Posted on 06/18/2011 12:11:12 PM PDT by Qbert
Mitt Romney, the leading contender to become President Obama’s Republican opponent next year, had just finished working the room at Blake’s Creamery here when he paused for a photo with the restaurant’s owner, Ann Mirageas, and decided to tell her a joke.
“I saw the young man over there with eggs Benedict, with hollandaise sauce,” he said. “And I was going to suggest to you that you serve your eggs with hollandaise sauce in hubcaps. Because there’s no plates like chrome for the hollandaise.”
The proprietor laughed weakly. “Good luck to you,” Mirageas said.
The hubcap joke must have killed in Michigan in the 1950s, when Romney was a boy. What’s odd is that he’s still making such jokes.
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In formal settings — [Snip] — Romney is confident and competent. But in casual moments, such as Tuesday morning’s retail politics in New Hampshire, his weirdness comes through — equal parts “Leave It to Beaver” corniness and social awkwardness.
He greets a man perusing shelves of a hardware store: “Shopping here today?”
He notes the lack of “guy waitresses” at a diner and says of the long skirts worn by the middle-aged wait staff: “Oh, this is the Hooters equivalent.”
He talks about the weak economy with the proprietors of a feed shop, then abruptly pivots: “Okay, so what do you do about mosquito control? . . . This has been a mosquito-infested year with all the moisture. They flew away with my dog.”
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He admires the Texaco “Fire Chief” gas pump and a jukebox (“You guys hear this music? ‘I want a caveman, I want a caveman.’ ”). Posing for a photo with his arms around the waitresses, he suddenly jumps forward, pretending somebody pinched his bottom. “Oh my goodness gracious!” he exclaims, then, “Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.”
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Establishment setting us up for a fall again...
Establishment setting us up for a fall again...
You beat me to it.
Romney may not be able to tell a joke.
But he IS a joke.
Mitt Barrack Romney is lurch Kerry lite.
Now Obama at the correspondents’ dinner, “Brian Williams clogged the toilet, “ or “ I asked Brian to roll over and turn out the light”— that’s real humor( plus he had a speech-writer for it).
Romney just isn’t used to being around humans!
“this kind of petty sniping is insipid and distasteful.”
Insipid and distasteful is about the bench mark for this homunculus.
My answer would have been: "No, I just come here to look for political chit chat from used car salesmen."
I wonder why Dana didn’t call attention to candidate Obama’s ‘awkward’ statement that he’d been to all 57 states?
While I’m not particularly a fan of Romney, I hate the blatant bias that attacks GOP candidates but gives BO’s gaffs a pass!
Certainly BO’s recent joke on ‘shovel ready’ projects not being as ‘shovel ready’ as hoped was not funny to millions of unemployed Americans!
Why didn’t Dana write a column on that one? BIAS of course!
Romney is NOT my first choice. But this is the WaPo, enemy of Western civilization, helping us destroy Romney. They know, if we don’t, that helping to destroy Republicans helps to elect the beast to a second term. They are helping us to “Nixon” him.
So, to hell with WaPo, the MSM, and all of the bastards. I’ll vote for Romney if he is the nominee. Better a RINO than a Marxist.
“While I am no fan of Mitt Romney, this kind of petty sniping is insipid and distasteful.”
I’m just being honest here. You think what the Lib MSM does to Palin/Bachmann is bad? They’re going to make mincemeat of this guy if he’s the nominee...
Have to agree with you. Small talk with strangers is not easy. You can easily get tongue tied or have a brief brain fart and say something that comes off as lame or stupid. Look at Palin, she was just making chit chat when she said Paul Revere was racing to warn the British. It can happen to anyone.
I don’t get the hubcap joke.
"Can I get me some Eggs Benedict here?"
“I don’t get the hubcap joke.”
That makes two of us.
That’s pretty accurate. We need Allen West.
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