# Romney donor at Hamptons fundraiser feels sympathy for the common people. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 9, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719 "2012-07-09T19:08:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/21 "2012-07-10T01:15:18Z")
Oh, I think we know how the systems work. [Homer]Blade goes up, blade goes down. Blade goes up, blade goes down. Blade goes up, blade goes down.[/Homer] ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/22 "2012-07-10T01:16:20Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > What about the caddies? Won’t anyone think of the caddies? _Nannyshack_ was hilarious but the sequel sucked. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/23 "2012-07-10T01:17:11Z")
> [@](#): > > …[Homer]Blade goes up, blade goes down. Blade goes up, blade goes down. Blade goes up, blade goes down.[/Homer] I’m mentally seeing Homer as Danton, with Mo as Robespierre. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/24 "2012-07-10T01:31:31Z")
The picture of the pro-Romney counter protestor is the best thing ever: an older white man wearing khaki shorts, white knee socks, and clutching a mahogany pipe between his teeth as he strides confidently from his ginormous SUV. I’m half certain he’s really an Obama supporter engaged in a bit of street theater. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/25 "2012-07-10T01:32:08Z")
Anybody else picturing Lucille Bluth and Greg’s mom from _Dharma and Greg_? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/26 "2012-07-10T01:40:54Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > I don’t understand. Why (or, I think she meant to say, how) _is_ Obama hurting me? Afterwards, they all went to the Trans-Lux to _hiss_ him. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/27 "2012-07-10T01:46:54Z")
[Hahahahaha](http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/democrats-seize-romney-donor-quote-cast-gop-touch-201050825.html) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/28 "2012-07-10T01:47:39Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > The picture of the pro-Romney counter protestor is the best thing ever: an older white man wearing khaki shorts, white knee socks, and clutching a mahogany pipe between his teeth as he strides confidently from his ginormous SUV. I’m half certain he’s really an Obama supporter engaged in a bit of street theater. I liked that one also. He’s like a walking cliche. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/29 "2012-07-10T02:03:00Z")
I did like Rachel’s theory tonight, which was that the people quoted were actually very deep cover Billionaires for Bush protesters. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/30 "2012-07-10T02:42:12Z")
You 99 percenters just wouldn’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/31 "2012-07-10T02:47:24Z")
Not at all sure I want to, truth be told. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/32 "2012-07-10T02:49:22Z")
I think the woman is spot on. After all, the common people don’t understand how to buy and sell $125,000 horses. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/33 "2012-07-10T03:14:35Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_GsNIJlvKw) I hate Al Sharpton as only a New Yorker can. But he apparently did a dramatization of this, and it’s fairly funny. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/34 "2012-07-10T03:37:27Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Anybody else picturing Lucille Bluth and Greg’s mom from _Dharma and Greg_? I wasn’t. Is that, like, the newest slash fiction pairing? ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/35 "2012-07-10T03:38:45Z")
I think we’ve just identified the perfect [campaign song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM) for Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/36 "2012-07-10T03:59:55Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > I think the woman is spot on. After all, the common people don’t understand how to buy and sell $125,000 horses. Sure we do. We just don’t understand why anyone would want to. Buy, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/37 "2012-07-10T04:09:23Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I want to thank her for letting us know, through the reporter, that we don’t get it and shouldn’t strain our dear little heads trying to figure it out, but should just take her oh so educated and informed opinion as edict from on high and vote for her candidate. :rolleyes: And yet on this very board, many of the liberals are arguing that “common people” are too stupid to think for themselves and will be swayed by too many pro-GoP ads. I guess it’s ok for liberals to be condescending douchebags, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/38 "2012-07-10T04:31:35Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > And yet on this very board, many of the liberals are arguing that “common people” are too stupid to think for themselves and will be swayed by too many pro-GoP ads. I guess it’s ok for liberals to be condescending douchebags, huh? Actually I think what’s happening is stupid Republicans are unable to understand said arguments and are thus doing a shit job of paraphrasing them. You may now go back to boot-licking your Republican masters. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/39 "2012-07-10T04:37:10Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > And yet on this very board, many of the liberals are arguing that “common people” are too stupid to think for themselves and will be swayed by too many pro-GoP ads. I guess it’s ok for liberals to be condescending douchebags, huh? Who had 37 on the conservative tu quoque? Come down and collect your winnings! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/40 "2012-07-10T04:39:38Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > And yet on this very board, many of the liberals are arguing that “common people” are too stupid to think for themselves and will be swayed by too many pro-GoP ads. Not all of them—just the severely stupid and/or lazy ones known as “swing voters.” As misfortune would have it, they end up being the most important. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719.md?page=3)