What a socially awkward doofus he is.
However, I’m pretty sure Mitt can bowl more than 43 like Obama did.
Well, at least we know Mittens is not a cookie monster. The quest for a suitable adjective continues.
Candidate not familiar with local thing. Gasp! Man, it’s only April and we’re already arguing over cookies, dog mistreatment, and phony economic advice from moms. The stupidity is going to be even more painful in September and October and November.
It’s not about the cookies, it’s about his inability to humanly relate to people in a completely staged “picnic” environment. Someone is giving him a cookie and his response is to say “I dunno, did you get these at 7-11?” WTF?
Yeah, no matter how silly this is, at the end of the day it can still be summed up as “Your cookies (and hospitality) are inadequate.” If nothing else, it’s just plain fucking rude.
Also, I find the treatment of the dog to be a wholly legitimate data point to consider in one’s assessment of Mitt Romney’s character and decision-making prowess.
I cringed when I saw the video. I am not a Romney fan, but wow, that guy sure is a doofus, and I usually feel sorry for doofuses (or is that doofi), having been one as a younger person. In this case, he just comes off as clueless and somewhat rude. “Hey, these cookies look like they came from 7-11.” How can you interpret that as anything other than, “hey these cookies are cheap and probably taste like convenience store food.”
It’s not that; it’s that he screwed up a staged photo op with hand-picked participants. It’s like an actor having only to come into the scene and say, “Jackie, the phone’s ringing,” but taking 30 takes to get it right.
How in the hell could Romney screw up something so scripted? What in the hell were his handlers thinking?
I can’t remember the last time that I’ve seen someone so clearly uncomfortable in their own skin. That discomfort isn’t going to help him in the campaign at all.
I thought this too. Didn’t his handlers tell him the cookies were from a loved local bakery?
Then I thought… why does a presidential candidate need handlers to manage a lemonade and cookie round table with 8 people?
It seems to me that he was probably trying to say “These look too good to be homemade. You got them at a store, right?” Romney’s populist touch being what it is, nobody had said they were homemade and they turned out to be from a famous local bakery. At least he didn’t ask if they were dusted with white truffles.
By now his handlers should know that when he is with regular voters, there is a very high likelihood he will say something confusingly out of touch.
That’s life in politics. What part of it isn’t insane?
Yeah, I’ll just go ahead and let DianaG speak for me here. It’s not the cookies or the dog, per se, it’s the reasoning and behavior behind them that concerns me. After all, we’ve already had one prez get sick and upchuck all over a prime minister’s lap, and another prez give a different prime minister a wholle inappropriate and unwanted back rub.
(Self nitpick: I know Bush The First threw up because he was genuinely ill. But I also know Romney said what he did because he’s rude, arrogant, and utterly clueless.)
And now you know.
I was thinking of an answer, then read this one, and decided I couldn’t say it any better.
I’m sure he was told the cookies were from a favorite local bakery, setting up a possible future press the flesh for Romney. It would have worked great, too.
“These cookies are great, did you make them?”
“Oh no, we picked them up at [local bakery]”
“I’ll need to drop by there while I’m in town.”
He drops by there and buys cookies for his entourage, and the next day we get Regular-guy Romney buys cookies at [local bakery] stories. Instead this happened:
Remember to mention the cookies.
“I’m not sure about these cookies.”
What? Wait - you can recover, quick ask if they had made them.
“They don’t look like you made them. Did you make those cookies? You didn’t, did you? No. No."
Crap! Just ask about the bakery! Where would regular people buy cookies?
"They came from the local 7-Eleven bakery or wherever.”
Nailed it!
Why does that conversation play in my head with Homer’s and Homer’s brain voices?
Maus Magill, thanks for a great belly laugh. That must have been exactly how it went down.
I’m pretty sure it’s doofodes.
I thought for sure he threw in 7-11 to make him sound like a regular guy. I’m not an out of touch millionaire - “I go to 7-11 and buy cookies, like normal people!” I mean, really…how often do you think that guy is in a 7-11?
7-Eleven bakery or wherever.
That’s the part that gets me. At first I thought, well, maybe he can play this off and make it seem as if he was actually paying the cookie-maker a compliment. But that last line just can’t be ignored.
If I were a Republican, I’d be calling for a do over. Romney’s a hot mess.