Romney Bug Report

Thanks to Mitt Romney, politicians will never again assume that feigning interest in NASCAR is a surefire way to show the common touch:

Two days away from a critical primary in Michigan, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney detoured to Daytona International Speedway on Sunday….Does he follow the sport?

"Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans," he said. "But I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners."

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[Carmen D?az]

"rectal" spoof in 3..2....

[18th Century Romney]

I'm a big fan of blacks, I have friends who own blacks!

[21st century Romney]

Who let the dogs out?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwwAaVmnf4

[Mike M.]

What a waste of time that detour turned out to be, huh?

[Tulpa]

I don't see what's wrong with that. Nascar team owners are relatively well liked by the fans compared to other sports.

[Bee Tagger]

I don't think you represent the average and/or common man the politicians are typically said to be courting when they make appearances like this.

[Tulpa]

True, but I have a hard time seeing how they'd find fault with it either. No one's going to say "He's friends with Earnhardt! What an elitist!"

[Sevo]

I probably don't either, and I'd hit the mute button if Romney got air time, just like I do for the 'convocation' and the national anthem.
Oh, and I do the same for NFL broadcasts.

[Killazontherun]

Tulpa is right. It wasn't a faux pas. It is not like he tripped up while being condescending. He gave an honest answer and did not pretend to something outside his range of experience. I would not vote for him, but I'm not going to waste time imagining faults that are not there.

[Tulpa]

Reason reads everything Romney says through a hypocrite filter. They have even more bile for him than for St. Richard the Frothy and Newtitties.

[Number 7]

maybe reacting a little over? I thought it was funny.

[curiousgeorge]

hmmm I'm gonna say you are way off base in your analysis o this one

[Hugh Akston]

"Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans," he said. "But I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners."

Awesome.

[Tulpa]

And if you're talking about the fact that he has rich friends, I don't think anyone in the country doesn't know he's rich already.

[el Commentariosa]

A real man of the people, he is.

[Mike M.]

No kidding, it's hardly shocking that a politician has some rich friends.

Frankly, this post looks like it could have come straight out of the Obama Department of Class Warfare.

[Tulpa]

Or wait, are you claiming that NASCAR doesn't have teams? If so...

[Banjos]

Thank you rather spoofer, this has been stuck in my head all day.

[rectal]

I'm bleeding out of my ass

[P Brooks]

"Some of my best friends are hicks."

[Sevo]

Uh, "hicks" who run extensive R&D programs?
Care to qualify that comment?

[Joshua Corning]

Most of the rich people I know are rednecks....

...and i live in Washington State.

In the South I imagine it is close to 100%.

[Sevo]

Joshua Corning|2.26.12 @ 10:21PM|#
"Most of the rich people I know are rednecks....
...and i live in Washington State."

Say hello to Bill and Melinda for me...
I'm guessing spoof.

[Joshua Corning]

East side of the mountains..

Seriously every so often i see kids in a dirt covered pickup with huge confederate flags streaming behind it....and i have been seeing them around here for about 20 years so i guess they must reproduce.

Weirdest thing ever.

But yeah i am in the land development business so i run across lots of well off developers who started out as farmers, loggers and catskinners.

They proudly call themselves red necks.

Also lots of people moved here during the dust bowl....3 generations later they did not stay poor.

[angus]

Chariot races at the circus.

[Tulpa]

But the media is probably going to jump all over this, despite ignoring BO's embarassing inability at the 2009 All Star Game to name a single White Sox player after claiming to be a big fan.

[Paul]

That's because they was white sox... It's an ivory tower.

[Brian from Texas]

Never sit on the front row of any auto race south of Mason-Dixon or you'll be washing tobacco spit out of your hair when you get home.

[TeamBarstool]

Never sit within 20 rows of ANY dirt track race or you'll be picking mud out your teeth

[Sevo]

At Ventura, it's 12 rows, and it's easy to spot.

[Tulpa]

That's the fun, silly.

Just like you have to sit in the front rows at the dolphin show or you're a wimp.

[Sevo]

Tulpa,
A bit of water is somewhat different from a 5# clump of track clay launched at your noggin.
You can watch the lower seat rows clear out pretty quickly if the audience isn't familiar with the venue.
Call me a wimp.

[TeamBarstool]

Within 5 rows of a World of Outlaws race would be suicide

[Gray Ghost]

We are in agreement. Though I think my relatives were too busy brawling to notice.

Dirt track 1/2 mile ovals are a whole nother kind of racing experience.

[Jerryskids]

Jeff Gordon's a fag.

You people obviously don't know a damn thing about NASCAR if you don't even know the proper way to start a conversation about NASCAR.

[TeamBarstool]

"Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans,"

I am a ardent NASCAR fan and this doesn't bother me in the least. And like Tulpa mentioned,He's rich. So are Nascar team owners. It's not a surpise that they run in the same circles.

I have so many reason to hate on Mittens but this isn't one of them

[AuH20]

What red wine pairs best with the Oscars?

[el Commentariosa]

anything that comes in a can

[Sevo]

Probably the highest priced bottle on the menu; it's all about image.

[Binky]

The $10K bet, the two Cadillacs, the NASCAR owner friends ... Mitt is a comic genius!

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[rectal]

I'm bleeding out of my ass

[TeamBarstool]

That didn't take long

[el Commentariosa]

I can see my work here is done.

[el Commentariosa]

Wow Clay Aiken is being a bitch to George Takei

[Tulpa]

This isn't Star Trek, George, you have to get the lines right.

[Tulpa]

Wow, Donald really wants to see Dayana Mendoza in a nude suit. He's overdoing the lascivious pig thing almost as much as Takei is overdoing the gay thing.

[el Commentariosa]

You don't?

[Tulpa]

Not enough to say it out loud in front of her! Plus I have an imagination which is usually less disappointing than reality.

[el Commentariosa]

That's not a nude bodysuit

[Tulpa]

They didn't correct for her ethnicity, perhaps.

[Tulpa]

That's a nude suit?

[el Commentariosa]

Debbie Gibson's wearing less

[el Commentariosa]

so is Tia

[Tulpa]

Seriously, how many people in your average Mid-Evil Times (as Victoria Gotti would put it) audience are going to know Real Housewives tropes well enough to understand the show they're putting on?

[el Commentariosa]

Mitt Romney isn't a Medieval Times fan, but he probably knows the owners.

[Maxxx]

An he hopes all the knights have a good show.

[Tulpa]

What the fuck is James Lipton doing in the boardroom?

[el Commentariosa]

Donald couldn't even be bothered to go watch the event?

[Joshua Corning]

"Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans," he said. "But I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners."

Not sure this is the gotcha quote you are looking for.

Every red neck in the universe (and just about everyone else) wants to be a race car driver...only thing i see here is that some rednecks have money...and Romney is friends with some of them.

[Tulpa]

This.

If Obama said he was friends with Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, basketball fans wouldn't scream "out of touch" despite the fact that those guys are rich beyond belief.

[el Commentariosa]

Apples and Oranges. Obama knows the "stars" of the sport. It would be like if Romney was asked if he knew who won the Superbowl said, "well, I don't follow football, but Bob Kraft is a friend of mine"

[Tulpa]

Most of the Nascar teams are owned by ex-drivers.

[Mitt Romney]

It's "NASCAR", not "Nascar".

See, I am in touch.

[Tulpa]

And Jordan IS an NBA owner.

[el Commentariosa]

Mitt Romney would not realize that.

[el Commentariosa]

... that he used to be a player I meant

[Tulpa]

His preppers would tell him.

Unlike Ron Paul, he actually listens to his advisors.

[Ted S.]

I'm friends with some NFL owners.

Of course, they're owners of the Packers.

[Tulpa]

Fuck, Ferrigno don't take it personally.

[Cytotoxic]

Ew NASCAR is for dirty classless rednecks. The 'gotcha' is that Romney would associate even loosely with that. Keep it elitist!

[KPres]

Ding! Ding! Ding! That fact that he knows the owners and not any fans is the redeeming part of the whole fiasco.

[Tulpa]

WTF Lampanelli?

[el Commentariosa]

The women don't have the team idea down.

[Jeopardy Jackson]

Danny: "I'm gonna end up working in a lumber yard for the rest of my life."
Ty: "What's wrong with lumber? I own two lumber yards."
Danny: "I notice you don't spend too much time there."
Ty: "I'm not sure where they are."
Danny: "Oh."

[Almanian]

Unlike the Daytoner Five Double Aught, the World Superbike races went off without a hitch in AUS this weekend.

FUCKING MOTORCYCLE RACING SEASON HAS STARTED! YES!!!! Mad Max Biaggi on the Aprilia and Carlos Checa on the Duc won Sat/Sun respectively. Fokin' BRILLIANT racing back in the pack.

Also, will be rooting for the Roush guys and the Wood Brothers in Daytoner. I wonder if Romney's friends with them?

And fuck Toyota and Chevy. That is all.

[el Commentariosa]

3 weeks to F1.
Also, when to tickets for the USGP go on sale?
Looks like Austin doubled hotel rates for that weekend.

[The United States Green Party]

You don't need tickets. Someone is scamming you.

[Gray Ghost]

I am stunned if that GP track gets built and goes off without a hitch. I'd have sworn it was a scheme from Bernie et al to get higher fees from any of: Road Atlanta, Laguna Seca, or the Glen.

Kudos if it works. It'd be fucking awesome.

[el Commentariosa]

Every race is a scheme for Bernie to get more money from a track that um have a scheme. He'd race supermodels in K-Cars against Schumi if he could get away with it.

[Joshua Corning]

And fuck Toyota and Chevy. That is all.

Does Ford even make a stock car any more?

[np]

They make cars stocked with stickers.

I'd like to know where I can get a cat-free RWD Taurus with a carbureted OHV V8 whose suspension is not tuned specifically for turning left....

[Sevo]

np|2.26.12 @ 11:37PM|#
"They make cars stocked with stickers."

Kinda like the guys pedaling bikes blowing through the stop signs?

[Ted S.]

Per the original definition, isn't any car you can buy off the lot a stock car?

[Joshua Corning]

best stock car movies!!!

GO

GO

GO!

[Tulpa]

Victoria Gotti's tears cure cancer.

[el Commentariosa]

they also burn through steel

[Tulpa]

Just like Sevo's cum.

[Tulpa]

ah, the spoofer is back

[rectal]

Like I ever left

[rectal]

Elizabeth Taylor died?

[AA]

Shut up.

[Willard Mittens]

I don't watch the movies, but I know the execs who make them.

[Vote American (1969)]

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[Team Blue]

[insert random "richest one percent" bullshit here]

[Max]

ARFARFARFARFARFARFARFARFARFARF

[Tony]

Starving grandmothers! Tax rates too low! Reducing government even by one tiny bit equals anarchy! Blah blah!

[shrike]

Christ-fags!

[Barry the Jaunty Future King]

Does My ol' heart good, to see My Message being carried out.

[Occutards]

We await Your Signal, O Future King. Just give Your Word, and we unworthy minions will set the McMansions ablaze.

[Barry the Jaunty Future King]

I like you Occupiers. I will have you killed last.

[Michael Moore]

Just don't burn down MY mansion. I'm on your side, y'know.

[Ed Schultz]

I'm gonna torch the fuckin' place!

[rectal]

cacapoopoopeepeeshire

[rectal]

Also nascar is for faggot rednecks (re: the discussion up above)

[Tony]

Faggot rednecks? Impossible. I would know them if they existed.

[Rachel 'Maddog' Maddow]

Splendid.

[John Fitzgerald Edwards-Heinz]

Don't burn down any of my mansions, please. My wife will beat me senseless.

[John Edwards]

I'm *cough* sick, so please don't *cough* burn down my mansion, either.

[Al Gore]

Don't burn down my various mansions, either. How am I going to cure global climate change if I don't have ten-car garages to park my limos and SUVs in?

[Elizabeth Edwards]

You don't know what "sick" is, you heartless cheating pretty-boy bastard.

[John Fitzgerald Kerry-Heinz]

I forgot my next-to-last name. I must be getting old.

[Tuh-ray-sa Heinz]

Dahling, quit talking to those dreadful peasants. What will the neighbors say?

[heller]

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[Rachel 'Maddog' Maddow]

Oprah doesn't quit

[Occutards]

Can we burn down Ophrah's mansion?

[D.Jeter, SS]

Nopers

[Barry the Jaunty Future King]

No, My minions. Leave The Oprah alone.

[Jumbie]

I'm pretty sure she has mansionS, so go ahead and torch one, see i she notices.

[kap]

why do liberals on PBS love 'Alone in the Wilderness'?

[Bill P]

It's always a benefit to see what you can make instead of buying it ready made.

[Mr. FIFY]

Hush... you'll awaken a hideous creature if you talk about stuff like that.

[Zeb]

I don't know. I'd think it woudl have more appeal to cabin-in-the-woods type libertarians. That guy is bad ass.

[Occupadist]

"Today, you have six financial institutions, the largest six, that have assets that are the equivalent of 60 percent of the GDP of the United States of America."

[yogi]

So we could liquidate those assets, hand the money out, and take a 7 month holiday.

[Occutardist]

And just think, when we come back interest rates will be 20% because there's no more assets left to secure the loans.

That ought to be a pretty scenario for the 99%, right?

[Occupadist]

Hopefully nobody notices that comparing assets (capital) to GDP (transactions) is utterly meaningless, even moreso given that we've conveniently ignored their liabilities in the hopes that the dopes assume "assets" means "net worth".

Of course, the really dumb people who vote for our Democrats will think this means they have 60% of the "money".

After all, it worked last time when we told everybody how the 1% have 40% of the "financial wealth". Nobody knows what the fuck we're talking about anyway, particularly ourselves.

[Occupadist #2]

Who cares whether we're comparing apples to apples or not? What's important is those numbers are REALLY BIG!

60%!?! Why, that has to mean there's only 40% left over for everybody else, right? Right?

Eat the rich!

[KPres]

Here's the math for anybody with a brain but doesn't feel like doing it themselves.

60% of a $14 trillion GDP = ~$8 Trillion

Total US assets = ~$75 trillion

Ergo, the six largest banks have about 11% of total assets.

[Occupadist]

Romney: New tax plan won't benefit 'the 1 percent'

[And, right on schedule...]

...here comes the wealth-envy contingent.

[KPres]

So he wants to tax rich people at 28% and close the loopholes. Well, Occupy Wall Street told me that rich people only pay 15%, so...

[Occupadist]

We don't Occupy Wall Street because it's cool. We occupy because another world is possible and the time is now.

[KPres]

Are their purple unicorns in this other world? And do I get a pony?

[Occupadist]

Willie Nelson: We must occupy the food supply.

[Fuck Willie Nelson.]

I'll never buy his music again.

[Michael Moore]

Let me occupy the food supply.

[Everyone Else]

But... we'll starve!!!

[yogi]

Corporate control of our food system has led to the loss of millions of family farmers...

This one irks me more than the rest. Just about everyone who starts a business incorporates it in some way. It could be an LLC, a pass-through S corp, or a C corp. Family farms, mom-and-pop grocery stores, neighborhood restaurants, and every enterprise larger than a lemonade stand (which illegal in many places) is a corporation of some type. A business owner would be nuts to leave his personal property and savings exposed to litigation by not incorporating. Yes, corporations control our food supply, and that would still be the case absent Monsanto.

[Occutards]

WTF are you going on about?

I just used the word CORPORATION! That means EVIL!

[Occupadist]

Occupy Wall Street values collective resources, dignity, integrity and autonomy above money. We have not made endorsements.

[Mr. FIFY]

Could you please post some more Occupy bullshit? We've had a drought of that, lately.

[KPres]

Occupy Wall Street values collective resources, dignity, integrity

BWHAHAHAHAHA!!

That's why you shit on cars and 60% of you approved of the bailouts...dignity and integrity.

[Francois]

Why Apple devices will never be made in America
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ke.....rica-okay/

[Unions]

We'd LOVE to make Apple hardware... that way, they'd cost ten times as much, and we'd get all fat and happy making thirty bucks an hour.

[KPres]

You wouldn't get fat because they're going to occupy the food supply too so we can go back to small farmers when food took up half of your disposable income instead of the ~8% it does today thanks to large corporations.

[np]

WRT racing, it's a bit ironic that NASCAR represent the antithesis of free competition, being perhaps the most restrictive. The differences between the cars and R&D scope are absolutely miniscule. There's little range of competition, just drivers waiting to see who slips up and outlasting others, who are doing exactly the same thing.

I'll admit that rare NASCAR road course races are at least more challenging and are a heck of a lot more fun to watch, more so than than other on-road motorsports since they can bump and grind each other.

The most interesting I find--and those that actually advance the sport and technology--are those with the least restrictions. The kinds with a variety of classes up to "unlimited" or quasi-unlimited classes: off-road racing (long endurance or short course), rally racing, Pikes Peak (the only race I know of that has truly unlimited class), etc

[np]

And it ain't just red neck irony, F1 or other Formula sports are also restrictive as hell. I'd guess they'd be the progressive-left analogy. Basically someone comes up with something unique or innovative that gives them the edge, other team whine => BAN.

[Jenson Button]

My BAR Honda blown diffuser was legal for over half the season. Just long enough to let me clinch a championship.

[rather]

Poor Mitt. He has that slow quality about him...reminds me of a poster here

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[Brett L]

"Whom amongst us doesn't love NASCAR?"
-- John Kerry, 2004

Correct phrasing:
"Who don't love them some NASCAR?"

[Teebo Jones]

Sounds like a pretty good deal to me dude.

http://www.Gone-Anon.tk

[P Brooks]

when to tickets for the USGP go on sale?

*snickers*

[?]

I don't even believe he knows anybody who runs a NASCAR team. He just had to say, "I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners," because that's what kind of an asshole he is.

[Bill Dalasio]

You know, I'd gain a huge amount of respect for Romney if he'd respond with something like this.
"Yes. I'm rich. Wildly, extravagantly rich. I earned it. I busted my ass at Harvard Law (you remember, that place where you in the media got jism on your hands announcing that the President went) and Harvard Business graduating near the top of my class. After that, I busted my ass as a consultant for one of the top firms in the country. Now, eventually I lucked out and got a great opportunity to help launch a VC/PE firm. It paid off. Phenomenally. It could just as easily have failed. But it didn't. It paid off for me. It paid off for my investors. And, on net, it paid off for the people in the companies we did business with. I'm not going to apologize for that and fuck you if you want or expect me to."

[Tulpa]

There are some seriously damaging out of context sound bites in that paragraph.

You must understand that pretty much everyone is trying to fuck Romney over about being wealthy. The liberal media (that is, the media) is blasting him in the hopes of helping BO in the general or, in their wettest dreams, helping BO's opponent be Santorum or Gingrich. The conservative media doesn't really like him for unrelated reasons also, as they can stomach Santorum easier.

[Zeb]

"they can stomach Santorum easier"

Well, they've had a lot of practice.

[Bill Dalasio]

Yes, yes, I know, I know. I don't particularly like Romney, but it seems bordering on stupid to criticize him for being rich. What? Is "I'm too retarded to be trusted to competently run a lemonade stand" going to become the new political gold? Worse still, are we going to be indefinitely treated to the farce of fabulously wealthy guys pretending they aren't rich?