Mitt, just a regular guy with a wrench: "Whose Bichon Frise is that over there?

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WASHINGTON -- Back in 2002, when Mitt Romney began running for governor of Massachusetts, his campaign managers thought it would be a good idea to have the millionaire perform various blue-collar jobs around the state. In a move that presaged "Undercover Boss," strategists put Romney in blue jeans, gave him a long, shiny wrench, and had him play at being a mechanic for a photo op.

The campaign called these events "work days." He served sausages outside Fenway Park. He donned a hard hat. He hammered nails. He drove a tractor on a farm, bumping along stiffly in the seat. It was, at times, painfully forced. Then again, every day was basically his first on the job.

"Just keep on doing some stuff?” Romney asked as the cameras whirred before turning back to the engine block. He mumbled under the hood about power steering fluid and stabbed at the engine with a wrench as if unsure where to put it. At one point, he wondered to the crowd, "Whose Bichon Frise is that over there? Is that a neighbor? Oh, that's great."

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"In 2002, putting Romney in different costumes and having him work with 'real people' was the first of many lame attempts during his political career to portray Mitt as a regular guy who understands the challenges faced by average people," O'Brien recently told The Huffington Post. "It backfired back then and appears to backfire every time he's tried to be the 'aw shucks' regular guy in subsequent presidential campaigns."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/mitt-romney-blue-collar-work-2002_n_1826667.html

[Scuba]

1. Can you imagine him in a greasy ballcap? (Bichon Frise is a breed of dog.)

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3. I had to google it

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2. Romney holding a wrench...

...is as incongruous as Nixon walking along the beach in a suit and tie.

[MADem]

4. I remember that -- I was just astounded that anyone would buy that shit.

It was beyond phony. There was (still is) no small amount of pervasive sexism in Blue Mass. It's a sad fact that the Bay State has very few women representatives in the entire history of the Commonwealth--you'd think we'd do better.

Mittsy--AKA Governor NO--spent MILLIONS to win that post. Here's what would happen on a regular basis once he got into the corner office on Beacon Hill. The Dem legislature would pass a law; Mittsy would veto it; the Dem legislators would override his veto with a big fat Eff You. Lather, rinse, repeat. That was the way his term worked.

The only "successes" he had as Governor were the ones the Democrats in state government ALLOWED him to have.

People don't understand why we don't mind the odd GOP governor; but that's why--they are powerless unless the legislature allows them to have power...