Romney Shamelessly compares his cleaning up a football field to Sandy cleanup!

courseofhistory · 2012-10-30T19:13:27+00:00

Mitt Romney, the hollow man What a clueless moron! If he gets to run this country, it will certainly be a big MESS! He likens hurricane repairs to cleaning up "rubbish and paper products" from a football field. Is he joking? By Joan Walsh Its become a platitude to say that no one should be playing politics with Hurricane Sandy, but thats silly. When the performance of government suddenly becomes a literal matter of life and death to many Americans, we ought to be thinking about what kind of government we want to have, and that involves politics. Its impossible not to see that this storm has devastated Mitt Romneys presidential candidacy. The response to the hurricane has seemed like one long dramatic Obama campaign commercial, a lesson in Were all in this together, while Romney, the man who said hed dismantle FEMA, flails on the sidelines. Romneys relief event outside of Dayton, Ohio, was surreal enough to be a campaign parody, with the candidate comparing the federal governments hurricane relief efforts to the time he and some friends had to clean up a football field strewn with rubbish and paper products. It was supposed to be a parable of how Republicans handle disaster with private charity, not government intervention as Romney told his audience, Its part of the American spirit, the American way, to give to people in need. The Republican went on to talk about the time some Hurricane Katrina survivors were rerouted from Houston to Cape Cod and the good people of Cape Cod responded by donating food and, yes, television sets.