Comments on: The things we do for Mitt http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/ "...a somewhat popular blogger" Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:55:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Buckley http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/comment-page-1/#comment-1783 Buckley Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:12:52 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/#comment-1783 <p>“Gay’s daughter, when they found her in the basement of that home, was shivering through detox after a massive dose of ecstasy. Doctors later told Gay that he was indeed fortunate - his daughter probably would not have lasted another day.”</p> <p>For anybody interested in facts, there is no danger when the drug wears off. (Detoxing is an explosive, but not quite accurate description of “sobering up.”)<br /> Ecstasy can give you the chills, because it raises your body temperature, but it is not a drug that you overdose on, unless it was spiked with other drugs like meth. </p> <p>Finally, who the fuck lets their 14 year old daughter go into NYC alone, even if it is two o’clock in the afternoon?<br /> A close business partner thinks his daughter is kidnapped and Mitt does everything he can to help.</p> <p>Now, can someone tell me why that makes him different than anybody else, other than the fact that they just can’t order their employees to start searching for a girl who was partying with some guy in his apartment for a few days?</p> “Gay’s daughter, when they found her in the basement of that home, was shivering through detox after a massive dose of ecstasy. Doctors later told Gay that he was indeed fortunate – his daughter probably would not have lasted another day.”

For anybody interested in facts, there is no danger when the drug wears off. (Detoxing is an explosive, but not quite accurate description of “sobering up.”)
Ecstasy can give you the chills, because it raises your body temperature, but it is not a drug that you overdose on, unless it was spiked with other drugs like meth.

Finally, who the fuck lets their 14 year old daughter go into NYC alone, even if it is two o’clock in the afternoon?
A close business partner thinks his daughter is kidnapped and Mitt does everything he can to help.

Now, can someone tell me why that makes him different than anybody else, other than the fact that they just can’t order their employees to start searching for a girl who was partying with some guy in his apartment for a few days?

]]> By: thingwarbler http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/comment-page-1/#comment-1776 thingwarbler Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:44:38 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/#comment-1776 <p>I don’t get it — if Mitt is all down with the Holy Spirit™ and has the Magic Mormon Underwear™, couldn’t he just have fired up the trumpet and gotten Holy Moroni™ to go find the girl for him? What’s the point of being all righteous if you’ve still got to schlep the entire office to New York to pretend to be looking for a needle in a haystack? </p> <p>Oh, wait, you mean the whole thing might really have been a PR exercise, because — as heydave points out above — “going to NY to look for her” is about as stupid as it gets and, really, a sign of pathetically baaad decision making on the part of the guy who wants to be our new <strike>prophet</strike> president.</p> I don’t get it — if Mitt is all down with the Holy Spirit™ and has the Magic Mormon Underwear™, couldn’t he just have fired up the trumpet and gotten Holy Moroni™ to go find the girl for him? What’s the point of being all righteous if you’ve still got to schlep the entire office to New York to pretend to be looking for a needle in a haystack?

Oh, wait, you mean the whole thing might really have been a PR exercise, because — as heydave points out above — “going to NY to look for her” is about as stupid as it gets and, really, a sign of pathetically baaad decision making on the part of the guy who wants to be our new prophet president.

]]> By: danps http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/comment-page-1/#comment-1772 danps Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:44:52 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/#comment-1772 <p>So um, can we revisit <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/05/20040503-6.html" rel="nofollow">this now</a>?</p> <blockquote><p>Because we acted, torture rooms are closed, rape rooms no longer exist</p></blockquote> <p>I guess torture <i>sites</i> and rape <i>shipping containers</i> are an improvement?</p> So um, can we revisit this now?

Because we acted, torture rooms are closed, rape rooms no longer exist

I guess torture sites and rape shipping containers are an improvement?

]]> By: makeitstop http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/comment-page-1/#comment-1771 makeitstop Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:41:34 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/#comment-1771 <p>Wouldn’t you be absolutely mortified if this story is about you? Can you imagine the shock/shame/desire for revenge that this “missing daughter” is feeling right now after this ad hit the airwaves? </p> <p>Tbogg is right, the guy is a shitty father, and he’s given us not one, but two examples all rolled up nicely into a Natalie Holloway (almost) moment.</p> Wouldn’t you be absolutely mortified if this story is about you? Can you imagine the shock/shame/desire for revenge that this “missing daughter” is feeling right now after this ad hit the airwaves?

Tbogg is right, the guy is a shitty father, and he’s given us not one, but two examples all rolled up nicely into a Natalie Holloway (almost) moment.

]]> By: cbear http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/comment-page-1/#comment-1770 cbear Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:41:17 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/#comment-1770 <p>I don’t know why everybody is ragging on the Mittster for his selfless deed. If it had been Rudy on the case, the missing girl and her luckless paramour would have been found 73% faster and for 50% less cost.<br /> Not to mention that the “kidnapper” would have been shot 242 times and had a plunger, and a piano, shoved up his ass.</p> I don’t know why everybody is ragging on the Mittster for his selfless deed. If it had been Rudy on the case, the missing girl and her luckless paramour would have been found 73% faster and for 50% less cost.
Not to mention that the “kidnapper” would have been shot 242 times and had a plunger, and a piano, shoved up his ass.

]]> By: heydave http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/comment-page-1/#comment-1767 heydave Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:14:39 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/#comment-1767 <p>Whoa there, big fella!</p> <p>Clueless hordes wandering the streets of a big city to “find” someone?</p> <p>Jumpin’ Jeebus, is anyone really stoopid enough to not see the… well, stoopidity of that idea? </p> <p>If so, I will happily <strong>sell</strong> them my own Participation Share in America’s Earliest Caucus, thereby enabling them to <em>shape the rest of the country to their whims</em> and, possibly, score some hot political booty in the process.</p> Whoa there, big fella!

Clueless hordes wandering the streets of a big city to “find” someone?

Jumpin’ Jeebus, is anyone really stoopid enough to not see the… well, stoopidity of that idea?

If so, I will happily sell them my own Participation Share in America’s Earliest Caucus, thereby enabling them to shape the rest of the country to their whims and, possibly, score some hot political booty in the process.

]]> By: captphealy http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/comment-page-1/#comment-1765 captphealy Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:54:19 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/#comment-1765 <p>How did they get all of those employees to NYC? Did Mitt strap them to the roof of the station wagon?</p> How did they get all of those employees to NYC? Did Mitt strap them to the roof of the station wagon?

]]> By: Gnome de Plume http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/comment-page-1/#comment-1764 Gnome de Plume Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:43:38 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/#comment-1764 <p>Is there a word for these “sons of famous fathers who go off the deep end”? Last night I read through the scary Alec stories, both here and at the Lake. Then I see Mitt and JPutz in one post, and of course there is number one idiot son in the WH. I need some vocabulary help here.</p> Is there a word for these “sons of famous fathers who go off the deep end”? Last night I read through the scary Alec stories, both here and at the Lake. Then I see Mitt and JPutz in one post, and of course there is number one idiot son in the WH. I need some vocabulary help here.

]]> By: sophronia http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/comment-page-1/#comment-1763 sophronia Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:42:12 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/#comment-1763 <p>It’s Mitt’s Ashley ad. I sure hope the Dems have cued up some similar “Hilary (or Obama or Edwards) saves the pretty white girl” ads, because they seem to be golden.</p> <p>And I was thinking along the same lines as D. Sidhe — it’s nice that Mitt runs everyone’s lives so he can demand that they all pack up and go to New York on his whim, but how inefficient is it to send hundreds of tourists wandering through the streets of NYC looking for someone? Half of them can’t even seem to find the Statue of Liberty when they’re there, and it’s 151 feet tall and has its own island.</p> It’s Mitt’s Ashley ad. I sure hope the Dems have cued up some similar “Hilary (or Obama or Edwards) saves the pretty white girl” ads, because they seem to be golden.

And I was thinking along the same lines as D. Sidhe — it’s nice that Mitt runs everyone’s lives so he can demand that they all pack up and go to New York on his whim, but how inefficient is it to send hundreds of tourists wandering through the streets of NYC looking for someone? Half of them can’t even seem to find the Statue of Liberty when they’re there, and it’s 151 feet tall and has its own island.

]]> By: gttim http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/comment-page-1/#comment-1762 gttim Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:59:19 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/19/the-things-we-do-for-mitt/#comment-1762 <p>Missing white girl? Missing rich white girl who was good looking enough to get high and picked up by some sleezebag at a concert? Why the hell didn’t they just call the media- they would have been all over that like stink on shit. Nancy Grace would have tracked her down in a heartbeat- she would have found her quicker than a record club can get your new address.</p> Missing white girl? Missing rich white girl who was good looking enough to get high and picked up by some sleezebag at a concert? Why the hell didn’t they just call the media- they would have been all over that like stink on shit. Nancy Grace would have tracked her down in a heartbeat- she would have found her quicker than a record club can get your new address.

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