A quick update on that new Mitt Romney ad we showed you yesterday showing the candidate driving around Michigan, nostalgically recalling his childhood (he was born in Detroit) and his love of cars (his father George was an auto executive and governor).
Our friends at Talking Points Memo rightly pointed out that the new ad is very similar to another Romney made for voters last summer in New Hampshire (where he has a summer home mansion).
Now it turns out there's something else wrong with the Michigan ad: the car Romney is driving around Michigan was made in....yes, CANADA! At least that's what the Blue Mass Group, a political blog based in New England, is reporting.
Blue Mass Group says it was tipped by an alert reader who said the images of the Romney car (including the dashboard) indicate that it is a Chrysler 300, which is assembled at the Brampton Assembly Plant in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, NOT in Michigan as the Chrysler 200 is (in Sterling Heights, Michigan, to be specific).
Now, that alone may not get you that upset. But wait, there's more.
Last year, Republicans were SLAMMING President Barack Obama for riding around in a bus made in...yes, Canada!
"The president’s been on a jobs tour," Texas Gov. Perry said at the time. "As a matter of fact, we kinda crossed — we didn’t cross paths, but we were in the same state together, Iowa. He had his big old bus, his big old $1.2 million bus — made in Canada."
Sen. John McCain, Firebrand radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, Fox News' Sean Hannity piled on, ridiculing Obama for "touting job creation" while riding around in "a bus built in Canada."
FactCheck.org looked into it and discovered the Secret Service (not Obama) ordered the $1.1 million bus because it was believed to be the only vehicle at the time that had the payload capacity to meet the the Secret Service’s needs. It still, however, needed some work and that was done for the Secret Service by a company in Tennessee.
Governor Perry. Senator McCain. Mr. Limbaugh. Mr. Hannity. Where are you now? Speak up!
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The mittster Is Far Too Ignorant To Even Realize What He Supposedly Stands For !!!!! He Will NEVER Figure It Out !!!!!!
Puzzled? Every time he opens his mouth, I'm puzzled that he seems to think he has something to say. It is just around in circles and it never connects in anyway.
TM = Yep - And I Like The Title Of The Video Above _{Growing Up } ????? = The mittster Has NOT Grown Up Yet= He IS Still A Spoiled Little BRAT !!! Hey !!!!
Yes, that's the same idea I get when I hear him talk. There's zero substance to what he says, no plan, no ideas. He just wants to be president, like a little boy who has to have the new toy!
I know.......he is chasing his tail?
Mitt Romney's ad is total freaking garbage. Mitt Romney = throws a fit when things don't go his way what big babie.
Why would anyone listen or watch this peice of whinny crap?
Ed, Obivious example of the Dumbing of American!!!!
Republicans are the Party of Hypocrisy, no Doubt!
* Scream about 600 Guns in "Furious", but Ignore that Republicans "Lost" over 200,000 Military Assault Weapons in Iraq.!?
* Scream about $0.5 Billion for Solyndra and $1 Billion for FEMA to help Americans, but Ignore approving $1 Trillion for Halliburton and 100% Foreigner Iraqis.!?
Their was once a name for a person who would try to mold themselves to the situation of the moment. The trouble with trying to seek approval from all sides is you end up throwing your convictions and values out the window and are left with the approval of no one.
We used to call them "plastic people". If the name fits, it must be Mitt.
If you notice in part of that clip, he says how did the unions get in that shape? Could it be because the REPUBLICANS have done, and are doing, everything they can to DESTROY the unions?? These dumb Repubs really have guts, don't they? Unbelievable!
mjb, i'm a union supporter, but not a member of one. i still go to the post office to buy stamps to pay my bills and have signed petitions for their union. and the bus that romney said the pres. rides around in was built in canada, only the shell was built in quebec. the whole interior was built by union workers in the usa. the diesel engine was built in detroit. just more rep. lies.
What they don't like to mention is that the buses Palin, Bachmann, Gingrich, Cain and all the rest of them are made by the exact same company! Hypocrites! You've got to laugh at what they think they can get by with!
MJB::: They also failed to mention the bus in which Pres. BUSH tooled around the country was made by the same company in the same place IN CANADA. The republithugs have no room to talk!!!!!
Ex Pres. Bush came to Ohio in a bus like that also. Nothing was said about that at that time.
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I don't know how any person unless they were really concerned about it, would know where any car is made. If you buy a Toyota, chances are it was built here and it's probably more American than either that bus or Romney's car. Parts come from all over the world and can be assembled anywhere. There's probably no such thing as a 100% American car anymore.
BooCoo DaBreeze,
"Their was once a name for a person who would try to mold themselves to the situation of the moment. The trouble with trying to seek approval from all sides is you end up throwing your convictions and values out the window and are left with the approval of no one.
We used to call them "plastic people". If the name fits, it must be Mitt. "
If you watch the Mitt in video clips, he even LOOKS plastic. His body movements look . . . STIFF. Like he's got too much starch in his clothes or something. Its pretty weird.
I remember Sarah Palin and Fox News talking about Obama's canadian bus. Forget the fact W rode a bus manufactured by the same company, how about the fact that they made a huge thing out of Obama's bus but don't mention Romney's foreign car in Michigan, the heart of the auto industry? Romney's so out of touch he's almost lost in space!
Just wondering, but why would anyone listen to Sarah Palin. Nobody wants to listen to someone that's quit a job to work for Fox News. When will the GOP Sheep figure out she's a class a loser?