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kpete

(71,984 posts) Thu Mar 28, 2013, 12:06 PM Mar 2013

Mitt Romney: "I like the life of being an American citizen. It's good to live a normal life again."

Bonus Quote of the Day

"I have to admit, being able to go back to our own life and going to the grocery store and shopping on my own is kind of nice to be by myself without a bunch of people hanging around with me. I like the life of being an American citizen. It's good to live a normal life again."

-- Mitt Romney, interviewed on Dennis Miller's radio show.
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Mitt Romney: "I like the life of being an American citizen. It's good to live a normal life again." (Original Post) kpete Mar 2013 OP

Normal citizens don't hold media interviews so if you want to be normal appleannie1 Mar 2013 #1

I wonder if I can go to the beach in front of his house in La Jolla upaloopa Mar 2013 #2

and use a car elevator BainsBane Mar 2013 #4

he is as abnormal American as one can get riverbendviewgal Mar 2013 #3

Shut it, Mittwit treestar Mar 2013 #5

Unfunny Dennis Miller has a radio show?! KurtNYC Mar 2013 #6

You know.... Cali_Democrat Mar 2013 #9

I remember when he wasn't so right-wing. reflection Mar 2013 #15

"Normal"? He's never even come CLOSE to a "normal" life. talkingmime Mar 2013 #7

thanks for the reality check grasswire Mar 2013 #8

That was my point. And the "normal" I described are all things I've had to do. talkingmime Mar 2013 #14

Yes it's so relaxing just lounging around bullying the servants. Ganja Ninja Mar 2013 #10

Mitt Sixpack n/t Enrique Mar 2013 #11

Normal like running your car elevator up and down just to get your MindMover Mar 2013 #12

Mitt the Schitt - pay your fucking damn taxes. Tender to the Bone Mar 2013 #13

that's the very definition of a "taker".... grasswire Mar 2013 #16

appleannie1

(5,067 posts)

1. Normal citizens don't hold media interviews so if you want to be normal

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 12:08 PM

Mar 2013

SHUT THE HELL UP.

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)

2. I wonder if I can go to the beach in front of his house in La Jolla

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 12:09 PM

Mar 2013

and be a normal citizen enjoying the sun and surf?

BainsBane

(53,031 posts)

4. and use a car elevator

Reply to upaloopa (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 12:10 PM

Mar 2013

just like normal folk.

riverbendviewgal

(4,252 posts)

3. he is as abnormal American as one can get

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 12:10 PM

Mar 2013

I never heard of an American other than him put his dog on the roof of his car and travel hundreds of miles....

And how many normal americans have elevators or their cars in their own homes???

treestar

(82,383 posts)

5. Shut it, Mittwit

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 12:12 PM

Mar 2013

Your normal life is not a normal American's life.

KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)

6. Unfunny Dennis Miller has a radio show?!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 12:14 PM

Mar 2013

Apparently they will give a media job to any washed up wanna-be from the 1980s as long as they are spouting RW junk.

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)

9. You know....

Reply to KurtNYC (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 01:40 PM

Mar 2013

I don't think I've ever laughed at a single one of his jokes.

reflection

(6,286 posts)

15. I remember when he wasn't so right-wing.

Reply to KurtNYC (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 03:19 PM

Mar 2013

I wonder what happened to him. I don't think most people have epiphanies that late in life.

Myself, I kind of bounced around ideologically and settled in my late 20s. He seemed to undergo a seismic shift much later.

talkingmime

(2,173 posts)

7. "Normal"? He's never even come CLOSE to a "normal" life.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 12:39 PM

Mar 2013

Do you ever think he's slept in a car with rusted out floorboards in the parking lot of a 7-11? Has he ever taken his kids to 2nd-hand clothing stores because even the discount stores were too expensive? Has he ever had to juggle between keeping the electricity on or buying groceries for the kids? And how about those groceries? Has he ever had to put things back because the total cost was more than the $35 he had in his wallet?

No, I don't think he comprehends what "normal" really means.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

8. thanks for the reality check

Reply to talkingmime (Reply #7)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 01:38 PM

Mar 2013

"Normal" isn't what we see on television, either. I wonder what percentage of Americans have never bought a new car? I wonder what percentage of Americans send flowers, or have gardeners, or participate in the material life.

"Normal" in America is "getting by." Not doing as well as families did in the 40s, 50s and 60s.

talkingmime

(2,173 posts)

14. That was my point. And the "normal" I described are all things I've had to do.

Reply to grasswire (Reply #8)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 02:59 PM

Mar 2013

Ganja Ninja

(15,953 posts)

10. Yes it's so relaxing just lounging around bullying the servants.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 01:51 PM

Mar 2013

And If you get bored counting your money you can just buy another company and fire everyone. Nothing cheers up a normal guy like destroying other peoples lives. Although trampling a stable boy on a Belgian Warm Blood runs a close second.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)

11. Mitt Sixpack n/t

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 01:55 PM

Mar 2013

MindMover

(5,016 posts)

12. Normal like running your car elevator up and down just to get your

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 02:00 PM

Mar 2013

jollies off ...

Tender to the Bone

(93 posts)

13. Mitt the Schitt - pay your fucking damn taxes.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 02:05 PM

Mar 2013

All of it.

And repatriate all your fucking money from off-shore to American banks. And pay the taxes on them.

And pay another $50M to the U.S. Treasury just because you needed to catch up on past taxes that you evaded.

Then head to prison for the rest of your life, punished because you failed to pay a fucking dime on your taxes.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

16. that's the very definition of a "taker"....

Reply to Tender to the Bone (Reply #13)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 03:22 PM

Mar 2013

.....a rich person who avoids taxes.

Cheating the rest of us, really.

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