So, Mitt Romney walks into a diner...

[Upchurch]

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

Romney walks into a diner for a campaign hand-shaking meet-and-greet. He spots two old guys having breakfast, one obviously a vet, and invites himself to join them for a photo-op. One of the old guys takes the opportunity to ask Romney about his position on gay marriage, which Romney dutifully says is wrong and he will work to keep it from becoming legal.

It turns out, however, that the two old farts are a New Hampshire legally married gay couple. Hilarity ensues.

Here's another, more fabulously comical, take on the event.

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

I love that the vet points out that Romney is unable to look him in the eye when he's telling him that he supports the DOMA.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Oops!

 

[Pardalis]

I love that the vet points out that Romney is unable to look him in the eye when he's telling him that he supports the DOMA.

That's because he thinks that if he makes eye contact there might be some attraction.

 

[Tricky]

That's because he thinks that if he makes eye contact there might be some attraction.

He should have tried tapping his foot.

 

[MattusMaximus]

I'm done watching "reality" TV - watching the Republican candidates stumble all over themselves is far more entertaining

 

[thaiboxerken]

Homophobes have a hard time looking gay people in the eyes, once they know that they are gay. It's as if they know they are in the wrong.

 

[BenBurch]

Homophobes have a hard time looking gay people in the eyes, once they know that they are gay. It's as if they know they are in the wrong.

Um, I think there is another reason.

 

[Alferd_Packer]

Did anyone catch the link to the article about how Romney's campaign has adopted a long time KKK slogan?

 

[fishbob]

And Romney is the smartest and least insane of the Republican contenders.

http://www.firesigntheatre.com/papoon/

 

[Cleon]

Did anyone catch the link to the article about how Romney's campaign has adopted a long time KKK slogan?

You'd think someone would've googled that. That's the sort of embarrassing screwup you're expect from Rick Perry's campaign.

 

[Alferd_Packer]

You'd think someone would've googled that. That's the sort of embarrassing screwup you're expect from Rick Perry's campaign.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/214406

read the above and substitute "Tea Party Patriots" for "Knights of the Klu Klux Klan."

Scary how it sounds like a lot of what passes for political rhetoric these days.

 

[Ron_Tomkins]

Here's a common pattern you will probably find in every single one of these Republican candidates:

Ask him any question in the lines of:

"So you don't think gay people should be treated equally?"

or

"So you don't think every human being has the same constitutional rights"

or something in those lines

And they're answer will be some automated bureaucratic response in the lines of

"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman and this has been the way it was in the constitution and blablabla"

They will never directly just answer the question.

That is because they think answering the question indirectly, saves them from the bigotry of their position.

 

[MattusMaximus]

And Romney is the smartest and least insane of the Republican contenders.

http://www.firesigntheatre.com/papoon/

No, that's Huntsman. Too bad Huntsman doesn't have a chance in hell.

 

[BenBurch]

No, that's Huntsman. Too bad Huntsman doesn't have a chance in hell.

I might actually be tempted to vote for him. He doesn't match my policy ideas very well, but to the extent he does I bet he could get things done. The GOPers in Congress would pretty much have to play ball with him, and he is moderate enough to get Democratic votes.

 

[Alferd_Packer]

I might actually be tempted to vote for him. He doesn't match my policy ideas very well, but to the extent he does I bet he could get things done. The GOPers in Congress would pretty much have to play ball with him, and he is moderate enough to get Democratic votes.

You are assuming that the Teapers won't lead him around like a pet laberdoodle.

 

[Number Six]

I don't think the vet said that Romney wouldn't look him in the eye when he (Romney) was saying it nor did it appear that Romney was avoiding looking the guy in the eye. Romney didn't stare the vet in the eye constantly but he looked the vet in the eye a lot, including when he (Romney) was speaking.

 

[angrysoba]

The video of the whole encounter is here.



As pointed out, Romney didn't avoid looking the veteran in the eye, it was more that the veteran wanted to get a straight answer, as it were.

Romney did do his usual thing of getting ever so slightly paniced and defensive once he knew someone was calling him out on something.

"You said you had a yes or no answer and I gave you the answer."

 

[Tmy]

Romney is known to have a wide stance.

 

[BenBurch]

Romney is known to have a wide stance.

Um, no, actually. And it serves no purpose to suggest an untruth like that.