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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

2012 Mitt Romney Mania Sweeps a Half-Dozen or So People

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:08 PM

First, The Onion imagined it. And now, it's real—kind of.

To be clear: These “Romniacs” are not Wall Street bigwigs or paid campaign operatives. Many of them, but not all, are Mormons like Romney. What unites them is a powerful — and unusual — excitement for a candidate who struggles to excite anybody else...The bad news is that there doesn’t appear to be that many of them — a small, eclectic scattering in a nation with 137 million registered voters.

“We are in the thousands,” said Judi Rustin, 61, the poet in Arizona. “And we all bleed red Romney blood.”...“Is anyone out there?” a user named Bob Riley wrote at Romniac.com in early March. A site administrator welcomed him. And then . . . nothing. For three weeks and two days, no other Romniacs answered his query.

I did not know about Romniac.com until I read this article, but I have now bookmarked the shit out of that site.

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Yeah, apparently there were people who were excited about Dukakis and Kerry too. Some folks have a 'gift' for psyching themselves up about even the most pathetic things.

Posted by balderdash

on March 28, 2012 at 1:22 PM

Which is about how many people will vote for anyone their TV tells them to, as long as they aren't uppity black men.

Posted by modrachlan srarmons on March 28, 2012 at 2:15 PM

Are people calling them "romnantics"? If not, can we start?

Posted by Chaka mad. Chaka real mad. on March 28, 2012 at 2:49 PM

Good lord, those comments at the last link that Paul posted... those are just flippin' *awful*! Here's one of them:

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I don't want to pay taxes for these lazy people in the Southeast sitting around waiting for a social security check! Or for their "community" services -- we all know that this is code for welfare for one specific ethnicity! Or for Obamacare, so that suddenly "entitled" "underprivileged" people are crowding my doctor's office lengthening my wait time!

Mitt knows how to turn things around, and he knows how to make the uneducated masses pay for it without noticing. We can sell them the abolishing of the EPA as "freedom" and get rid of controls for air and water that cost us billions each year, and sell cutting taxes for us and our firms as a general tax cut that "creates jobs". We need a man like Mitt to do this, we would not be able to achieve this on our own after all that happened in 2008/9. The public is not trusting us business people anymore.
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Posted by jsr1138 on March 28, 2012 at 2:55 PM