Space cult robot with stiff gears Mr. Mitt Romney and his family are crammed inside his $12 million hovel in San Diego like the toes bursting out of a ragged pair of hobo socks, so Mittens will be forced to quadruple the shit out of his waterfront mansion in La Jolla just as soon as he can get the permits. Disgustingly enormous luxury homes are people, too! Having only 3,009 square feet is like a mugging on Christmas, which Mittens says is an “inadequate” situation for America and for Mitt Romney’s needs. An 11,062-square-foot mansion sounds more like basic human dignity. Let’s see a picture of his current tiny hobo shack, after the jump!
Here is the Google Earth view of Mittens’ current crib:
From Politico:
“Construction will not begin until the permits have been obtained and the campaign is finished,” the [Romney campaign] official said.
The reason for the expansion, according to the official, is family: “They want to enlarge their two bedroom home because with five married sons and 16 grandchildren it is inadequate for their needs.”
All of Mitt Romney’s adult children are still living in his basement? That still sounds pretty American at least.[San Diego Union-Tribune/ POLITICO]
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Construction will not begin until the permits have been obtained and the campaign is finished"
Building to begin in October then.
A shoutout for my tip would've been appreciated…oh well.
Here, have an upfist instead!
[sob, gasp] Thanks. I’ll be all right now…
And a gentle wedgie from C'Addle.
Son, there's no "i" in team.
There is an "m" and an "e," so never mind.
“Hey coach, my mom can’t pay her rent. Can I have some of that money Nike gives you to wear a swooshtika on your sweater?”“Absolutely not, son. That’d be wrong. But here’re some coupons for lap dances at Mr Shapiro’s strip club.”“Thanks, coach!”
Everybody is calling Nevin by his nom d' guerre "Li'l Luke", but I would prefer it if they not sully the name of 2 Live Crew's front-man. They can still allude to the Crew, anyway: call Shapiro by his rapping name, Fresh Kid Ike. (His middle name is Isaac. Maybe?)
So that means if you put an "i" in team you have time?
I R confoozled.
So I went outside to give a shoutout, but my neighbor told me to shut the fuck up, and I told him to shut his filthy teabag mouth. He fired a few rounds of constitutionally protected bullets at me so I had his nephew hack his computer with kiddie porn. We are now watching the police lead him away in handcuffs.
I'd say today is going to be a good day.
this is going to keep me smiling all day.
Edit: My nephew.
Make it "his" nephew. More fun.
Agreed.
Damn, you lead an exciting life, Buddha.
shit, once again a perfectly good mouthful of wine spewed all over my laptop, damn you DB!
Of course they need more room. They need to practice spreading out for when Mitt has his own planet in the afterlife.
Mitt to extended family: "It'll be o.k. if we don't nab the White House this time. Keep your eyes on the 'constellation prize'!"
Mormon Jesus approves this comment!
Actually, Mormon Jesus called to apologize for not being able to approve this comment. He's appearing in a musical on Broadway, or something like that, but will be back in touch as soon as the show is over.
Tough shit, Mitt.
That's a 2 bedroom home?
Trust me, Mittens, you don't want to live in the Whitehouse. Bedrooms would obvs be too small for you and all your wives and your son's wives.
That's a 2 bedroom home?
Seriously. How many ballrooms are there in that shack?
You would not believe the size of this guy's gameroom. Has the largest fucking HO scale electric train system in the free world.
Engineer Mitt locks himself away in there for days on end.
I call bullshit. My 4-bedroom house is roughly the size of his beachfront porch.
Wow, calling bullshit on a republican politician. Here's something new and jazzy.
Can we assume that at least Mittens knows how many vulgar, obscene mansions he owns, unlike Walnuts?
All of them, Katie.
Walnuts didn't know, and probably still doesn't, because his wife is the one who controls the money in the family. Probably for good reason, too.
And, if I'm not mistaken, her dear daddy, who was a hotdog just like his son-in-law, tied it up so that she can't give that money to McCain. So he's on a short (enough) leash that he has to alleviate those feelings by periodically referring to his otherwise perfectly nice wife as a trollop and a cunt.
Walnuts just wants to fly a plane into one of them once, before he dies.
Gotta have room for all those extra wives.
And the unending flood of sproggen that is flowing from between their thighs.
Romneystan!
Sux when the sisterwives start agitating for their own bedrooms.
It cuts down on 3- 4- 5- 6- and 7-ways.
Please, Romney probably can't make it past two wives a night.
Must be five sons and sixteen grandchildren are reverting to fundamentalist LDS.
That's Mitt, creating the jerbs! Don't tax him; he's just getting going!
And I was super excited to upgrade to a 1br with den this spring. I could stand to spread out, for freedumb, too…perhaps I really should look into starting a PAC or something.
Also, too, a 3009 sq ft two bedroom?
He must have a huge rumpus room.
That's what she said.
Seriously. I sell home insurance in New England and a 3900 sqft home usually has an assload of bedrooms. Maybe Mitt and the missus need a big bedroom for all of their "exercise equipment".
It's the 1500 square foot dormitory/oda for visiting lobbyists.
You have a den? What are you, like a mama grizzly or something?
I could totally embrace the concept of hibernation.
oooh nice, a DEN…elitist!
You know who else lived in a walled compound…
David Koresh?
King Arthur??
Madonna?
My hamsters?
And my Chickens!
Sauron
The Kennedys?
Everybody at Guantanamo (sic)?
Hitler?
Da-YAM it, won't anyone let me get the prize for getting these damn questions right, evah? OK, OK, you can HAVE fucking Hitler. Besides, I bet it ain't Hitler anyway, so there.
Sarah Lou after that asshole moved in next door just to watch Bristol mow the lawn in a halter top?
+
Bernie Madoff?
Roger Waters?
Yeah, but his comes down in the final act.
Malomar Godaffi? (Or does he still live in one – haven't checked the nooze channels this morning)
He has a wall around his tent. Does that count?
Osama bin what his name? You know, the one Bush killed?
O.J. Simpson?
Gary Gilmore?
Too easy. I may not ever win these things, but instead of saying "Osama bin Laden," I'm going with Hitler this time, OK?Tank Girl. I'm not gonna win anyway. What's the prize? A used sock?
The Red Sox?
Louis Farrakhan?
I don't get it. Sixteen divided by five means that there's a third of a Romney walking around somewhere.
My God, they're capable of fissioning into multiple, independent lifeforms! I knew the Romneys (Romnies?) weren't human!
It's Frankenhooker all over again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bsJbOZcsyY&fe…
awesome, never heard of 'Frankenhooker' before but now will probably have to watch the whole movie (especially since I heard it's one of Bill Murray's favorites!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix0nLYJQx0A&fe…
It's in the spare room.
But it still has really fucking nice hair….
There's might only be two bedrooms in that mansion, but I bet there's a beauty shop.
It's swimming, actually. In the uterus of one of the Romneybrides (Jr).
Haven't they heard of birth control?
That's not how you populate a planet, mister!
They're Mormons; they're not populating a planet, but a whole shitload of them.
They have and they know who it's for, thank you very much.
The stormin mormons never come up for air.
Oh my god, I just added a very nice refrigerator box onto my shipping crate because I needed the extra room for my parents who just got evicted for non-payment of their rent!! Wow, Mittens is just like me!
So many comments… so few refrigerator boxes…
He does OK for an unemployed stiff.
Truly a man in touch with the average American!
The average American knows that similar upgrades for himself are only one lottery ticket away so they have no resentment for Mitt, only admiration. He's living the dream for all of us.
Have you read the comments at the Politico? Some of them really do think that – oh and they also think the Politico is liberal.
And they are for sure calling any criticism of Romney "class warfare" just like they did when Al Gore's big house was the topic of the day. That's the great thing about comments on POLITICO. No need to read them, you already know what's going to be on there. "JOURNOLIST" also.
Yes, I'm sure all the (proto) teabaggers were just thrilled when news of Al Gore's house came out. And no one called John (adulterer) Edwards out from the (embryonic) teabagger side when he upgraded.
Personally, I'm convinced there's only three commenters on Politico. With a multiplicity of sock puppets.
yeah I made the mistake of peeking at a few and it's amazing the level of Moran over there, like DEFCON 5, or whatever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON#Levels
Who let the borzois out?
Are borzois classy enough for Mittens? His wife has a stable full of dressage horses. At $100K/pa in upkeep, perhaps Mittens would be more concerned if someone let *those* out. He certainly didn't seem to give much of a shit about poor Seamus the Irish setter that he tied to the top of the car.
Big Love Shack.
Needz moar "Tin roof ….. RUSTED!"
After construction begins: "I'm homeless, too."
You just *know* he will be saying that.
Before he bought this pile, he claimed he was living in Massachusetts in his son's "unfinished basement." I guess "unfinished" meant only one of the 60-inch TVs was connected.
Was there enough room on his son's posh estate to stable Ann Romney's dressage horses? I can't imagine those expensive creatures living in an unfinished basement.
3K sq feet is only good for two bedrooms? And this is the guy with business savvy? Something tells me Obama's vacay just got a little more comfortable.
Fine minds and all..
When I (briefly) lived in a house that size, it was built on seven levels of a hill. The top floor was the master bedroom SUITE with a huge (Rick-Perry-HUGE-opening huge) bathroom with separate shower, jacuzzi, and terlet, and a walk-in closet that could accommodate 4-6 people in a drinking session (we checked) depending on how many of them were still horizontal. There were three other large bedrooms, two bathrooms, an office, a three-car garage, a full-sized, full-amenities kitchen, a formal dining room, a breakfast nook (just off the kitchen), a family room (for all te electronic shit) , an enormous living room, and multiple decks on which one could lounge. If Mitt has only two bedrooms in that house, either they're GIANT FUCKING BEDROOMS, or, he's got a shitload of rooms for "other" uses, i.e., library, rec room, two offices, multiple eating/lounging spaces. There is no way a house that big has only two rooms in it.
Have the pundits started carping about the "optics" of this yet? Or are they still bitching about Martha's Vineyard?
Oh, I'm sure anyone who talks about this will be acting uncivil to Mittens and engaging in class warfare, just like when John McCain couldn't remember the number of houses he had.
Livin' large is only unsavory if you won elected office by trying to help the working class. The rich, on the other hand, are morally obligated to do whatever the fuck they want — and don't complain, otherwise they'll stop creating all those jobs.
They're still choking on the Perry Tuber.
You need a big house to fit an ego that ginormous.
Unwarranted, for Mr. Empty Suit to have such an ego when he hasn't an accomplishment to pin next to it. Succeeded his father in the family business, succeeded his father in politics, succeeded his father in the religious hierarchy — has he ever done anything on his own merits — other than Romneycare, of course.
Mrs. Romney was quoted about inadequacy and needing a bigger one, too.
Mrs. Romney's too busy with her stable full of dressage horses to comment on that right now.
Somebody needs to keep an eye on her … Catherine the Great and all that.
She actually seems like a "nice lady" in that super-rich Cindy McCain sort of way. But she married Mitt, which makes her fair game. Plus, jeez, dressage horses?
I won't believe it's the Romney home until I see a dog strapped to the roof.
Ohmigod. This is why I would never vote for Romney. Ever.
Even — especially — for the proverbial dogcatcher.
Romney is right. His private sector experiance does give him insight into how the real economy works. Buy out companies, downsize them, send all the jobs to China and shove it in every joe six-packs face by dumping millions into houses bigger than their kids' high school.
So he wants room for 28 people to stay there at the same time? I have a feeling there are a few daughters-in-law saying, "No, don't bother. We'll get a hotel. This really isn't necessary."
Poor Mitt could build himself a really nice home if he were not unemployed.
"Mansions are people too, my friend!"
–Mittens
You know who else had a beach front mansion he enlarged when he became President?
Tricky Dicky?
Rush Limbaugh?
Peter the Great?
George H.W. Bush?
Surf Nazis?
Brian Wilson?
Max Headroom?
Most dictators in any country with an ocean?
William Randolph Hearst?
Joseph Kennedy Sr.?
George Washington?
yes, if the Potomac was an ocean. When it rains a lot, I have a pool in my yard and sometimes, a river in front of my house.
Yeah, but does it have a hot tub on the front porch like Jeter's place?
The Kennedys, you know, All of them, Katie?
Mitt probably houses several dozens of those missionaries. You know, the ones with the black pants, white shirts & bicycle helmets trying to save all of suburbia? (You might have to live in TX to get this.)
Probably; I've gotten annoyed by the Jehova's Wittnesses many times, but never the Mormons.
I think they're from the local LDS — I never open the door for them so I'm not 100% positive, and I'm pretty blissful in my ignorance on this.
It's easy to tell – if they're white, they're probably Mormon; black, probably Jehovah's Witness.
Definitely all white….pretty sure they're LDS folks. I have an atheist friend who will let them in & offer them cokes and/or beer and debate the bible with them (she actually knows more than probably all the evangelicals put together). They don't stay long.
The locals are called "Stake Missionaries" and are generally older converts. The "real" missionaries are young practicing offspring of practicing Mormons; the poors get domestic duty, while the
richRomneysjob creators go to Paris. Don't ask me how I know any of this.Or catch "Book of Mormon" when it leaves Broadway.
"Two by two
We're marching door to door
'Cause God loves Mormons
And he wants some more"
They've never come to my house but I have seen them biking around. How many points do you get if you manage to knock both of them down at the same time?
Oh, be nice. It's much more fun to invite them into your house, and then attempt to seduce them. Especially if you're an older woman, and not particularly attractive. Or a drag queen.
if you're an older woman, and not particularly attractive. Or a drag queen
I'm just never the right set of qualifications! (Stomps off in a huff)
Now you know how I feel about winning those stupid question games.
Oh, suburban Texas sightings, how weak. Me and my ludicrous amigo have made a habit of exploring all bits of southern Mexico by chicken bus to parts so isolated that we're able to play quite a competitive game of "Spot the Gringo" over the course of a ten-day trip.
The winning score is always around 4 or 5, and inevitably grabbing those delicious doubles: los mormones.Oh what a gay time we had!
They've infested California and Idaho as well, bicycles and all. I dragged my family out to a salmon festival that the local Yurok tribe holds out here in my area, and the missionaries were out in force, doing their
worstbest to bring the word of Mormon Jesus to the Sons of Laman. I'm guessing they weren't pushing their message about the native Americans being turned dark-skinned as a punishment from god for all of their wickedness. Judging by all the Red Power t-shirts, being told they could pray their dark-skin away would not have gone over well.no, there were 4 of them at Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, MD a few weeks ago. I tried to see if any of these wild boys was drinking a coca cola or a cappuchino but looks like fruit smoothies.
Trust me, hon, those bastids show up here whenever they can. They don't get a friendly reception here, though. Urban, and all that.
Although I had the delightful experience within the last decade of having a pair of those idiots knock on my front door. Which is way up a very steep set of rickety stairs on a hill. You can look out of the office window and see anyone on the deck/front porch, but they can't see you. Imagine their surprise when a voice asked, out of the (apparent) heavens what the fuck they were doing trespassing on the property. I'm assuming I did good, since I've never seen or even heard of them again.
They show up her in Arizona all the time, too — looking like escapees from a Robert Palmer music video. "Might as well face it, you're addicted to Joseph Smith."
nice…I kind of like their latest MTV hit tho, "I Believe" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tggtPHDmrR8
Some like it hot, and some like when the heat is on….
Damn you and your Robert Palmer reference for getting that song stuck in my head.
That house is a 2 bedroom in the same way that a corporation is a person
How does this effect the Shrillbilly?
The Alaskunt will be
campaigningpouting in Iowa this week.KKKarl says she's got 2 weeks to announce. Luntz says the KKKlown KKKar isn't big enough for her, although it's got room for both Gov. Krispy AND Paul "Cadaver" Ryan.
What a dump!
I got the reference, Bacon.
Thank you, Bette!
Don't forget to wave the cigarette for emphasis.
Ugh, ret@rded is still taboo?
Ok, Mittens, so you're rich. Good for you. How you can lie through your teeth that you're a man of the people, however, disturbs me just a tad. That, or you're fucking ret@rded. Lying and idiocy: neither appeals to me, buddy.
Don't the mormons have their own kind of lying that's ok?
Like their special underwear protects them accusations of pants on fire, or something.
They believe that truth is defined by their feelings. As one ex puts it, they are told to "disregard any facts that contradict what our feelings tell us is true." A premise that appears to have been adopted by the entire Republican Party.
Smart move, Mitt. Moving all these relatives in will help get the White Trash vote.
The place looks a little cramped to me. I see his point.
Zombie Saddam Hussein
My 1BR here in Columbus puts that hovel to shame.
Poor Mittens, I feel bad for him.
~
Hey Thunder, just saw your butterflies piece on C&L. Nice!
Oh, thanks for pointing that out.
I gotta go thank Tengrain for the shout-out.
;)
Condoms for Mittens.
CondomsCastration for Mittens./ fixed
A nice neutering seems like a better solution.
I first read that as condoms for kittens, and I thought that was a novel alternative to spaying and neutering.
Aren't kittens a little young for that sort of thing? Besides, their pointy litle claws would render the condom useless before they ever even got it on. Also, thumbs.
Umm, not to defend Mitt or anything but being in a business that deals with the Wealthy and their large homes I would have to say that a 3,000 sq. ft. home for a family this rich is downright suspicious. From the sound of it they probably do need the space but my real question is, what are they doing in this small a place to start with. I have clients who are neither as wealthy as Mitt nor are squeaky robots and yet they have garage/guest house combinations that top 3000 sq. ft. Is it possible that Mitt is satisfied with this hovel up to now because he has a teleporter in the basement that can take him to his planet when he needs a break?
It's not in San Diego , per se, it's in La Jolla which is super duper fancy and I suspect they treat it as a beach house, I went to a party at Anne Rice's , when she owned a home very close to this one, and it was 8, 000 sq ft , but it was her primary home.
my uncle lives just north of SD in Encinitas (not as fancy schmancy as La Jolla) and a beachfront 'hovel' is worth over $2 million for a tiny piece of property, and the right to tear it down and build an uber-offensive rich bitch playhouse
We're assuming this is Mittens' only house.
Considering that he primarily lives in Massachusetts, I would think not. In fact, from google it looks like he has five, or at least did as of 2008.
Well, "primarily" lives in Massachusetts -namely the basement of one of his son's homes- for voting/candidacy purposes, even though he hasn't been seen there in ages and this is a teensy bit of illegal voter fraud, under the clear definition provided by Mass. law.
Also, he quietly sold off two or three of his houses before announcing his candidacy, to aviod the McCain problem.
It's most definitely NOT his only house, but the very wealthy live on a different scale than you 'n me, and since I *know* people with 3,000 sq-ft houses, and I don't know any really wealthy people, not even any somewhat rich people, I too am now a tad suspicious. At his level of income, this house is more like a jewel-box than something usable, especially with all his sprog.
Location. Note the beach.
Maybe I can set up my cardboard condo in the lee of the servants quarters. I'm un-employed too, just like my pal Mittens. I could use the upgrade as well.
Darling, you can buy much bigger, more suitable houses at similar or better locations. California is just teeming with stunning mansions of terrific views. Sure, they might run you around $40 mil or something, but Mittens is worth at least ten times that. (No matter what the meejyuh say, since they're only talking about his personal wealth and not any assets he holds in the names of his wife and children/grandchildren, or his corporate assets).
Teleporter? Sounds like Mitt's life might be something out of the Da Vinci Code. (The missionary work in France becomes even more suspicious, now.)
Especially since he "died" and then "came back to life." Verrrry strrrange.
My guess is he bought it as a tear-down, and is just taking his sweet time. It takes awhile to line up just the right architect and contractor, bribe just the right city officials, etc. Since most of the more desireable real estate already has something built on it, this is common practice among the job-creating class.
God, I can see his confinement from the satellite photo. See? There it is, no not the wide open green space next to it, right there, under the terra cotta 15,000 square foot mansion. The poor bastard.
At least this won't exemplify the perception that Romney is clueless and out of touch with the economic realities of everyday Americans or anything.
All your rooms are belong to me
Excellent reference. I'm still laughing.
Ha-ha-ha… haven't thought of Zero-Wing in a long time. Thanks for the chuckle.
Mitt's company bought American companies and shipped the jobs overseas. Congratulations! Very lucrative!
The only thing that makes this story potentially interesting is the question of the legal status of anyone working on the renovations. If he's waiting till after the election cycle to start it's only because he knows that there is zero chance of guaranteeing that every sub-contractor on the job employs only legal workers.
During the 2008 primary season, Barry delivered one of his best lines on that. He said 'if Republicans were actually serious about illegal immigration, they should start by looking in Mitt Romney's lawn."
I liked that guy – he talked a good Dem game. I wonder where he got to…
Probably risk alienating the Base if video was to come out showing Mitt stopping by the local Home Depot to pick up "day laborers".
Buona Fortuna with the La Jolla zoning board, I wouldn’t start buying furniture just yet.
CA Coastal Commission is the real challenge. Although residents do everything they can to keep it a secret, La Jolla's not a separate municipality; it's part of San Diego, where zoning is sold to the highest bidder as Jeebus intended. It is however definitely true that La Jolla neighbors can be monumental dicks, and think nothing of lawyering up to stop a community center from adding a handicapped entrance, for instance.
If the guy's gonna move into a new house next year, I would much prefer it be whatever bullshit he constructs for his own self, and not "The People's House" that Michelle O's relatives built.
I'll drink to that, sugar.
As long as it keeps him out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I'm cool with this.
OT, but my mother died yesterday. You wonkies all helped make her illness bearable, and I'll always be thankful. Oh, and Mitt, you are a silly, silly man. You can't take even a molecule of it with you.
I am so sorry, starfanglednut, good thoughts to you from here in Harlem.
Awww…I'm sorry starfangle.
My deepest condolences. I wish there was something even slightly comforting to say, but death makes me mute and stupid — hence its reputation, I guess.
I'm sorry starfanglednut. And teh Wonkette is always a good place to forget one's troubles. Been many a day that I've laughed myself silly.
Hugs to you.
I am so sorry, Star. My thoughts are with you.
i'm so very sorry.
my brother has been in nd out of hospital all year and I too read wonkette for relief.
OT, but my mother died yesterday. You wonkies all helped
Uh oh.
make her illness bearable
*whew*
Sorry, Nut.
+1
May her memory be a blessing
Deep condolences and a comforting hug from wonkette land.
Sorry to hear that…
Heartfelt condolences, star-fangled friend.
In light of your mother's sad passing, I've taken the liberty of reserving for next Monday morning Mitt Romney's La Jolla hot tub-cum-baptismal font for her post-mortal coil Mormon conversion ceremony.
(I apologize in advance if you should find it inadequate, but those celestial kingdom zoning codes are a total fucking nightmare.)
love it, I'm sure Star Nuts momma will be VERY happy as a Mormon in the afterlife, what with that FREE planet and all!
I don't know how to say nice things, so I'll just say I'm glad it helped for you to be here, and I send friendly snark in your direction also.
Much love from Arizona, too. All evidence to the contrary, some of us here do feel empathy.
peace to you fellow Wonkette Nut, and your momma too…here's a favorite Irish blessing for you both…May the long time sun shine upon you, all love surround you and the pure light within you guide your way on…namaste http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1D3ejwQiVg
I thought he lived in Belmont, MA or Provo, UT? Will there still be enough space to build a clothes line to dry the magic underpants?
It can't be more than 150 feet long. How long are teh underpants?
BTW, from a WaPo article on the house, 'Romney’s campaign said “a more accurate range” of his estimated wealth is between $190 million and $250 million.' Oh, only $250M. It's tough being unemployed when you're a Romney.
Give that man a tax break!
Yeah, the poor broke bastard!
But if you divide that by the number of spouses, children, children's spouses, etc. that are leeching off of him then it's not nearly as impressive.
Like all super-wealthy people, Mitt's "personal" wealth probably does not include all the money that he has set aside in trust for his children and grandchildren. Or his corporate assets, which are probably also held separately. The rich have many ways of disguising their wealth.
It's hard out here for a Mitt.
I didn't think he was as tone deaf as W, but I stand corrected.
I dunno, pretty hard to top this.
Hoo boy – that's just amazing. Somehow I forgot what a colossally slippery douchebag piece of shit W was, but this certainly brings it all back. Every time I see him talking, it occurs to me that whereas someone like Clinton or Obama can think paragraphs ahead of where his mouth is, Bush can barely imagine the end of whatever sentence he's trying to speak. Incredible that we had 8 years of that.
Sorry. I can't listen to that fucker's voice without wanting to crawl right through the screen into the innertoobs on the off-chance of being able to strangle the voice right out of him.
when will tsunami happens there?
too soon?
No, not soon enough.
Why bother with the renovations when we all know Mittens will be elected and moving into the White House in 2012?
The White House is for white people, people.
He needs a place to take three times as many vacations as the black guy.
The White House is for white people.
Just like the LDS priesthood, prior to 1978.
I'm so glad the Republican candidates are able to identify with the common man.
Does Mittens at least know how many houses he owns? He seems a little too young still to fall back on the dementia excuse in the same way McCain did.
Romney's going to put the US construction industry back to work singlehandedly!!
Send campaign contributions! That mansion ain't gonna expand by itself, ya know.
Nice house, Mittens. So sorry about the small penis.
Gawd. Do you mean to say the Mittensbot is anatomically correct?
Hey Mitt, if I get a new refrigerator do you want the box? You could just tape it on the doggie door and your grandkids will love love it! They will have so much fun that they won't notice the squallor you have dropped on them.
Nice aerial view of Mittens's Abbotabad home. We really oughtta kick a few billion more into the unmanned aerial drone program.
Only if I get to pick the fuckin' targets. Bwahahahaha!
Sorry. I'm all better now.
And just think, if it wasn't for that socialist Kenyan Muslim Obummer with his punitive, soul crushing taxes on the job creators, this country's true heroes, he might have been able to afford a 11070 square foot home.
The timing of this move confirms that Mittens has the most Humongous Tin Ear in modern politics. I know everyone will rejoice with him in this totally understandable venture, NOT!
You have to admit this is the dumb-bastard move to top all dumb-bastard moves. He should either have moved on it years ago or held it down till after the rubes were tricked into voting him into office. As it is, the refrigerator-box dwelling crowd will now be pitching their empty HoboBeanz(tm) cans at him the next time he tries to tell them how hard it is, being unemployed.
You are correct, sir or ma'am!
I prefer "sir or madman," ttommy, it being more,um, true to my nature, as it were.
I'll try to remember that, but lately I have trouble remembering my own name, sooooooo…..What was the question?
"Execution is worshipped"
Looks like somebody's geared up to fight Ricardo Perez on the Tex Gov's ground.
Wow…that place is close to the water. I'd hate to see a huge wave come on shore, if you know what I mean.
I get the feeling that the pristine white lace-edged hankie that you hold to your eyes, come that happy day, will not be blessed with more than a brace of tears. (Do tears brace? Or pair?)
It's a compound!
Then again, Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips has a compound, as reported in yesterday's New York Times.
It's the same house he lived in when he was a part-time rocker & full-time Long John Silver's cook.
Point taken.
Coyne's compound, unlike Romney's, is built on rock and roll.
& he's less of a RINO, too, as the Flaming Lips built their legacy on creating (a soundtrack for) a Libertarian paradise. (Zaireeka is the sound you would hear as civilization breaks down.)
Damn. I knew I shouldn't have bet on the Pink Robots.
According to the NY Daily News, Mittens isn't expanding the tiny shack – he is demolishing the piece of shit and building fresh. As it should be…
And just in case he gets tired of looking at the Pacific, he can always spend some time in his New Hampshire ocean front shack. As it should be…
Does this mean the dog can get off the top of the car?
There is too much goddam lawn there, listening to Mexicans mowing it all the time? Probably wicked irritating. Plus needs room for Scott Brown's hot, hot daughters when they visit the coast.
Well it's about time he expanded that itty bitty shack — everytime Mittens and the Tabernacle Choir over, they were very polite, but he could tell by their pained expressions as they waited in line for the bathroom that more space was needed. I just hope he goes with the plain gold leaf on the dome of the basilica and not some fresco depicting him in a toga being lifted heavenward. That would be tacky.
Does it have any artistic merit? Probably not. :-(
Only 3,009 sq ft? What a dump! He really needs to expand that thing to at least 3,010 sq ft; it's a much nicer number.
Thanks for starting this out with the space cult comment KBJ. Are you a fan of Plan 10 from Outer Space starring Karen Black? It explains the origins of Mormonism most admirably.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800263761/info
Romney is not only deaf, he's blind.
"Don't you know, talkin' 'bout a revolution… " — Tracy Chapman
stop fucking reproducing.
I assume there's only room for two bedrooms because of all the servant quarters.
Poor design, only 2bdrs. Where did the sons stay when they were growing up? All in the second bedroom?
It would be a shame if he moves to the White House and all that remodeling gets wasted.
Right. So let's help Mittens out and ensure that he can enjoy his 12,000 sq-ft beach dump, as he deserves, in his waning, grandfatherly years. Vote Obama!
Such a smart campaign move–tearing down a luxurious home to build an even bigger luxurious home in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression. Is this the mistep of his many misteps that qualifies him for Worst Campaigner Ever? I'm thinking yes.
During the Reagan Depression, a local contractor decided to build himself a new home with an indoor swimming pool. The local paper wanted to do a story, complete with pictures, of this luxurious new home.
They thought that would be a great idea, until people started showing up on a regular basis to break windows, start the garage on fire, and other random acts of vandalism.
The family moved out when the local police informed them that they could not guarantee their safety anymore.
Somehow I think that scenario will one day play out on a much, much larger scale.
At least I'll have my modest Wonkette pee score with which to assure the People's Tribunal that I'm on their side.
The sled's name is Rosebud
More pictures! http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/311-Dunemere-Dr…
Oh, look, the monthly mortgage payment is $45,000! Isn't that about what the average American family of four has to live on for a year?
That description says THREE bedrooms. HE LIES!!!!!!!!!!
Those five brave sons deserve our support after their brave service as SEALs and Rangers in the dark days. Oh. They never joined. My bad. Fuck 'em.
The terracotta tiled house in your photo is not a 3,009 square foot house and is not the Romney house. Sorry.
I thought the David Koresh style was limited to godforsaken desert tracts, not high-rent districts like the San Diego coastline. How far into President Romney's term will we be when construction of the White House Compound begins?
The lavish dog kennel alone will cost a cool $5 million. Only the best for Mitt's pooches.
When they're not crapping their guts out on top of his car, of course.
“They want to enlarge their two bedroom home because with five married sons and 16 grandchildren it is inadequate for their needs.”
Jezus H. Christmas on a fried biscuit. Are Romney and Palin in some kind of breeding race here? <shudder>
Lots of Mormons in Alaska, but Palin's family isn't among them.
So, breeding race? Maybe. The pentacostals have to outlast the heathen polygamists, after all.
Sisterwives getting into too many cat fights (rowwrrr!) Magic underwear not strong enough to maintain discipline in such close quarters.
worshiping execution?? sound more like Rick P's platform…
I'm pretty sure he's just expanding for space to house his presidential hair wig collection. Maybe he should have just asked Mr. Bachmann, I'm sure he has a den for storing his dress up digs too.
Hah! Serves him right- who'd even want that little shithole in the first place?
And has he had the dog on the roof, or what?
maybe the seals in La Jolla. will rise up and eat them.
Why don't these US super-richies come up with some beautiful palaces, instead of the Satan's-butt-ugly monstrosities they do? I'm an archaeologist, I've seen lots of ruined palaces they could imitate. Why not Nero's Golden House? Or the Topkapi? I visited a small Ummayad hunting lodge, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, once, and that's always been my dream house, were I to get rich.
Ya' see! I told y'all. These folks with the unemployment benefits fortunes building 11,000 square foot homes. What a Welfare Queen.
If this guy wasn't already through, this should put his sad candidacy to rest.
Some of my best friends are mansions. Leave Mitt ALONE!
so what's the actual building plan here? A 4 story beach front mansion?
based upon what appears to be the property lines, I don't see an additional 8,000 square feet of open space on that lot.
I guess he could tunnel DOWN….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU
There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
And this is why I want millionaires and billionaires to pay more taxes. Obviously, this guy doesn't pay enough. Instead, he plans to build himself a palace because his current home is just too small…probably for his ego. What a jerk!
I just usually tell the Witnesses that I'm an atheist and they usually shuffle off uncomfortably, as if atheism is contagious and they're afraid they'll catch it.
You mean it isn't?
Rielle is an upgrade?
Arguably. Skinny, younger and crazy vs. older, matronly, cancer-ridden and stable.
If I was more like* John Edwards, I would have jumped on it.
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*A self-obsessed, rich-boy, ambulance-chasing tool.
He was born poor/working class. Much as I've grown to despise him, at least he *earned* his own money. Unlike Mittens, Trump, and the other Republicans who inherited it. Or Bachmann, Pawlenty, Perry, and those others who bilked it from the government.
I'm sorry, but Rielle was a dog-face plain and simple, made worse by her ugly personality.
I forget. You know, they say memory is the second thing to go.
HA, HA!
Yeah, I figured you'd heard that before, dammit.
Heard what before?
Wut?
Huh?
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