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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney campaign bus stop in Mount Pleasant, Michigan draws a massive crowd
Of about 17 people.
One of several Romney campaign buses making the rounds in the USA made a stop on the campus of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant this week and drew a teeming crowd of about 17?. Michigan Victory Communications Director Kelsey Knight said, Were here in an effort to splash how strong our grassroots efforts here in Michigan.
Mission not accomplished.
The rest: http://eclectablog.com/2012/09/romney-campaign-bus-stop-in-mount-pleasant-michigan-draws-several.html
jsmirman
(4,507 posts)lol
JI7
(89,182 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Iterate
(3,020 posts)But at least for the moment, everyone rides on the inside.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)With all that money, I would have thought they could afford to pay an artist.
Artists are not conservative enough. Besides with the audience he's attracting the simpler the message the better.
calimary
(80,700 posts)Glad you're here. We need you! And you're quite correct - the simpler the message with this crowd, the better. After all, I believe it was kkkarl rove who once said "too much education isn't necessarily a good thing" - because the better-educated you are, the more likely you'll embrace the liberal view.
Now get to work. We have a reelection to secure.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)there's plenty of room
Cha
(295,929 posts)for Sociopathic, Pathological Liar who's too Afraid to Show his TAX RETURNS?
Way to draw a crowd, asshat.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)maybe times have changed since the Reagan Years
NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)After conservative and businessman?
Cha
(295,929 posts)Leading them into HELL.
Faux pas
(14,585 posts)some random dupes the cameraman gathered on his way to this gigantic event?
outsideworld
(601 posts)Fucking died
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)"We can't hear you over the roar of the crickets."
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)these are the GOP nominees for 2016:
http://travelkit.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/14/13866332-awkward-baby-passport-photo-goes-viral?lite
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)I'm alright but,i'm looking for that hunchback who rings the bells 24/7.
Then I'm sposed to get on the forums and try to chip in something funny yet terse,edgy but not too harsh,intelligent and magnanimous.
I am so ready for the elections to be over and then i can sleep a restful sleep instead of wandering through the halls of my anarchy bunker,insomnolent,worrying:"how do these idiots get so fricking rich".
I bet Mitt spent a million dollars on that bus stop alone and for what,17 hardcore supporters?
The consolation to me is that,the money frittered on this election is now back in circulation and some way,some how it will help some people who really need it.
I constantly remind myself that i am so fortunate and then regret the fact and that,collectively,we are all so screwed.
Brain damaged or not though,that is a cute kid.
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)I would not put it past Mitt W.'s campaign to go to the same day-labor employment agency that rents out the people who hold signs in front of pizza stores, and hire a couple dozen people to hire signs at Romney's rallies.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)"Bring your most /
Excellent Race."
His base is composed of many racists. Hell, mostly racists.
And, just for giggles, Who built this nation? SLAVES, for the most part, especially in the south, indentured, abused people forced to work for jack shit with nothing to hope for, and once they outlived their usefulness, fuck 'em, let 'em die.
Then, after the people woke up, UNIONS built even more. Robber barons are still trying to "correct" that "problem" so they can get richer and richer.
Fuck them.
Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)Mt. Pleasant is the home of the Saginaw Chippewa tribe. Other than CMU, they are probably the largest employer.
karynnj
(59,475 posts)Why would ANYONE want to greet a campaign bus WITHOUT the President or VP candidate? Why are they doing this?
Would anyone here have gone out of their way to see the Obama bus in 2008 - knowing he was not there?
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)mick063
(2,424 posts)But it can't buy crowds.
This is what it looks like when the 1% goes "all in" with an imbecile. About 1% show up.
TomCADem
(17,378 posts)Who needs grassroots when you have the corporate media?
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)...and they are all just the right height!
TexasBushwhacker
(20,044 posts)veganlush
(2,049 posts)unscheduled stop, this fact should be disclosed, otherwise we're just like them.. and we don't want that
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2012/09/mitt_romneys_mobile_hq_bus_hea.html
veganlush
(2,049 posts)for d field all over again! Poor guy
ailsagirl
(22,842 posts)from laughing
Suji to Seoul
(2,035 posts)lob1
(3,820 posts)Rozlee
(2,529 posts)sarge43
(28,939 posts)obxhead
(8,434 posts)"About" 15 or "about" 30 is a nice round number. It could be more or less.
About 17 means 17 people showed up. of those 17, some may be staffers.
You go Romney! Show us how it's done!
Initech
(99,915 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Mt. Pleasant, Isabella county is very blue. Of the 14 counties within the 4th district it is only one of two counties to go blue.
As 4th district chair I put together a fundraising dinner. I put it in Mt. Pleasant because I knew it would help attendance. Very active Dems there. During the even someone gave me a list of elected Dems to acknowledge. I assumed it would be a handful but when I looked at it I was surprised to see a really long list. That county is beyond blue. It's awesome.
Team Romney is full of idiots.
Julie
Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)My wife and I both went to CMU for grad school. It's a nice town.
What is rather surprising is that they apparently made no effort to reach out to other folks in Isabella county and beyond. Like many college towns, there are probably a lot of folks five minutes out of town who would support Romney. Much like the Frankenmuth photos, this tells me they are not seriously contesting Michigan.
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)Hell, at least there they'd find a welcoming chapter of the Bund ... and some Michigan militia.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/31/two-vans-in-romney-motorcade-collide-leaving-press-stranded/
Here is a pic of the bus after it was in a small accident recently. The bus looks the same to me in both pics in terms of its size compared to the size of the people standing by it, but maybe I'm missing something. Who knows. It still seems to me that the real problem is that only 17 people showed up, not that the bus looked (or didn't look) slightly larger than normal.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)onethatcares
(16,133 posts)is he a heckler or with the team?
Rebel Scum
(77 posts)DemKittyNC
(743 posts)and a guy in front of the bus trying to push it out of a hole they drove into or something
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)rocktivity
(44,555 posts)...once again...
rocktivity
goclark
(30,404 posts)words
name not needed
(11,660 posts)They are people too, after all.
CheapShotArtist
(333 posts)that he is a conservative businessman leader. All this time, he's still trying to run away from the image of him being a moderate Republican and trying to excite the lunatic base.
daybranch
(1,309 posts)or do the republicans like to kick you when you are down?
Webster Green
(13,905 posts)I see five supporters with signs, three media people interviewing another supporter, and what looks like the bus driver.
jillan
(39,451 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)marble falls
(56,371 posts)Bozita
(26,955 posts)UrbScotty
(23,979 posts)CMU is in a small city, and a lot of students are from rural areas.
But going to CMU, I saw a lot more progressives than conservatives.
stlsaxman
(9,236 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,679 posts)or should that be Romney-Ryan 1040 Vouchercare
Mapletonian
(30 posts)Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)they were there to "splash" the punchbowl. If Koch sees that picture he might repo Mitt's aerodynamic shit wagon.