Romney tours a corn field in Iowa - pics

[Kadie]

DES MOINES, IA - AUGUST 08: Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (C) tours a corn field with Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey (R) and farmer Lemar Koethe on August 8, 2012 in Des Moines, Iowa. Mitt Romney is campaigning in Iowa before traveling to New Jersey and New York for fundraising events.




















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[Lars39]

1. First pic looks like the requisite "man pees" scene.

[HarveyDarkey]

24. My first thought too

Have done it many times

[Sheepshank]

33. 2nd and 3rd pics are requisite pics

of tough guy ensuring Romeny doesn't get smacked in the back of the head.

...and wait....in the 3rd pic is that a corn cob he's trying to jam up Romney's ass? I'd say he's too late.

[Hubert Flottz]

36. Presalting the patch!

The twitt and corn have so much in common...they are both just as corny as hell.

[maxrandb]

53. A "dweeb" version of "Who's Next" n/t

[Whisp]

54. lol. first thing I thought too.

:rolf:

pissin' on the peasants.

[WCGreen]

77. Don't cross the streams Ray, don't cross the streams....

[Lars39]

81. I can guarantee there's no Egon in that little group.

[DefenseLawyer]

82. My word, but this micturating out of doors is quite liberating! n/t

[maddezmom]

2. hmmm, no comment

[Lars39]

5. lol

[Lone_Star_Dem]

18. Caught my eye, too.

I'm not about to give it a caption though.

[madaboutharry]

28. hahaha.

He is so unsophisticated when it comes to media savvy.

[Island Blue]

29. He appears to be corny.

[maddezmom]

42. LOL

[Left Coast2020]

74. Not what the suits are thinking at Bain

Its not corn, its $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[Son of Gob]

43. I always suspected him to be a cornosexual

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[msu2ba]

62. Just shucking the ol' cob n/t

[Kadie]

70. .

[Voice for Peace]

76. what is it with these phallic photo ops, all of the candidates and their corndogs and so on

[Cooley Hurd]

91. Hahaha! Looks like a simulation of "whipping it out"!

[morningfog]

3. He is giving us the most awkward photo-ops ever by a presidential candidate.

This is going to be a great election season. lol!

[arcane1]

16. Seriously, he seems to ALWAYS be awkward!!!

[Sanity Claws]

4. The first and seventh photos need captions

In the first one, Rmoney and the other men look like they're peeing into the corn field.

In the seventh one, Rmoney is holding the ear of corn up to his crotch, much like what an adolescent boy would do.

[XemaSab]

13. "Corn takes a lot of nitrogen, dontcha know?"

[cthulu2016]

6. Build it and they will get Lost

[tallahasseedem]

19. Well played cthulu2016...

well played! LOL!

[xchrom]

7. he who walks behind the rows. nt

[Comrade_McKenzie]

8. Mitt Romney looks at things. Sounds familiar. nt

[russspeakeasy]

9. He is out standing in his field

[louis-t]

10. "This..is a cornfield. This... is corn."

Don't do it, Mitt, don't hold that corncob like th...awwwww!

[lunatica]

11. Did anyone warn him about the children of the corn?

[fleur-de-lisa]

60. The "Children of the Corn" . . .

Where are they when you need them?

[AtomicKitten]

12. It's a reunion.

[bunnies]

31. Thats "Village of the Damned"

Still works though!

[AtomicKitten]

35. I've been robbed!

Not having seen the movie, I searched for C of the C on the google machine!
Those bastards!

My gmail is also screwed up. Conspiracy?

[bunnies]

38. Clearly the google is out to get you!

Dont feel bad though, the google comes for us all.

[Voice for Peace]

75. Mitt as a young lad in the corn

“The Lord has chosen me as the bringer of His word and the giver of His laws!"

"Disobedience to me is disobedience to Him!”

[spanone]

14. he's wondering where the cans are....

1st pic looks like they're all taking a leak.

[pinboy3niner]

15. "Corn. Yellow. Good."

Me Tarzan. You Jane.

[maddezmom]

20. LOL

[Angry Dragon]

17. The other day we saw Willard buying corn in the store

He was so surprised to learn where it came from he just had to see it for himself.

Damn he says!!

[bigdarryl]

21. LOL LOL!! WTF this dude looks lost in that field

[Blue Owl]

22. The stalks are the right height here

All is good in the Romneyhood.

[bullwinkle428]

23. You forgot the picture of him attempting to eat the raw ear!

[bunnies]

40. raw corn is actually delicious.

And perfectly safe to eat.

[Bluerthanblue]

50. sweet corn yes, feed corn not so much-

that corn doesn't look like sweet corn to me.

Awful tall stuff. But it's the midwest, so maybe sweet corn grows that tall out there.

[bunnies]

59. good point.

the whole "feed corn" thing never crossed my mind, probably because I think its ridiculous. I talked to a woman the other day who actually thought corn was the food of choice for cows.

[hatrack]

25. I was hoping it would be like "Field Of Dreams" - he would keep walking and just disappear . . .

Oh well.

[louis-t]

26. "If you build it, he will attempt a stupid photo op"

My first thought, too.

[yellowcanine]

55. good one. We should be so lucky.

[Island Blue]

27. The position of the corn he's holding in the next to the last photo

is just wrong. Especially considering photo #1.

I guess Romney was so fascinated by the corn that he bought at the grocery store yesterday that he had to visit a corn field today?

[nc4bo]

30. Corn? What is this thing you call corn?

I just bought a couple ears at the golden maid the other day, didn't look like this?

Photo Op score card - EPIC IRREVERSIBLE FAIL!

[frogmarch]

32. haha! It reminds me of

this picture that someone on DU posted a while back:

[louis-t]

34. Haaa!!

Oh that is classic!

[WI_DEM]

37. "Greenish covering. Unwrap. Yellow cob like thing"

[sadbear]

39. "Where are the baseball players?"

[yellowcanine]

57. They lost their jobs after Bain bought the ball field and sold it off in pieces to the highest

bidder.

[lame54]

41. Build it and he will dismantle it - and sell it off for profit

[MissMarple]

44. They remind me of the underground Topeka people in "A Boy and His Dog".

They appeared "perfectly normal"...at first. The movie came out in the 70's and was based on a Harlan Ellison story. It starred a VERY young Don Johnson.

[indie9197]

45. Anybody seen the documentary "King Corn"?

That corn they are looking at probably isn't edible until they process it into high fructose corn syrup. Even then it is not really edible.

[dballance]

46. The caption for the last picture should be...

"So that's what it looks like before my servants bring it to me on a silver platter"

[sinkingfeeling]

47. That corn sucks! What horrible looking ears! Is Iowa in the drought as well?

[Canuckistanian]

85. It's all across North America

Even here in Canada.

We have a cornfield (feed corn) out back of our house (not ours), and here it is in August and it's STILL not up to eye level. And the bottom leaves are yellow.

We went from late June until last week with out any appreciable rain.

[WCIL]

86. That is very healthy corn

compared to fields near me in Illinois!

[CoffeeCat]

89. I'm in Iowa...

...and the latest crop report indicates that 70 percent of the corn in the state is lost--totally fried. I've never seen anything close to this. The cornfields all around here look like someone took a torch to them.

I'm a bit mystified because the field in these Romney photos looks great. I saw many cornfields today and they were ell brown and withered.

Interesting about this farmer. He is a multimillionaire. He owns 40 farms and he is a big corporate farmer. He's also a real-estate mogul and a concert snd event promoter. He's certainly not a typical farmer. He lives in a huge, infamous house that looks lik a spaceship. It's huge and worth at least several million. That house is 15 minutes from our house and I've seen it many times. I can tell you thus much--that's a one percent farmer for sure.

Can Romney even try--for a few minutes--to meet with regular people???

"Ok guys, I need to meet with a farmer, but please, a regular guy. Someone with a large mansion, preferably in the shape of an exotic spacecraft. And please no old dirty farmers. You know that cheap flannel gives me hives."

[Hubert Flottz]

48. Picture #1. "Hey guys, this is the first place we've stopped in six months,

where some SOB didn't Boo us!" ~ Willard Mitt

Picture #2 . "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" ~ the corn

Picture #3. "Oh Gawd Fred, I think this damed Blue State Burpees Double Sweet don't like pee! ~ Willard Mitt

Picture #4. "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! GETTT! OUTTTTTTTTTT! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" ~ the corn

Picture #5. "Hang on boys, I'm going to try and cut my way out with this strange warty phallus that was poking me in the backside!" ~ Willard Mitt

Picture #6. "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU SUCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK!" ~ The corn

Picture #7. "There ain't no damned Blue State Burpees Double Sweet going to take down a crew wearing our Magic Underwear, No Where, No How!" ~ Willard Mitt

Picture #8. "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DON"TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT COOOOOOOOOOME BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKKKKKKKKKKK! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" ~ the corn

Picture #9. "Mine's bigger'n yours! I saw yours when we were in picture number one!" ~ Willard Mitt.

[Voice for Peace]

79. lololol

boooos .. from the corn. that needs to be a photoshop.

[ProSense]

49. .

[JoePhilly]

51. "See, see what Obama's drought did to my corn"

[maddiemom]

93. Good one!

[eShirl]

52. Monsanto's finest, no doubt.

[Rambis]

56. Whatta you mean I have this up my ass?

[bulloney]

58. I'll bet the scarecrow didn't look as stiff as Mitt.

[benld74]

61. So, dis wher my corn in de can come from heh?

[liberalmuse]

63. Who is setting him up?

I mean, for these photo ops? Obama MUST have a mole inside the Romney campaign.

[Kadie]

71. LOL

It makes you wonder.

[4_TN_TITANS]

64. Fun aside, that's some pitiful looking corn.

we won't be laughing about this in six months, it's quite a cause for concern. This is the first serious photo op I've seen him do, even if it looks funny on the surface.

[MadrasT]

66. Yes, they were touring the field to look at the effects of the drought.

Not really very funny, it's a tragedy that will affect all of us in one way or another.

Those poor farmers.

[WCIL]

87. As I said above

that corn looks great compared to some of the fields where I live in Illinois. In many fields there is no green at all, just old dead stalks.

[Erose999]

65. Hey Mittens... if you like corn, I have a new candy bar with corn and peanuts for you to try.....

[Enrique]

67. theyll never find the tax returns here!

[taught_me_patience]

68. "The cornfield is just the right height..." n/t

[stuckinodi]

69. DUzy Thread! n/t

[lindysalsagal]

72. Take questions from ears of corn, but not reporters.

[onecent]

73. He's in the WRONG CORNFIELD...he needs to visit

where I live in Missouri...He would FIND FEW THAT LOOK LIKE THAT.

The moron!!!!!!!!

[southernyankeebelle]

78. He looks so awkward doesn't he? I remember the first time I planted corn and my

mother-in-law showed me and as it would grow we go out and pull the weeds. Then we put fertilizer on them. Then when you have to pull the suckers out that grows by them. I didn't know that. At first I was cleaning the weeds out from around them. My mother-in-law laughed and asked me what I was doing. I told her weeding. She said I was weeding around the sucker that had to be pulled. We laughed our heads off.

[romneymakes]

80. Never underestimate the corn vote

[Blue Meany]

83. "Dry...corn...bad..." n/t

[Earth_First]

84. "Can we visit the popcorn fields next?" n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

88. ROFL! What does he expect to see in there?!

[rad51]

90. Every pic I've seen of him looks like he's confused and out of place. n/t

[tclambert]

92. Actually, that's pretty good looking corn. Green, lush leaves. Normal cob for the edge of a field.

Corn requires cross pollination. Typically, the edges of a corn field, especially the upwind side, don't get sufficient pollen for full fertilization. You find the fuller ears a few rows deeper into the field.

I see no evidence this field suffered any drought stress. I do see a lazy politician who only went only two steps into the field.