Watch wherein Willard Mittance Romney son of former Governor and American Motors CEO George Romney, alleged to be worth over $250,000,000 with hundreds of offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands and other countries who admits to paying a 15% tax rate (and probably lower), whose own tax plan would blow a hole in the deficit twice the size of Bush's while dramatically raising taxes on the middle-class, blows his cool and snaps when he's simply asked...
"What will you do to support the 99 percent even though you are part of the 1 percent?"
(Exchange occurs after about 1 min)
Romney (who comes off sounding surprising like Fire Marshal Bill)
Lemme tell ya something. America is a great nation, because we’re a united nation and those who are trying to divide the nation as you’re trying to do here and as the president is doing are hurting this country, seriously. The right course for America is not to divide America, and try and divide us between one and another, it’s for us to come together as a nation. And if you’ve got a better model, if you think China is better, or Russia is better, or Cuba’s better, or North Korea’s better, I’m glad to hear all about it. But you know what? America’s right, and you’re wrong!
Yeah, you tell em Mitt. You don't need to feel that jealous little whiners pain. Americans Love their 1% overlords and masters or else they leave them alone to go Frack Off to China, or Russia or Cuba or North Korean or something... where they don't have a precious 1% to kick around. (Or they get SHOT if they try!)
Um, er. what??
On second thought I think what we've just witnesses is yet another Mitt-Frontation. It may be me, but I think Willard has Anger Issues.
More on this from Salon.
On MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell praised Romney for sounding “Reaganesque,” which left Ron Fournier aghast. “I’d say he built a straw man. That protester didn’t say he thought Cuba and Russia had a better economic system, what he said was that Romney’s part of the 1 percent, and which is true. Romney talked about the politics that divide, the fact is, it’s not politics that divides us, we are divided. There is a huge and growing gap between the rich and the middle class and the poor – and by the way, that’s an anxiety shared by blue-collar Republicans and blue-collar Democrats.”
They’re both right. Romney did sound Reaganesque – the nasty, bitter Reagan who was California’s governor more than the genial “morning in America” president most people remember (although both Reagans could play the politics of resentment when they had to.) But I’d say he was more Nixon than Reagan. And that red baiting, wow. “America’s right, and you’re wrong” is just as angry and divisive as “America, love it or leave it.” Fournier’s common sense answer also ought to remind working class fence-sitters that even supposed GOP populists like Chris Christie actually carry water for guys like Richie Rich.
See here a Ryan Lizza at The Fix breaks it down.
We’ve long believed — based on direct observation of Romney and conversations with those who know him well — that the former governor’s success in a campaign setting is directly proportional to the number of rules that govern it.
So, in debates and big speeches — both of which are very rule-heavy, Romney excels because he can master the rules of engagement and then execute against them.
On the other end of the spectrum is stumping on the campaign trail. There is no blueprint for how to interact with voters in a diner in New Hampshire — remember the fake butt pinch? — or at a speech at the Iowa State Fair.
When he's in a debate or on the stump behind a teleprompter Mitt does fine. When you hit him with a question out in the open, he's can go completely off the rails.
None of this surprises me one bit, because I wrote a diary about another Mitt-Frontation between Willard and Motown CEO Berry Gordy Grandson on a plane back in 2010.
Most of the media has been claiming that "Some Rapper" attacked and took a swing at former Massachusets Governor and Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, but it appears based on this video from that rapper in question, Skylar "Sky Blu" Gordy who happens to be a member of the Grammy Nominated group LMFAO as well as Motown Record empressario Berry Gordy's Grandson Shit Wasn't Like Dat!
According to all reports, Blu was simply attempting to take a nap. He put his jacket over his head and leaned his seat back. Unfortunately the plane hadn't taken off yet, and the person sitting in one of the seats behind him was Mitt Romney, returning from the Vancouver Olympics with his wife.
"SIR, PUT YOUR SEAT UP!"
Blu pulled the jacket off and looked around at him as the man shouted even louder "SIR, PUT YOUR SEAT UP!" - and Blu was like "Are you for real? I will if you ask nicely..." and then Romney grabbed him on the shoulder.
As Prince would say - Get Off me man - You Ain't Sexy!.
From the Christian Science Monitor Report
He grabs my shoulder .. and I just react BOOM (does shoving motion to swat Romney's hand away) get off me!" Blu told the video camera. "He put a condor grip on me. What am I supposed to do?"
"That's like a Vulcan grip," offered his bandmate Redfoo.
"Like a Vulcan grip," Blu concurred. "I'm not your prey. I'm not a salmon going upstream. You're not going to grip me up."
Blu, clad in his underwear while telling the story in a hotel room, went on to say that during the maelstrom Romney's wife screamed, he (Blu) threw in a few cuss words and that the cops didn't buy his version of the incident.
"The man assaulted me. I was protecting myself," he said.
It's fair to say Blu shouldn't have put his seat back before the plane left the ground. It's also fair to say that rather than call a attendant to resolve the issue, or to just show some manners and ask nicely, Mittance instead chose to lay hands on him and commit assault. (The same way he laid hands on Rick Perry during one debate!)
Blu did simply defend himself, but in the end it was Blu who ended up being escorted off the plane, not Romney. Far from being a thug or a Gangsta, Blu's Grammy Nominated group LMFAO focuses on goofy party rap songs and came out of the Hollywood DJ Circuit. The same place you're likely to find Lindsey Lohen's ex-girlfriend spinning discs. Blu's one uncle-in-law is Jermaine Jackson. Another is Kennedy (Rockwell - "Whose Watching Me") Gordy.
This is the guy you pick a fight with? Someone who related almost directly to Diana Ross? Would you like to go a couple rounds with Weird Al next? Pee Wee Herman?
If anyone was a thug here - it was Romney.
The truth is that Romney is an entitled spoiled 2nd generation Corporate Aristocrat Trust-Fund Baby blowhard with a short fuse. A coddled little Rich boy with a temper tantrum problem that is becoming more and more pronounced as the campaign grows on. Mittance doesn't llke it when you push him. Don't make him angry, you wouldn't like Mittance when he's angry.
He's like a slow-motion explosion on MythBusters, just waiting to snap back into normal time and knock the house down.
And frankly, I think his next target is the American People.
Vyan