Mitt Romney Gets Glitter Bombed (PHOTO, VIDEO)

The only thing more awkward than being glitter bombed is being glitter bombed and trying to play it off like a good thing.

A protester drenched Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in glitter before a campaign rally in Minnesota Wednesday. Either Romney didn't realize he had just been glitter bombed, or he spun it like a true politician, pretending it was meant as a celebration of Tuesday's victory in the Florida primary.

"This is confetti! We just won Florida!" he told the crowd. "We're just gonna win the White House next!"

Though his GOP presidential rivals have been glitter bombed before -- Rick Santorum repeatedly -- this was the former Massachusetts governor's first sparkly attack. Romney's hair and jacket were noticeably covered in shimmering glitter as he stepped onto the stage. Nevertheless, he proceeded to sing "America the Beautiful" to the crowd. (Watch it here, via Patch.)

National Journal reports that according to a local reporter, the protester has also glittered Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich.

UPDATE:

Eagan Patch spoke with glitter bomber Sam Richards after the deed:

Sam Richards, 20, was one of two protesters at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's rally in Eagan on Wednesday. He watched as fellow protester Nick Espinosa dumped glitter on Romney at the beginning of the speech and was hauled out by security.

And then it was his turn.

"My nerves went away, I did it, and then I was being dragged out," said Richards, who identified himself as an Occupy Minnesota protester. "It was all said and done in 30 seconds."

Earlier on HuffPost:

 

 

Comments

[twfslc]

11:52 AM on 02/25/2012

This is so darn childish. My son used to glitter bomb my car, when I picked him up at pre-school. Some art project would have loose glitter. He would place it by an HVAC vent. Then when I switched on the HVAC system, I'd have glitter all over the interior.

Do you know how many times I had to explain about the problems with loose glitter in a car interior? It never comes out of the carpet, crevices, or seams in seats.

Stick with the classic pie in the face.

[MichaelRCooke]

01:41 AM on 02/04/2012

Have to give Romney credit for spinning the glitter as a positive. Smartest thing to do.

[AuntieLoieAZ]

11:17 PM on 02/03/2012

Glitter bombing--what a great idea! Hope it's really understood that its not confetti and what the purpose really is.

[Satur9]

01:29 PM on 02/03/2012

Is it possible to cover glitter in concentrated capsaicin? Just wondering.

[wolfvampire]

08:35 PM on 02/02/2012

Wonder why Obama hasn't been glittered bombed?

[gaydood]

09:03 PM on 02/02/2012

he doesnt goto antigay events duh

[elsquibbs]

01:43 PM on 02/03/2012

No, he just supports civil unions rather than marriage and gets away with it because he's The Chosen One.

[gaydood]

05:13 PM on 02/02/2012

i just went to the cash machine and asked for $57,000.00 and it said: yur not mittWrongly, then it returned my card and thru glitttter all over me ! not really:)

[SuperDW]

04:52 PM on 02/02/2012

That glitter is a badge that says the wearer hates queers. Mitt won't have a problem wearing that. It's practically a Tea Party endorsement.

[Miss Peaches]

03:02 PM on 02/02/2012

Glitter is harmless. People could be throwing worse stuff. It's a form of protest and it only leaves the bombee all sparkly. Lighten up a little people. The GOP disrespects our President and his office daily and there isn't this much uproar. Be mad about that.

[b-dob]

05:01 PM on 02/02/2012

You are a hypocrite. Just admit that you only require respect be shown to politicians with (D) next to their name.

[sensimilla]

06:46 PM on 02/02/2012

Nah, rabid conservatives have forgotten even what the word "respect" means.

[gaydood]

09:03 PM on 02/02/2012

b calm down

[Gestas]

02:57 PM on 02/02/2012

Newt is so out of touch...that He thought ..Oh Good it's Confetti...Big difference Newt between Glitter and Confetti.

[pbr56]

02:53 PM on 02/02/2012

He's just that out of touch.

[elsquibbs]

03:45 PM on 02/02/2012

Either that or he doesn't care. If he didn't know what it meant, then the best way to proceed is to form coherent verbal arguments rather than throwing things.

[gaydood]

05:10 PM on 02/02/2012

Glittter!

[Aaron Knights]

02:42 PM on 02/02/2012

Glitter bombing is classless and does a disservice to the cause it purports to advance.

[gaydood]

05:11 PM on 02/02/2012

being antigay is classless and does a disservice to the cause it purports to advance

[elsquibbs]

05:36 PM on 02/02/2012

The inability to understand OP's point is exactly why people who think like you do will always shoot themselves in the foot, and damage their cause in the process.

[Aaron Knights]

03:15 PM on 02/07/2012

I STRONGLY support equal gay rights. I just don't think that throwing glitter in someone's face helps the cause.

[softvoice]

02:23 PM on 02/02/2012

I know it's just glitter and I don't like Romney but this kind of behaviour is inappropriate, PERIOD.

[gaydood]

05:11 PM on 02/02/2012

glittter PERIOD

[MasterHurrikane]

01:57 PM on 02/02/2012

instead of glitter they should use manure, then i bet he'd be more serious about it LOL

[gaydood]

05:11 PM on 02/02/2012

yieks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gaydood]

09:05 PM on 02/02/2012

yikes too!!!
u see how wrongly said he did not mean what he said aobut the poor? toooo bad there are sooo many videos of hims saying it over and over

[camelias and sweet tea]

01:48 PM on 02/02/2012

He does not even know what it meant...Sad little rich boy

[elsquibbs]

03:01 PM on 02/02/2012

"He does not even know what it meant..."

... which reinforces the idea that throwing glitter at someone is a ridiculous way to make an argument. If I were to take exception to the Catholic church's stance on birth control, I wouldn't dress up like a Trojan soldier and march through a Sunday service as a way of stating my case. I'd end up only looking like an attention-seeking fool, just like glitter bombers in this case.

[camelias and sweet tea]

04:49 PM on 02/02/2012

Gee, looking back at my comment, it never says it is a good thing to do, does it? I am just saying he has no idea what any normal middle class things stand for or mean he has never been exposed to it....in his ivory tower of richness.

[Libgirl746]

03:14 PM on 02/02/2012

Yeah, he thinks they were paying homage to him because he'd won Florida.

[Martha57]

01:26 PM on 02/02/2012

Mitt one of us-does not get it-even with glitter-what a fool!