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brooklynite

(94,535 posts)
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 02:55 PM Sep 2012

What a swell guy Mitt Romney is...

Salon:

Introducing Mitt Romney last night at a fundraiser, Marriott International chairman Bill Marriott told a humanizing anecdote:

Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream. And we got into the docks and they were all full and I looked around, there was no place to park, so we stopped at the end of a dock. They all jumped off and ran up the dock. And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything – they just left me out there at sea. So I finally found a place to park after about 20 minutes, and I pulled in, I said, ‘Who’s going to grab the rope?,’ and I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he’s going to rescue this great country.’


Yes, that man would give you the shirt of his Butler's back...
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What a swell guy Mitt Romney is... (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2012 OP
What a hero.... louis-t Sep 2012 #1
LOLOLOL Voice for Peace Sep 2012 #7
The shirt Sekhmets Daughter Sep 2012 #2
The dipshit couldn't tie up his own boat? sweet Jesus! OffWithTheirHeads Sep 2012 #3
Gee next time I'm on the lake taking a bunch of my off spring for ice cream and need a docking line. The Wielding Truth Sep 2012 #4
I think I'm going to cry .......... TheCowsCameHome Sep 2012 #5
No place to "park"? Puzzler Sep 2012 #6
I had to laugh at that, as well. Frustratedlady Sep 2012 #10
Ruling class zero is more like it! greatauntoftriplets Sep 2012 #8
It's just what any rich prick would do. Gotta keep that Boy Scout knot skill up to snuff. Lint Head Sep 2012 #9
Another example of how stunningly out of touch these assholes are. Happyhippychick Sep 2012 #11
It seems to me the Marriot ... GeorgeGist Sep 2012 #12
What an absolutely touching story. LeftofObama Sep 2012 #13
lol. that's all you got? Whisp Sep 2012 #14

The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)
4. Gee next time I'm on the lake taking a bunch of my off spring for ice cream and need a docking line.
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 03:00 PM
Sep 2012

God, that will be never.

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)
5. I think I'm going to cry ..........
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 03:03 PM
Sep 2012

...because I'm about to throw up all over my new keyboard.

"He rescued me...?" - by tying a boat up to a town dock? I know exactly where that saga of the high seas took place.

I don't know how Wolfeboro manages to survive the summer without heroes like Mitt Romney.

Puzzler

(2,505 posts)
6. No place to "park"?
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 03:03 PM
Sep 2012

I thought you "docked" a boat, not parked it.

Sounds like a crew member usually does it for him.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
10. I had to laugh at that, as well.
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 03:14 PM
Sep 2012

Up to that point, I couldn't tell if he was driving a vehicle or in a boat. I hope his grandkids were old enough to fend for themselves if he was screwing around for 20 minutes to "park" his boat.

How many properties do Mitt and Ann have?

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
14. lol. that's all you got?
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 06:09 PM
Sep 2012

what a pathetic story. it hurt more than helped.



wow, pulling in a boat from a dock and not even getting your shoes wet calls for a Medal of Honor, or something.

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