Mitt Romney does the impossible: Gets Brits to stop moaning and start cheering about Olympics

[steve2470]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/mitt-romney-does-the-impossible-gets-brits-to-stop-moaning-and-start-cheering-about-olympics/2012/07/27/gJQAieuZDX_story.html

LONDON — Mitt Romney may be just what the London Olympics needed.

In little more than 24 hours in London, the U.S. presidential candidate has gotten Britons to stop complaining about bumper-to-bumper traffic, cringing about cost overruns and fretting about shoddy security — and instead start taking pride in their country’s long-awaited day in the sun.

From Prime Minister David Cameron to ordinary Londoners rushing to work, Britons recoiled at the visiting American’s suggestion that the logistical problems encountered so far were “disconcerting.” Many who have themselves been slamming organizers as incompetent, and the massive competition as an expensive fiasco, are suddenly rallying around the flag.

“Mitt the Twit” screamed Friday’s headline in The Sun, which just days ago was trumpeting an embarrassing incident in which an official bus carrying the U.S. team from Heathrow airport got lost and spent hours in traffic.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Pretty basic, really.

I can sit in my own house and gripe and complain all day about the ugly furniture and how much my spouse annoys me. But if you come into my house and tell me my husband is a dick and my sofa looks like puke, you're gonna get an earful: all of a sudden Hubby is God's gift to the universe and my home furnishings are envied by Martha Stewart.

Mitt Borat apparently flunked Diplomacy 101.

[steve2470]

2. +1 nt

[C_U_L8R]

3. I hope they put Mitt's face up on the Jumbotron

the crowd will go wild !

oh the hilarity !!

[fugop]

4. Just in time ...

Washington Post to the rescue! Haven't clicked through, but this kind of sounds like a defense of Mitt. "hey he's just saying what everyone has been saying! Poor Mitt!" Please. Face it, Post. Mitt's a dunderhead.

[davidpdx]

5. When someone unites because they hate you

That's never a good sign. Romney has foot and mouth disease.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. He is a "uniter"

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the exact same way GWB was

Which is NOT a good thing (for him- and us- if heaven forbid he becomes POTUS).