Video: The Infamous 2002 Mitt Romney ‘Village People’ Ad

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As we await tonight’s Fox News GOP debate, here’s a Mitt Romney advertisement from his 2002 campaign for governor of Massachusetts, featuring multi-faceted Mitt playing a garbage man, a construction worker, a lobsterman, and a hot dog vendor.

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(h/t: Andrew Kaczynski.)

UPDATE at 12/15/11 5:48:15 pm

After these exhausting location shots, Romney recovered at his $5.25 million, 9,500-square foot Deer Valley ski lodge.

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1 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:00:23pm

Mitt is such a macho-macho-man...but he swings a hammer like a girl.

2 Simply Sarah  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:01:15pm

Oh hey. It's Kerry Healey. I...kinda had forgotten she existed.

3 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:01:35pm

He was a "YOUNG MAN!"

4 jaunte  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:02:07pm

Mmm. Lobster sausage.

5 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:02:30pm

Did y'all see him just about get his face sliced by that other cardboard flinger?

6 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:02:41pm

I can't watch.

7 albusteve  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:02:53pm

lobsterman?
my spleen is in danger

8 albusteve  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:03:53pm

Mitt's an all around guy...he'll make a fine president

9 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:04:30pm

re: #1 darthstar

Mitt is such a macho-macho-man...but he swings a hammer like a girl.

Who the fuck is he trying to kid here?

10 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:05:00pm

re: #8 albusteve

Mitt's an all around guy...he'll make a fine president

Maybe in a gay porn movie.

11 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:05:29pm

re: #9 darthstar

Who the fuck is he trying to kid here?

When I was younger, my dad taught me to hold the hammer higher-up on the handle. I still do it and I can hammer like a man!

12 albusteve  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:05:43pm

re: #9 darthstar

Who the fuck is he trying to kid here?

re: #9 darthstar

Who the fuck is he trying to kid here?

he wears a hard hat to make a lawn chair?....sissyfuck

13 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:06:08pm

re: #5 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Did y'all see him just about get his face sliced by that other cardboard flinger?

Best scene...I'm sure he made up for it by destroying that man and his family after filming was complete.

14 Varek Raith  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:06:32pm

re: #12 albusteve

re: #9 darthstar

he wears a hard hat to make a lawn chair?...sissyfuck

It was that or face the wrath of OSHA.

15 Simply Sarah  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:06:51pm

And yes, folks. This is what I supported for Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts back in 2002. No, I don't know exactly what I was thinking either.

16 Decatur Deb  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:07:44pm

re: #9 darthstar

Who the fuck is he trying to kid here?

Hey at least they found an Estwing for him.

[Link: barelybad.com...]

17 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:07:52pm

re: #12 albusteve

Okay. That was funny. I was thinking the same thing.

I'm thinking of "Buddy Bizare" from "Blazing Saddles".

"NOT IN THE FACE!"

18 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:08:49pm

re: #11 ggt

When I was younger, my dad taught me to hold the hammer higher-up on the handle. I still do it and I can hammer like a man!

He's also not holding his mouth right...hammering nails is all about the facial gesture. He looks like he's thinking about off-shoring 437 jobs.

19 sod  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:08:52pm

No worse than any other politcal ad - a lot better than most in fact. I'll vote for him if he's the nominee.

20 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:09:23pm

re: #19 sod

No worse than any other politcal ad - a lot better than most in fact. I'll vote for him if he's the nominee.

I don't think he's on the ballot for governor this year.

21 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:10:10pm

re: #18 darthstar

He's also not holding his mouth right...hammering nails is all about the facial gesture. He looks like he's thinking about off-shoring 437 jobs.

Same with putting on mascara.

If the facial contortions aren't right, you can't do it.

:)

22 Varek Raith  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:10:32pm

He did not throw a random rock in some random body of water.
I am disappoint.

23 Simply Sarah  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:11:17pm

re: #21 ggt

Same with putting on mascara.

If the facial contortions aren't right, you can't do it.

:)

Now that would be an interesting thing to watch Mitt attempt...

24 albusteve  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:11:18pm

re: #21 ggt

Same with putting on mascara.

If the facial contortions aren't right, you can't do it.

:)

boy, I learned that the hard way

25 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:11:55pm

re: #22 Varek Raith

He did not throw a random rock in some random body of water.
I am disappoint.

There was nothing random about Gravel's rock. It was chosen from billions of rocks on the planet for that very purpose...yeah, verily, it was put there by god herself.

26 Decatur Deb  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:12:08pm

re: #24 albusteve

boy, I learned that the hard way

During your Alice Cooper phase?

27 wrenchwench  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:13:03pm

He did pretty good as "Sausage Guy".

Is that irony?

28 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:13:04pm

re: #24 albusteve

boy, I learned that the hard way

Well, as long as you learned.

:)

29 Varek Raith  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:13:06pm

re: #26 Decatur Deb

During your Alice Cooper phase?

Dee Snider.

30 albusteve  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:13:14pm

re: #26 Decatur Deb

During your Alice Cooper phase?

he learned it from Mick Jagger

31 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:13:38pm

re: #26 Decatur Deb

During your Alice Cooper phase?

That's when he learned to apply mascara . .

:)

32 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:13:43pm

re: #24 albusteve

boy, I learned that the hard way

I think you look fine, really.

33 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:14:05pm

re: #32 darthstar

I think you look fine, really.

WHY?

34 albusteve  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:14:21pm

re: #32 darthstar

I think you look fine, really.

dude...you promised

35 Decatur Deb  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:14:28pm

re: #30 albusteve

he learned it from Mick Jagger

And David Bowie--I blocked that whole era from recall.

36 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:22:42pm

Ut...fucking...Oh

(Let's blame it on the Russians)

37 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:23:14pm

re: #36 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Ut...fucking...Oh

Well...fuck.

38 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:24:03pm

re: #25 darthstar

There was nothing random about Gravel's rock. It was chosen from billions of rocks on the planet for that very purpose...yeah, verily, it was put there by god herself.

Youtube Video
39 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:24:08pm

re: #1 darthstar

Mitt is such a macho-macho-man...but he swings a hammer like a girl.

Like my mother?

I woke up one morning to find her tearing out a wall with a sledgehammer and a radial saw.

40 Varek Raith  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:24:27pm

re: #36 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Ut...fucking...Oh

(Let's blame it on the Russians)

Nuke it.

41 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:25:02pm

re: #40 Varek Raith

Nuke it.

BURN IT WITH FIRE!

42 Varek Raith  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:25:42pm

re: #41 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

BURN IT WITH FIRE!

Other than that, we're boned.

43 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:25:43pm

re: #40 Varek Raith

Nuke it.

Then it will be...what? A methane-ice slurpee?

44 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:26:02pm

re: #38 Charles

[Video]

ahhhh!

45 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:26:08pm

re: #36 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Ut...fucking...Oh

(Let's blame it on the Russians)

There go my plans for an arctic fart-lighting adventure.

46 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:26:17pm

re: #43 SanFranciscoZionist

Then it will be...what? A methane-ice slurpee?

MMMmmm... slurpee...

47 Varek Raith  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:26:18pm

re: #43 SanFranciscoZionist

Then it will be...what? A methane-ice slurpee?

Nuke that.
Methane-ice atoms.

48 Varek Raith  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:26:55pm

re: #44 ggt

ahhh!

Awesome, no?

49 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:27:06pm

re: #39 EmmmieG

Like my mother?

I woke up one morning to find her tearing out a wall with a sledgehammer and a radial saw.

My mother knew she could wake me with the smell of cooking bacon.

50 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:27:51pm

re: #49 darthstar

My mother knew she could wake me with the smell of cooking bacon.

The first time I walked into Home Depot I said, "Smells like home."

She can cook, really.

51 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:28:42pm

I almost voted for Mike Gravel because of that amazing ad. The sheer brilliance of it. A darkly humorous excursion into the nether reaches of the human psyche; a comment on the eternal, enduring nature of solid objects. Ingmar Bergman would have understood.

52 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:30:03pm

re: #38 Charles

Very honest political ad.

"I'll cause a splash. Then disappear."

I'd vote for someone like that.

53 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:30:25pm

re: #51 Charles

I almost voted for Mike Gravel because of that amazing ad. The sheer brilliance of it. A darkly humorous excursion into the nether reaches of the human psyche; a comment on the eternal, enduring nature of solid objects. Ingmar Bergman would have understood.

Ingmar Bergman would have been cited as an example of voter fraud by the GOP.

54 Varek Raith  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:31:15pm

Good night everyone.

55 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:31:57pm

re: #54 Varek Raith

Good night everyone.

You can't go to sleep yet...the 13th debate is only a half hour away.

56 jaunte  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:32:42pm

OK, which one of you guys is this?
Watch A Lizard Play, Totally Own ‘Ant Crusher’

57 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:33:16pm

re: #55 darthstar

You can't go to sleep yet...the 13th debate is only a half hour away.

Yeah. Wait a half an hour and then go to bed.

58 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:35:18pm

re: #56 jaunte

OK, which one of you guys is this?
Watch A Lizard Play, Totally Own ‘Ant Crusher’

Not me...my tongue is much faster than that...or so I've been told.

59 darthstar  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:36:32pm

Ah...Sexy Beast...great film. I think I'll watch that and check the debates periodically.

Laters.

60 wrenchwench  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:36:59pm

re: #51 Charles

I almost voted for Mike Gravel because of that amazing ad. The sheer brilliance of it. A darkly humorous excursion into the nether reaches of the human psyche; a comment on the eternal, enduring nature of solid objects. Ingmar Bergman would have understood.

Now that he's not running for anything, it's kind of soothing.

61 Decatur Deb  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:37:02pm

re: #39 EmmmieG

Like my mother?

I woke up one morning to find her tearing out a wall with a sledgehammer and a radial saw.

Me, teaching women to raise houses (and I do wear a hard hat):

Image: 095-big.jpg

62 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:38:52pm

re: #61 Decatur Deb

Me, teaching women to raise houses (and I do wear a hard hat):

Image: 095-big.jpg

Varek, he said "raise" not "raze". No particle beam weapons need apply.

;)

63 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:38:54pm

God, maybe I'm burned out, but I watched the vid - corny as he'll, but at least he did try to do normal people stuff.

OK, picture Gingrich!!!!

64 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:38:58pm

re: #61 Decatur Deb

"C'mon baby. Let me show you my hammer."

65 freetoken  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:41:18pm

Is there another debate, tonight? Time goes by so quickly... or maybe it's just the speed of idiocy that has increased.

66 Decatur Deb  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:41:18pm

re: #64 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

"C'mon baby. Let me show you my hammer."

That photo saved my butt. Local news idiot said: "WomenBuild raised the house entirely with female labor".

67 Digital Display  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:44:14pm

while we wait in the green room for the debate.. My money is on nobody says anything different tonight..But there could be some zingers...
It's probably just me but I can't stand the Mayor of NYC.. Bloomberg..I'm not sure why..From the beginning he just rubbed me wrong.. I don't have to worry about it cause he's not my mayor...I took a virtual tour of his new mansion in Europe.. It is badass awesome digs..Just don't like the man...

68 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:44:27pm

re: #66 Decatur Deb

That photo saved my butt. Local news idiot said: "WomenBuild raised the house entirely with female labor".

How do you raise a house in this economy? The cost of diapers . . .I can't imagine.

:0

69 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:45:01pm

re: #67 HoosierHoops

while we wait in the green room for the debate.. My money is on nobody says anything different tonight..But there could be some zingers...
It's probably just me but I can't stand the Mayor of NYC.. Bloomberg..I'm not sure why..From the beginning he just rubbed me wrong.. I don't have to worry about it cause he's not my mayor...I took a virtual tour of his new mansion in Europe.. It is badass awesome digs..Just don't like the man...

My money is on them picking on each other. As usual.

70 Charles Johnson  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:45:50pm

re: #63 Stanley Sea

God, maybe I'm burned out, but I watched the vid - corny as he'll, but at least he did try to do normal people stuff.

OK, picture Gingrich!!!

And after these exhausting location shots, Romney recovered at his $5.25 million, 9,500-square foot Deer Valley ski lodge.

71 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:46:16pm

re: #67 HoosierHoops

OT (with you)...

Can't stop thinking about you and your "Pops".

Love ya, Hoops.

72 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:47:06pm

re: #70 Charles

Don't be hatin', bro.

I'd love to get me some of that.

73 albusteve  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:48:02pm

re: #70 Charles

And after these exhausting location shots, Romney recovered at his $5.25 million, 9,500-square foot Deer Valley ski lodge.

and probably can't ski worth shit

74 Digital Display  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:48:18pm

re: #71 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

OT (with you)...

Can't stop thinking about you and your "Pops".

Love ya, Hoops.

Thanks Veggie.. That means alot to me bro..

75 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:48:24pm

re: #70 Charles

And after these exhausting location shots, Romney recovered at his $5.25 million, 9,500-square foot Deer Valley ski lodge.

That is the last room I'd ever want to be in.

I HATE that type of decor.

76 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:48:52pm

In a hotel with a bar.

Gonna go break me off a piece of the bar.

77 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:48:52pm

FBV -- are carnivorus plants considered OK for a vegetarian diet?

78 Decatur Deb  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:48:56pm

Going to fill the ready rack with debate beer.

79 albusteve  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:48:58pm

re: #75 ggt

That is the last room I'd ever want to be in.

I HATE that type of decor.

it's manly...go do the dishes

80 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:49:52pm

re: #77 ggt

FBV -- are carnivorus plants considered OK for a vegetarian diet?

Ugh. Venus Flytrap Salad?

Nope.

81 freetoken  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:51:54pm

Well, I have the Fox News stream open... I'll try to pay attention.

BTW, I will be below the radar for at least a week after this Saturday... family issues. Sigh, Christmas travel - everyone will be grumpy during a supposedly jolly season. I fear the TSA will be worse than ever.

82 Targetpractice  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:52:47pm

re: #70 Charles

And after these exhausting location shots, Romney recovered at his $5.25 million, 9,500-square foot Deer Valley ski lodge.

It's alright, I hear he worked in the private sector!

//

83 albusteve  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:53:22pm

with regard to the debate tonight...
Apolitical Blues
Little Feat....
NOT in the Rock and Roll HoF

Youtube Video
84 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:53:45pm

re: #70 Charles

And after these exhausting location shots, Romney recovered at his $5.25 million, 9,500-square foot Deer Valley ski lodge.

Ah I know. He's beyond Everyman. His remodel here in La Jolla raised some eyebrows, but it's forgotten.

While Obama is so very typical of the bootstrap American. And they hate him for that. Ive been meaning to say this, but wtf Glenn Beck nailed it.

85 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:54:35pm

re: #71 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I've been off line. Hope you're ok.

86 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:56:03pm

re: #73 albusteve

and probably can't ski worth shit

I bet he can, I mean what does Romney have but lots of time to do whatever.

87 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:56:12pm

I don't begrudge anyone the spoils of success. I wouldn't want anyone telling me how I could spend my money if I had any.

Homes, remodels, boats, means jobs.

It's the attempt to "relate" to the common man when a person has been raised in an affluent household that doesn't work.

88 Sheila Broflovski  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:56:35pm

Oh crap! I was posting here at LGF and I left the chocolate cake in the oven for too long!

When life hands you overbaked chocolate cake, make Black Forest Trifle.

89 Targetpractice  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 5:58:35pm

re: #87 ggt

I don't begrudge anyone the spoils of success. I wouldn't want anyone telling me how I could spend my money if I had any.

Homes, remodels, boats, means jobs.

It's the attempt to "relate" to the common man when a person has been raised in an affluent household that doesn't work.

Yep, which is why the little bit during the last debate, when they were all asked what they'd had to sacrifice in the past, was so hilarious. They all pretty much came off the same: rich and privileged. Even if they'd started out poor, the lot of them hasn't known true poverty in a long while.

90 albusteve  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 6:00:18pm

re: #89 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Yep, which is why the little bit during the last debate, when they were all asked what they'd had to sacrifice in the past, was so hilarious. They all pretty much came off the same: rich and privileged. Even if they'd started out poor, the lot of them hasn't known true poverty in a long while.

consider the loot they can rake in from being president...I should reveal myself and run

91 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 6:00:31pm

Sloth BABY!

92 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 6:01:07pm

re: #88 Alouette

Oh crap! I was posting here at LGF and I left the chocolate cake in the oven for too long!

When life hands you overbaked chocolate cake, make Black Forest Trifle.

Good think you aren't Catholic. That is a Mortal Sin and you'd have to go to confesssion.

LOL

93 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 6:01:54pm

re: #89 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Yep, which is why the little bit during the last debate, when they were all asked what they'd had to sacrifice in the past, was so hilarious. They all pretty much came off the same: rich and privileged. Even if they'd started out poor, the lot of them hasn't known true poverty in a long while.

You can start out poor and end up rich in this country? I don't believe it/

94 Gretchen G.Tiger  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 6:01:54pm

Debate thread is up, I'm out of here until it's over.

Have fun all!

95 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 6:02:00pm

re: #84 Stanley Sea

Ah I know. He's beyond Everyman. His remodel here in La Jolla raised some eyebrows, but it's forgotten.

While Obama is so very typical of the bootstrap American. And they hate him for that. Ive been meaning to say this, but wtf Glenn Beck nailed it.

And further, although Perry is pretty much written off, that guy has ONLY worked for the big bad government his whole life (cept nixxerranch shit) and is a millionaire off of sweetheart insider trading deals. But that's ok.

96 sagehen  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 6:21:21pm

I think I'm developing a crush on Andrew Kaczynski (to supplant my previous crush on Nate Silver)....

97 Dancing along the light of day  Thu, Dec 15, 2011 6:49:09pm

re: #39 EmmmieG

Sawzall. It's the awesomest!


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