A Tale of Two Candidates

[Howey]

No. Not Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

I'm talking about Mitt Romney and Mexican Mitt Romney.

Here's Mitt Romney on September 19th:



Here's Mexican Mitt when he visited Univision last week.



Are those obvious signs of tanning goggles around his eyes? Did Mitt spend a few days in the tanning bed to make him look more, umm...hispanic?

lol...

[Howey]

Mitt could have put on blackface to please the hispanics, but he still managed to piss them off[url].

Buzzfeed has quite a story about Miffed’s trip to see the Mexicans at the Univision forum today, from sources both on the record (a Univision anchor, who detailed the many last-minute demands the campaign made) and off (a GOP source who says Romney threw a “tantrum” and refused to go on). A tantrum, Miffed? In front of people you are not actually paying? BEST. NOMINEE. IN HISTORY.

From Buzzfeed:

    While introducing Romney at the top of the broadcast, [Maria Elena] Salinas’s co-anchor, Jorge Ramos, noted that the Republican candidate had agreed to give the network 35 minutes, and that Obama had agreed to a full hour the next night. Ramos then invited the audience to welcome Romney to the stage — but the candidate didn’t materialize.

    “It was a very awkward moment, believe me,” Salinas said.

    Apparently, Romney took issue with the anchors beginning the broadcast that way, said Salinas, and he refused to go on stage until they re-taped the introduction. (One Republican present at the taping said Romney “threw a tantrum.”)

Let’s repeat that: Mitt Romney THREW A TANTRUM because he didn’t like the anchor noting that he’d agreed to appear for 35 minutes as opposed to Barack Obama’s hour. And then he REFUSED TO GO ONSTAGE until they retaped the intro. We are starting to think Miffed Romney, in addition to having what we suspect is Asperger’s-induced Insult People To Their Faces Constantly Syndrome, also might have a problem of temperament.

But oh, there is ever so much more. How many haughty demands did the Romney camp make on Univision? (All of them, Katie.)

Here are a couple!

    Salinas told BuzzFeed that tickets for each forum were divided between the network, the respective campaigns, and the University of Miami (which hosted the events) — and she said both campaigns initially agreed to keep the audience comprised mostly of students, in keeping with the events’ education theme.

    But after exhausting the few conservative groups on campus, the Romney camp realized there weren’t enough sympathetic students to fill the stands on their night — so they told the network and university that if they weren’t given an exemption to the students-only rule, they might have to “reschedule.”

They were given an exemption, and “bus[ed] in rowdy activists from around southern Florida in order to fill the extra seats at their town hall.”

[Howey]

I just remembered...Mitt did say it would be easier if he was Latino at that secret fundraiser back in May...

[Howey]

Damn...he's darker than the real hispanics!

[reverend_darth]

Damn it I'd so fuckin love to be running an event like that.  I'd just broadcast exactly what was happening while it was happening.  "It seams that Romney is having some sort of pissy fit in the back and refuses to come out."  Then for the next scheduled 35 minutes I'd just talk about it.  "He's welcome to come back any time he chooses."

[ekg]

Damn it I'd so fuckin love to be running an event like that.  I'd just broadcast exactly what was happening while it was happening.  "It seams that Romney is having some sort of pissy fit in the back and refuses to come out."  Then for the next scheduled 35 minutes I'd just talk about it.  "He's welcome to come back any time he chooses."

that's exactly what they should have done..

[ekg]

He's been on a flip-flopping roll the last few days.. telling those univision ppl that he was proud to be the grandfather of Obamacare.. then coming out a few hrs later saying Obamacare is a costly disaster..awesome! He's proud to be the grandfather of a costly disaster?

then he went on 60 mins saying that we don't need Obamacare because we do have universal health because if someone gets sick, they just got to the er.. when the point was made that this was the most expensive way to give healthcare and that it raises cost on everyone Mitt said 'states have ways to deal with that'... but 2 short years ago he said that using the ER was the most expensive thus irresponsible way to use healthcare and it was even socialism, and that he agreed we needed a 'universal' healthplan.. wtf Governor!


that's a whoooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllllllllllllllleeee lot of back and forth bullshit..

How in the hell is the guy tied with Obama in the polls? Doesn't anyone in that party get that he has zero moral compass? and that if he'll flip this much out of office, he'll flip against them in office? The only thing he cares about is the title of POTUS.. that's where his moral compass is pointing and only where it's pointing...

seriously, how many of these blatant flips can one candidate have and still have 1/2 the electorate... the power of Fox/GOP insanity is immense..They have to know Mitt won't be commit to anything other than himself.. he'll go with the Dems whenever it suits his ego.. he'll fuck up foreign policy, he'll fuck up healthcare and the tax code.. but they'll still vote him in? Is white so much better?

[uselesslegs]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say, this race...is more about race than people will admit.