HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!

I come home from a perfectly EXHAUSTING trip to the hairdresser (trying to sound like Pony Girl Ann here), only to find that Mitt has been dropping GOP guano all over the U.K.

Suh-weet.

I am outraged, simply outraged and a sternly worded comment is necessary. Yes, Mittens has insulted the British. But Mittens has also insulted America by insulting. one of the greatest Presidents. Abraham Lincoln. Mittens threatens to replace Lincoln with Winston Churchill, sculptures, that is.

At a fundraiser for American expats, he reportedly said, “I’m looking forward to the bust of Winston Churchill being in the Oval Office again,” referring to the White House returning the artwork to the British Embassy in early 2009. President Barack Obama replaced it with a bust of Abraham Lincoln.

Why does Mittens hate America and Abe Lincoln? Why does Mittens prefer to recognize dead European leaders in the White House. I say NO DEAD BRITISH LEADERS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. The British did burn down the original White House during the 1812 War.

Of course, this issue has really devastated Wingnuts, who think that this again shows the President’s disregard of our national Anglo Saxon Heritage.

Mittens has quickly become the least popular person to drop into England since Rudolf Hess.

Mittens has quickly become the least popular person to drop into England since Rudolf Hess.

Excellent!!

It’s a good thing Mitt understands our shared Anglo-Saxon heritage and values our Special Relationship. Otherwise, he might have said something wrecklessly insulting to the people of Britain.

What gets me is the unforced nature of his errors. The Olympics question wasn’t a curveball. All he had to do was make some noncommittal remark about how he was sure that the British would do just fine and would be able to pull together no matter what G4S had done. He just had to be a condescending dickhead. He couldn’t help himself.

It’s like that time he made a rude remark about the cookies he had been given at a campaign stop that turned out to have been made by a bakery that had a history of supporting Republicans. He couldn’t have just said “Hmm hmm, delicious cookies! Thanks.”

Wait until the debates when Obama starts deliberately getting under his skin.

Mitt is learning that facepalm is a universally understood gesture. This is, of course good news for John McCain.

Ouch, that’s gotta smart!

All good and well to watch Mittens not only stepping in the shit but getting it all over the carpet too. However…you gotta understand that wingnuts – most Republicans – don’t care. In fact, the more pissed off furriners get, the better the base likes it. (Gotta give the Marquis that, he knows the base even if they don’t like him.)

Even if it is those namby-pamby Brits, who actually realized sixty years ago that they really couldn’t afford to maintain an Empire if they couldn’t afford to maintain an Imperial-style army and navy.

What a bunch of wussies; all they had to do was: 1. cut taxes 2. raise defense spending 3. empire!

Milt just called Beckham “Mr. Football”, Paul McCartney “Mr. Beatle” and Rowan Atkinson “that Bean fellow.” As a keepsake of his visit he’s asked for a special collectors edition photo gallery of Christine Keeler, or “Mrs. Profumo”, as he calls her.

His handlers deny rumours Milt next plans to go to the Soviet Union to meet with “Mr. Evil.”

Or, as they might say in London:

Mind the gaffes.

Rmoney has spent his whole life being the privileged son of a governor, then a CEO surrounding himself with craven ass-kissers, who praise him for the brilliance of every word or fart that emanates from his orifices.
So he really believes he’s witty, charming and intelligent and has no clue how he comes across to people who aren’t forced to suck up to him.

British political culture is much more erudite; to be a parliamentarian demands thinking on your feet to impress colleagues instead of reciting speeches for a slavish audience of corporate press and goobers. The Repuke culture of proud ignorance and 4th-grade vocabulary speeches makes Brits laugh their asses off, when they aren’t incredulous that such idiots wield so much power in the world.

Thank you ever so much for that Guardian link, TBogg. I’m taken aback just a bit at how badly that article roasted Mittens, but not so taken aback as to diminish the rich and flavorful schadenfreude.

This is funny. British officials complain about RomneyBot 3000. It is a “shocker”.

“What a total shocker. We are speechless,” while Daily Mail politics editor James Chapman quoted a source saying that Romney was “[a]pparently devoid of charm, warmth, humour or sincerity” in meetings with British officials.

It is well known that “British officials” are among the most warm, and cuddly, and sincere people persons ever.

The amount of pushback from the Tory press — Mail, Times, Telegraph — makes me wonder whether Cameron and company decided to take advantage of the Mittbot’s foot-in-mouth disease in order to redirect attention from their own fuckups.

Had he delivered some noncommittal stuff about how all the loose ends tie themselves up once the Olympics begin, he’d have sailed through the day, but instead he decided to be a dick, and Number 10 decided to leak like a sieve.

I believe the GOP base views being disliked overseas favorably. Also keep in mind this was a country we were at war with back in the good times– violent revolts over taxes, well-armed militias going around killing the authorities, darkies in their place, stuff like that.

Mitt Romney is the sweetest, kindest, most lovable human being I have ever met . . . .ZONG!

“That pitiable sobbing you hear is Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul crying her little eyes out.”

Or Jennifer Rubin. Or K-Lo. Or Sheldon Adelson. Or all four.

You see, with Mitt, it’s got to be about him, all the time. Why, his Olympics were certainly much, much much better than anything the Brits could ever do.

Wanker.

+1. Underground humo(u)r – deal with it!

That’s not how it happened, at least according to the Guardian. Mitt made his Olympics put-downs to NBC before he went to meet Cameron at No. 10 Downing Street, where they apparently were waiting for him with the maximum pomp and circumstance that Brit protocol allows for a foreign dignitary who is not a head of state. This is given as the reason they were so miffed and making snappish remarks afterward: they were going to a lot of extra trouble to show him a good, red-carpet time and he blew it all away beforehand by casually dissing the entire country to the press.

What this suggests to me is that Our Mitt has a bunch of complete fools around him. It’s their job to brief him on things like the inadvisability of blithely informing reporters that he’d had a meeting with the chief of MI5 (you don’t say that, apparently. You just don’t.) But of course they’d have to know it themselves first.

So you’ve got this winning combo of Mitt’s talent, as scotius says, for unforced rudeness that just plops out of his mouth, and a bunch of staff twits who either don’t know anything or don’t bother to convey it to the candidate.

Roll on, Mighty Rescuer of the Republic, roll on.

I don’t have a TV; aside from some jazz stations, my only radio listening is BBC Worldservice. Otherwise, I spend a lot of time reading news online. From my perspective, Mitt’s idiocy in London is getting heavy, heavy coverage.

So, I just stopped over at faux news.com to see how they’re reporting Mitt’s own suicide bombing. Not a word.

You see, with Mitt, it’s got to be about him, all the time

As is shown by his choice of commemorative pins for the SLC Olympics.

Seriously.

It really is All About Him.

This is given as the reason they were so miffed and making snappish remarks afterward: they were going to a lot of extra trouble to show him a good, red-carpet time and he blew it all away beforehand by casually dissing the entire country to the press.

I think we’re agreeing, just in different terms: Number 10 was quite happy to give Mittens the visiting dignitary treatment, but he decided to be a dick beforehand and may have been a dick during his visit; since piling on the dickish Yank is always going to play well with the public, they decided to leak all sorts of shit to their favourite journos, which has lots of left-wingers in Britain pinching themselves as they find themselves in agreement with Dave and Boris.

Just imagine if Mitt was scheduled to meet the queen. At least in Israel the main event is a fundraiser. He should be able to handle that.

Mittens doesn’t imagine that he and his liddle wifey are going to meet HRH do they? Surely?

I don’t know…I could see Leslie Nelson as playing Mitt in a movie and we all remember what happened in Naked Gun 2 1/2!!!! As for Israel, as long as he doesn’t go off script and start talking about the funny little hats they wear and making comments on circumcision scars….

You know what sentence you’ll never hear from Ann Romney’s lips. “Mitt, does this dress make me look fat?”

Or start talking about all their relatives he helped posthumously baptise.

What gets me is the unforced nature of his errors. The Olympics question wasn’t a curveball. All he had to do was make some noncommittal remark about how he was sure that the British would do just fine and would be able to pull together no matter what G4S had done. He just had to be a condescending dickhead. He couldn’t help himself.

Exactly. Not only that, he threw his wife under the bus, too. I guess the ads and jokes about dressage took their toll. Now he’s saying that he will probably not watch Ann’s horse compete – that he doesn’t even know when it’s happening.

Now – I’m sorry. Even though dressage is elitist and there have been some pointed jokes – you’ve spent a fortune on the thing, it means a whole lot to the woman you purport to love. And – hey – how many peoples’ families are actually competing in the Olympics? You’re going to blow off your wife’s horse competing in the Olympics, like she was going off to play bridge with the girls and you’re not interested in that stuff?

he should have said, “well, of course I’m going to watch my wife’s horse compete. It means a lot to her and we’re thrilled he got this far. I want to be there to share in her excitement.”

I mean, we can diss Ann Romney and her elitist ways, but now her own husband is running away from it out of cowardice? Be a man, Mitt!

Instead, he throws her under the bus. What a fucking douche.

Mittens has been much more involved in the horse dancing than he let on:

The World Cup finals for the elite sport of dancing horses, known as dressage, opened today in the Netherlands without the presence of two of its most prominent wealthy devotees, Mitt and Ann Romney. The Romneys’ horse, Rafalca, will compete, however, performing to music personally selected by the Republican presidential candidate.

In the midst of her husband’s race for president, Ann Romney has quietly climbed to the upper ranks of the equestrian sport of dressage — not as a rider but as an owner and financial sponsor of a horse-and-rider team from California.

As Mrs. Romney has assumed a higher profile on the campaign trail in recent weeks, her devotion to dressage has garnered little attention, and that appears to be by design. Romney campaign officials told ABC News that Mrs. Romney will not fly to the Dutch town of ‘s-Hertogenbosch this week to watch Rafalca and the rider she sponsors, Jan Ebeling, represent the United States in the freestyle dressage World Cup Finals. Until recently, her presence at such an elite event would have been automatic — followers of the sport describe her as a fixture in the stands on the global dressage circuit, and in past years she brought her husband Mitt Romney along with her.

As they say in The New Yorker cartoons: “Christ, what an asshole.”

Of course he has been more involved than he lets on. So now, at the moment of triumph, he decides to shit on her parade?

I mean – it’s perfectly OK for you or me or TBogg to snark on Ann Romney and her high-faluting horsey elitist hobby, but you’d think at least her husband would have the fucking fortitude to stand up and support her instead of throwing her under the bus.

As you say, what an asshole. I’d wonder about the future duration of the marriage, except of course Ann probably has already performed the financial calculations.

Worse than Sarah Palin.

I did not think that was possible, but there ya go.

Other than the 22% who are either incredibly stupid or trying to manipulate the incredibly stupid, I just can’t see real people wanting to jump on this embarrassing excuse of a human being’s wagon.

The guy just reeks of “something is grossly wrong with me” pheromones. You know, the bio-warning signals that mother nature provides.

Not sure who invented the phrase, but “rich guy Tourette’s” remains the best description of Willard evar.

Hopefully, the NRA will think twice before insisting that Mitt prove his conservatard cred by going hunting. The guy is just a Glock away from unintended mayhem

The other thing is: this, after all, is part of Team USA’s effort in the frickin’ Olympics. Say what you like about dressage, it’s actually very difficult. For Ann RMoney’s horse & rider to have made it to the Bigs is, uh, a big deal, and as well, aren’t the Olympics all about USA Fuck Yeah??

So not only does MittBot toss his bride under the bus, but he tosses at least part of the USA Olympic team under the bus… this from the Upper Class Twit who purportedly “ran” the Olympics way back when in Utah.

Go figure…

Supporters of mittbot dont despair. The US press and weekend pundits will push back against the nanny state opinion of mittbots obvious blunders.

Next up: mittbot gives BiBi repeated tongue baths.

As far as MittBot’s London gaffes go: well, pass the popcorn & enjoy MittBot demonstrating why he, not John Cleese, clearly deserves the “Upper Class Twit of the Year” title. OTOH, this will have no effect on the vast majority of US voters, whether conservative or otherwise.

Conservatives are already on various sites “defending” Mittbot from the whinging Poms. Clearly, like Palin, MittBot was asked “hard ball” questions, so STFU.

mittbot in Israel:

“The hats you people wear are okay, but I prefer my Stetson.”

mittbot in Poland:

“Its kinda dark in here for a photo op. Again, how many of you people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?”

And I believe this kind of blundering has an effect on US voters. We dont like to be embarrassed internationally. We have thin skins thatta way. That is, except for the 27%ers who hate Europe.

Now he’s saying that he will probably not watch Ann’s horse compete – that he doesn’t even know when it’s happening.
It’s better than that. In the Brian Williams piece, he didn’t appear to even know the name of the person who would be riding Ann’s horse (or gender, for that matter).
This is a person whom Ann Romney presumably has probably had lots of contact with, especially in the months leading up to the Olympics. To me, it’s like not knowing the name of your kid’s Little League coach.
All he had to say is “This is really my wife’s passion, and I’m as proud as I can be that she and $RIDER_NAME get to compete in the Olympics. I mean, it’s the Olympics, for Pete’s sake! They’ve worked really hard and deserve all of the credit.” But he fucked that up, because he has to distance himself from that fruity horse ballet shit.

All I ever used the Guardian for was football news. Looks like I’ll be checking out the rest of it, for a while. At least until Rmoney heads Israel.

Then, I’ll check out Ha’aretz.

Just think of the Wingnut rage were President Obama to displace the bust of a great American President with that of a Foreign Leader.

Commemorative pins! Jeebus, how weird. And the wingnuts call Obama a narcissus for….um….using the first person singular pronoun.

C’mon! The base doesn’t use terms like “first person singular.” Someone scripted that for the FAUX audience.

The most juicy aspect of all this has been the fact that Mitt was just giving his honest opinion on things.

I wonder what music Mitt picked out for the routine? I’m gonna go with something from Kraftwerk……

Rafalca will be performng to the theme from Sprockets.

At least Rudolf Hess flew to Great Britain (Scotland) to make peace, not to tout the superiority of the Luftwaffe over the RAF.

Given his recent track record, I’m betting a little something from Wagner–perhaps “Ride of the Valkyries?”