Mitt’s Commie phrase sparks rage

The Boston Herald ^ | 03/20/2007 | Dave Wedge

[mewzilla]

He is not that bright.

Well, MA voted for this guy. That should say it all :)

[Lion Den Dan]

And when JFK butchered the German language in Berlin, the people loved it. Of course every one loves a Berliner pastry.

[Hatteras]

"This is NOT the way to endear himself to the Cubans in Florida, that's for sure."

I don't care about Romney one way or the other right now but the guy was reaching out to them. All politicians will always make fools of themselves when stepping out of their element and into unfamiliar territory. It's what they do, it's the nature of the beast. All politicians are phoney and we elect them to office because we don't want the job ourselves. Cubans can't relate to white America, white America can't relate to Cubans, ditto Mexicans, blacks, Asians, etc... Welcome to America. We are all different and nobody can walk in anybody else's shoes. Yeah, yeah, I get that.

The way I see it, if the Cubans are "offended", they can always get on their rafts and go back.

I'm tired of people being "offended". S*%# happens. Get over it.

Of course, as always, this is JMHO.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The Marco/Mario thing could have been a typographical error on his sheet. I'll have to watch the speech tonight, but maybe that was in the preliminary introductions -- the part where the candidate has to acknowledge all the elected officials that show up.

They don't get to practice that, because nobody knows who is showing up, so they get that written down at the last minute, and they have to read it or recite it from memory. It's easy to see how someone could scribble down "marco" in a way that looked like "mario".

As to the other phrase, Mitt didn't say it was a liberation phrase. He specifically said it was the Dictator's phrase, but he argued that it better represented freedom than communism. He might be right, he might be wrong, but it was a compelling suggestion, and I do like how he's willing to make statements like this without regard to whether others agree with him.

I wonder if Representative Rene Garcia is backing a different candidate, and therefore had a purpose in attacking Romney?

[CharlesWayneCT]

Was that picture in the Boson Herald? I can't believe they would have photo-shopped Romney into a Castro picture....

[AmishDude]

I'm sorry. He may have mispronounced things, I don't know. But this is the most ham-fisted hit piece I've ever read.

[AmishDude]

I'm sorry, I don't buy the characterization that's in this story at all. I have to do some recon on this author.

[AmishDude]

Thank you. I thought so. I'm not the biggest Mitt apologist, but I can't stand when our guys get trashed for no reason.

[dforest]

Okay. You win the day for the best remark! LOL

[AmishDude]

President Bush, as a candidate in 2000, called a radio talk show host in Pittsburgh whose name was Fred, "Frank" throughout an interview.

Fred didn't correct him at the time and, of course, made (relatively gentle) fun of him afterwards.

Flubbing a guy's name is typical for candidates, they get a list that they read from a sheet and they see so many. And you'll notice they aren't stupid enough to do any "my good friend" nonsense.

[hydrotech1]

"The Boston Globe is moonbat left. The Herald is The Washington Times of Massachusetts".

That was a loooong time ago. The herald has done nothing but bash Mitt for the past two years and the paper has gone dramatically downhill for quite sometime.

[AmishDude]

Dave Wedge does a hit piece on Mitt about every week. March 11 is a particularly good one. March 4 is archived, but you get the idea.

He's the Boston Herald Chief Enterprise Reporter, whatever the hell that means.

[Utah Binger]

That is very ironic. In the early days of Mormonism an experiment with a form of Communism was practiced. Maybe Mitt also has some plans regarding that.

From Wikipedia: "In Mormonism, the United Order was one of several church programs established to manage and administer the Law of Consecration (a voluntary form of Christian communism/communalism). The United Order was an egalitarian community designed to achieve income equality, eliminate poverty, increase group self-sufficiency, and create an ideal utopian society Mormons referred to as Zion. It is not practiced within Mormonism. Members who chose to enter the United Order would deed (consecrate) all their property to the United Order, which would grant back an "inheritance" (or "stewardship") which allowed members to control the property according to their needs, but not own it. At the end of each year, any excess that the family produced from the stewardship was given back to the Order. The Order in each community was operated by the local Bishop."

[AmishDude]

The early Christian church had a failed attempt at a Communistic type community (see Acts) and the pilgrims on the Mayflower did so as well.

What's your point?

[Utah Binger]

What's your point?

Point is that some folks are just not capable of understanding irony.

[HawaiianGecko]

"But delivering a speech that was disrespectful and ignorant your audience, is beyond stupidity."

Really?  If I were a professional political consultant I would agree, but I'm just a plain ole guy from the Midwest.  To learn that a Massachusetts Mormon doesn't understand Spanish, isn't up to date on Castro's lines over the past 50 years and hasn't seen the movie Scarface just doesn't strike me as being stupid.

If the Cubans believe that the politicians that appear to "get it" or better yet, the politicians that have a staff that simply feed them the correct line for the moment at hand are somehow going to do a better job as President... well that's beyond stupid IMHO.

Did Hillary in her best southern drawl saying "I don't feel no ways tired" convince you she was respectful and educated of her audience?  Or did you see it as I did, simply pandering.  It didn't sway me one iota as to her qualifications for president.

[AmishDude]

Point is that some folks are just not capable of understanding irony.

Indeed. You are not.

[AmishDude]

The article is a lie and I wouldn't believe a word in it without an independent source. Scarface? What, is he supposed to have seen every move ever, ever? And what about it? I bet Hitler once said "I would like some toast." Are we never allowed to heat our bread? This is so stupid.

[Liberty Valance]

I have to agree.

[HostileTerritory]

Did you read the article? His mistakes, although innocent, were a hell of a lot more than simply mispronunciation.