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Mitt Romney did it again.
In a recent remark to voters in Wisconsin, the Republican frontrunner made a joke about closing factories in Michigan. Here’s Mitt in his own words:
One of (the) most humorous stories, I think, relates to my father. You may remember my father, George Romney, was president of an automobile company called American Motors…
They had a factory in Michigan, and they had a factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and another one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And as the president of the company he decided to close the factory in Michigan and move all the production to Wisconsin. Now, later he decided to run for governor of Michigan and so you can imagine that having closed the factory and moved all the production to Wisconsin was a very sensitive issue to him, for his campaign…
Now, I recall at one parade where he was going down the streets, he was led by a band, and they had a high school band that was leading each of the candidates, and his band did not know how to play the Michigan fight song…
They only knew how to play the Wisconsin fight song, so every time they would start playing ‘On, Wisconsin,’ ‘On, Wisconsin,’ my dad’s political people would jump up and down and try to get them to stop because they didn’t want people in Michigan to be reminded that my dad had moved production to Wisconsin.
Is this guy for real?
This is the third time that one of Mitt Romney’s comments has actually made me cringe inside (something that has never occurred with other politicians). The first was when Romney said that he wasn’t concerned about the very poor, and then followed up with a detailed paragraph explaining why. The second was when Romney tried to woo Michigan by making the ridiculous remark that the trees were the right height there.
This is one of those things which makes you think that it must be a joke. That there’s no way an actual politician actually did something as insensitive as making a joke about closing factories.
But it’s not a joke, and Mitt Romney did actually laugh about his dad closing factories in Michigan.
–inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/
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And this, my friends, is what outrages the cruise-missile liberals: Romney laughing about closing factories. Obama at a White House Correspondence Dinner, cracking jokes about murdering human beings with drone strikes? Not so much.
Uh that was an AMC plant right? Chrysler bought AMC
http://www.allpar.com/news/index.php/2010/10/more-than-a-century-of-automotive-production-ends-today-as-kenosha-plant-closes
Mitt just reminded every Union Worker in Kenosha they lost their jobs I moved to Chicago from Kenosha after the plant closed because there were no jobs ( No I was not employed at the plant.)
But I knew a few of them they were very angry. What was Mitt’s polling in Kenosha before and after that statement?
The so-called liberal democrats are in a coma since obama was elected. If romney is elected, they will wake up and fight because they’re not in power, not because they believe in anything. Both parties suck.
“Both parties suck.”
Truer words have never been spoken.
“Is this guy for real?”
Not really. It’s kabuki theater. The PTB are running clones that they control against each other and telling us to choose between them as the only choices who might actually win. This game is more rigged than a casino operator’s dream.