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Romney Loses his Cool with Occupier
'America's Right and You're Wrong'
Today, Mitt Romney was asked a question about the 99% ouside of his Charleston headquarters. He did not take kindly to the question.
The National Journal reports:
Mitt Romney on Thursday afternoon snipped at a questioner, who seemed to be a supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, for waging class warfare, MSNBC reports.
Romney was walking the rope line outside of his headquarters in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday when a person off camera asked, "What would you do to support the 99 percent, seeing as how you're part of the 1 percent?"
Romney responded in anger saying, "If you've got a better model, if you think China's better, or Russia's better, or Cuba's better, or North Korea's better, I'm glad to hear all about it, but you know what, America's right, and you are wrong."
Consequently, the bystander's question was never answered.
Here is a video of the altercation:
Romney has also come under scrutiny today as an ABC report revealed that Romney holds investment funds in the Cayman Islands; the islands are known as a tax haven. Romney, a one-percenter, pays far less in taxes than the average American due to such tactics.
ABC reports:
Although it is not apparent on his financial disclosure form, Mitt Romney has millions of dollars of his personal wealth in investment funds set up in the Cayman Islands, a notorious Caribbean tax haven.
...Mitt Romney is finding it increasingly difficult to maintain a shroud of secrecy around the details about his vast personal wealth, including, as ABC News has discovered, his investment in funds located offshore and his ability to pay a lower tax rate.
"His personal finances are a poster child of what's wrong with the American tax system," said Jack Blum, a Washington lawyer who is an authority on tax enforcement and offshore banking.
On Tuesday, Romney disclosed that he has been paying a far lower percentage in taxes than most Americans, around 15 percent of his annual earnings.
144 Comments so far
Show AllThe cue is to applaud O'Bamba when Rumney mouthes off. Are you on cue?
I think not. I think you're going to write in a candidate of the 99% in the ballot booth. Can there be any vote more powerful?
Romney "looses" his cool? We see that misspelling all the time in the comment threads, first time i've seen it in the headline!
If that's him "loosing" his cool, i'd like to see him "loose" his anger!
But seriously, it's hard to see this bimbo going anywhere but down. Obama in a cake-walk. Good thing for the 1% they're on the same team!
"Funny, that.”?
Not really funny because Spliting the Vote is important when somebody has a chance to win. Your splitting the vote in your own mind because you don’t even choose between Cynthia or Nader and Nader is not running.
This discussion is about a candidate who has a good chance to win and you seem out of touch with political reality.
Everybody here including you knows that no third party has a chance in Hell of getting elected and many people in this country are afraid of what Romney or the Republicans will do like start another hot war, so what good does your vote do for that. There are people who care about reality.
Did you ever consider how to stop voter suppression, a threat today while a vote for another known loser will not have a dent on any problems.
Nader and others are qualified but they are not gonna win and everyone here knows it, but many progressives here might be concerned about what the Republican agenda is about and that a vote for Nader or third party will help get Romney elected.
You wouldn’t care... maybe, but if Romney wins you can tell us how you had nothing to do with that over and over and over again... have fun with that. No vote is gonna solve all problems but some votes will help make things worse even for your own interests if you have any.
If in your universe all evils are equal, I don’t want to go there.
Cydonia: "Notice that all the countries he mentions are or were (supposedly) communist. If you don't like the way the currrent socio-economic system is structured, well, you must be a commie! "
Good observation, my reaction too. If the Corp Media were honest and doing it's job, his arrogance and deriding a fellow American as unAmerican would be splashed in the forefront of the news. But that is not the case, and thankfully, we have sites like CD to comment and expose these things, at least at some level.
I'll add, if the debates weren't staged performances of talking points and there were real journlists and citizens asking questions and following up on inaccurate statements and dodged questions, you'd see more of the duopolistic candidates crumble under pressure. Once they get in the White House, they are so insulated, it is rare they show their true inner characters.
"If you've got a better model, if you think China's better, or Russia's better, or Cuba's better, or North Korea's better, I'm glad to hear all about it, but you know what, America's right, and you are wrong."
Now, does that response, nay, that rant, make any sense at all?
It isn't just that sociopath Romney lost his cool; rather, the man is downright incoherent and disingenuous.
He isn't just incoherent, he obviously has not kept up with the changes the world has witnessed since the end of the Cold War. The man is still an old-fashioned cold warrior: hey, buddy, if ya don't like it here in Amerikkka, why don'tcha move to China or Cuba, you communist? Problem is China is more ruthlessly capitalist than Amerikkka and is playing a better game of it than the United States. How do'ya them apples, Mittens?
Psycho Romney tells the activist that "if you've got a better model... I'm glad to hear all about it..." He obviously does not mean that in the least: multi-millionaire Romney has no interest in what his interlocutor's views are, for he goes on to second-guess whatever model his interlocutor may have had in mind by identifying it with either one of the regimes in place in China, Russia, Cuba, or North Korea (never mind that these regimes are all very different and that Russia is not communist any more), and then to tell him that he is wrong because Amerikkka, of course, is always right.
Scum Romney just wants to shut up the activist, silence him, or, better yet, drag him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and send him to Guantanamo Bay for a few years. There ya go, you dirty commie, terrorist, hippie: Amerikkka, love it or leave it!
Amerikkka is not a political and economic regime one may discuss, the merits or lack thereof one may rationally weigh: rather, it is a religion; one must have faith in it and revere it, or else one shall be cast into hell. More precisely, Amerikkka is a fundamentalist religion.