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Everybody knows that poor old John McCain owns so many wonderful luxury homes in Arizona and California and Communist France that he literally has no idea how many wonderful luxury homes he owns — after all, that’s Cindy’s accounting firm’s job, counting up the stuff! But a shocking new study reveals that likely McCain running mate Mitt Romney literally owns fifty-five houses.
According to a luxury-hating group called The Center For Public Integrity, Romney owns at least four palaces just for his own enjoyment:
- His primary residence in Belmont, Massachusetts, worth $3,474,000.
- A lake home in Wolfboro, New Hampshire, worth more than $10 million.
- A ski lodge in Deer Valley in Park City, Utah.
- A house the Romneys purchased in June of this year in La Jolla, California, worth $12 million.
But one of his many companies, Whitehall Real Estate Funds, owns another 51 chunks of real estate — from fancy apartments in liberal New York to fancy castles in France and Thailand.
Little House(s) and the Veepstakes: Part Two [Center for Public Integrity]
51 homes?
How many wives does Mittens have?
One for each wife.
Ok ManchuCandidate, you are quick on the draw
Of course, if anyone on the left calls them on this, they get accused of using “The Un-American rhetoric of class warfare” and then get called “elitist” in the next breath. It will probably work because “Average Americans” literally don’t have enough brains to be capable of experiencing cognitive dissonance.
…that’s a whole lot of love nests!
He’s a true *Patriotic American* !!! One house in each great state of our nation, and one in … uh, Guam?
Hey Wonkette… late night last night? Shhh, Shhh… I know it hurts. Have this aspirin.
I waited all morning for your snark. …its okay.. its okay…
Mitt and John are just blessed. Jeebus has chosen to bless them, not you, so don’t get all bitter. The American people don’t penalize success. Unless you are a black secret Muslim.
WhatTheHeck: ManchuCandidate: …low hanging fruit anybody?
Lascauxcaveman: Puerto Rico.
RaptorAvatar: …it is class warfare. But they started the fukkin war!!!
Lascauxcaveman: District of Columbia, of course!
And he collects $200 every time he passes Go.
RaptorAvatar: Watch em’ work in the “race card” as well…
These holdings include apartments in New York, hotels in Italy and Canada, and land in Thailand and France.
Um…I guess somebody was preparing for the dollar to tank. Very astute, Mitt. Now keep your hands off the pension fund.
sezme: While using the elitist top hat, no doubt.
McCain/Mittens will reveal Their Big Plan to house the poor!
…quick someone check all his lawn companies for illegal immigrants!
I am actually stuck on the $10M house in New Hampshire. Is anything worth that in New Hampshire? My god, it must be as big as a municipal building.
And in his defense (and noting that I did not read the article), not sure we can really count properties held by his REIT as his for his personal use.
AngryBlakGuy:
If someone lobs a slow hanging curveball over the plate, you gotta swing.
AngryBlakGuy: And we already lost.
Doglessliberal: OK, sorry about that defense of Mittens. I am being too lawyerly. Back to snark!
AngryBlakGuy: Repubs started the war on the Middle Class, and we’re losing… The invasion of Iraq to drive up oil and gas prices was a masterstroke, and it’s killing us.
Yeah, but I’m sure they’re all condos.
If I owned a castle I would never leave it. And fair maidens would be a plenty.
He’s just overcompensating for that really tiny light saber.
SayItWithWookies: The house in Thailand is where he keeps all the hairless young boys…
I hear tell that Mittens has his own level of Heaven for his mansions.
Mormonism: Membership has its benefits.
If they pick Pawlenty, he’ll have only two houses.
Of course, one of them is an ice-house and smells like fish, but hey.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7zbWNznbs
Oh goody! A house for each wife!
What, you guys don’t have a castle in France? That’s what I bought with the $600 check W. sent me.
graceless: never gets old.
Doglessliberal: …to hell you can’t! Are you telling me that if Barack Obama owned a holding company, that held 51 domestic properties as well as foreign investments the Republicans wouldn’t smear him?! Fukk yeah they would! After all the shyt we have been through, I’m no longer that lovable, cuddly kind of liberal. At this point Im ready to go “Mr. Blonde” on their asses!!!
FMA: grendel: …insurgency anyone?!
So, if McCain and Romney win, at least part of the country’s housing problem is solved, as we can easily house a couple of thousand people in their 60 combined residences! Maybe some of them could be homeless folks, and illegal immigrants, too!
Doglessliberal:
New Hampshire is basically a suburb of Boston and has some of the most expensive real estate.
Doglessliberal: And $12 million for a house in California? With all the foreclosures going on in that state he could have easily picked something up for a fraction of that price! The man is obviously fiscally irresponsible.
StripesAndPlaids: You put that so much better than I could have.
Servo: Yeah, I am actually pretty familiar with it, and that just seemed high to me. The house must be huge.
France? FUCKING FRANCE? How is this guy allowed to be a Republican?
Wait, how many strapping young sons does he have? Oh. Nevermind.
What VP doesn’t have a ridiculously expensive mansion to conquer oilfields from?
A $12 mil house in La Jolla? It’s probably a 3 bedroom.
Dibs on his ski lodge when he gets his own planet.
thefrontpage: Make that 10,000 people if their Mexican.
how about some good old fashioned fudge?
I think that officially gives the WALNUTS!/Mittens team enough houses to be able to promise a night in one of them for every vote received. But to keep them out of your bed, that’ll cost you money.
Mitt Romney: Mormon slum lord. What are interest rates capped at in the Golden Plates?
Just for that smart assed crack, Romney’s buying Wonkette and shipping all the jobs to India. Sanjay and the crew will have to make with the political snark.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
“Hey, I’m not rich. The people that tell me how to vote - they’re rich.”
I’m certainly not making excuses for him, and I don’t know about the other cribs, but a $12 million home in La Jolla is equivalent to a New Orleans post-Katrina fixer upper (~$10-$15k)
No mention of Kerry? The Wonkette Trollish-American Community is slackin’.
Boston, New Hampshire, Park City, California. Mitt has lived in all the places that I have, except apparently he wasn’t subleasing basements. What a prick.
Hay, get off his back, people. Owning fifty-five houses is just as American as working three jobs.
Is it just me, or does Mittens have the greatest chin this side of Bruce Campbell?
You guys are pathetic. I have personally been in the Belmont Romney home and although it is large (they do have 5 boys) it isn’t ostentatious and is well lived in. Romney bought it a long, long time ago when it was not worth 3 million dollars. His summer home in New Hampshire isn’t anything compared to the mansions that surround it. His “lodge” is not a lodge for those of you who have ever gone skiing. It is a cabin or a mountain home…a lodge is like a ski hotel. And who cares if he paid $12 million for a home in a nice place. The man has obviously worked hard, been careful with his money and frankly I wish it was he who was being nominated for president and get us out of the amount of debt we are in. Frankly, I think you are all jealous!
thefrontpage: Genius, frontpage, my boy, genius! Best protest ever. All you need are Greyhound passes and a per diem and you’ll find a few dozen homeless camped outside each and every one of McCain’s and Mittens’ houses.
suspicious: Hmmm… Is the Belmont home so big that he never noticed you living in it? Also, my summer home isn’t nearly as big as the mansions that surround it either, namely because I don’t have one. Same with my “lodge”. I’ve similarly worked hard and been careful with my money. Do you think if we all worked hard and were careful with our money we could all own over $50 million worth of real estate?
But no, I’m not jealous, because I just found out about this Big $ale on Truck Nutz!
suspicious: If Mittens hadn’t morphed into such a self-centered fundie prick-head attack-hund I might not give a tinker’s cuss about this. But he did. So I do.
Mittens is the name of my dumbass cat. He didn’t say shit to me about being so stinking rich.
That’s not Mittens’ chin, it’s suspicious looking sycophantic growth! Walnuts’ nut-cracker growth is looking mighty suspicious as well…
The Dems don’t need a platform. They just need keys. Huge bunches of keys. During the debates, whenever either McCain or Romney says anything, Obama or Biden should pull out the huge bunch of keys and jingle them to the colossal infant that is the American electorate.
i hope he picks mittens so even if o’bama loses we can look forward to a VP mittens.
that would be an awesome historical first.
Doglessliberal: It sure sounds like a nice little hangout.
A few years back he tried to have the Massachusetts State Police set up a 250-foot perimeter in Lake Winnipesaukee around his sacred beach. The neighbors were not amused. Neither was the Manchester Union Leader. Or the NH state police, aka the guys with actual, not pretend, jurisdiction.
AngryBlakGuy: re: lawn companies. There’s a serious two weeks work for a writer to make a nice story, assuming Mitt is the VP.
NYNYNY: It’s well known Mittens is in the pocket of Big Lawn.
suspicious: Ok, three properties down, just review the other 52 for us to make sure none of them are ostentatious. Only then will I believe he’s just regular folks.
Yep, jealous…Since when is it pre-requisite to be dirt poor, or to have been dirt poor to be in the White House?
So, get off your Jealous Butts and get a job…clearly you are spending way too much time at this blog cussing and whining…that’s why you all live in shacks in the slums, eh?
I had a job. But Mitt Romney bought the company, fired everyone and sold off all the assets for profit.