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McCain to Romney critics: 'Lighten up!'
The Hill ^ | March 9, 2012 | Josh Fatzick

Posted on 03/11/2012 9:45:37 AM PDT by bkopto

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Friday defended GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney from critics who mocked him for calling himself an "unofficial Southerner" at a campaign stop the previous day.

"Now they’re attacking Romney for joking about learning to say “y’all”? According to the left, no one can have a sense of humor - lighten up!"

In Mississippi, Romney told the crowd that his bodyguard, a Mississippi native, was turning him into an "unofficial Southerner." "I'm learning to say 'y'all' and I like grits, and strange things are happening to me!" the former Massachusetts governor added.

Critics were quick to jump on Romney's comments as just a poor attempt to connect to Southern voters, something observers have said he has struggled to do so far in his campaign.

MSNBC morning show host Joe Scarborough, who was born in Georgia, suggested Friday morning that Romney's Southern impression wasn't fooling any true Southerner.

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1 posted on 03/11/2012 9:45:39 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: bkopto

Ugh! That jerk just does not ever go away.


2 posted on 03/11/2012 9:48:02 AM PDT by napscoordinator (A moral principled Christian with character is the frontrunner! Congrats Santorum!)
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To: bkopto

Earth to McCain, SHUT UP!


3 posted on 03/11/2012 9:50:38 AM PDT by RdhseRat
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To: bkopto
"I'm learning to say 'y'all' and I like grits, and strange things are happening to me!"

Anything resembling the slow realization of what a lying sack you are Mitty boy?

4 posted on 03/11/2012 9:50:38 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The RNC would prefer Obama to a conservative nominee.)
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To: bkopto

JUST SHUT UP McCAIN, YOU ARE THE REASON OBAMA WON.


5 posted on 03/11/2012 9:51:03 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ("The door is open" PALIN 2012)
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To: bkopto

ESAD McWeevil.


6 posted on 03/11/2012 9:51:34 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: bkopto

Alas, John McCain has been senile for a decade or more; perhaps it’s time for him to retire and work on his stamp collection?


7 posted on 03/11/2012 9:52:20 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: bkopto

Romney ISN’T a Southern nor will he be one, ever. Even those who have been adopted as southerners at least like the culture when they live down there, and aclimate to the area. I donn’t see Romney doing that.

He’s just a panderer.

Mccain is an old geezer, Hey McQuack: Shut up!


8 posted on 03/11/2012 9:52:55 AM PDT by JSDude1
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To: bkopto

STFU, McLame, and that goes for your fat daughter as well.


9 posted on 03/11/2012 9:53:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: bkopto

Mind your own business you crotchety old fart!


10 posted on 03/11/2012 9:54:06 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: bkopto
I was unhappily resigned to Mittens being the nominee, but McLame (chief Senate RINO) has been constantly shooting his mouth off and reminding of me what happens when we run someone who's "the most electable".

Mittens had better grow a set of core convictions quick or he'll limp to the nomination only to be tied up in knots and destroyed by the Husein slime machine. He needs to face Romney care head on and say "it was wrong, it backfired and we can't repeat the mistake in a federal level. If elected with a conservative congress I will rip 0bamacare out root and branch." Waivers can be a start but it needs to be killed. A waiver won't erase the new powers the fed has assumed for itself, those federal powers will just be hidden so to speak ready for a future administration to repeal the waiver and put 0bamacare back on track where it left off.

11 posted on 03/11/2012 9:55:53 AM PDT by YankeeReb
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I wonder if Juan finds it hard to breathe with his head up his @$$ all the time...


12 posted on 03/11/2012 9:56:30 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Stop feeding the beast; spend money only with those who support traditional American values.)
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To: bkopto
Don't shut up McLame. Please, please, please keep talking.

The more you talk, the more you will alienate voters from Romney.

13 posted on 03/11/2012 9:56:37 AM PDT by Crucial
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“...no one can have a sense of humor - lighten up!”

Nobody on the left, or the right, is “attacking” Romney for having a sense of humor. It’s all because Romney doesn’t have one!


14 posted on 03/11/2012 9:56:51 AM PDT by ngat
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To: bkopto

Romney critic to McCain: “Go to Hell!”


15 posted on 03/11/2012 9:56:57 AM PDT by bcsco
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The punchline is that he’s got the chutzpah to say “according to the left” when he himself is on the left. But I guess that’s par for the course on the left . . .
16 posted on 03/11/2012 9:57:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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All I got to say is F-U McCain. You’re a loser just like Romney.


17 posted on 03/11/2012 9:58:21 AM PDT by Usagi_yo
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To: bkopto
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Friday defended GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney from critics who mocked him for calling himself an "unofficial Southerner" at a campaign stop the previous day.

Romney is a loser just like McShame !

If he is our nominee, he will fold just like a cheap suit.


18 posted on 03/11/2012 9:58:44 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: Olog-hai

Don’t the people of Arizona find him humiliating?

Are they asleep?

How is it, he keeps getting elected???


19 posted on 03/11/2012 9:59:04 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ("The door is open" PALIN 2012)
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To: bkopto

That was what he said to Obama’s critics when he was campaigning WITH (not against) Obama.


20 posted on 03/11/2012 10:03:03 AM PDT by citizencon
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