2012 GOP Candidates
Taiwanese Animation: Mutt Romney Edition. Next Media Cartoon of Romney Dog Strapped to Roof
This is one of those times that I tell you that conservatives ignore things like these “Taiwanese Animations” at their own peril.
These cartoons are stupid, and they almost always get the facts wrong, but the majority of people who share these little clips via social networking enjoy them — and actually get their news from these things.
Pretending they don’t exist, or that “they’re stupid and don’t matter” is foolish.
The saga of “Mutt Romney” — the name that’s now being assigned to the Romney family dog Seamus who was strapped to the roof of their car in the 80s for a long ride to Canada — is evolving every day, with new details taking hold in the imaginations of those laying the groundwork to bring Romney down in a general election if he becomes the nominee.
Here are a few bits that the Taiwanese cartoon captured that you might not appreciate yet:
* Comparison is already being made — by the White House — between how Barack Obama treats his dog Bo (who rides in limos and in private planes and is pampered) to Willard “Mittens” Romney strapping his dog to the roof of his car; if you are a Romney supporter, you need to admit this is a PR nightmare and work to disarm it now
* The story’s growing, so it’s no longer about the dog being only strapped to the car and becoming so terrified he exploded with diarrhea — but it’s also delving into the family’s arrival in Canada where the dog was so traumatized he ran away from the Romneys; the dog’s becoming an almost sentient creature in these expanding tales, where he chooses to leave the Romneys after bad treatment. The Tolerant Left is using this as a secular parable to illustrate how voters should run away from Romney too.
* The “Mutt Romney” saga is obligatorily being called “Crate Gate”, in Watergate fashion
* The Tolerant Left is alleging — through sites such as Dogs Against Romney – that Mittens cruelly drove the family car through a car wash, with Seamus “Mutt” Romney still strapped to the top, to wash it off after the dog sprayed the car with diarrhea. This is apocryphal, of course, but like Tina Fey’s “I can see Russia from my house” line that was used to malign Governor Palin, the Left’s unconcerned about facts and instead seeks to push a damaging narrative against Republicans. With Palin, the Tolerant Left depicted her as stupid and chose lines of attacks that used lines from Tina Fey to convince millions of Americans she said things she didn’t; in Mittens’ case, the Left’s objective is to paint him as cruel, callous, and uncaring and to claim he abused his dog, strapped it to the roof of a moving vehicle, and then dragged it through a car wash to clean it.
I truly implore you to start paying attention to the “Mutt Romney” issue and to ignore the fools in conservative ranks who always say, “It doesn’t matter what Hollywood says or what people are saying on that Facebook thing!”. If Romney ends up being the nominee, this diarrhea-spewing-dog-strapped-to-the-roof-of-a-car visual will alienate this man from millions of dog owners (estimated to be 38% of the population), dog lovers (estimated around 70% of the population), and pet owners of some type (around 80% or so of Americans, at one point in their life or another).
This is a big, woofing, deal.
Mutt Romney Issue: People Get Pulled Over By Cops For Doing What Mitt Romney Did With Impunity Back in 1980-something
[Click above to embarken: The Seamus Express — “Mutt Romney” issue that could derail general election campaign}
The Facebook group Dogs Against Romney was abuzz yesterday with the revelation that people in the year 2012 get pulled over by the police for driving with dogs strapped to the roofs of their cars — for those unaware, this is the “Mutt Romney” issue that will dog his candidacy in the general election if Romney indeed becomes the Republican nominee for president.
The photo above was posted on Dogs Against Romney and is purported to be a shot of a police cruiser after it pulled over the driver for suspected animal abuse. In reality, it was a Dogs Against Romney member who strapped that carrier to the roof in a protest against Romney.
Before I post the comments left by the Tolerant Left eviscerating Romney on the “Mutt Romney” issue, I implore Romney supporters out there to aggressively encourage any contacts you have on the Romney campaign to get out in front of this issue before Barack Obama has a chance to use this against him in the general election.
I suspect the reason the White House has so prominently flown Bo the Dog around in special planes and drives him all sorts of places in limos is so that at some point during the campaign Obama will start making jokes about how his dog rides inside while Romney strapped his dog Seamus to the roof.
This is going to happen. If Romney’s your guy, disarm this attack NOW while you still can.
Rick Santorum Won Himself A Second Look Last Night
A few days ago, I had an interesting exchange with someone from Palin circles whom I’ve been working with on different things for a few years now — and who I thought I’d be volunteering on a Palin 2012 campaign with right now. This is someone I respect and admire very much who is now working behind the scenes on behalf of Rick Santorum. I found that interesting and started to take another look at him because of not only her, but also because of things another person I respect very much, Andrea Shea King, has said regarding Santorum on her radio show.
My next act was to monitor the Tolerant Left on Facebook to see how the most crazed individuals over there respond to Santorum — and he makes these people as apoplectic as they get whenever railing against Governor Palin or President George W. Bush.
I have a not infallible rule of thumb/acid test in life that requires me to take a second look at anything that sends those on the Tolerant Left into fits and convulsions, because 80% of the time something these people hate with burning passion is something that’s actually good for the country. There are instances — like with SOPA/PIPA and the plot to censor and destroy the Internet as we know it — where the Tolerant Left emerges from the wilderness and accidentally lands on the right side of something, but that’s so rare I can’t even think of another example besides SOPA/PIPA off the top of my head. Maybe they’re really wrong 99% of the time, though I was trying to be generous.
My beef against Santorum has always been that I just didn’t like the guy on a personal level for the weasely stunts he pulled in Pennsylvania with his residency status and the tuition scam he pulled with his kids when they were “cyber learning”. I lived in Pittsburgh when he was a sitting Senator and was heavily influenced by my neighbors — who railed against him every day over these two issues. I also can’t help but associate him with the smear campaign launched against him by gay activist Dan Savage, who deliberately engineered an Internet meme where Santorum’s last name was redefined as “santorum”, a new word coined for a varietal of fecal matter.
For the longest time I thought Savage prevented Santorum from attaining a national political career with that smear campaign, but I’ve reconsidered the reality of this in light of how the general public will react to it in a general election matchup against Barack Obama.
For one thing, the Tolerant Left will rev up emotional, often crazed attacks against the ultimate Republican nominee. Willard “Mittens” Romney will be attacked as a Wall Street stock villain — and he’ll be mocked for his “magic underwear” and for strapping his dog to the roof of his car (see: Romney, Mutt). New Gingrich would be savaged for his serial adultery and the apocryphal story that he divorced his wife Jackie (who is very much still alive today) while she was dying of cancer (which she never had). The big thing the Tolerant Left will smack Santorum with is the fact that some Gaystapo agent engineered a malicious stunt where Santorum’s family name was bismirched, just because Google allowed this tactic to be effective.
Out of the three of them, the Tolerant Left has the least material to work with in Santorum — a man who is unknown to many Americans, still.
It’s also going to be hard for Tolerant Leftists to bring much attention to attacks on Santorum made by the Gaystapo because it then invites conservatives to question Barack Obama’s gay past, his sexual encounters with Larry Sinclair, his relationships with Kal Penn, Reggie Love, Nick Colwin, and everything else strange and seedy about his past (including his frequent visits to Man’s Country bathhouse here in Chicago).
I guarantee the Obama campaign won’t want to go there and will discourage the Gaystapo from taking the “santorum” with a small-s propaganda to the national stage.
Looking back on Santorum’s performances in the debates, he’s handled himself very well. He’s sharp, a clear and crisp speaker, and I believe what he’s saying when he talks to the camera. I also feel sorry for him regarding not only what the Tolerant Left did to him with Dan’s savage “santorum” Google bombing, but the emotional terrorism directed at the Santorums over their lost child, a son named Gabriel.
In light of his trifecta of wins last night, it’s time to learn more about what sort of general election candidate Santorum would be and if he could indeed effectively take the fight to Barack Obama in a general election matchup.
I don’t believe Romney would beat Obama and have yet to see anything from this lackluster and uninspiring candidate to prove otherwise.
I think Gingrich would win, but it would be messy, and the Tolerant Left would have plenty of old distractions to rehash in the general election.
I wonder if Santorum is a punch out of left field that the Tolerant Left never saw coming — and which they’d be completely and devastatingly unprepared for.
I want to spend today reevaluating Santorum in light of his stunning and historically unprecedented triple-punch to the Cocktail Party GOP establishment last night in Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado. If you saw Romney’s brittle concession speech, you’ll know he was shattered over the results — because “it’s his turn to be the nominee!” and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment promised this to him. That was the first time I have seen in this election a realization on Romney’s face that people just can’t stand him and want him off the stage, no matter how many elites push him forward.
Can you help answer these five questions about Rick Santorum today, with your own opinions?
1. What attacks — besides the “santorum” gay smear and the emotional terrorism related to his deceased son — do you think the Tolerant Left would launch against Santorum in the general election? NOTE: This matters because a good portion of the public decides whom to vote for over Halloween weekend before the November 6th election. That means that whether you like it or not, the vile attacks the Tolerant Left uses to define Republicans to the public matter. I want to know what else the Leftists will do to aim the Alinsky Death Star at Santorum.
2. Do you believe Santorum would repeal Obamacare and not rest until it was completely removed from the books?
3. Do you trust Santorum to decimate entitlement programs and declare war on public employee unions (as I believe the next president needs to do if the country’s to be saved from financial ruin)?
4. Do you think Santorum as President would care a lick about what the elite, agenda-driven media thinks of him?
5. Does the Cocktail Party fear and loathe Santorum and does Santorum embrace and embody the Tea Party spirit?
If you can think of another question we should be asking today, chime in below and perhaps others will answer it for you.
If you are someone who is vehemently opposed to Santorum too, I want to hear from you, too, because today is all about giving Santorum a fair chance and considering whether or not he deserves support going forward. Either he or Gingrich needs to drop out of the race soon so the Not-Romney vote can solidify behind someone who can stop Mittens…and I am now officially open to supporting either of these men to thwart the Cocktail Party’s coronation of Willard “Mittens” Romney.
Why Mitt Romney Will Lose to Barack Obama: Dogs Against Romney and “I Ride Inside” Campaign
Anticipating that the Cocktail Party GOP establishment will succeed in crowing Willard “Mittens” Romney the 2012 Republican nominee, Democrats have ginned up the DogsAgainstRomney.com website and have launched an interactive “I Ride Inside” campaign — where dog owners are encouraged to take pictures of their pets riding inside cars, as opposed to Seamus “Mutt” Romney (the family pet that Romney strapped to the top of his car on a long trip to Canada in the mid-1980s).
There’s a Facebook group that adds new “I Ride Inside” images every day — often generating hundreds of irate comments from people who swear to punish Romney in the general election for what he did to his Irish setter, Seamus.
For some reason, far too many Republicans are failing to see how big of a deal this “Mutt Romney” issue will be if Romney becomes the nominee.
While it’s true that Democrats will malign whoever becomes the Republican nominee, there are some lines of attack that are more effective and emotional than others, with visuals that the Tolerant Left is able to expertly twist to clobber Republicans in elections. Abuse of animals is one of these areas, since there’s no way to argue that “people back in the 80s didn’t know better and what he did wasn’t all that bad”.
Sarah Palin never said “I can see Alaska from my house”, but that didn’t matter to the millions of people who bought the Democrats’ line of attack that she was stupid and this was proof.
Millions of people will not buy Romney’s weak explanation for why he strapped his dog to the roof of his car — they will only pay attention to the “I Ride Inside” efforts and concur it was cruel, cold, and callous of Romney to tie his dog to the roof and barrel down the highway.
Has anyone ever been elected to high office whose opponents accused him of cruelty to animals as beloved as dogs?
If you’re a Romney fan who is reading this, instead of your typical behavior (which is to be angry that I am bringing this issue up) why not try to find a way to disarm this “Mutt Romney” attack before the general election.
I honestly don’t know how to do that — but if you are someone who is convinced that Romney can beat Obama, I would like to know how you prevent the “I Ride Inside” angle from being effectively used against him.
Thoughts?
Below the fold I copied just one of the lengthy exchanged on Facebook over this so that you can see for yourself how revved up animal lovers get over “Mutt Romney” once they find out about the “Seamus strapped to the roof of the car” story:
Created and shared by pack member Amanda Gilman. This is Bailey. Woof!
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Geraldine Mongold in her own little fuzzy pouch! do those come in people size?Friday at 10:01pm · ·
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Muriel MacKenzie Breaks my heart when I hear of animal abuse. If only the human who hurt the animal could endure the same punishment.Friday at 10:08pm · · 5 -
Jane Ellen Bergren you got that right murielFriday at 10:12pm · · 1 -
Constance Gilchrist Lightly Sadly so many people don’t know the potential danger they are putting their dogs in when they drive around with their heads and eyes out the window. Also they are just a projectile if hit from behind in a vehicle. Great post ♥ ♥ ♥Friday at 10:13pm · · 1 -
Bonnie Bridgman Pullen My dogs have car seats, are harnessed in and in the back seat!Friday at 10:26pm · · 2 -
Thad McManus Our two dog-children always travel in harnesses. In the car, and on our bikes. Can’t find a good dog bike helmet, tho.Friday at 10:31pm · · 2 -
Peggy Shabalabadingdong Are these bumper stickers? If not they should be! If they are I want one…….Friday at 10:58pm · -
Dogs Against Romney No not bumper stickers. The photos aren’t high resolution for printing. But I’ll work on some designs that can be bumper stickers. We DO have some other bumper stickers tho: http://www.cafepress.com/dogsagainstromney
Sells Official Dogs Against Romney merchandise including t-shirts, mugs, coffee cups, bumper stickers, and more.Friday at 11:05pm · -
Jim Adams I think Bailey should be the mascot, perfect. When I first heard this story I couldn’t believe the type of person who would do this. I don’t pretend to understand people but wow, just wow. Imperious much, Mitt ?Saturday at 6:43am · -
Cathy Savage Llama Obama’s dog, Bo, rides in the limo. Romney’s dog, Seamus rode up on the roof rack. If dogs could vote it would be a landslide of epic proportions.Saturday at 11:27am · · 9 -
Debra Warrens LOVE IT! TOO CUTE!Saturday at 2:06pm ·
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Ron Paul Won Nevada Caucus – And Nevada Voters Lost
Ron Paul speaks in Minnesota, H/T The Daily Beast
While you were busy enjoying your bread and circuses yesterday, operatives from the Nevada GOP–aided and abetted by all four cable “news” networks–were busily manipulating the results of the Nevada Caucuses, handing another undeserved victory to Mittens “It’s My Turn, Peasants” Romneycare.
You probably aren’t aware of this, because the TeeVee told you that Mitt Romney won, nothing to see here, move along now, after a mere 5% of the vote had been counted.
But what the TeeVee didn’t tell you–for about an entire day–is that the Nevada GOP refused to release the results from Clark County, Nevada’s most populous county and the home of 60% of Nevada’s registered voters. In fact, as of this writing, more than 30 hours after the last caucus closed, the Nevada Caucuses are still not decided. (Well, not in the “lawfully and transparently counting the votes to see who got the most” sense. They’ve already been decided in the “we count the votes, and we already decided in advance that Mittens was going to win” sense.)
Here’s some coverage of the “special caucus” that Newt’s billionaire casino magnate backer bought for him. It was the last caucus that took place, and is in Clark County, where 60% of all Nevada voters are located. Later that night, CNN also aired the live counting of the votes at that caucus. In the video below, CNN joins the event at the point where the candidates’ supporters were giving stump speeches. Over two dozen caucus voters spoke on Ron Paul’s behalf, in an audience that was expected to be largely Seventh-Day Adventists and Orthodox Jews. Romney, Gingrich and Santorum only inspired two or three supporters to speak on their behalf, according to one witness who voted at the caucus.
Here are the results, counted and announced live on CNN:
Ron Paul: 183
Mittens Romney: 61
Newt Gingrich: 57
Rick Santorum: 16
It’s remarkable that the total is so high, given the fact that the caucus organizers forced those who wanted to vote to sign a “religious declaration” affidavit before giving them a ballot, likely in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
Even with religious discrimination the results favored Ron Paul, as the Paul campaign expected, based on their internal polling. (At some point in the past two weeks, I read that the Paul campaign had identified over 20,000 definite Ron Paul voters in advance of the caucuses. I’ll post a source if I can find it.)
Ron Paul’s vote totals have more than doubled in every primary or caucus so far over his 2008 totals, and since he has had a massive organization in Nevada for four years, and Nevada is a libertarian state, he was expected to either win or tie for first place. And in the ONE large Clark County caucus where the votes were counted in public, on live television, Ron Paul won by a landslide, as was expected.
Apparently, that was bad news for those in the Cocktail Party GOP in Nevada.
Miraculously, “irregularities” were quickly found that required the party operatives to sequester themselves in a smoke-filled room and “recount” the votes from Clark County (until they get the totals they had decided upon in advance?)
At 3:10 a.m. Monday, nearly 10% of the votes have still not been reported. At this point, Ron Paul is listed in third place with only 5,901 votes–fewer votes than he received in 2008, when he placed second to Mitt Romney in the Nevada caucuses.
And just as miraculously, the chairwoman of the GOP in Nevada resigned effective 12:01 Sunday morning, in a move she claimed was pre-planned and had nothing whatsoever to do with the voter fraud the Nevada GOP was apparently undertaking.
Here’s a shorter version of events of the caucus voting and counting.
Move along, peasants. Nothing to see here. Turn up the surround sound and pass the hot wings.
Saturday Night Live Cold Open: Newt Gingrich as Moon President
[Click above to embiggen: Saturday Night Live depicted Newt Gingrich as President of the Moon and Willard "Mittens" Romney as a disgraced cross-dresser in the cold open to the February 4th, 2012 episode ]
Saturday Night Live cold-opened its February 4th, 2012 show with a sketch predicting Barack Obama’s easy win over Cocktail Party GOP establishment “it’s his turn to be the nominee!” favorite Willard “Mittens” Romney and a future where, in the middle of the second term the Cocktail Party handed Obama, Democrats’ socialist push collapses America as we know it and literally destroys our planet.
In the sketch, Newt Gingrich continued pushing for a permanent lunar base after Romney’s coronation in the GOP primaries; just two years later this is not only built, but colonized with the 13,000 residents that would enable the base to petition for statehood (far-fetched, yest, but remember this was the stuff that kids grew up dreaming was possible up until sometime in the late 1980s when the Tolerant Left took full control of our schools and stopped inspiring children to dream of a bold and history-making future for our country).
The writers decidedly lampooned Gingrich because it’s clear that Saturday Night Live wants Romney to be the Republican nominee – so their prediction of Obama’s re-election comes true.
Many of you, no doubt, are saying, “Well, I don’t care about Saturday Night Live” or “That show hasn’t been funny for years” and these things are most definitely true — but you are foolish to pretend that millions of Americans don’t watch this show or at least hear about it on Monday morning from the twenty-somethings that occupy space in your office’s cubicle farms and parrot everything they see on TV that they believe ridicules conservatives.
Saturday Night Live’s goal was to mock Gingrich so that the nomination could be locked up for Romney — which is part of the larger plan to ensure Barack Obama gets to select the Republican he most wants to run against.
Herman Cain’s in the skit as part of Gingrich’s “Ad-moon-istration”, with the sole purpose of making crass sexual jokes (because the Tolerant Left wants to discourage black men from being conservative and identifying as Republican, so it’s pushing this meme of Cain being unable to control himself sexually to inhibit other blacks from wanting to be conservative like him).
Ronald Reagan’s consciousness has been programmed into a robot that now advises Gingrich on the moon — and a joke you’ll see coming light years away involves the robot mistaking Romney for an android too.
Romney, by the way, has become a cross-dresser in the future and traveled to the moon disguised as a woman, still disgraced by losing the 2012 general election in a race Republicans should have won — if only they hadn’t nominating the “it’s his turn to be nominee!” guy in the same pattern that delivered Bob Dole and John McCain to voters (who then rejected them because they were not the smart choice to run against the Democrat in the years the Cocktail Party chose to run these guys).
Saturday Night Live, as always, went light on Romney; the robot joke and the cross-dressing were as bad as it got for him last night. During the general election, if Romney’s the nominee, you can count on the actor playing him to appear exclusively in “magic underwear” (what the Tolerant Left will call Mormons’ sacred garment) and be portrayed as a cross between Gordon Gecko and the polygamist from Big Love. There will also be lots of “Mutt Romney” stuff too — that’s the bit that’s being saved to attack Romney for strapping his dog to the top of his car on a family trip, which caused the dog to rain diarrhea down the back windows. Saturday Night Live will probably create a new puppet character for “Mutt Romney” similar to Tounces, the Driving Cat because that one anecdote from Romney’s past is just such fertile ground for the Tolerant Left to use in alienating Romney from voters in a general election.
What I’m most struck by after watching this skit, however, is how obvious it is to me that the only way Barack Obama is re-elected is if Willard “Mittens” Romney is the nominee. Everyone seems to know this, except the Cocktail Party GOP establishment (which commits itself years in advance to running whichever candidate has the “next turn”, regardless of what voters want that year) and people who, for whatever reason, like Romney for personal reasons.
I agree the guy is handsome and is probably a very nice person — and he could have won in 2008 — but 2012 is not the year to run someone who can so easily be caricatured as a Wall Street villain with weird, off-putting personality traits in a year when voters are being ginned up against this exact caricature by Occupy Wall Street and Obama’s own off-putting and alien nature is at issue.
When Earth exploded in this Saturday Night Live sketch, I thought about the Superman comics and how, months before the planet Krypton was destroyed, Jor-El (father of the baby Kal-El who would be rocketed to Kansas and grow up to become Superman) desperately tried to convince the idiots in the Kryptonian establishment that everyone was doomed unless someone took action to prevent a clearly telegraphed catastrophe.
The Cocktail Party on Krypton probably didn’t think it was Jor-El’s turn, yet, to be listened to and so they most likely took the advice of the guy who lost to the guy who got the planet into its mess in the first place.
As depressing as this feels, it’s precisely what those in the Cocktail Party GOP establishment are doing in pushing Romney to the nomination in 2012 in much the same way these very people pushed Dole and McCain to their primary wins — in the years they went on to lose (as predicted) to Democrats in the general election.
I know the takeaway Saturday Night Live wanted people to have from this episode was that Gingrich is too big of a dreamer and his push for a moon base is absurd…but instead I see the planet’s explosion in the sketch as a clarion call of Kryptonian proportions that perhaps you can help answer.
How can you convince others to see the elite, agenda-driven media (in the form of shows like SNL) is doing everything it can to push Romney towards the nomination because these people believe Barack Obama has the best chance to beat him in the general election?
It’s His Turn to Be the Nominee!
“But, it was our turn!”
Ladies and gentlemen — the Cocktail Party GOP establishment: pushing to nomination the precise candidate that Democrats most want to run against since 1996.
