to chuckle.

Can he **be** any more out of touch and phony?

[SoutherDem]

1. I am from Alabama we call them cheese grits.

Like Roy Blount Jr. said, "I have had lots of cheese grits, but never cheesy grits. Sounds like they've gone bad or something."

Romney has trouble acting human much less like a southerner. Maybe he should pretend to have laryngitis till November.

But, now that I think about it after he touched them I guess they were rather cheesy.

[left is right]

2. I can’t fault him for cheesy grits

that is the only way that I can choke them down.

[HiPointDem]

3. Are the important issues in this election who can be more authentically southern, who has the

nicer family, who was nicer in their youth and who treats dogs better?

One might get that impression from reading DU.

[quaker bill]

4. There actually is a point to this

feelings are the thing that get people elected. The issues and how one stands on them, (courage of conviction, or flip flop), can create feelings, but feelings are what drives this bus.

[HiPointDem]

6. Only because no serious attempt is made to discuss the issues with the population. Feelings

drive this bus because it's mostly about cheesy grits and superficial and generally misleading discussion of the things that actually matter.

[quaker bill]

23. I would like to believe that

but I have met the people. The ideas and information needed are and have been entirely and generally available for a very long time, but given a choice to hear serious discussion or watch American Idol or Survivor (the WTF? edition, I saw a portion of it once and could not imagine it lasting the entire first season...), the people choose superficial, personality driven content. Elections are won on feelings, not policy white papers. Any candidate that tells you different is overcompensating for a lack of personal skills and will almost always will place second or third (if there are three candidates).

[Stinky The Clown]

8. You don't see anything in that incident that goes to character, honesty, to respect for Southerners?

I think this sort of incident is incredibly telling as a look into the person.

I also think this is exactly the sort of crap that can win and lose elections.

Only political nerds want deep, substantive, detailed discussions of issues. For most people, the impression/gut feel of a candidate's position is all that matters, sad to say.

How many people *really* understand the implications and nuances of the debt in a way that they can discern the better policy?

[HiPointDem]

14. no. i see the same pandering pols have done for a million years, & i'm not so deluded as to

think that the ability to pander "authentically" has much bearing on anything besides one's ability to pander.

Most people don't care about elections because they're all about bs like this and because pols have showed they do whatever they or their sponsors want once in office anyway.

Yours is a continuation of the "public is stupid" line promoted by the ruling class. If there's some truth to it it's because the rulers have promoted that dumbing down by any means possible, as they have promoted political apathy and the irrelevance of politics to the general public.

[Stinky The Clown]

18. :snort:

How's that water walking going?

[HiPointDem]

19. Typical of those whose basic stance is that most people are inherently stupid & need to be

guided by their betters.

[Stinky The Clown]

20. Sometimes that's true.

But I can tell a superior attitude at a mile away.

[HiPointDem]

21. i'm not the one insisting americans don't care about issues, just who can say 'grits' more

authentically.

i wonder why we even bother with elections. just get an actor in there -- oh, wait.

[Stinky The Clown]

22. Did I ever tell you the story about Last Word Lenny?

Have a swell day.

Buh bye.

[butterfly77]

5. I was sitting here drinking my coffee..

and wondering what to have for breakfast,off to make my cheesy grits.

[groundloop]

7. rMoney needs to keep trying to say "y'all" with that phony accent

Every time he comes south, if he'll just keep up the phony accent he'll turn off even the most hard core southern republicans. Listening to someone with a norther accent utter a faked "y'all" is repugnant. Also, I can't believe how inept his advance team is (either that or he won't listen to them), between cookie-gate and "cheesie" grits he's showing how out of touch he is (just like GHWB and the supermarket scanner).

[Zax2me]

9. My mom calls them cheesy grits

I give her a pass because she makes them SO good.
Otherwise, this isn't likely to make a shit either way when it comes to votes.
A classic non-issue.

[lynne]

10. Not getting your point -

- as we've always called them "cheesy grits" because they're cheesy. And good!

Surely there other stuff to nab him on because this dog don't hunt.

[Initech]

11. I think he's seen the movie My Cousin Vinnie one time two many.

And that is right before he asks the judge to appeal the trial against the two youts.

[Lex]

12. Cheesy Romney.

[Erose999]

13. I'll put it forth that putting cheese in grits is for picky kids and yankees. Butter and hot sauce

are all you really need.

But then, Romney would probably spontaneously combust if he consumed even a teaspoon of hot sauce.

His diet is probably skim milk and PB&j. On Wonder bread. And don't you dare use crunchy PB.... oh no!!!!

[Fawke Em]

16. Don't even need the hot sauce, imho.

I think what you put on your grits varies from Southern state to Southern state. The hot sauce is probably a Louisiana thing.

Up here in Tennessee, it's either buttered or piled under the main meal (a la rice pilaf under fish) and mixed into the meal as one eats.

[GoCubsGo]

25. Now I have a hankerin' for shrimp and grits.

The South's best invention next to peanut butter.

[stuntcat]

15. Southerner here :)

I always enjoyed cheesy grits! I just called them "grits" though

But yah this southerner could NEVER be fooled by RMoney!

[Taverner]

17. Cheesy Grits cause Greasy Shits

[pipoman]

24. That's what he calls them when out with the unwashed

his personal chef calls it polenta...very popular in the upscale world these days..