“your neighbors have complained,” Mr. Quint recalled. “He was pretty clear that it was the Romneys.”

[kpete]

Mr. Romney and his wife take regular walks around La Jolla, exchanging pleasantries with fellow strollers and occasionally enforcing the law. A young man in town recalled that Mr. Romney confronted him as he smoked marijuana and drank on the beach last summer, demanding that he stop.

The issue appears to be a recurring nuisance for the Romneys. Mr. Quint, who lives on the waterfront near Mr. Romney, said that a police officer had asked him, on a weekend when the candidate was in town, to report any pot smoking on the beach. The officer explained to him that “your neighbors have complained,” Mr. Quint recalled. “He was pretty clear that it was the Romneys.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/garden/mitt-romney-the-candidate-next-door.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&hpw

[PatSeg]

1. Maybe it was Mitt himself

dressed up in his police uniform!

[riderinthestorm]

2. Good one!

[HopeHoops]

3. Sounds like a good excuse for the flaming paper bag full of dog shit on the porch trick.

If I were said "young man", I'd have just told him to go fuck himself and to call Mr. Frothy to see if they want to do a doggie threesome on the car roof.

With Rmoney as a neighbor, I'm sure the property values have plummeted. Otherwise I would suggest that Mr. Quint sell his house to a drug gang with loud cars, loud stereos, and muffler-free motorcycles and move to a more hospitable neighborhood.

[Warpy]

7. And that's why I haven't taken my dad's advice to move to a better area

I like the people in this disgusting, downtrodden working class barrio a hell of a lot better.

And I agree about selling the fancy address to the biker drug gang. There's one down the street from me all ready to go. They'd get a kick out of living in a mansion for a change.

[goclark]

13. Rmoney needs some pot to

make him seem near human.

He is such a bore

[CBGLuthier]

17. or the kill a whole family trick as we call it here.

Few years back an entire family killed because some dumbass did the flaming bag of shit trick. So funny. Ha Ha. People are fucking idiots.

[Journeyman]

4. Imagine that. Citizens using Mitt & Ann's public beach for their personal pleasure . . .

And who would deny them their exercise in middle-aged frumpery, given the cold-eyed shtarkers behind 'em, guns at the ready.

Arrogance. Conceit. Thy name is Romney.

[Ikonoklast]

5. My standard answer to busybodies is the quintessentially American standard answer:

"Fuck off."

To the police who want ME to do their job for them, "Officer, please fuck off."

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. As I get older I am much more prone to throw a "fuck off" at someone.

Or "how about minding your own fucking business" works pretty good.

[PatSeg]

6. Geez

Now that I've read the article, it bares little resemblance to the NYT article that Scarborough was ranting about this morning. He made it sound like an over-the-top liberal hit piece and its just a story about the pros and cons of a high profile politician moving into an established neighborhood.

Proving yet again that Joe Scarborough looks for reasons to talk so he can hear the sound of his own voice.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. Not to mention a bigot who thinks his neighbor's marriage should be invalidated.

And has plans to work toward that end.

I wouldn't be able to contain myself.

[goclark]

14. When will he talk about that intern?

[PatSeg]

16. Today he managed to interject

his short congressional career into the conversation (THAT hardly ever happens) and raved about his own performance in a debate.

Yes, yes Joe, we all know you were in Congress long, long ago, in a land far, far away. Could he be a bigger bore?

[goclark]

20. He is a

pompous Finished Fool

[kestrel91316]

10. Nosey Parkers of the LDS persuasion. Wow, I'm shocked.

[hifiguy]

19. Charlie Pierce called the Rmoneys the "Mormon Clampetts"

though I think the Clampetts would be much better neighbors, at least when Granny wasn't on the warpath with her shotgun.

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. THAt is hysterical!!!!!!

[magical thyme]

11. Mittens Kravitz moves next door. yippee! nt

[cali]

21. huh?

[progressoid]

22. in reference to Gladys Kravitz from Bewitched I think.

[hughee99]

12. Rmoney needs to mind his own fucking business.

Now if the man had been smoking a cigarette, that would be different.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. McCain was an irritable "get off my lawn" kind of guy

Romney has graduated to "get off my beach".

[hifiguy]

18. Sounds like a perfect place for a

"smoke-in." Don't forget the munchies.

[Trillo]

23. Buyer's remorse?

Sounds like he'd have been happier living in a Mormon temple in Salt Lake City instead of the existing community he chose.

[Raine]

25. What the hell is he doing here in CA, he doesn't fit in to our lifestyle! If he's going to stay he

better conform to us and the way we do things here

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. +1

[Laura PourMeADrink]

26. If Mitt and Ann want beach...they should consider the Alabama or GA coast. If Arkansas had a coast

I would definitely say go there, you losers.

[FSogol]

28. Still laughing at the "you losers" part.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

29. Ha...only time I am funny, when I am not trying to be. I still think the biggest takeaway

on this CA construction project is that it shows how autocratic he is. Surely dozens
of advisers said, "Look Mitt, you've got a Richy-Rich perception problem. We strongly
advise you to wait on this project." And he said too bad, I'm doing it. Just like
the whole dog on the roof deal. If you read Feb Vanity Fair article about it (based
on interviews with his sons)..what popped out to me was how they said Mitt meticulously
planned the trip - down to exact locations they would stop for gas. He warned them
all that there would be NO exceptions, no other stops. Sure, my dad was not much
on stopping either - but he would have never, ever set such autocratic rules like that.
Romney is anal retentive to the core.