Mitt Romney Says He Won't Cry When Discussing Parents

Merrimack Patch:

The man was referring to an event in Iowa earlier Friday morning where Newt Gingrich began to tear up when speaking about his deceased mother.

Romney did his best to deflect the tasteless joke by saying he does cry for them, but not right then.

"I won't cry, but I have nothing to be ashamed of in that regard," he said.

Read the whole story: Merrimack Patch

Comments

[Celebrindan]

09:36 AM on 01/01/2012

"...I won't cry..."

Because the mutual lack of caring make it just so unnecessary, silly, would you like a martini?

[snakeman]

04:14 PM on 12/31/2011

Romney thinks he is funny making is high school comments about the other candidates. The public will soon tire of his high school antics.

[Celebrindan]

09:37 AM on 01/01/2012

People were tired of his antics long before the last time he tried to run, and failed.

That's how smart he is.

[antipodal2u]

11:45 AM on 12/31/2011

Boehner! Wheres that tissue man?! People in NEED up there yonder

[JustABriefThought]

11:44 AM on 12/31/2011

The only time Mitt cries is when his favorite pajamas have been mistakenly starched by his servants.

[Celebrindan]

09:48 AM on 01/01/2012

The ones with the feet in them?

Hey!

I'd cry too.

[yelnatsfavorite]

11:43 AM on 12/31/2011

Where is Jon Stewart when you need him. "They" talk about Obama taking sooo many vacations but I swear TDS takes a vacation and the whole world blows up....Jon, we need you for our sanity. Make us laugh again...soon

[Celebrindan]

09:41 AM on 01/01/2012

The dude take far too many vacations, I agree.

Until the elections are over, he needs to be chained to his desk, 24/7/365, lights on and cameras running.

Good morning sunshine! Here are the overnights, and your coffee, Say hello to the folks at home, and stop scratching that... o.o

[yelnatsfavorite]

11:39 AM on 12/31/2011

I'm so sick to death of the croc tears of the GOP.....crocs eyes water just before they snap. GOP in a nutshell. NUTZ!

[Jordan53]

11:00 AM on 12/31/2011

What he should have said is that he wouldn't use his mother to further his health care policy as the Newtster did.

[stape45]

10:50 AM on 12/31/2011

But if his money left him, he would cry like a baby.

[mangoaddict]

10:49 AM on 12/31/2011

Well both Mitt and his son put their feet in their mouths this week. Both privileged bullies.

[DRouss3977]

10:22 AM on 12/31/2011

Mitt can't cry. It's not in the script! He also doesn't have a heart.....it was a bit too easy for him to fire all the middle class workers he did for the 1% investors.

[respiratorymandl]

10:33 AM on 12/31/2011

mitt ( stupid name for a man) sometimes in life it is better just to keep your pie hole closed

[stape45]

11:36 AM on 12/31/2011

They could have been more straightforward and just named him Glove.

[paddlerchick]

10:20 AM on 12/31/2011

How about some speeches about policy as opposed to all of this irrelevant drivel?

[Aurical]

02:00 AM on 01/01/2012

Their sheep are bored by policy.

[Celebrindan]

09:43 AM on 01/01/2012

This is their policy.

[Beth Hefty]

10:14 AM on 12/31/2011

Mittens has parents? I assumed that, as a spoiled little rich boy, his only contact was with his nanny and the servants.

[Celebrindan]

09:46 AM on 01/01/2012

The loss of his nanny would be devastating, until a new one is hired.

[centsable]

09:59 AM on 12/31/2011

Mittens is not the classical wall streeter, in his words. Click on the Patch article and see who is donors are...anyone surprised.

[Schoolgirl666]

09:55 AM on 12/31/2011

Mitt and son, Matt, are the new Abbott and Costello....the whole family is a joke.

[Wallysmom]

09:46 AM on 12/31/2011

I can't stand Gingrich but I believe he had a really rotten childhood that effected him and made him the miserable SOB that he is now. It was wrong and nasty of Romney to poke at that vulnerability.

[AgathaX]

10:35 AM on 12/31/2011

Rather than saying he wouldn't cry when he was discussing his mother, he more aptly should have noted that he would not cry when discussing long term health care. All candidates should be able to discuss any and all matters of policy without weeping, and I don't mind any of them "poke[d]" at if they cannot.

[dawlishgal]

07:57 AM on 01/01/2012

Romney is really tone deaf....that Marie Antoinette remark about Obama reinforces the opinion that it is Mitt who is the elitist. If the Democrats were as without principles and as nasty as the Republicans, they would be going after the Mormons....karlrove would already have the crapola in the hopper (look at the effort that has been put into painting Obama as an outsider who doesn't belong in high office....what is "take our country back," all about, if not about racism)? , But that isn't going to happen with Democrats who have some limit on how low and dirty they will get. . It will be Republicans who refuse to vote for him because of his religion.