You're just jealous of Mitt

FallinAgain · January 2012

When asked on Today about discussions of the unfair distribution of wealth, Romney blamed it on "envy" of the most successful people. He went on to say that these were conversations for "quiet rooms."

BobLoblaw · January 2012

FallinAgain:
When asked on Today about discussions of the unfair distribution of wealth, Romney blamed it on "envy" of the most successful people. He went on to say that these were conversations for "quiet rooms."

How are people still taking him seriously?!???! His China comments ALONE make my head hurt.

AngieP900 · January 2012

Many Americans thought that Mitt was short for Mittens.

boxerfan · January 2012

I heard Mitt wants to make ManWinged Secretary of the Interior.

Novemberrocks · January 2012

This is what I was referring to yesterday. Why would anyone who doesn't make over $250k a year vote for him? It's a vote against your own best interest.

katie.i.do · January 2012

what, don't you people have fireside libraries where you can sip your snifters of brandy, smoke your pipes in your fine silk smoking jackets and discuss these things with your like minded cronies like you're characters in a victorian novel?? what are you, poor? oh. wait.

FallinAgain · January 2012

It's a vote against your financial self-interests (probably, though I suppose some believe he will create more jobs), but a lot of people don't vote on economic issues.

CaptainSerious · January 2012

I thought this was a neat article about him:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/01/10/mitt-romney-facts.html.

It included some things that I didn't know about his personal life that I found interesting, even though they have no baring on politics.

Kamikaze3 · January 2012

That list has me a little confused. It says his wife has been in remission from multiple sclerosis for some time. Multiple sclerosis has no cure so how exactly does it go in to remission? Do you think they mean she has not had any accute flare ups or is it more of a case where if you have enough money you can cure any disease (i.e. Magic Johnson/AIDS)?

TSD · January 2012

B asked me last night if Mitt was short for Mitchell. So, I looked it up. It's his middle name. His first name is Willard. I said, "well, he can't be Willard. I mean, that's Ren's best friend in Footloose. He's no Chris Penn". Well, aside from the fact that Chris Penn is dead. I like to call him Oven Mitt myself.

KristenBtobe · January 2012

What a turd.

CaptainSerious · January 2012

Kamikaze3:
That list has me a little confused. It says his wife has been in remission from multiple sclerosis for some time. Multiple sclerosis has no cure so how exactly does it go in to remission? Do you think they mean she has not had any accute flare ups or is it more of a case where if you have enough money you can cure any disease (i.e. Magic Johnson/AIDS)?

To the best of my understanding, MS does go into remission, or at least that's what the two people I know who lived with the condition called it when they had few/no symptoms interfering with their daily life. For them, each time it "came back" it was usually worse.

TSD · January 2012

CaptainSerious:

Kamikaze3:
That list has me a little confused. It says his wife has been in remission from multiple sclerosis for some time. Multiple sclerosis has no cure so how exactly does it go in to remission? Do you think they mean she has not had any accute flare ups or is it more of a case where if you have enough money you can cure any disease (i.e. Magic Johnson/AIDS)?

To the best of my understanding, MS does go into remission, or at least that's what the two people I know who lived with the condition called it when they had few/no symptoms interfering with their daily life. For them, each time it "came back" it was usually worse.

I also know someone in "remission" from it. She got it right after she got married, t was bad, then had a kid, and it went into remission.

Kamikaze3 · January 2012

CaptainSerious:

Kamikaze3:
That list has me a little confused. It says his wife has been in remission from multiple sclerosis for some time. Multiple sclerosis has no cure so how exactly does it go in to remission? Do you think they mean she has not had any accute flare ups or is it more of a case where if you have enough money you can cure any disease (i.e. Magic Johnson/AIDS)?

To the best of my understanding, MS does go into remission, or at least that's what the two people I know who lived with the condition called it when they had few/no symptoms interfering with their daily life. For them, each time it "came back" it was usually worse.

Ok that makes sense. My best friends mom had it (she has since passed) and there would be times where some of her symptoms would ease up and go away but she was still living with the disease.

mashedpotato · January 2012

yeah, with MS your symptons can often go away for long periods of time. Some people have less time between flare ups than others and some symptoms never go away but become your new normal just to have a different symptom show up during your next flare up.

salimoo · January 2012

Kamikaze3:
That list has me a little confused. It says his wife has been in remission from multiple sclerosis for some time. Multiple sclerosis has no cure so how exactly does it go in to remission? Do you think they mean she has not had any accute flare ups or is it more of a case where if you have enough money you can cure any disease (i.e. Magic Johnson/AIDS)?

Not for nothing, but there's no cure for cancer, either, and that definitely goes into remission.

ribth · January 2012

Kamikaze3:
That list has me a little confused. It says his wife has been in remission from multiple sclerosis for some time. Multiple sclerosis has no cure so how exactly does it go in to remission? Do you think they mean she has not had any accute flare ups or is it more of a case where if you have enough money you can cure any disease (i.e. Magic Johnson/AIDS)?

I know everyone already said this, but there are several different forms of MS. One is actually called relapsing-remitting, where patients experience a flare followed by a period of recovery for weeks to years. Then there are progressive forms where you never really recover from your flares and progress over months to years. It's a strange disease.

Also, Mitt Romney is a tool. I don't really like any of the Republican candidates, except maybe Huntsman. But that's probably because I don't know anything about him.

Kamikaze3 · January 2012

I am glad his wife is in remission then and that I now know that is possible. It is such an awful disease.

I still do not like Willard though.

_Fenton · January 2012

What does "discussion for quiet rooms" even mean? Am I dumb for not comprehending this?

FallinAgain · January 2012

_Fenton:
What does "discussion for quiet rooms" even mean? Am I dumb for not comprehending this?

I'm not sure what his campaign will end up saying he meant by it, but in the context it sounded much like what Katie joked about. "Wealth distribution in America is for me and the other ultra-rich to discuss amongst ourselves, not a topic for discussion in a presidential campaign as that might include in the discussion the non-rich who are just envious of the riches' success."

salimoo · January 2012

_Fenton:
What does "discussion for quiet rooms" even mean? Am I dumb for not comprehending this?

I'm choosing to interpret it as "quiet rooms"=deepest recesses of the temple while anointing each other with oils and pretending to be the spirits of the departed.

scottydont · January 2012

He looks like that snobby boy in high school that scoffs at anyone who attempts to do anything non-vanilla. Can't stand his flip-flopping-on-gay-marriage ass.

salimoo · January 2012

scottydont:
He looks like that snobby boy in high school that scoffs at anyone who attempts to do anything non-vanilla. Can't stand his flip-flopping-on-gay-marriage ass.

AND he strapped his foffing dog to his foffing roof.

(I bring this link out anytime Mitt comes up and I'm so happy this story is getting play again because most people had never heard it before.)

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/articles/part4_main/

wingedbride · January 2012

I think quiet rooms are where the men go to talk.

Also, hellz yes I am jealous of people having more money than I do. And?

EssBe · January 2012

Moo, I'm with you.

All the other stuff I don't like about him pales in comparison to the fact that he strapped his own pet to the roof of the car and went on a road trip. That kind of decision making is not okay with me.

wingedbride · January 2012

Motorcycle Cop: Do you know what the penalty for animal cruelty is in this state?
Clark: No, sir, I don't.
Motorcycle Cop: Well... it's probably pretty stiff.'

salimoo · January 2012

FACT: Mitt Romney's wife sends out a cookbook every year to supporters and one of my first jobs in MA was assembling and binding it.

Looking at her face 12 brazilian times made me hate her.

scottydont · January 2012

salimoo:
scottydont:
He looks like that snobby boy in high school that scoffs at anyone who attempts to do anything non-vanilla. Can't stand his flip-flopping-on-gay-marriage ass.
AND he strapped his foffing dog to his foffing roof.
(I bring this link out anytime Mitt comes up and I'm so happy this story is getting play again because most people had never heard it before.)
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/articles/part4_main/

*flings poo at Mitt*

FallinAgain · January 2012

wingedbride:
I think quiet rooms are where the men go to talk.
Also, hellz yes I am jealous of people having more money than I do. And?

You could have as much money as Mitt if you just worked as hard as he did. You aren't lazy like the poors. You're just medium lazy.

noisy_penguin · January 2012

Poor people should probably just make more aprons or something.

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