The Making Of Romney's Storm Relief Event (if you thought it couldn't get worse, you're wrong)
The Making Of Romney's Storm Relief EventA scramble to depoliticize a political campaign, and $5,000 in supplies from Wal-Mart. “Just grab something.” (JUST GRAB SOMETHING??? - me)
McKay Coppins
BuzzFeed Staff
The last-minute decision by Romney high command Monday to suspend politics while Sandy raged sent aides in Ohio scrambling to convert a scheduled victory rally into an apolitical "storm relief event" — a process that tested the campaign's agility, and left a few threads of partisanship inadvertently hanging.
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The plan was for supporters to bring hurricane relief supplies to the event, and then deliver the bags of canned goods, packages of diapers, and cases of water bottles to the candidate, who would be perched behind a table along with a slew of volunteers and his Ohio right-hand man, Senator Rob Portman. To complete the project and photo-op, Romney would lead his crew in carrying the goods out of the gymnasium and into the Penske rental truck parked outside.
But the last-minute nature of the call for donations left some in the campaign concerned that they would end up with an empty truck. So the night before the event, campaign aides went to a local Wal Mart and spent $5,000 on granola bars, canned food, and diapers to put on display while they waited for donations to come in, according to one staffer. (The campaign confirmed that it "did donate supplies to the relief effort," but would not specify how much it spent.)
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But even as Romney, clad in blue jeans and rolled-up sleeves, hustled around his area of the gym, shaking hands, thanking supporters, and stacking cases of bottled water on top of each other, signs of stagecraft remained. As supporters lined up to greet the candidate, a young volunteer in a Romney/Ryan t-shirt stood near the tables, his hands cupped around his mouth, shouting, "You need a donation to get in line!" Empty-handed supporters pled for entrance, with one woman asking, "What if we dropped off our donations up front?" The volunteer gestured toward a pile of groceries conveniently stacked near the candidate. "Just grab something," he said.
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george w. moron* weeps.
jerk has hundreds of millions of dollars, when will he contribute $$$$$$$$$$$$to the relief effort? I hate this guy. He's such a POS. Fading into oblivion after his loss next Tuesday will not be good enough...
may he lose all his money and position in the mormon cult for starters. I don't pray that much, but I am for that to happen to him and his family. To hell with him!!!!!!
OK, that's good, honey.
Pathetic. Just beyond belief.
Funny how the man with more money than Midas doesn't offer a nickel of it - when the Red Cross has made it clear they need donations of MONEY. But leave it to myth wrongney to divert attention and do something far less than needed. Yep, this is what it'll look like. A sneak preview of all the wonderful hands-on care and concern and compassion 
that he'll bring to the presidency if we're unlucky enough to see him win.
I can't even tell you how much I hate that guy. He actuallly makes me nostalgic for W.
And it evaporated rather immediately!
...the rightwing response to pictures of Al Gore personally evacuating an airplane-full of hospital cases after Katrina, at his own expense and with no further political ambitions on his plate.
Their response to that ("Yeah suuurrre he cares about Global Warming - lookit all the carbon he's putting into the atmosphere with that jet."
was pretty much the answer for anyone who's ever asked: "So how do I get into Hell, anyway?"
not surprised
I guess they couldn't find any plastic turkeys on such short notice, they would have made a fine finishing touch for the whole show 
back to Ohio to put canned corn on a truck to ship back to NJ.? 
The cost of the fuel for that jet would have been appreciated by relief organizations.
No one does stupid better than Romney.
Not with all their wit, not even with all their joke-writers. Gads, what a stupid tool Willard is. And it goes to the bone. This retires the Derp Award forever.
Sometimes all you can do is
as it seems 