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Mitt Romney Hides His Tax Returns Behind a Stack of Buttermilk Pancakes
While Americans are still demanding that he release his tax returns, Mitt Romney went on national television to discuss the virtues of buttermilk pancakes.
Almost 2/3 of Americans say they want to see Mitt Romney’s tax returns, but Romney instead decided to perform a skit straight out of the 1950s starring Mitt, Ann, and Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace.
As our scene opens Mitt and Ann are making pancakes,
MITT ROMNEY: It’s not hot enough.
WALLACE: Inside, they were making Mrs. Romney’s trademark buttermilk pancake. She prepares the batter. He cooks them.
M. ROMNEY: I know it’s a little early. It’s a little early. Ann is taking a look. I’m just going to do it anyway, see?
WALLACE: Honestly, this is the first time you ever done this in your life?
(LAUGHTER)
Did Mitt Romney just admit that this whole thing is staged? C’mon Mitt, you are supposed to act like you do this every Sunday. When Chris Wallace asked is the first time you’ve ever done this in your life, the correct answer would have been, “No, we do this every summer.” Not ha-ha-ha, busted.
The story continued with the Romneys saying more about pancakes than they ever have about their tax returns,
WALLACE: The governor served up the pan cakes and that started the first controversy of the day.
A. ROMNEY: Chris, a real maple syrup guy? This we tell you is New Hampshire maple syrup.
WALLACE: Well, is there any other kind?
A. ROMNEY: Yes, there is Vermont.
WALLACE: Vermont is a swing state.
A. ROMNEY: Right.
WALLACE (voice-over): Maple syrup from any state wasn’t what the governor wanted.
A.ROMNEY: Are you putting peanut butter on my pancake?
M. ROMNEY: I’m not going to put in on Chris, don’t worry, honey.
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: I decided to get off that sticky subject by quickly eating my pancakes.
(on camera): That’s good.
A.ROMNEY: Yummy, isn’t it?
WALLACE: That is delicious.
Look, no one cares about how Mitt Romney feels about buttermilk pancakes. Voters do care about what is in the soon to be Republican nominee’s tax returns. America doesn’t elect presidents based on their choice of breakfast foods, but most voters think it is important to know whether or not one of the candidates for president is a tax dodger.
Mitt Romney is trying to distract voters with pancakes, and staged skits straight out of an episode of Leave It To Beaver, when his constant evasiveness about his tax returns plays more like an episode of Law and Order.
The image consultants are hard at work trying to turn Thurston and Lovie Howell into Ward and June Cleaver. Romney has gotten so desperate that he is hoping that if America likes him more, they will stop asking about his tax returns.
The pancake defense isn’t going to work. Behind the stack of flapjacks, questions remain about Mitt Romney’s tax returns. No amount of pancakes will ever make America like Mitt Romney.
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Sally
Aug. 26th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
New Hampshire? How many states do these two reside in, and how many absentee ballots do they fill out? If the GOP hadn;t nixed national IDs, we could find out. As it is, these two can probably vote four or five times, and who would be the wiser? It isn;t as if they come across as honest people.
Linda1961
Aug. 26th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
Ward and June Cleaver seem more real to me than Ann and Mittens Romney, even though the Cleavers are fictional and the Romneys are allegedly real humans. Heck, even the Howells seem more real to me than the Romneys.
Hellon Heels
Aug. 26th, 2012 at 8:01 pm
These two are less human than robots…can’t stand them and I am physically sick over the fact that they truly believe the American public are stupid…regardless of party, they believe we are all stupid. They are completely ridiculous!
buckeyewill
Aug. 26th, 2012 at 9:15 pm
Mitt, Aunt Jemima and Mrs. Buttersworth are not fooled.
Elizabeth
Aug. 26th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
Buttermilk pancakes???? Oh good grief! I am sooooo thrilled “my candidate” can make buttermilk pancakes! Heck, my brother used to make them every Saturday morning when he was in sixth grade.
Mariann Ventura
Aug. 27th, 2012 at 4:28 am
His next skit will he will probably play the role on Mr. Rogers. Of course he’ll move the castle. No way would Mittens have a castle so close to the tracks. And then he’ll teach American’s how to tie their shoes.
ooosillyme
Aug. 27th, 2012 at 9:12 am
Fakes…the lot of them!
SinghX
Aug. 27th, 2012 at 11:26 am
…”The image consultants are hard at work trying to turn Thurston and Lovie Howell into Ward and June Cleaver…”
They did the same thing with the Palins to distract from her as damage control…remember the moose burgers and the love-fest between her and Greta Van Susteren? It was sickening…they didn’t even try to do anything to change the McCains; Cindy didn’t hide how much her “gold” suit for the convention cost…
I can’t remember a Dem having a PR make overs like the GOP has in the past two national elections.