Posted on 03/05/2012 1:48:55 PM PST by Fred
Mitt Romney, campaigning in Tennessee today, recited lyrics to "The Ballad of Davy Crockett." TN
"Remember the song?" Romney said. "'Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee, greenest state in the land of the free, raised in the woods so he knew every tree, and he killed himself a bear when he was only three.'" Watch the video here.
Romney might have done better to recite the lyrics to "Rocky Top," one of Tennessee's nine official state songs and always a crowd favorite.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Words fail me.
try “pathetic”..
Borrowing from the late Ann Richards, Gov Texas—
Poor Mitt, he can’t help it, he was born will a silver foot in his mouth.
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Yea, I'm a real normal everyday guy. Pinch me, and I'll show you.
Is Shatner’s day job safe?
Cold iron shackles, ball and chain,
Listen to the whistle of the evenin train.
You know you bound to wind up dead,
If you don't head back to tennessee jed.
Rich man step on my poor head,
When you get back you better butter my bread.
Well, do you know it's like I said,
You better head back to tennessee jed.
Tennessee, tennessee, there aint no place I'd rather be,
Baby wont you carry me back to tennessee.
Drink all day and rock all night,
The law come to get you if you don't walk right
Got a letter this morning, baby all it read,
You better head back to tennessee jed.
I dropped four flights and cracked my spine,
Honey, come quick with the iodine,
Catch a few winks, baby, under the bed
Then you head back to tennessee jed.
Tennessee, tennessee, there aint no place I'd rather be,
Baby wont you carry me back to tennessee.
I run into charlie fog,
Blacked my eye and he kicked my dog,
My doggie turned to me and he said,
Lets head back to tennessee jed.
I woke up a feelin mean,
Went down to play the slot machine,
The wheels turned around, and the letters read,
You better head back to tennessee jed.
Tennessee, tennessee, there aint no place I'd rather be,
Baby wont you carry me back to tennessee.
I was leaning towards “lame”
Sorry, Gov Richards- should read-
Poor Mitt, he can’t help it, he was born WITH a silver foot in his mouth.
-:)
Good Grief.
He would have done better to recite Davy Crockett’s speech to the House concerning the inadvisability of the government’s getting into the welfare business.
Yep. Whenever I think of Davy Crockett, I think he must have been just like Mitt Romney. /s
“Rocky Top” doesn’t exactly fit him either.
He does this all the while saying Newt is pandering. Mitt, you ignorant slut, pandering does not work with the GOP in TN. Go back to your liberal home.
Link: http://pointsouth.com/csanet/greatmen/crockett/crocket2.htm
Whether or not his speech is a composite story or a reported story, the essential truths contained within the words are factual.
If your friendly liberal snorts about Crockett's speech not being authentic, simply ask if Aesop's Fables are authentic.
I think Romney is on to something. Tennesseeans would much rather hear Romney sing than his plans to lower gas prices, or cut government spending. Master tactician.
Seriously? The country is going over a cliff, and Romney’s singing?
I would have much preffered hear him recite this!
Not Yours To Give
Col. David Crockett
US Representative from Tennessee
Originally published in “The Life of Colonel David Crockett,”
by Edward Sylvester Ellis.
One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:
“Mr. Speaker—I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.
“Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week’s pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.”
He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, no doubt, it would, but for that speech, it received but few votes, and, of course, was lost.
2 + 2 = 4 ; NEWT = $2.50 a gallon GAS ; 2 + 2 = 4
Mitt Romney, your no mountain man.
Romney continues his "tree" theme...
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