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Chilly reception for Mitt in Motor City

POSTED BY: Fremdfirma
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 03:31
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FREMDFIRMA

Sunday, February 26, 2012 4:41 AM

Alas I am currently in serious pain and still have to pull rounds tonite, so forgive that this'll be a little sparser than usual.

Anyhows, Romney got a rather frigid reception around here.

US election 2012: will the wastelands of Motor City be the end of the road for Mitt Romney?
http://refreshingnews9.blogspot.in/2012/02/us-election-2012-will-waste
lands-of.html

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Mr Romney, a local boy whose campaign once portrayed him as the "inevitable" candidate to challenge Barack Obama, had intended to shore up his standing on Friday with what was flagged as showpiece address on the economy.

Instead, he produced a clunker in Motown. His delivery was lacklustre, his ideas rehashed from earlier speeches and his venue was a campaign presentation team's nightmare – an audience of 1,200 in a cavernous sports stadium with room for 70,000.

Asked about his prospects of beating President Obama in November, he managed to play down his own hopes. "I don't think I have the best chance, I have the only chance – that may be overstating it a bit," he said, chuckling awkwardly afterwards.

Even his attempts to curry favour with the car industry – whose bail-out under Mr Obama he pointedly opposed – fell flat. The multi-millionaire served up fresh ammunition for critics who portray him as an out-of-touch elitist by listing the many American-made cars in his garages – including his wife Ann's two Cadillacs

And this picture is worth a thousand words, in opposition to no doubt well-zoomed clips from the mainstream media trying to make it look like there was actually support for this punk.

Mitt Romney Just Spoke To An EMPTY Stadium In Detroit
http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-empty-stadium-rally-2012-2

Romney camp's game plan: Make Ford Field look crowded
http://www.freep.com/article/20120224/NEWS15/202240437

Even the jackboot licking "free" press mocked him - so we're talkin laughed out of town here, folks.

Also laughable was Hermain Cain returning to the Big Sky Diner, local hangout for the maybe forty (total, county-wide) hard-right wackjob jackasses around here, which is just plain silly cause they're the closest thing to the Klan we got and despite marching orders to support GOP candidates still can't seem to choke down the concept that Cain is black, in fact other than the goon guarding his wheels from vandalism, he was the ONLY black guy for blocks, and was all but gritting his teeth about it.

Speakin of funny pictures.... what on earth possessed him to dress like a pimp, around HERE ?
(we're currently in the process of a couple rather ludicrous prostitution stings, which makes it all even funnier)

Herman Cain addresses sexual harassment allegations during stop in Ypsilanti Township
http://www.annarbor.com/news/herman-cain-stops-at-big-sky-diner-in-yps
ilanti-township/

You DO realize that 90% of this "crowd" is actually newsies, right ?
And despite angling the pictures to try to get around it, y'all DO realize the Big Sky Diner is this teeny-tiny itty bitty little place - a puny shitheap of a podunk hangout for the rightwingnut trolls to gather in their mutual circlejerk and whinge about how persecuted they are since they ain't WELCOME no where else around here since everyone despises them, yes ?

So, even better, Cain sleazes back through clinging to Honkey-Hokeys coattails to try to mitigate that whole, yanno, being black thing - in the only venue within fifty miles they won't get rotten vegetables thrown at them.

Pete Hoekstra, Herman Cain return to Ypsilanti Township's Big Sky Diner
http://www.annarbor.com/news/ypsilanti/pete-hoekstra-herman-cain-retur
n-to-ypsilanti-townships-big-sky-diner/

Says much when they can't even secure a decent venue and have to preach to the hate-radio crowd...

I don't have much love for Stabenow, but when their primary opposition to the lady is all about her standing in the way of Corporate America looting this place worse than it already has you ain't gonna find a whole lot of support for it unl

PHOENIXSHIP

Sunday, February 26, 2012 7:08 AM

If that was sparse, I'd love to see the full version!

"Why're you arguin' what's already been decided?"
Mal to Jayne, "Jaynestown"

BYTEMITE

Sunday, February 26, 2012 7:16 AM

Ha, thought this might happen.

SIGNYM

Sunday, February 26, 2012 7:43 AM

Too bad Ron Paul isn't getting a bigger hearing.

Seems as if right wingers for the most part spend their time sucking up to one authority or another. If it isn't Jehaysus it's the corporations.

KWICKO

Sunday, February 26, 2012 2:14 PM

A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Sunday, February 26, 2012 2:21 PM

saw a piece over on CNN.com the other day by James Carville about how the "grown-ups" in the Republican Party want to make the kids behave while they hunt up a new candidate.

I know!-- they could put "Deadeye Dick" Cheney in charge of the search! Remember how hard he worked last time, looking for a VP candidate, before he made his EXCELLENT choice!

Let's see-- " Cheney & Jeb in 2012." Brilliant! Promote the guy with the experience, and bring in the SMART son.

AURAPTOR

Sunday, February 26, 2012 2:23 PM

The audience must have been down the street, smoking dope and drinking shots in the liquor store parking lot.

Actually, that's probably a fair representation of those NOT on govt assistance, in the Detroit area.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

NIKI2

Sunday, February 26, 2012 5:09 PM

Hey, NewOld (happy to see 'ya!), I posted the Carville article in its entirety (thread title: "This is Cute")...was a good giggle, wasn't it? Any "adults" left in the GOP have got to be crying in their beer at the desperation of the situation, poor guys! Even Coulter has spoken about it, not to mention Jeb Bush and many, many others.

And by the way, I dunno about the mainstream media, but it's been covered and the photos are up all over the internet, and CNN covered it. Supposedly the venue they originally had wasn't big enough for the expected crowd (which many seem to miss), so they moved it there. Of course THERE, it looked pretty pathetic. And the Mittster, as usual, fumbled the ball.

KWICKO

Sunday, February 26, 2012 6:48 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
The audience must have been down the street, smoking dope and drinking shots in the liquor store parking lot.

Actually, that's probably a fair representation of those NOT on govt assistance, in the Detroit area.

What was in your heart when you posted this?

AURAPTOR

Sunday, February 26, 2012 6:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
The audience must have been down the street, smoking dope and drinking shots in the liquor store parking lot.

Actually, that's probably a fair representation of those NOT on govt assistance, in the Detroit area.

What was in your heart when you posted this?

Unlike you, I'll answer, because I'm NOT a coward.

My first thought was the image of those *Chrysler Jeep workers,racing down to the liquor store at their lunch break, then going to a local park to guzzle down liquor and smoke some weed, before heading back to the assembly line to make more fine American cars.

And then the 2nd thought was that lady caught on tape, being interviewed while she was standing in line for her " Obama money ". That also was in Detroit. Which is why I made the remark I did, on those NOT on federal assistance are shown in the Romney pic.

* WJBK Fox 2 News in Detroit caught dozens of Chrysler auto workers drinking alcohol and smoking what appear to be joints during their shifts at the automaker's Jefferson North auto plant in Detroit. )

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "