Point of etiquette: When invited to a party -- like, say, the Olympics -- it's best not to disparage the party's success in front of the hosts before the party has even started.
And if you try that in U.K., especially, don't expect your grievous breach of etiquette to go unnoticed by the tabloids. The Sun, legendary for its scorching headlines, summed up Mr. Romney's escapades thusly: "Mitt the twit --Wannabe US President Romney in Games insult, but David Cameron insists: We'll show you."
Ahhh, the genius of the British tabs. Sadly, the American press lacks the gleeful bile of its London counterparts, but no matter: who's up for writing some headlines -- Fleet Street tabloid style -- about the Romney visit? I'll start.
- London Galling -- Broiling Brits to Colonial Klutz: Yanks for Nothing
- Git -- What You Are, What You Should Do
- Mitt Romney’s Lying Circus -- "This is a late parrot"
Get your tab on, TRMS'ers. And we'll post the winners on Monday.
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"All Dressaged Up and Nowhere to Go: Romney Quickly Wears Out Welcome in UK"
"Across-the-Pond Scum: Rude Romney Riles Hosts"
Not a Love Story: When Mittens Met Miliband
"Brit to Mitt: Anglo-Saxon Connection Revoked"
Mittstakes, Mittsteps, and Mittastrophes!
"I'm glad that worked out. Those would have been terrible last words!" -Eleventh
MittDoctorMust read...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/romneyshambles-mitt-romney-republican-candidate-1174437
Sums it up pretty well. Misses the Anglo-Saxon remark to kickoff the trip, and the David Cameroon swipe "middle of nowhere". Otherwise, sums up the trip well.
mitty's arrogance/sense of entitlement/lack of manners/lack of any professionalism/lack of looking even slightly presidential/inability to remember names/inability to relate to us glimmered brightly and made him look like a fool. what is really pathetic is mitty didn't even seem to realize how rude/inappropriate/out of place his comments were. mitty makes bush/palin look like geniuses! on top of that he still evades answering direct questions about what he would do about the economy/foreign policy--just what exactly are his stances, that's right it is whatever his handlers tell him to say as he doesn't seem to actually be able to speak on his own. given this performance heaven help us if he engages in actual dialogue with a foreign government. what an embarrassment to the USA!!!
BTW in the interview to NBCNews and Brian Williams, Romney said he didn't even know when the horse dressage event was and that it was all Ann's business...
Yeah, way to support your wife buddy. You didn't want to come off as "elite" so you dissed your wife's horse and the Olympic competition she qualified for. Way to get her back, way to show an interest. All just to seem more "every man" issh.
I think it was one of his bigger gaffes of the trip. Who cares I guess when it's a $77,000 tax write off, right Willard?
What a Mitt-iot!
Go home Yank, no Mitt allowed
It is hard to believe he has been running for POTUS for years, yet doesn't understand the protocol for traveling to other countries as a candidate? It confirms rules do not apply to him. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him in Israel where he could do actual harm in that fragile country.
The man is a compulsive liar and he has created a campaign with the atmosphere where the bigger the lie (and yes Mitt, taking words out of context is a form of lying) the less shame he shows when caught.
Mitt is just trying to show to the whole world that " If I'm president, we're gonna make fun of you and we're gonna kick your ass." He's bringing RESPECT AND EXCEPTIONALISM back to America.
Cheeky Romney, the Baron of Bain, the bane of America.
Bloody 'ell! His Highness of Mass shootist misfires.
And you thought the fog was bad in London? Look inside this blokes head.
Mittwit Snit Leaves Brits in Fit.
He hates you, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh...
What do you expect from thimble-mitt?
Unfit Mitt
and the pais de resistance:
HIS ARROGANCE MAKES ME WANT TO VO-MITT
Mitt Insists Brit Bile Really French Vile
"Brits to Mitt: GIT!"
That's Mittens for ya...Awe Mittens and your stupid pomp-ass big mouth, what did you say now...???...Crash and Burn Mittens, Crash and F@#$ing Burn........!!!........
Mitt? We'll Have Ours Mittout, Thanks!
Bad Little Mittens, You've Insulted the Britains! (Now You Should Wave Good-bye.)
Mitt has still lots of time and places left on his trip to top this mess, hope he does not start a war however.
If he does start a war and gets taken hostage, we'll be able to balance the budget on what we would charge them to take Sir Mitt, his royal highnASS back!
Mitt the Twit loses brain between airport and #10.
and because I can't resist...
with apologies to Arlen & Harburg:
(Mittens)
I could fix Amercia’s problems
Conferrin' with Wall Street hoodlums
Consultin' with the Bain
I could stop my silly blather
Maybe interview Dan Rather
If I only had a brain
I might keep from always failin’
Sounding worse than Sarah Palin
In trouble or back at Bain
(Obama)
With the thoughts you'd be thinkin'
You could be another Lincoln
If you only had a brain
(Mittens)
Oh, I would tell you why
The money’s stored offshore
I could make up brand new things
You’ve never said before
I would not be just a vulture
Living off the Wall Street culture
My heart all full of Bain
I would finally be merry
I wouldn’t be a dingleberry
If I only had a brain
Mitt Romney New James Bond? Mitt Punk'd!