Romney says "I'm learning to say 'ya'll' and I like grits!"

[ProSense]

Romney says "I'm learning to say 'ya'll' and I like grits!"

by brooklynbadboy

So, Mitt Romney comes to the South and immediately begins to fuck up by opening his mouth:

Campaigning in Pascagoula, Miss., Romney said he is turning into an "unofficial Southerner."

"I'm learning to say 'y'all' and I like grits. Strange things are happening to me," he said jokingly.

Strange things indeed.

Will someone show this guy a soul he can leverage and buy out?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/08/1072575/-Romney-says-I-m-learning-to-say-I-like-grits-

Rmoney needs a clue manual.

[2ndAmForComputers]

1. o_O

[BumRushDaShow]

2. OMG

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Haw, haw! That 'ol Mitt, he's a wild and crazy guy, yessir.

Or maybe just a chameleon that changes colors to suit the occasion.

[ProSense]

7. Tell that

to the dozens of people who showed up:

The supporters he drew numbered several dozen and stood in the open air at the port, with a gray sky and barges as a backdrop. New Orleans jazz music was piped in.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/romney-plays-up-southern-connections/2012/03/08/gIQAdk6wzR_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost

[Cirque du So-What]

4. I'd like to buy a clue for those who promote regional chauvinism right here on DU

Viddy well, little brothers, and see that your shit-stirring words ('only in a red state,' as an example) resemble RawMoney's tone-deaf rhetoric.

[JI7]

5. this guy really does not get it

[CTyankee]

6. I am speechless. Uh, wut?

[sarcasmo]

8. His foot must be made out of chocolate

because he keeps putting his mouth in it.

[LiberalEsto]

9. "Hmmmm, this grits stuff," he thinks.

"Is that like Soylent Green? I really don't care much for ground peon, but I'll have to pretend I like the stuff until after November."

[pacalo]

16. Your first thought was more profound than mine...

I was thinking "My Cousin Mitty".

"What's a Newt?"

[liberal N proud]

10. Strange things?

:riofl:

[nolabear]

11. BWAHAHA!! I grew up in Pascagoula. He better watch it.

Those bayous are FULL of secrets.

[Thrill]

12. Comes to the South and Insults them

LOL

[Lochloosa]

35. I mean really...who doesn't like grits?

theres
cheese grits
grits with butter and salt
fried grits
shrimp and grits
grits with greens
....

[Uncle Joe]

59. Don't even get us started on the different ways to make shrimp.

[Initech]

61. Jalapeño cheese grits:

[Tom Ripley]

13. "I don't really follow slavery myself, but I am friends with a few slaveowners"

[ChairmanAgnostic]

22. is it wrong to laugh my ass off?

[Tom Ripley]

41. Not at all!

[nolabear]

14. The local paper has a short, uninterested article with NO comments in the comments section.

I read that paper fairly frequently. Those folks can get into a fight over whether rain falls up or down. Mitt? *crickets*

[ProSense]

15. LOL! n/t

[bluestate10]

17. Romney is a coreless, soul-less person.

There must be something that he will not sell out, I assume his family is that entity. But americans won't feed their families because Romney loves his family, americans need a President who has the guts to make tough decisions when those decisions are unpopular, but right for the country. Nothing about Romney leads a rational person to think that Romney will display courage when facing adversity.

[Speck Tater]

18. Clearly he is not of this planet.

He arrived here too late in life to really assimilate our human ways. Like the alien expat-on-earth that he truly is, he will always stick out, and never quite be able to pull off acting the part of a human.

[nolabear]

20. OMG! Why didn't I think of that??

(Btw, I sort of knew these men. They frequented my grandparents' cafe. They were utterly sincere.)

[bullwinkle428]

19. An octopus does not have enough tentacles to properly facepalm over this guy.

[Tennessee Gal]

21. To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen's famous response to Dan Quayle:

Governor, I was born in the South, I live in the South, the South is a friend of mine. Governor, you're no Southerner.

Now, get the hell out of my South.


Bentsen: Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

[nolabear]

23. Amen Sister!

Bless his heart.

[Tennessee Gal]

29. Yes, in the South we can say cruel things as long as we end it with "Bless his/her heart."

So this is for you, Mitt.

You are a lousy candidate and a real SOB, bless your heart.

The South is a friend of mine.

Now get the hell out of my South.

[Tennessee Gal]

30. One more thing, Mitt.

You're a real dog on car phony, bless your heart.

Now get the hell out of my South.

[anAustralianobserver]

24. Not as jaw-dropping as "who let the dogs out" but beats out "Ann's couple of Cadillacs"

[izquierdista]

25. That's with a short 'i', Mitt

Grits does not rhyme with 'tights' and 'fights'.

[Initech]

26. Watching "My Cousin Vinnie" does not make you a southerner, Mitt.

[pinboy3niner]

28. Mitt's handlers breathed an audible sigh of relief...

...when he managed to finish his Pascagoula appearance without referring to the two utes.

[Initech]

33. You know - two utes!!!

[marmar]

27. Mittens is just a genuine phony.

He can't help himself.

[siligut]

31. He just believes he is a superior human being

So he has to lower himself to even communicate with people, so any bone he throws the commoners should be welcomed with open arms.

[Honeycombe8]

32. I DO say ya'll, and I DO like grits. It may seem fakey for Romney to say that, but...

I appreciate it when people seem to like what I like, or at least try to. As for "ya'll," I don't understand why everyone doesn't have that contraction. It's such a natural thing to say.

[nolabear]

36. Really! ALL y'all ought to say y'all!

[Bake]

39. BAM!

Not everybody knows that there is a difference between "y'all" and "all y'all."

You nailed it!



Bake

[nolabear]

42. You can take the girl out of the South...

[Honeycombe8]

64. My family used to make fun of Wally in Leave it to Beaver for saying "you guys."

We got the biggest kick out of that expression. We'd imitate Wally and say to each other, "Come on, now, you guys. It's time to leave." "You guys" sounded so odd to us.

[Honeycombe8]

63. Ya'll stop it now, ya hear? nt

[dimbear]

37. I still say it once in a while and I haven't lived down south

for forty years.

It's friendly and it's plural, like the 'you' (pl) those sophisticated European languages have.

[eridani]

47. Non-sourtherners REALLY need to remember that it's PLURAL n/t

[Johonny]

34. Y'all kiss my grits

[EC]

38. Has there been a sterotype he hasn't made

fun of yet? Is he just dense or what?

[SammyWinstonJack]

52. Or what. He's phony and that comes across, even if he's too clueless to notice.

Mitt and Ann Howell RMoney. They're can adapt...

[Fumesucker]

40. Bless his heart..

[stuntcat]

56. lol

words that always make me laff!

[Major Nikon]

43. He's still not half the phony Shrub was

Shrub bought the pig farm in '99 so he could appear to be a 'man of the soil' even though he had lived his entire life in the suburbs and didn't know one end of a cow from another. He was born and raised in New England, but he put on a fake Texan accent. To make matters worse he came up with his own phrases he thought would appear colloquial but just made him look that much dumber.

[pinboy3niner]

44. He may have been coached to say 'y'all,' but the mental image he has is still...

[Rex]

45. How has this semi-intelligent creature made it so far?

Trees are supposed to be a certain height, dogs ride on top of the car and now strange things are happening to Mitt.

Like...what? He woke up with a power mullet? Hound dog appeared out of thin air along with a beat up pickup truck and a gun rack in the rear window? He likes the CMT channel now? All his sentences begin and end in a slow drawl? His wife bought some 'truck nuts' for her cadi/limo fleet? She Took up dipping snuff? Got 5 cleaning product sponser logos on the side of his RV? Developed a 'red neck' while eating at Per Se?

I can go on and on...

[Sea-Dog]

46. WOW feel that fucking indifference

[HopeHoops]

48. Does RMoney also like cornbread with shoutnin'? How 'bout some giblet gravy?

How can anyone other than Palin be that clueless?

[no_hypocrisy]

49. Yep, now he's a good ole boy . . . . .

All he needs now is a prominent Confederate Flag to fully indoctrinate him as Southern.

[lunatica]

50. And he strutted when they said, "Well, bless your heart!"

[HughBeaumont]

51. GiftTASTIC!! The "Tone Deaf" is strong in this one.

[hatrack]

53. They should have said that "grits" is southern for "polenta"

Then he really would have been able to "connect", doncha think?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

54. Other strange things will happen to him between now and November, like losing

That's gotta be the number one way for a one percenter from New England to endear himself to folks in the South...come right out of the gate and say "Y'all sure talk funny down here!"

I'm sure he likes grits, too. Right next to his dry-aged USDA Prime New York Strip Steak.

[hifiguy]

55. Jebus wept. You could beat on Mittens with a cluebat

from now until the heat death of the universe and he would still never get it.

?1305662190

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

57. If Hawaii was in play he'd wear a grass skirt and do the hula

He's Zelig, who is everyone and no one. Except Zelig was good at being someone else. With Romney, you can tell that there's basically no one inside his body except a cold soulless android who has no ability to relate to anything or anyone except an accounting report.

[SwampG8r]

58. oh good lord

dont they know when they fake it we can tell?
its like he comes to the south assuming we are half stupid
as bad as when hillary did it in2007
ok for the record....we may talk slow but this in no way evidences a slowness of thought
i have no objection to the grits part grits are delicious

[NightWatcher]

60. Southerners respond with "Bless your heart"

[Jamaal510]

62. I eat grits and oatmeal all the time

and you'll never see me bragging about it. But to be fair, even though Willard's failing miserably at it, at least he's TRYING to connect with the common man.