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spanone

(135,832 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 12:03 AM Jun 2012

hilarious!! Mitt Romney receives newfound enthusiasm from Republicans

romney gets hand job from washington post

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NEWARK, Ohio — Mitt Romney is still awkward sometimes, a bit robotic and stilted at the lectern. But a turnabout seems to be happening: Voters say they are seeing him through a new prism.

“He’s not stiff. He’s letting his own human nature through, talking like you and I are talking now, not guarded and watching what he’d say,” Marge Sowa, 69, said of the Republican presidential candidate after sizing him up at a pancake breakfast in Brunswick, Ohio, during his tour of potential battleground states. “He showed personality — oh, big time. He was one of the guys.”

One of the guys. That’s a far cry from how voters described Romney during the tumultuous GOP primaries. Now that he is their likely nominee and running an extremely close race against President Obama, Republicans are demonstrating fresh enthusiasm.

Instead of polite clapping, Romney’s campaign speech riffs are cheered with hoots and whistles and chants of “Rom-ney! Rom-ney!” As he builds to the crescendo in his remarks — saying it’s time to take the torch and hold it up high so the United States can again become “that shining city on a hill” — his words are drowned out with bursts of applause.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-receives-newfound-enthusiasm-from-republicans/2012/06/18/gJQAkUuXmV_story.html

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hilarious!! Mitt Romney receives newfound enthusiasm from Republicans (Original Post) spanone Jun 2012 OP
I bet he wondered what those flat round things that you put syrup on were. Swede Jun 2012 #1
Oh, FFS - Nostradammit Jun 2012 #2
More likely scenario: Angel Moroni. n/t dimbear Jun 2012 #7
That's straight out of Reagan's playbook Art_from_Ark Jun 2012 #13
There goes that liberal media again Cali_Democrat Jun 2012 #3
I just don't think it will be physically possible to keep up this fake enthusiasm for 5 months. Nye Bevan Jun 2012 #4
Fauning. Ugh. xfundy Jun 2012 #5
Translation: Republicans suddenly remembered that Romney's opponent is black Neue Regel Jun 2012 #6
Nailed it. xfundy Jun 2012 #8
You win the prize ! jaysunb Jun 2012 #12
That's a devastating hit to the crescendo brand BeyondGeography Jun 2012 #9
"He was one of the guys" Politicalboi Jun 2012 #10
Remember these are the same folk that founded the flavor of the month club..... wandy Jun 2012 #11

Nostradammit

(2,921 posts)
2. Oh, FFS -
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 12:20 AM
Jun 2012

"As he builds to the crescendo in his remarks — saying it’s time to take the torch and hold it up high so the United States can again become “that shining city on a hill” — his words are drowned out with bursts of applause..."


and the clouds part and a heavenly host begin singing the most rapturous tune, and the very hand of Almighty God Himself descends to Earth, pointing directly toward Romney, and a deep, booming voice is heard to say, "Behold your next President!"


The Washington Post has become absurd.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
4. I just don't think it will be physically possible to keep up this fake enthusiasm for 5 months.
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 12:27 AM
Jun 2012

And if Romney is "one of the guys", I am one of the cheerleaders for the Dallas Cowboys.

 

Neue Regel

(221 posts)
6. Translation: Republicans suddenly remembered that Romney's opponent is black
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 12:35 AM
Jun 2012

And for them, the only thing worse than a god-damned Mormon president is a god-damned ni**er president!

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
10. "He was one of the guys"
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 02:14 AM
Jun 2012

Said Marge Sowa, 69. I'm sure she knows what it's like to be one of the guys. Where did they find her.

wandy

(3,539 posts)
11. Remember these are the same folk that founded the flavor of the month club.....
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 02:40 AM
Jun 2012

A few months ago it was 'clown a' our hero; anybody but Mitt!
Then it was 'clown b' our hero; anybody but Mitt!
Then it was 'clown c' our hero; anybody but Mitt!

Now Mitts big bucks have prevailed so it's time to get in line.

Think of herd animals finely accepting the Alpha male.
Rugged individuals all, they know when it's it's time to jusk ask.......
What color and how much? Sir!

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