In reference to my father's prior run-in with Mitt Romney...

[Barack_America]

...years ago when Mitt was 18.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021295770

To summarize, my father and his road commission coworkers had to drop something off at George Romney's house and they were chased away by Mitt, due to not being of sufficient worth to grace his front door.

Well, I asked him about the specifics today. Mitt's exact words to them were:

"It looks bad for you uneducated, low-paid government workers to be seen at my front door".

Those were the words that almost got his ass-kicked. And no, my father was not surprised by Mitt's "47%" remarks, "he's been pulling that shit since he was 18".

Though you might appreciate the update!

[elleng]

1. Sick then, sick now.

Thanks. Interesting, but no surprise that he hasn't changed. Surprise is where did he get it? Neither of his parents seem to have such attitudes.

[sammytko]

4. Why do people say that his parents were nice? Do we know them?

No. They raised him. He got that attitude from somewhere. If they didn't like it, they should have nipped it in the bud.

I don't think they were such nice people.

[roguevalley]

13. I read he was in boarding school growing up.

sounds like attachment disorder among other things. His mother was nice, a mormon lady who tried to do things in an era that was not amenable. His dad fired people when running for governor and hid it. Mitt thought it was funny. They are disfunctional but I blame old dad more. Mom was a fifties and sixties ladie and you had to be one to understand the limitations on you especially in a religion that demands such subjegation and conformity of women then.

[Barack_America]

14. One can board at Cranbrook, but I doubt Mitt did.

It would have been just down the street from his house.

[roguevalley]

26. he was one of the few who went home from there

someone once listed his life and it included boarding school. it could have been earlier though i find it weird that they would do that.

[LittlestStar]

2. Thank you. I have told everyone I know about your father's story.

It was the first thing I thought of when I watched his 47% speech. I thought, "He's still the same fucking asshole, surprise, surprise!"

[Barack_America]

3. Curiously, Romney was fresh out of high school and those he insulted...

...as "uneducated" in fact had more education than him as they were college upperclassmen studying engineering (not my father, he had just graduated as well).

[Spazito]

5. I am so glad you updated on this, it was your post along with the other...

ones about his behavior, atrocious attitude, etc, that showed the ugly man he really is. The video made public just re-affirms what your original post showed.

[Ken Burch]

6. call the Obama campaign...have them tape your dad(and, possible, his co-workers)

That COULD be the ad that finishes Mitt.

[Barack_America]

8. I personally think the recent 47% comments are more damning.

This happened when Mitt was 18. Yes, he certainly seems to be the same asshole now that he was then, but he was only 18 at the time.

[Mopar151]

7. 18? So he was screwed up in the head then

Before he got his bell rung hard in the French car wreck. No wonder he's junk......

[ejbr]

9. I was wondering why he was having such awful luck

in this campaign. God is paying that bitch back.

[Barack_America]

10. With this being a mere drop in the bucket.

I think this attitude is just who he is. There has to be thousands of similar stories out there.

[CoffeeCat]

11. Was his father an asshole like this?

Geez. How does someone become such an insecure, shut down asshole like that? Believe me, I've met and worked with lots of millionaires in my lifetime, and I can't imagine any of them EVER saying anything like that.

Was Mitt's father a jerk as well? Seems to me that this behavior is learned.

There was a huge article on Romney and what he was like in prep school. One girl remembered that when Romney met a potential girlfriend, he asked her who she was and who her father was. He was trying to figure out if she was "someone." When her answer made it clear that she was not the daughter of anyone notable, the girl remembered Romney become completely disinterested in her--as if he had no desire to bother with anyone who didn't have a pedigree that was up to his standards.

Makes sense that he ended up with Ann Romney. She came from wealthy, well-known people. If Ann Romney had been the daughter of a person who successful (a doctor, a lawyer, etc.), Mitt Romney wouldn't have given her the time of day. Isn't that amazing?

These people are reptilian. Not all rich people are like this. But some rich people who are also very narcissistic and boorish are like this.

Sick and disgusting that we have someone like this running for President. Palin's nonsense was bad enough last year, now we have to endure more vacuous tripe from Romney for the next six weeks.

[MindPilot]

27. No he wasn't, at least not from what I've read about his time at AMC

Mitt's dad ran American Motors in the early 60s, and apparently did a very good job of it. Made the company profitable and debt free while also introducing the auto industry's first profit-sharing plan for his employees.

[freshwest]

12. Thank you and your Dad. No doubt Mitt thinks he's royalty.

[red dog 1]

15. This Romney quote needs to go viral.

"It looks bad for you uneducated, low-paid government workers to be seen at my front door"??

Too bad your Dad & his co-worker held your Dad's boss back from beating the crap out of the bastard after he said that to them.

[nolabear]

16. Thanks. I referred to your story here earlier but am really glad you filled in.

And I'm so sorry your father was treated so badly. I find myself hoping that Karma really IS a bitch and she gives that man exactly as he has given to others.

[tavalon]

17. Yes, it bolsters my view that he's a sociopath

Not that it needs bolstering.

[DiverDave]

18. Why, oh why, did they NOT teach him,

some manners???
People like that need to be corrected at the jump.
If he would have gotten his ass beat then, maybe he wouldnt be such an ass now.

Course I could be wrong...

At least squirt some dish soap in his mouth to wash it out.

[Barack_America]

21. Sadly, even though he was only 18 at the time, the "jump" was already missed...

...I suspect. This would have been the summer after he graduated from high school, and we've already heard stories of how he tormented fellow students.

[GeorgeGist]

19. You should have quit while you were ahead ...

[Barack_America]

20. Sure. Whatever.

Like I said before, I can't prove it and he can't prove it, but I've no reason to think my father's lying. Interestingly, at the time he was just out of high school and was an "uneducated, low-paid, government worker" so he didn't really even take offense. Later, he just realized Mitt was a dick, which there are innumerable better examples of (such as Mitt's own more damning 47% comments).

[Ikonoklast]

23. Yeah, and everything is always a photoshop, according to you.

You don't do this very well, you're supposed to be fooling us here.

Why don't you go and look for emilyg?

[Whisp]

25. so you think Zombney wouldn't have acted like this?

with all the evidence of His Royal Highasse's awkward and stupid and entitled comments lately?

wtf.
right back at you:

[WinkyDink]

22. So now MR thinks "government workers" are OVER-paid?

[cr8tvlde]

24. I think disposable would be closer to the truth. You know, like those illegals...seasonal, as needed