# Let's Make Romney Into A "Regular" Guy **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 28, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952 "2012-08-28T18:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/21 "2012-08-28T22:06:37Z")
He always remembers and speaks to the “little people” by name…you know, Jim the accountant, and Bill the broker…Dave the lawyer and such like. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/22 "2012-08-28T22:09:51Z")
He gets nervous in social situations, Motherfucka He gets constipated once a month, Motherfucka He make pretty good spaghetti sauce, Motherfucka and he gets scared when he goes to see the dentist ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/23 "2012-08-28T22:23:07Z")
If you rearrange “Willard Mitt Romney” you get “Molly Mint, Ad Writer.” And who didn’t love that show? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/24 "2012-08-28T22:30:15Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > He gets nervous in social situations, Motherfucka > He gets constipated once a month, Motherfucka > He make pretty good spaghetti sauce, Motherfucka > and he gets scared when he goes to see the dentist That’s my favorite YouTube vid. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/25 "2012-08-28T23:15:54Z")
The only real way to make him a regular guy would be to magically strip away all his money and connections and force him to live several years on $25-30k doing jobs most would consider ‘menial’. However, since this is reality and that isn’t going to happen… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/26 "2012-08-28T23:20:00Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > … Why Mitt and Ann even changed diapers a few times! Yes, they found out the nanny bought the wrong brand, so they returned it to the store for an exchange. See – they go to the retail establishments! > [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > He personally picked out the Chinese orphans who make his sweat socks. And the factory to skin the orphans and tan their hides – because who likes yellow sweat socks? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/27 "2012-08-28T23:22:27Z")
He shat in a bucket when on mission in rural France. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/28 "2012-08-28T23:23:23Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Yes, they found out the nanny bought the wrong brand, so they returned it to the store for an exchange. It can be really hard, too. Most stores won’t let you return a used nanny without a fight. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/29 "2012-08-28T23:25:45Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > He shat in a bucket when on mission in rural France. To be fair, it was a champagne bucket. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/30 "2012-08-28T23:26:24Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > If you rearrange “Willard Mitt Romney” you get “Molly Mint, Ad Writer.” And who didn’t love that show? Well, as Sarah Silverman vehicles go, it was all right, I guess. I preferred _Midtown Liar Myrtle_. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/31 "2012-08-28T23:27:06Z")
In order to fit in better with the common people, Ann is teaching her horses line dancing. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/32 "2012-08-28T23:29:20Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > The only real way to make him a regular guy would be to magically strip away all his money and connections and force him to live several years on $25-30k doing jobs most would consider ‘menial’. > > However, since this is reality and that isn’t going to happen… Maybe an episode of Undercover Boss at Bain Capital? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/33 "2012-08-28T23:32:33Z")
He’s not just some privileged guy who gets handed anything he wants. Look at what happened in 2008 - he wanted to be the Republican nominee that year but they picked John McCain instead. And Mitt Romney had to wait four years, just like anyone else, before he could be the nominee for President. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/34 "2012-08-28T23:34:11Z")
Mitt knows what a gallon of milk costs. His dairy operation produces 6 million gallons per year, for a net profit of 3 million dollars. A gallon of milk costs -$2 per gallon. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/35 "2012-08-28T23:39:47Z")
Mitt sent his kids to public school – in the country he owns. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/36 "2012-08-28T23:56:39Z")
The real thing is almost as amusing as the parodies: [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/us/politics/mitt-romneys-sons-campaign-for-their-father.html?\_r=1&ref=us](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/us/politics/mitt-romneys-sons-campaign-for-their-father.html?_r=1&ref=us) > [@](#): > > In the Romney home, Saturdays were for chores; Mr. Romney grew up weeding his father’s garden, and his own children spent Saturday mornings scrubbing floors, doing yard work or helping their mother clean bathrooms, though the family could have easily hired help. I guess Saturday was the day their servants had off. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/37 "2012-08-29T00:39:51Z")
Let’s make Romney into a “regular” guy. I’m down. I’ll take most of his money. Looking for volunteers to take his houses, cars, and horses. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/38 "2012-08-29T01:07:46Z")
“Mr. Romney grew up weeding his father’s garden”? For God’s sake, his father was the president of the American Motors Corporation and the Governor of Michigan. Close the thread. We’ve achieved Poe’s Law. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/39 "2012-08-29T02:36:20Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > And he gets where the kids are coming from. His favorite Beetle is the tall one with the hat. 😃 Seriously, though, the Costco thing, and the hosing off his own car, and working in the garden, all that may be meant to be endearing, but isn’t it a little miserly? Where’s the big spending, the job-supporting lavish expenditure? His damn pension makes a bit more money _over the summer_ than the gross lifetime income of a median household! Well, about that, anyway. He can fucking buy himself a nice shirt, hire a valet, something! Ornament. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952/40 "2012-08-29T02:43:18Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > “Mr. Romney grew up weeding his father’s garden”? > > For God’s sake, his father was the president of the American Motors Corporation and the Governor of Michigan. > > Close the thread. We’ve achieved Poe’s Law. His dad was a Mexican immigrant. Of course he gardened. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-romney-into-a-regular-guy/632952.md?page=3)