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Mitt Romney, The Modern Walter Mitty

Link: The Secret Life of Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney, we’ve just realized, is Walter Mitty.

He says he’s a longtime hunter, but has been on only two trips, one as a 15-year-old when he hunted rabbits, and then last year, when he “hunted” quail in what sounds like one of those places where they keep the birds in a cage until the rich guy, having been driven to the spot in a jeep, is ready to fire. One of those Dick Cheney shoots-his-friend-in-the-face arrangements.

Here are some other Romney claims:

He is a longtime pilot. On many occasions he has manufactured, and tossed, paper airplanes while making appropriate sound effects.

He has spent many years as a submarine captain. He loves to command the ship to surface amid heavy suds, and then attack the hapless and unwitting rubber duck.

He has been an astronaut. Though he hated those long lines at Space Mountain.

You’ve heard of Bowdlerized literature. This is called Romneyized personal history.

Or maybe: The Walter Mitty Strategy for winning the presidency.

Using The Romney Method, my years as a kid running around with a towel tied around my neck clearly qualifies me as Superman.

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19 Responses to “Mitt Romney, The Modern Walter Mitty”

  1. tom rogers says:

    LOL! I was one of those idjits with the surprised look when the umbrella didn’t slow my fall from the roof of the shed.

    /I’m Mary Poppins!!1!!1!

  2. Madclone says:

    Well, aren’t you just the
    official blogger here, your comments are borderline infantile, and you display
    your lack of education
    well.

    I’m not by any means a Romney
    supporter, well..not untill
    he agrees to support HR25.

    but you demonstrate that any
    fool can get on the internet and think because he has a webpage, that he is a somebody.

    or did I miss the whole
    point and this is just simply satire ?

    oh wait…I get it, you are a libearl and therefore you
    actually believe everything you printed here, and that
    scares the life out of me.

  3. harry the pensioner says:

    He needs “Goreing”

  4. Yes, I am a “libearl”. LOL.

  5. Stephen Colbert says:

    I hate bears.

  6. Madclone says:

    I need Goreing ?.LOL..
    that is hilarious !
    don;t even get me started on Al Gore and his ” Ahem..Global Warming Tripe ”

    my favorite saying is…

    ” If man is causing ” Global Warming ” on Earth….then WHO is causing global warming on MARS ?..Martians ?”

    What…do are there little green men driving around on
    Mars in their little green MArtian SUV’s ? please tell me..cos I am trying very hard to understand how
    there is global warming
    on Mars, caused by the ” SUN ” and there is global warming on Earth, caused by man..how does that happen ?

    oh yeah…there was Glbal Warming millions of years ago on Earth….see…millions of years ago there was ” an ICE AGE ” then…THEN…the ICE melted…what caused that ICE to MELT ???

    Were there caveman SUV’s back then ? and big huge prehistoric factories and oil
    refineries ran by fred flintstone on a giant dinosaur ?

    Gore cracks me up !!!

    sad and pathetic thing is…there are people,
    that believe his ” Anti Capitolist Agenda ”

    oh but Gore buys ” Carbon Offsets..from the very company that he is part owner of…what an ” Inconvient Truth “

  7. Madclone says:

    ” I have learned over the years that libearls
    ignore the truth, and
    believe lies “

  8. Duros62 says:

    Mitt Romney is all thing to all people. Just ask him. The first shape-shifting Presidential candidate.

  9. madclone says:

    oh and by the way…
    I also believe that if Bush was truely serious about
    protecting our country…the U.S. Borders would be lcoked down and secure “

  10. Duros62 says:

    Just crawl under your bed, madclone, and stay there. It will have the same effect.

  11. Madclone says:

    Duros62….
    Balh..Blah…Blah…
    couldn’t dispute anything I said, so your comment is what you resort to !

  12. Duros62 says:

    Dispute? Dispute what? You haven’t said anything cogent yet. You’re just yelling at traffic as far as I can tell.

  13. Madclone says:

    and so folks, there is the proof, denial, denial, denial…liberals denay anything that doesn’t agree to their beliefs…

    it’s the same…if you crawled under YOUR bed
    it would have the same effect
    as well…

    I feel like I am talking to a wall, do you deny that the SUN is causing Glbal warming ?

    will I even get an honest answer ?

  14. Duros62 says:

    Wow.

    do you deny that the SUN is causing Glbal warming ?

    No, I don’t and I’m glad it does. Otherwise, we’d all freeze to death.
    Do I think that the sun is the sole factor of the higher rate of warming over the last 100 years or so? No I don’t.

    You are a little late to this party.

  15. Duros62 says:

    will I even get an honest answer ?

    That you can feel comfortable with, even if you disagree? Probably not.

  16. Duros62 says:

    If man is causing ” Global Warming ” on Earth….then WHO is causing global warming on MARS ?..Martians ?”

    Dugger, your ride is here.

  17. Madclone says:

    and so you avoid the global warming issue on Mars so that you can feel a little bit more comfortable with your belief that Man is
    contributing to global warming on Earth…seems you missed the ride

  18. Duros62 says:

    I don’t give a shit about global warming on Mars. All my stuff is here.
    If anything, global warming would be good for Mars since it is so frikiin’ cold there. Perhaps when we get ready to move there it will be habitable.

  19. bjalder26 says:

    Let’s analyze what you’re saying, Oliver Willis. You say that Mitt Romney said that he was a lifetime hunter and then insinuate that two hunting trips doesn’t make him a hunter. First of all what he actually said is that he has hunted “pretty much all his life” which basically means that he started young. If you notice he puts two qualifying words in the front of his statement “pretty much”, I don’t know how familiar with English so I’ll explain. When he qualifies his statement he is purposely trying to make it less strong. He’s saying he has not actually hunted all his life but pretty much. Like if I were to say that pretty much all of your arguments are poor, well that doesn’t mean that there all poor, just most of them. Also, he doesn’t say that he is a hunter (as far as I’ve seen) he says that he has hunted. Furthermore, if he has only gone on 2 hunting trips, does that mean that he has only hunted twice? No, in Utah you can shoot rabbits in your back yard. He probably frequently did just that when he visited his cousins or was with his sons at their vacation home. Go talk to a dozen guys who grew up in Utah, I’ll wager that one of them has killed some varmint in their life.

    If you look up hunted in dictionary.com this is what you get
    hunt
    v. hunt•ed, hunt•ing, hunts
    v. tr.
    1. To pursue (game) for food or sport.

    Since you seem to like to get technical, technically you don’t even have to kill anything or have any weapon to “have hunted”.

    As far as your other claim, do you really emit radiation that makes stupid weaker? If so, that is freaking amazing!