Mitt Romney Ohio Campaign Stop Interrupted By Protesters

[Grassy Knoll]

Source: Huffingtonpost


TROY, Ohio -- Protesters shouted throughout Mitt Romney's campaign appearance in Ohio with House Speaker John Boehner.

Romney on Sunday gave an abbreviated campaign speech from the bed of a pickup truck in Boehner's hometown of Troy. A small but noisy group of protestors shouted throughout his speech, which lasted about six minutes. The protesters shouted, "Romney go home!"

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/17/mitt-romney-ohio-protesters_n_1604420.html

[s-cubed]

1. I grew up near Troy. That's a pretty conservative area of Ohio. But I still don't like

preventing someone (even a robot) from speaking.

[jaysunb]

2. I agree and agree :)

That area is definitely not a liberal bastion and I hope this kind of rude behavior will stop on both sides.

[magic59]

7. Well, its war

Class warfare and the right wing thugs aren't pulling any punches. Its time for the left to kick some fascist azz.

[Jerry Frey]

9. then you'd be kicking your own

Decide for yourself - neo-liberalism.


http://napoleonlive.info/economics/class-warfare-facts-3/

[MADem]

15. The video linked downthread looked entirely civil to me.

If RMoney/Robme wants to have a "rally" a half a block from the Dem HQ, he deserves to get a little pushback.

He has money, we have people.

[FarPoint]

20. Lots and lots of Ron Paul supporters in the Troy area.

They could of been there; disruptive and all... telling the republicans to go home...the Democratic group just seems to be targeted as disruptor's via assumption in the Huffington Post article...no supporting evidence to the claim that the Democratic group was unruly.

[K8-EEE]

23. Please remember that Romney admits to sending people out to heckle Axelrod

So obviously he approves of heckling? Hard to feel bad for him....

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/mika-brzezinski-condemns-romneys-support-of-axelrod-hecklers-its-rude-and-childish-actually/

[GoCubsGo]

26. Exactly right.

Normally, I don't condone this sort of behavior. However, these people also likely were high-fiving each other when that asshole heckled the President on Friday. If you're going to dish that kind of shit out, you better be prepared to take it yourself.

[FarPoint]

8. Looks very appropriate and civil to me...

Here is a local news link to the Democratic protest.

http://www.whiotv.com/videos/news/troy-democrats-respond-to-romney-rally/vcMt8/

[awoke_in_2003]

12. I agree...

Let te robot make an ass of himself

[Scairp]

16. I love it

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Maybe it's a sign that Ohio is finally waking up to the right wing Republican bullshit. And the hell with letting him speak. Why, so he can tell more bald-faced lies about almost every topic he talks about? Fuck him. This was great!

[INdemo]

18. Where did these protesters come from?

The media probably, Fascist News, will be comparing this to the White House ordeal..saying its worse or whatever....

[amerciti001]

3. What goes around ,comes around...

As to the belligerent A**hole that Neil Munro displayed when the President of the United State was speaking, this works both ways. I agree that Romney should go home-in others, he needs to crawl back under the rock that he came out from under.

[awoke_in_2003]

13. Welcome to du...

But someone should try to act like adults- hopefully, it will be us

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

25. Seems like when we act like adults we lose. We've been acting like adults for

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three years now, and look what's happened?

When the Teabaggers act like petty, racist children, they get nonstop, media-friendly coverage, an American populace that have largely been duped by their ideas, and record filibusters and obstruction in the halls of Congress.

Frankly, I'm sick of being the grown up here. We continue to lose elections as a result. I'm not suggesting that nastiness is the key, but we need to be more forceful, less softspoken and milquetoast. It's not doing us any favors.

[GoCubsGo]

27. Yup, but I have one quibble with what you just said.

Not once have the Teabaggers ever acted like anything remotely resembling adults. We keep hearing them spew "Elections have consequences!" BS regarding the 2010, despite their never ever having accepted the consequences of the 2008 election. It's all their childish "It's my way or the highway" crap, regardless of what is the will of the people. These bullies don't understand what it means to act like an adult. The only cure their antics, if there is any, is giving them a taste of their own medicine.

[jberryhill]

4. And they will say this justifies their bus-circling thing

Trying to shout down a speaker is not an exercise in free speech.

[Kolesar]

17. bus-circling, like when Nixon circled the White House with transit busses

...during the big peace rally?

[jberryhill]

21. Uh, no...

Last week's horror was this:

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/romney-campaign-bus-circling-honking-at-obama-supporters.php

Romney’s campaign bus — adorned with the words “Conservative. Businessman. Leader” today repeatedly honked at and took several laps around a group of Obama supporters before a campaign speech to be given by President Obama in Cleveland today, according to a tweet by CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller.

[Kolesar]

22. How fracking childish ... eom

[GoCubsGo]

28. No doubt it's the short bus.

[Iliyah]

5. Preventing, yeah right

I find no corporate media spouting this huh? No corporate media claiming that he is a coward? Nope. The bus knew and was afraid.

2008 - Barry confronted a women who refused his hand, but he not knowing still cared about her.

[TheDebbieDee]

6. This "Let's be polite," and "Take the high road," attitude of democrats is one of the reasons

that repukes step all over progressives and liberals with impunity.........They KNOW that at the very worst we'll only complain about the the way we're treated.

I get so tired of being affiliated with a group of weak-kneed people who seem so powerless that no one thinks twice about disrespecting them............

We should stop being so nice - we should heckle their stupid candidates and ridicule their stupid positions. We should pointedly ask the questions that the media won't. And if their candidate won't answer, we should KEEP asking those questions.

[Bozita]

10. The meek shall inherit the Earth, six feet of it!

Good post.

[truthisfreedom]

11. He's NOT the President. He's NOBODY but an empty suit with a shitload of ill-gained money.

Fuck Rmoney.

[hrmjustin]

14. There will be more!!!

[citysyde]

19. No national coverage of this on the TV machines?

I bet Fox News won't mention something like this, now, will they?

[IamK]

24. no interruption was mentioned on local tv...

http://www.whiotv.com/s/news/

video- about 3 people at the end of the video...