• May 27, 2012

Exclusive Video of Mitt Romney Raising $10.25 Million Yesterday

by Jack Stuef  7:47 pm May 16, 2011


THERE’S OUR MITTENS! He did it! That’s 10 mill right there!

A whole lot of old white guys who could have donated herds and herds of goats to starving villages to raise and improve their livelihoods instead “maxxxed out” to the second failure campaign of a fellow very, very rich white man who can actually fund this retirement adventure himself. Aww, doesn’t he just look so peaceful and trustworthy with that shoe in his mouth?

“We are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support for Governor Romney’s campaign,”

said a person who only gets one life to live on this planet but for some reason has decided to spend it with the less interesting Mormon in this contest of utter losers.

“The results are a strong indication of the national enthusiasm for Governor Romney and his pro-jobs platform.”

Oh, so it was the unemployed and those worried about their future employment who donated to this rich fuck! Probably not the best financial decision, but considering the financial decisions of most of our countrymen, it’s not bad, relatively.

Fuck it. We all die Saturday anyway. [The Hill]

{ 74 comments }

BloviateMe May 16, 2011 at 7:52 pm

Pro-jobs platform.

I love that, the intimation that others have an anti-job platform.

Silly wingnuts.

noodlesalad May 16, 2011 at 7:54 pm

Yes, because all the big political donors giving millions to Mittens are really concerned with jobs. He didn't say American jobs, so it's technically true.

Texan_Bulldog May 16, 2011 at 7:55 pm

Wow! He's taking the term 'spit shine' to a whole new level. I think he'd do a bang up job cleaning windshields, though.

I like how the dude next to him acts like it's an everyday thing to sit next to some guy licking his shoe. People are weird.

DaRooster May 17, 2011 at 1:15 am

Just don't turn on the wipers… that would be mean…

riverside68 May 17, 2011 at 10:26 am

Ahh I gather from your comment that you are not a regular rider of the NYC mass transit system.

Anyone not obviously armed, not loudly complaining about aliens or ex's, or 'asking' for money, or too smelly to sit in the same car with, is totally cool. They want to lick their shoes, okay, as long as the feet aren't toxic and they don't try to lick your shoes, it is all good.

V572..whatever May 16, 2011 at 7:56 pm

Huntsman 2012: Not a bootlicker, and speaks Mandarin to boot!

GeneralLerong May 16, 2011 at 7:57 pm

Well, when you have to spend those Medicare vouchers and discover your new Medicare only covers 50% of the quarter mil it's gonna take to deal with that cancer, you, too, will be seeking a job.

Although it would probably be more lucrative to stand on a busy corner with a hand-lettered cardboard sign, recycling that box you found in the alley dumpster.

Gleem_McShineys May 16, 2011 at 8:34 pm

This is the new Republican health care plan.

Lick all the filth you stomp through all day off your shoes with your own tongue, and if you don't die from it, consider yourself stronger!

Plus, it is bonus practice for when you serve/service one of the Koch Class' actual shoe leather (or other leathery appendages)

KeepFnThatChicken May 16, 2011 at 7:59 pm

Riley? That you? I knew you couldn't stay away. You're just writing as Steuf to throw us off, erncha?

samsuncle May 16, 2011 at 8:01 pm

Thank you sweet baby Jebus for not making me ride the subway to work every day.

Dashboard_Jesus May 17, 2011 at 12:48 am

you're welcome! (but yer missing out on some BIG FUN!)

Ms Whatever May 18, 2011 at 8:20 pm

Yes – you can play "guess that diagnosis!" (psych, substance use, medical) and appreciate the absurdity of the human condition, all for the price of a mere ticket.

Negropolis May 17, 2011 at 2:53 am

One of my favorite things to do in new cities with rapid transit is to ride their systems.

Ms Whatever May 18, 2011 at 8:19 pm

I dunno – someone like this dude just sittin' there licking his shoe strikes me as eccentric, but harmless. I get grossed out at the greasy chicken bones and wraps littering the floor of the CTA.

Barb May 16, 2011 at 8:01 pm

Five more days left until the end of the world. I'm going to spend my time by suing the dairy industry. My milk doesn't expire until the 27th and I want my $1.25 back.

DustBowlBlues May 16, 2011 at 9:14 pm

You've given me a great idea to get back some cash on those under ripe pears I just bought.

Ms Whatever May 18, 2011 at 8:21 pm

I intend to write a big "FUCK YOU" letter to the student loan people.

deanbooth May 16, 2011 at 8:03 pm

If Romney gets the nomination, I've got my Obama "bumper sticker" all set.

Callyson May 16, 2011 at 8:40 pm

You HAVE to market that and sell it online. My dog INSISTS that I have one of those on my car if Mittens gets the nomination.

SudsMcKenzie May 16, 2011 at 10:18 pm

Never Forget!11

DaRooster May 17, 2011 at 1:17 am

Is that Mutt Romney?

BlueStateLibel May 16, 2011 at 8:03 pm

Ha ha Mitts, you sure were "pro jobs" when you were a buy-out and lay-off specialist with Bain, but who cares, say whatever stupid shit you want, you'll still lose.

guangho May 16, 2011 at 8:06 pm

He's getting by on shoe leather and gumption.

GuyClinch May 16, 2011 at 8:06 pm

Regarding the avid fellow having his way with his shoe: Don't knock it til you've tried it.

As out-of-town relatives like to say, "The subway is so, um, interesting."

zappadoo76 May 16, 2011 at 8:07 pm

Is the world really going to end on Saturday? 'Cause that would be OK with me. Just saying.

DustBowlBlues May 16, 2011 at 8:39 pm

According to those billboards, none of which I have personally seen in Okrahoma. So I'm taking "my" the wonket's word on this.

PuckStopsHere May 17, 2011 at 1:22 am

I personally saw one today in Detroit and it said, The Bible Guarantees it." so there you go.

MadBrahms May 17, 2011 at 3:24 am

What, is God working for The Men's Warehouse now?

loulouroo May 17, 2011 at 10:37 am

No, actually, if you read the fine print, only the Rapture is happening on Saturday. Then the rest of us left will suffer earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, pestilence, etc., which we probably won't even notice in New Orleans. In other areas, however, there will be much moaning and gnashing of teeth until October 21st. THEN the world is destroyed.

nounverb911 May 16, 2011 at 8:09 pm

Mitt's still an anchor baby, right?

mrblifil May 16, 2011 at 8:09 pm

Sole funk brutha?

Goonemeritus May 16, 2011 at 8:09 pm

I will bet an ass load of that money came from fellow LDS members. I also think that big business will bet both sides of the race just in case.

edywin2 May 16, 2011 at 8:11 pm

Why does my mouth taste like burnt liver after watching that?

GuyClinch May 16, 2011 at 8:11 pm

BTW, Jack, you win the award for non sequitur of the year for linking that internet video to Mittens. Or am I too thick to see the obvious connection?

Boojum_Reborn May 16, 2011 at 11:58 pm

Did you not see the obvious enthusiasm?

nounverb911 May 16, 2011 at 8:12 pm

“The results are a strong indication of the national enthusiasm for Governor Romney and his pro-jobs platform.”
The only job Romney's looking out for is his, everyone else is on their own.

mavenmaven May 16, 2011 at 8:20 pm

the pro-jobs part of the press release is in Hindi.

Rotundo_ May 16, 2011 at 10:10 pm

As is the call center for Mittens campaign. As we speak, hundreds of young people from Mumbai are being cloistered in rooms and immersed in LDS culture. No tea, lotsa fruit juice and jello.

Dudleydidwrong May 16, 2011 at 10:35 pm

And ads for special underwear.

rambone May 16, 2011 at 8:22 pm

Well if any of you smartypants know a better way to clean your shoes on the subway en route to a job interview, I'd like to hear it!

DaRooster May 17, 2011 at 1:21 am

Polish them on the guy next to you that "doesn't notice" you?

riverside68 May 17, 2011 at 10:35 am

Not a good idea: Inside of one inch anyone on the subway can become dangerous at any time.

fuflans May 16, 2011 at 8:25 pm

subway riders in urban america, circa 2011. the very definition of ennui.

where is our robert frank?

Gleem_McShineys May 16, 2011 at 8:31 pm

Lick yourself up by your bootstraps, people!

Goonemeritus May 16, 2011 at 8:31 pm

I see Downfisty has gotten home from work mopping up the private viewing rooms at the adult DVD shop. Anyway here’s some recovery upfists for all you nice folk.

DustBowlBlues May 16, 2011 at 8:36 pm

All of you are missing the point, obviously, you bunch of losers. The New Yorker on the subway is using the shoe, a symbol of scorn in the Arab world (remember the video of Bush Jr. dodging that shoe? Never gets old, does it?) by licking the shoe, celebrating the shoe, as it were.

We salute you, weird guy on the subway, celebrating the death of OBL with a direct poke in the eye to the terrorists by licking a shoe.

PsycWench May 16, 2011 at 9:58 pm

I wish you'd been around in 2006 when Wonkette posted a video someone shot on the subway of a girl giving a guy a blowjob, presumably unaware that they were on camera. I found the post but the video has long since disappeared. Perhaps her actions symbolized the way the economy was going to suck in a few years.

orygoon May 16, 2011 at 8:37 pm

Just this very weekend I joined the Kook Kidz Klub and got a very, very smart fone that will do the camcorder thing. And now I want nothing more than to put it out with the trash this evening.

seppdecker May 16, 2011 at 8:45 pm

Is a "pro-jobs platform" the same kind of platform that BP blew up and set on fire, killing all those people and countless wildlife? 'Cuz that does seem very Republican.

Warpde May 16, 2011 at 8:47 pm

One day that guy is gonna make some girl very happy.

Biel_ze_Bubba May 18, 2011 at 12:11 am

FTW!!!!!

Lionel[redacted]Esq May 16, 2011 at 8:56 pm

Can't he just sell the gold tablets and raise the money that way?

weejee May 16, 2011 at 8:58 pm

That vid takes the tongue of a shoe to a whole new level. Far more significant that Mittens collecting ten & a quarter mil selling magic panties.

DaRooster May 16, 2011 at 8:58 pm

Well, there are a lot of minerals in… dirt.
And too- Pay Less shoes are high in fiber… from the hands of kids in primarily rice eating countries.

gef05 May 16, 2011 at 9:40 pm

Thank God things are so good for the US financially that these people can throw such money about.

YOU ESS AY YOU ESS ah fuck it

pinkocommi May 16, 2011 at 9:50 pm

Shoe-licking is the most effective way to lose weight without diet or exercise.

pinkocommi May 16, 2011 at 9:55 pm

Shoe-licking guy is no more mentally disturbed than Glenn Beck. Faux News totally should hire that guy to fill in Glenn's old time slot.

Rotundo_ May 16, 2011 at 10:17 pm

McDonalds will be the high end jobs before too long. "Rat in a Box" and "I Can't Believe It's Not Chicken!" will be where you put in your dues before moving up, both in a dietary and an employment sense, to the promised land of Mickey D's. But Soylent Green will be plentiful because the new Social Security and Medicare changes coming through. (The secret is in the tenderizer, kind of like the cheap steakhouses).

bumfug May 16, 2011 at 10:37 pm

Wow, the way he was going at it, I half-expected the shoe to start moaning.

cheetojeebus May 17, 2011 at 6:52 am

perfect

BZ1 May 16, 2011 at 10:44 pm

Which one's the Mitt?

DahBoner May 16, 2011 at 11:08 pm

Haha! The jokes on Mittens.

The dude wrote him a check!

By the time the check clears, we'll all be blown to planet Xenu in our magic underwear.

And your shoes better be shined when you show up. Well played Subway Sir!

donner_froh May 16, 2011 at 11:24 pm

I don't think Arthur Miller meant that when he wrote "riding on a shoeshine and a smile".

riverside68 May 17, 2011 at 10:39 am

Actually that level of desperation seems pitch perfect for Miller, if anyone would believe that someone would lick shine their own shoes.

Beowoof May 17, 2011 at 12:28 am

Just getting ready for the big Koch take over. Remember the anti Ed Koch ads from his campaigns for New York Mayor; "Don't be a Koch Sucker". When those Koch guys take over it will be, "you better be a Koch Sucker".

Negropolis May 17, 2011 at 2:43 am

The Rich-Poor GAP is an upscale thrift store, right?

I love New York. If you can't make it there, you won't make it anywhere! I love how no one so much as blinks. That's so New York of them.

Romney is maxxxed out to the max, y'all.

Negropolis May 17, 2011 at 2:50 am

BTW, anyone want to tell me who is anti-jobs, which is what labeling someone else "pro-jobs" inevitably implies?

The Republicans are for more jobs, just not the kind of jobs most of you are looking to be employed in, if you know what I'm talking about…

mumbly_joe May 17, 2011 at 8:40 am
Biel_ze_Bubba May 18, 2011 at 12:13 am

I bet he's "pro life", too.

politics_nerd May 17, 2011 at 7:26 am

Pretty good. That's $10mil that the person who could actually potentially win the nomination/election for the republicans wont get.

ghblowhard May 17, 2011 at 9:22 am

That guy must be a vegan

Toomush_Infer May 17, 2011 at 9:39 am

Man , it's an ad that writes itself: "Wil lik shus for munny or fun"….opportunities are endless….

BTWBFDIMHO May 17, 2011 at 10:48 am

The 6 train also featured a naked guy recently. http://randyreport.blogspot.com/2011/05/crazy-ny-...

benjo765 May 17, 2011 at 11:31 am

In that vein, I'm going to go drive to the coast and piss in the ocean. Hopefully it will desalinate it or something.

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