Romney takes swipe at California & says Obama is taking America on a 'foreign' course

[TroyD]

Saturday, September 22, 2012

From Beverly Hills to San Diego, Romney spent the day focused on fundraising in Southern California. After a rough week, he's working on getting his campaign back on track, targeting his rival for failing to fix Washington.

Romney, at his San Diego fundraiser, said President Barack Obama was "taking Americans on a course that is extremely foreign to us."

Romney even seemed to take a swipe at the Golden State.

"One would suggest that government knows better than free people," he said. "It's a pathway to become like Europe, and Europe doesn't work there. It's never going to work here. It's even possible we could be on a pathway to become California -- I don't want that either."

More:

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/politics&id=8821206&cmp=twi-kabc-article-8821206

[eShirl]

1. romney translation: "foreign" = American

according to his tax return

[Skittles]

2. Obama is not a REAL AMERIAN (redmeat for his racist base)

he's scraping the barrel

[TroyD]

3. He also insulted California

He goes to California to ask for money, and then ends up insulting the state that gave him money and the state where he lives!

Why does he live in California (only about 100 miles from Hollywood, I might add) if he is always bashing the state? Hypocrite.

Why doesn't he live in his beloved Michigan?

[Moonwalk]

4. He can't maintain his orange tan in Michigan

[yellowcanine]

5. Of course California is not the REAL 'Merica, dontcha know?

Except when he is raising real money there.

[Renew Deal]

6. California is part of the 47% Romney doesn't care about

He just said it plainly.

[Xipe Totec]

7. He may very well lose 47 states nt

[livetohike]

17. Good one!

His magic number.

[liberal N proud]

8. California is foreign?

Romney knows he will not win California.

He is only in the state to raise cash.

[Bluenorthwest]

11. And of course, he actually LIVES in La Jolla, California

Home is where the auto elevator is, and that elevator is in California.

[TroyD]

12. Yup. That's why it's hypocritical

As I said above, I bet he doesn't tell conservative voters on the campaign trail that La Jolla is only a little over a hundred miles from Hollywood - you know the place that is liberal and immoral?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. wtf...he really said that? "It's even possible we could be on a pathway to become California "

wtf? This is the strangest thing I have ever heard a politician say who is running for prez

this guy is crazy. It's funny...now that we see more and more of him, his true personality is coming out. Maybe he's exhausted and can't hold it in anymore.

Nutty as a fruitcake.

[TroyD]

10. It's not the first time he has said it

He said it earlier in the year, and other members of the GOP have said similar things.

They see California as sliding down into a pit of socialism and Democratic dominance. In 2010 when the Democrats won all the statewide races in California, Alex Castellanos said on CNN that Republicans are leaving the state for Arizona and Texas because they realize what California has become or something like that.

[sybster1000]

13. He just can't keep from insulting people..can't wait for the debates!

Hoping and praying that Obama stays his cool, contained self...

[CBHagman]

14. Those are standard lines in the Romney stump speech.

He bashes Europe, then California. One audience even booed at the mention of Europe. They booed.

Then Romney will go on to invoke Lech Walesa, and engage in some phony hand-wringing about American leadership. Romney will speak well of Walesa and of Tony Blair and of course the Israelis, but that would appear to be it for non-American figures.

[Cosmocat]

24. The Lech Walesa thing is just surreal

A republican acting all chummy with perhaps the most prominent union activist in history ...

Funny how not a peep back home about the disconnect with that.

[Victor_c3]

15. Europe doesn't work?

Granted some countries in Europe are broken, but what about Germany?

Germany, in many respects, is what I'd love for our country to look like.

They have socialized medicine, they take care of their environment, the government has a budget surplus, they actually take care of their workers and lower echelon of their society, they have a solid manufacturing base (after China, they are the second most exporting country in the world), etc.

[mulsh]

16. "Romney later said his comment about California was a joke." He' pathetic.

Notice how he always has to explain his "jokes"? Even W didn't have to tell people when he was joking.

I"m doing all I can to prevent this excrescence from being elected, please join me.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

18. Wy is he even IN California?

A state that he has 0% chance of winning.

Uh, Governor? If you would direct your attention about 2,000 miles to the east, there's this place called Florida. You might want to hang out there a little bit.

[Cosmocat]

25. Because a campaign is not like the private sector

where if you are big enough you get a government bailout or find a way to flip a business upside down before leaving it in shambles.

This supposed GREAT manager has a big money problem, and at the point in his campaign where he should be focused 100 percent on being in public to try to persuade the undecideds into his corner has to spend the bulk of his time kissing butt with big republican wallets.

[bemildred]

19. "and Mitt Romney, this week in Ohio, will find the one couple whose votes can swing the election,

and remark on how ugly their children are."

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/the-blunder-years-20120922-26dui.html

[Fgiriun]

20. The audacity of these assholes

to not only lie but criticize something that they don't understand. Somehow, a government run by the elite and corporations equates to liberty while one which values it's citizens quality of life with basis on equality and progress are synonyms to slavery. Conservatism has got to be a mental disorder.

[wakemewhenitsover]

21. It's incredible that Republicans are still trying to play the "foreign" card...

...even now, after Obama has been president for 3+ years. Those in the electorate who were xenophobic before Obama's election are familiar enough with him now to grasp the concept that he's 100% American (with the exception of lingering birthers). The Republicans tried this slimy crap last time around and it didn't work.

[lunatica]

22. Romney's foot has taken up permanent residency in his mouth

[oswaldactedalone]

23. This is a payoff quote as well

"Romney's 47 per cent quote was so abysmal not because it was dismissive, but because it had no rationality to it. It constructs an America that is a mere projection of its fantasies, and then campaigns to it. Such a process has become a right-wing disease in recent years, a process that began with climate change denialism, and extends to everything from the idea that rape does not cause pregnancy to the ''birther'' movement."

Conservatism is a disease, there's no doubt.