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Mitt Romney: my wife "drives a couple of Cadillacs"
By Marty BeckermanFebruary 24th, 2012, 3:30 pmComments (10)
Programming error! Romneybot malfunction! Terminate sequence!
Just as he was catching up to Rick Santorum in the Michigan GOP primary, Mitt Romney — who desperately wants to win his home state — has made the latest in a series of class-related gaffes. While speaking to the Detroit Economic Club, Romney told voters:
"I like the fact that most of the cars I see are Detroit-made automobiles. I drive a Mustang and a Chevy pickup truck. Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs. I used to have a Dodge truck, so I used to have all three covered."
He was trying to reassure Motor City residents that he had personally supported their local economy, even though he opposed the 2009 auto bailout. But the remark seems tone-deaf considering that most Americans... um... don't have (at least) four automobiles in their garages.
It's no secret that Romney is a multimillionaire, and it's no surprise that he would own a fleet of luxury cars. But after igniting controversies by saying that he's "not concerned with the very poor" and "like[s] to fire people who provide services to me" — and joking that he is "unemployed" — he might not want to boast about his Jay Leno-like shopping habits.
(To be fair, if someone as loaded as Romney hadn't bought his wife a couple of Cadillacs, he would just look like an ungrateful bastard of a husband. Poor guy.)
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Commentarium (10 Comments)
My wife just takes an Air Force 757 on her vactions and gets driven around in Suburbans!
The cost to the taxpayers for every trip I take is more than all of those vehicles put together, and then some. And I don't care, because I'm the Queen of America.
1) You really believe all of that's on the taxpayer dime?
2) Even if it was, do you really think Romney would do anything differently?
How is that a fleet of luxury cars?
I'm not a multimillionaire, I own a Nissan, Porsche, Mercedes, 3 aircraft, and work a menial job.. these articles are getting worse and worse.
Oooooo wow a Mustang...
Are they hiring at your menial job? I'd like just 1 airplane.
Let's be real. Dude is a Mormon. As whacked out as americans are we don't believe that there is/was some lost tribe here in the U.S. We can get all kooky about the temple mount, wailing wall, etc., but not about shit in Utah or where-the-fuck ever. That's the main reason this dude is suffering.
He cannot connect because we won't connect with that mormon stuff. We will not go down the road to crazy. Rather, we will not go further down the road to crazy.
Thanks, Buck Nasty, for the modern day example of hatred. Want to make fun of the president for fried chicken? How about making fun of Ben Whitehorse Nelson for worshipping bison?
Whatever your beliefs are about making fun of someone else's religion, it isn't the same thing as racism. You goofball.
Nerve would prefer it if you were to trade in all your vehicles for a Geo Metro and a bicycle, Mr. Romney. Then you shall be allowed back into society. Please do not ask about Obama's vehicles. He can do as he pleases.
Wait, what? Somebody kicked Mitt Romney out of "society"? I totally missed the tribal council meeting. When he left the island, which car did he drive off in?