Sensible Erection | Is Mitt Romney an "anchor baby"?

Thursday, 19 July 2012

quote [ Mitt Romney’s family sued Mexico after using it as a safe haven when they left the United States to flee polygamy laws and religious prosecution. ]

See extended to follow the bouncing ball.

Miles Park Romney, Mitt's great-grandpa, fled America for Mexico in 1885 to evade prosecution under the anti-polygamy laws. Under the law Miles fled to avoid, people could be stripped of their citizenship if they refused to comply with the law. If the Romney family was stripped of their citizenship, then Mitt's father, George, was not an American citizen--because he was born in Mexico, and his parents would not have been American citizens either. Which makes Mitt an "anchor baby"!

[politics] [by sua_sponte@5:04amGMT] [+10 Funny]

Comments

Ankylosaur said @ 5:12am GMT on 19th Jul [Score:2]
You're assuming the Mitt Romney running in the election is the real Mitt Romney. He could just be some random guy from Utah.

We will never know until he, whoever he is, releases the 1968 French police report.

foobar said @ 5:42am GMT on 19th Jul
He could be Kenyan for all we know.

bruceski said @ 9:33am GMT on 19th Jul
You know, even though you're trying to mock the Birthers, when people keep talking about this they sound like idiots.

cb361 said @ 10:27am GMT on 19th Jul [Score:5 Underrated]
Yeah. Everybody knows that the real Mitt Romney was raped and murdered by Glen Beck in 1990.

mechanical contrivance said @ 1:58am GMT on 20th Jul
I say we post that all over the internet and see what happens.

rylex said @ 2:26am GMT on 20th Jul
I think what we are actually supposed to post is that we don't believe the farce that Glen Beck Raped and Murdered the REAL Mitt Romney in France way back in 1968.

sua_sponte said @ 3:42am GMT on 20th Jul
Glen Campbell maced Frank Sinatra while dancing with an ape back in 1968?

...never mind.

afrasr said @ 5:47am GMT on 19th Jul [Score:1 WTF]
Lol, the Republicans aren't ever going to question his birth or roots.

As far as they are concerned, he is American as Apple pie.

He is rich and white !

That's all the proof they need.

mechanical contrivance said @ 1:59am GMT on 20th Jul
Apple pie is British.

Naruki said @ 2:09am GMT on 20th Jul
No! I am pretty sure Johnny Appleseed invented apples... IN AMERICA.

sua_sponte said @ 3:43am GMT on 20th Jul

Ankylosaur said @ 6:10am GMT on 19th Jul [Score:3]
"Mitt Romney" isn't the proper way to write his name. It should be "𐐣𐐮𐐻𐐻 𐐡𐐱𐑋𐑌𐐨". Here's a handy guide to writing in Deseret (𐐔𐐯𐑅𐐨𐑉𐐯𐐻, aka Mormonese). You will need learn it for when he (who ever he is) becomes president of 𐐜 𐐏𐐭𐑌𐐴𐐻𐐯𐐼 𐐝𐐻𐐩𐐻𐑅.

Ankylosaur said @ 7:35am GMT on 19th Jul
Mitt's great grandfather, Miles Park Romney, the one who fled to Mexico, was the first editor of the Arizona Mormon newspaper The Orion Era that was apparently written in Deseret. Mitt's grandfather, Gaskell, helped out with typesetting.

swiggy said @ 7:56am GMT on 19th Jul
ALL OF THESE GUYS HAVE WIERD NAMES

arrowhen said @ 7:59am GMT on 19th Jul
I before E except after C, unless the word is weird.

swiggy said @ 10:12am GMT on 19th Jul
I vacillated over that spelling like five times before I posted it, at which point it looked wrong no matter how it was spelled.

mechanical contrivance said @ 2:00am GMT on 20th Jul
Use a spell checker.

Ankylosaur said @ 8:11am GMT on 19th Jul
They seem more natural written in their native script.

sua_sponte said @ 10:47am GMT on 19th Jul
The Orion Era?

cb361 said @ 11:54am GMT on 19th Jul
This is the dawning of the Era of Orion
The Era of Orion
Orion! Orion!

Barnabas_Truman said @ 9:32am GMT on 20th Jul
Wow. Having its own secret alphabet really doesn't make Mormonism seem any less creepy.

Seneki69 said @ 7:01am GMT on 19th Jul
Apparently you can't make this shit up.

bbqkink said @ 5:47pm GMT on 20th Jul
Oh yes you can. Just ask Mitt he lies all the time, then doubles down on those lies which are easily dis-proven. The only question is there a cost for being a liar?

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Seneki69 said @ 1:49pm GMT on 21st Jul
I was referring to the fact that all the stories and facts of Mitt that are emerging are better than anything his opponents could dream up.
This shit just writes itself, it seems.

bruceski said @ 9:32am GMT on 19th Jul
Is it really worth judging a presidential candidate by the sins of the fathers? My grandpa worked for the Chicago mob (as I understand it he was their clean accountant, making sure everything was airtight but not dealing with any of the shady side of things), but if I ever ran for office I wouldn't want that held against me. I've got plenty of flubs of my own to be judged by!

schatten00777 said @ 10:32am GMT on 19th Jul
Woosh!

the circus said @ 12:34pm GMT on 19th Jul
But, have you maintained membership in the Chicago mob to this day?

incpenners said @ 1:01pm GMT on 19th Jul
Obama certainly has.

the circus said @ 2:42pm GMT on 19th Jul
That's what she said!

Actually, I'd give that a +1 Zing if such a thing existed.

GordonGuano said @ 1:23pm GMT on 19th Jul
I dunno, John Kerry is still carrying enough shrapnel to set off airport metal detectors, but that didn't stop the Swiftboaters. If accusing Romney of digging up Joseph Smith's corpse to have his way with it would work, I say go for it. All's fair in love and war, and though I hate to admit it, there are plenty of low-information Democratic voters out there as well.

bruceski said @ 6:31pm GMT on 19th Jul
That was going after Kerry for something he allegedly did (or rather didn't do) himself. This is claiming something for Romney that, if true he would have no choice about. The former is vile but different.

DuncmanG said @ 2:57pm GMT on 19th Jul
My grandpa also worked in the Chicago mob, though just as a wheelman. He then went on to work for the CIA. So, you know, made up for it.

bruceski said @ 6:30pm GMT on 19th Jul
Yeah, mine forced through a bit of property tax reform without bowing to threats. He was a bit rambly when he told the story but it was something about hospitals getting tax breaks no questions asked, so they were owning buildings and renting them out for living in without paying taxes for it.

Ya live in the slums with a kid to take care of, you do what you gotta do and try to hang onto your soul.

Isosceles Lockâ„¢ said @ 8:56pm GMT on 19th Jul
GWB's grandpappy held gold for the Nazis and look how that ended up.

swiggy said @ 10:43am GMT on 19th Jul

bbqkink said @ 8:20pm GMT on 19th Jul
Ann Romney: We've 'given all you people need'

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78711.html#ixzz216Ij4Wsa

When a wife becomes a surrogate...they are fair game.

mechanical contrivance said @ 2:04am GMT on 20th Jul
She's carrying babies for other couples now?

bbqkink said @ 6:11pm GMT on 20th Jul
Some interesting statements I ran across on reddit..

by IrritableGourmet

The USDA requires that if you sell chicken wing shaped objects that are not 100% wing meat, you have to call them "wyngz" instead of "wings". We should push for an FCC restriction that if you intend to falsify, editorialize, or otherwise distort the news, you have to call it "Nuwz" instead.

slash196

Let's be clear: if you are anti-abortion AND anti-contraception, you are not pro-life. You are anti-sex.

Louie Gohmert: Aurora Shootings Result Of 'Ongoing Attacks On Judeo-Christian Beliefs'

A New York Times front-page article Monday detailed a new phenomenon in news coverage of the presidential campaign: candidates insisting on "quote approval," telling reporters what they can and cannot use in some stories. And, stunningly, reporters agreeing to it.

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