This week, I’d like to take the time to discuss the hilariousness that is Mitt Romney, with just a splash of Rush Limbaugh ridiculousness again.
Romney has a knack for being wonderfully quotable in the worst sense. I will touch on just a [few of his quotes](http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/mittromney/a/Mitt-Romney-Quotes.htm) today.
1. “I should tell my story. I’m also unemployed.” This was Romney speaking to unemployed people in Florida in 2011.
Oh Mitt Romney, what more is there really to say? Your net worth is more than $200 million. I don’t know if you’re really on the same level of “unemployment.”
2. “I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” — Romney at a speech in Iowa in January.
Are you on drugs? Mitt Romney? What did you even just say? OK, I get the incentive: You love America or something, but I’m still lost.
3. “I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners.” — Statement Romney made after being asked by an AP reporter if he followed NASCAR much, while he was at the Daytona 500 rally.
Oh, Mitt Romney, another display of how you don’t like to let the general public forget that you are not in fact a member of the general public.
4. “I know what it’s like to worry about whether or not you are going to get fired. There are times when I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.”
What? What? Mitt Romney, stop it. This cannot be real life. You did not really say that.
Romney also strongly supports the construction of a fence along the U.S. and Mexico border.
I mean I don’t even know what to say here. Do you really think a fence is going to stop people? How high are you making this fence? How far underground does it go? Have you seen, what was it, “Fast and Furious” maybe? There was a damn mountain in the way and they got past it.
Now on to birth control, I’d just like to take another stab at this for a moment. Romney doesn’t oppose contraceptive use necessarily because he believes life starts at conception (which is why he is against abortions completely) and that birth-control stops conception. Although he doesn’t exactly understand that most hormonal birth controls stop the egg from sticking once it’s been fertilized (which is what many conservatives consider the point of conception).
But to stray for a moment I’d like to touch back on Rush Limbaugh, whom I discussed last week, and how he also apparently does not understand birth control.
His statements about Sandra Fluke (the law student he referred to as a slut for wanting the government to pay for birth-control) just seemed straight up ignorant. Limbaugh was saying that if you are taking the pill, then you are having sex and tax dollars would be supporting women and female adolescent promiscuity.
Birth control does not revolve around sex. The majority of the women I know on birth control went on it for reasons other than sex, one even at 14. Do you really think sex was on her mind then? No.
Birth control is normally described as hormone therapy because of the hormonal changes, which do end up stopping pregnancy, but they also prevent and help many other things.
What is going on? Why do these men not understand birth control? They need to be educated on it, for reals. It is utter nonsense. We may need a National Birth Control Advisory Board soon for these candidates if they don’t get with it soon.
