Mitt Romney: "I tasted a beer once, as a wayward teenager, and never did it again."
Why Is Mitt Romney So Incredibly Weird?Everything you need to know about Willard Mitt Romney. An excerpt from Salon's new e-book, "The Rude Guide to Mitt"
By Alex Pareen
April 24, 2012
Mitt Romney is weird. When the Obama reelection campaign early in the cycle made the mistake of indicating that its strategy would be to imply that Mitt Romney is weird by repeatedly telling Politico that it planned on calling Mitt Romney weird, Romney’s camp countered by causing a brief and not particularly sincere media brouhaha over whether “weird” is code for “Mormon.” Plenty of Americans think Mormons are weird, yes, but in this case, the simple fact is Mitt Romney is weird, entirely apart from his religion.
He seems incapable of natural conversation and frequently uncomfortable in his own skin. He’s simultaneously dorkily earnest and ingratiatingly insincere. He suggests a brilliantly designed politician android with an operating system still clearly in beta. He once tied a dog to the roof of his car and drove for hundreds of miles without stopping and some years later thought that was an endearing story. All video of him attempting to interact with normal humans is cringe-inducing, as a cursory YouTube search quickly demonstrates. (Martin Luther King Day, Jacksonville, Fla., 2008: Mitt poses for a picture with some cheerful young parade attendees. As he squeezes in to the otherwise all-black group, he says, apropros of nothing, “Who let the dogs out? Woof, woof!”) He seems to have been told that “small talk” is mostly made up of cheerfully delivered non sequiturs.
Even the stories of Romney’s supposed temper are ridiculous. He was arrested, in June of 1981, for disorderly conduct while attempting to launch his family boat in Cochituate State Park. He got in a heated argument with a cop who noted that the boat was not displaying its registration. Romney was hauled in in his swim trunks. Charges were dropped when he threatened to sue for false arrest. At the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics Romney got in a public confrontation with a volunteer police officer directing traffic outside an Olympic venue. Police allege Romney said “fuck” multiple times while berating the cop. Romney declined to apologize to the cop, Shaun Knopp, and while the public berating did happen — he mentions it in his book — Romney made a big point of specifically denying that he used a bad word. (In fact, Romney insisted at the time that he specifically said “H-E double hockey sticks.” Like a child. A remarkably well-behaved child speaking in earshot of his second grade teacher.) He told the Boston Globe that he had two witnesses to corroborate his denial. “I have not used that word since college — all right? — or since high school,” he said.
Romney recently told People magazine, “I tasted a beer and tried a cigarette once, as a wayward teenager, and never did it again.” I’m not sure we should believe him. There’s no way in hell I can imagine Mitt Romney loosening up enough to have a beer.
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“H-E double hockey sticks ,
I'm shocked he has 5 kids. What a sad person he is.
Come on down to Texas and I'll hook you up, one night of greatness!
Is this term still used?
And promptly puking. He never did it again. Probably a good thing 
I don't think this kind of story is all that unusual, especially for a Mormon.
And it's 'Pareene,' btw.
According to several LDS writers (such as Cleon Skousen in his book The First 2000 Years), the earth was created near Kolob over a period of 6000 years (six "days" in Kolob time), and then moved to its present position in our solar system.[30][31][32] This hypothesis is based on oral comments attributed to Joseph Smith, Jr.[27] The hypothesis is also based on a passage from the Book of Abraham stating that in the Garden of Eden, time was measured "after the Lord's time, which was after the time of Kolob; for as yet the Gods had not appointed to Adam his reckoning".[33] According to the hypothesis, the reason that Earth time was measured in Kolob time was because the earth was physically located near Kolob. As a corollary, some LDS writers argue that at the end times, the earth will be plucked from the solar system and returned to its original orbit near Kolob.[34]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolob
One can survive without all three. They were big into storing food and being off the grid for what they see as hard times coming. Hey, that's what they said.
None were politically conservative at that time, which may not match the current crop of Mormons. I kinda like the outer space part of Mormonism, having grown up with all the movies about traveling the universe.
I won't link to it for obvious reasons. But it's been argued that 'Willard Mitt' has cost Romney 5 or so percent in the polls, simply because it's a weird 1 percenter name that most people can't identify with. If he were 'Joe Romney' it might be different. But 'Willard Mitt Romney' is not something that regular folks can identify with.
Of course, to be fair, 'Barack Obama' is far more alien that 'Willard Mitt Romney,' but that's a whole different story
Quite a lot of beer and not much of a tube top; and more than once.
The only weird thing was we could both write Z80 assembly language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z80
That makes me more qualified to be president than Romney.
Even so, hunter recommends you vote for Obama.
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hooked.
Stupid bullshit like this is precisely why when I see alternet sited as a source I 
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