Romney misjudges book by cover

While working a New Hampshire diner with a friendly GOP mayor, Mittens spotted an older guy in a red flannel jacket and Vietnam veteran hat. From WaPo:

“Vietnam veteran!” Romney greeted Bob Garon.

“I have a question for you,” Garon told the former Massachusetts governor. “New Hampshire right now has some legislation kicking around about a repeal for the same-sex marriage. And all I need is a yes or a no. Do you support the repeal?”

“I support the repeal of the New Hampshire law,” Romney said. “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. That’s my view.”

Well, it turns out the vet was there having breakfast with his husband. The exchange turned into a “heated confrontation” according to the Post. It would have gone better if Romney were still taking the position he took back when he was running against Ted Kennedy and promised to be the LGBT community’s “best friend” in Washington. As Rick Perry might put it, “Oops!”

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As George Takei would say: “Oh my!”

Comment by Surreal American on 12/12/11 at 01:29 PM

This guy is one of the worst politicians I’ve ever seen. And I remember Hillary Clinton’s wild flailing at the end of her campaign. Remember the ‘hard working white people’ quip from the West Virginia primary? Mittens makes that sound like JFK’s inaugural address.

I keep hearing and reading that Mittens is the inevitable GOP nominee and inevitable POTUS. This guy has had five fucking years to close the deal with GOPer voters, and he still can’t get them to hold their noses and vote for him. He’s a fucking Ken doll of a loser.

Comment by Hunter Gathers on 12/12/11 at 01:37 PM

He’s a fucking Ken doll of a loser.

In Ken’s defense, he was born (er, made) that way. Mitt Romney had to strive mightily over the years to shed any remaining traces of personality and genitalia.

Comment by Surreal American on 12/12/11 at 03:06 PM

That is so awesome.

Comment by Quaker in a Basement on 12/12/11 at 04:06 PM

Snicker. SNICKER!

Comment by asiangrrlMN on 12/12/11 at 06:15 PM

Here’s a video of the exchange if you haven’t seen it.

Comment by Peter Jernigan on 12/12/11 at 06:26 PM

My fave Romney characterization remains the one, the source of which I can’t remember: that Romney is “our nation’s first android candidate for President.”

Comment by Mr.Wonderful on 12/12/11 at 08:01 PM

That’s actually a surprisingly unheated exchange. A heated exchange would have ended up with Romney getting his nose broken.

I’m reminded of a “Far Side” cartoon- “Relax, Jerry, he probably didn’t know you were an elephant when he told that joke.”

Comment by Big Bad Bald Bastard on 12/12/11 at 08:40 PM

No Interest in New Palin Reality Show.

No second acts in American lives, never mind enough episodes to go into syndication with.

Comment by Davis X. Machina on 12/12/11 at 10:28 PM

I can’t blame Palin for trying, though, after her 15 minutes lasted 3 years. And with the way zombie righties keep popping up (GINGRICH!??!), I’m not counting her out yet.

Comment by Xecky Gilchrist on 12/12/11 at 10:30 PM

Leave Robomittster aloooooone! That guy he was talking to is a dead ringer for Floyd R. Turbo, American. Of course Mittens was confused.

Comment by meepmeep09 on 12/12/11 at 10:55 PM

I’m not counting her out yet.

She’ dead, ~~Jim~~ Xecky. All that’s left now is a bunch of historians all looking at her, and each other, and saying “WTF was that all about?”

Like Technocracy, or the Townshend Plan, or “Who Promoted Peress?” rallies….

Comment by Davis X. Machina on 12/12/11 at 11:40 PM

New buffalo plaid jacket: $16.98 at Agway
Breakfast at the diner: $7.99 + tip
Picking the wrong VietVet to screw with: Priceless

Comment by Bette Noir on 12/13/11 at 08:37 AM

I like the guy behind them surrepticiously scanning to see if Mitt is really a life form.

Comment by cletar on 12/13/11 at 03:57 PM

Isn’t it about time someone exhumed and uploaded footage of Romney telling that Iowa voter his sons campaigning for him in ‘08 were rendering national service on par with active military duty? Yeah, he actually said that when the woman asked him why none of his five strapping grown up boys had signed up for the wars their father so ardently supported. And Obama is a narcissist.