Does Gov. Romney even know that England is NOT an island? It is located on one of the British Isles (Reply #135)

In the discussion thread: Romney on England: "It is a small island . . doesn't make things. . the world wants to buy". [View all]

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Fri Jul 27, 2012, 05:11 AM

Douglas Carpenter (20,226 posts)

135. Does Gov. Romney even know that England is NOT an island? It is located on one of the British Isles

which it shares with Wales and Scotland. There is no island of England. If this was an innocent comment by a tourist stumbling around Piccadilly Circus - it would be a forgivable faux pas. But this geographic ignorance in a book written by the potential leader of the free world?

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180 replies	Author	Time	Post
Romney on England: "It is a small island . . doesn't make things. . the world wants to buy". [View all]	grantcart	Jul 2012	OP
OMG	Rosa Luxemburg	Jul 2012	#1
And to think Mitt went there to show off his foreign policy skills. I guess he did.	bulloney	Jul 2012	#66
God, I love England. I love London. Fuck Romney.	roguevalley	Jul 2012	#118
Their trees...not the right size.	TwilightGardener	Jul 2012	#2
yes I did spill my water over my keyboard on that one.	grantcart	Jul 2012	#3
omfg... lol	Coexist	Jul 2012	#6
spit take	TeamPooka	Jul 2012	#19
.	myrna minx	Jul 2012	#34
Good lord.	DURHAM D	Jul 2012	#4
.	ProSense	Jul 2012	#5
Wow!	SunsetDreams	Jul 2012	#7
Surely this cannot be true.	mainer	Jul 2012	#8
When you're flying over at 36,000 feet, they do look small	nichomachus	Jul 2012	#10
and as was pointed out up thread, their trees are not the right height.	grantcart	Jul 2012	#13
And when you are descending down through the fog,	RebelOne	Jul 2012	#55
when you live like he does,	iamthebandfanman	Jul 2012	#142
He could	malaise	Jul 2012	#18
Well, certainly not ALL of them.	MissMarple	Jul 2012	#41
Small houses like Downton Abbey, and all those other	Jane Austin	Jul 2012	#82
Lord Grantham would appear to be quite plebeian to Mittens. nt	mentalsolstice	Jul 2012	#101
Not all of them certainly but I did notice	4th law of robotics	Jul 2012	#141
It's true.	enlightenment	Jul 2012	#154
And this idiot wants to be our chief diplomat and foriegn policy maker???	CaliforniaPeggy	Jul 2012	#9
Breaking News: Mitt Romney buys the UK, plans to use it as his own private island.	JoePhilly	Jul 2012	#11
Bulldozes all the small houses to make room for one large compound. "That Buckingham place...	Moonwalk	Jul 2012	#164
Peeve: who cares if the rest of the world wants to buy their stuff?	arcane1	Jul 2012	#12
"Compete globally" means	TBF	Jul 2012	#30
Oh my	JustAnotherGen	Jul 2012	#14
The FLOTUS will be her usual gracious, intelligent and elegant	hifiguy	Jul 2012	#40
She can't get there fast enough!	JustAnotherGen	Jul 2012	#53
Face It England: He's Just Not That Into You	otohara	Jul 2012	#89
Yet the tailors...	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2012	#143
When Candidate Obama went there in '08	Rozlee	Jul 2012	#74
Reminds me of Randy Newman's parody song "Short People"	AnotherMother4Peace	Jul 2012	#15
and their health care system, worse than Socialism	Motown_Johnny	Jul 2012	#16
Well, now	Aerows	Jul 2012	#17
England is not an island	Enrique	Jul 2012	#20
Mitt, Learn the difference between England, Britain, and UK...	JaneQPublic	Jul 2012	#25
That was my first reaction.	libinnyandia	Jul 2012	#45
If England is an island...	NYC Liberal	Jul 2012	#50
Scotland is just a suburb. /nt	localroger	Jul 2012	#86
Right. It's only half an island	JustABozoOnThisBus	Jul 2012	#137
Wow! just Wow!	madinmaryland	Jul 2012	#21
I'm waiting for him to say	Aerows	Jul 2012	#22
This guy is a disaster!	Gregorian	Jul 2012	#23
I'm surprised he doesn't chastise them for driving on the wrong side of the road...	KansDem	Jul 2012	#24
They don't.	GetRidOfThem	Jul 2012	#111
And the front seat passenger gets the steering wheel	JustABozoOnThisBus	Jul 2012	#136
Good grief. How embarrassing.	PotatoChip	Jul 2012	#26
So wrong on many counts.	mwooldri	Jul 2012	#27
Well...	14thColony	Jul 2012	#52
lol!	eShirl	Jul 2012	#112
Rumor is he wants to tear down England and install a car elevator.	Hassin Bin Sober	Jul 2012	#28
Mitt the twit!	Raster	Jul 2012	#29
"Small houses! Small Roads! It's a nation of Hobbits!"	mainer	Jul 2012	#31
LOL	lillypaddle	Jul 2012	#97
Sounds like heaven!	Marrah_G	Jul 2012	#123
Like the Hobbits, they saved our collective ass.	sarge43	Jul 2012	#133
Can I just say, as a Brit, and on behalf of my dead grandfather,	sibelian	Jul 2012	#157
Thank you.	sarge43	Jul 2012	#173
They make stuff I want to buy.	ForgoTheConsequence	Jul 2012	#32
I think beer and ale.	AlinPA	Jul 2012	#42
Fish and chips	Aerows	Jul 2012	#69
Don't forget the mushy peas!	spiderpig	Jul 2012	#178
I hate peas	Aerows	Jul 2012	#179
Their music, too.	Fawke Em	Jul 2012	#48
good point!	ForgoTheConsequence	Jul 2012	#75
And we buy books by their authors	treestar	Jul 2012	#98
And popular titles, too--like, oh, let me see--	tblue37	Jul 2012	#170
For the ladies: LUSH UK, where it all began, plus Boden which has the most adorable clothes. n/t	progressivebydesign	Jul 2012	#60
They made stuff I've bought FOR YEARS. BEATLES music, for one.	calimary	Jul 2012	#96
And my MINI	mentalsolstice	Jul 2012	#105
And I simply couldn't do without my William and Kate tea towels!	smirkymonkey	Jul 2012	#113
Aga Six- Four	REP	Jul 2012	#114
DR Harris and Truefitt & Hill...	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2012	#144
For the past 50 years, they've done TV comedy 300 times better than Americans.	HughBeaumont	Jul 2012	#150
England and Scotland make some of the finest audio components in the world.	Elwood P Dowd	Jul 2012	#156
Those little homes have no lifts for their car parks!	JBoy	Jul 2012	#33
No words, just...	ailsagirl	Jul 2012	#35
He also says if not for divide by continent Hitler would have prevailed!	WI_DEM	Jul 2012	#36
Given the military situation in 1939-40, I'm not sure Hitler wouldn't have taken the country,	hughee99	Jul 2012	#68
So , if not for the Atlantic Ocean , the US would still be British colonies ?	pkdu	Jul 2012	#127
Or it could be that Brits stuck around to fight for their country instead of going on missions!	SunSeeker	Jul 2012	#130
That is probably true	4th law of robotics	Jul 2012	#160
not the right size . . . that's his ocd thing	bigtree	Jul 2012	#37
I am starting to speculate about his obsession with	vanlassie	Jul 2012	#124
I guess Romney never bought phonograph records during his youth	aint_no_life_nowhere	Jul 2012	#38
Percy Faith was from England?	Jeff In Milwaukee	Jul 2012	#39
He was probably listening to Perry Como	XemaSab	Jul 2012	#102
knr	Douglas Carpenter	Jul 2012	#43
Mr Diplomacy...	HooptieWagon	Jul 2012	#44
Mitt is clearly referring to England post-1066. You know, the year when	coalition_unwilling	Jul 2012	#46
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?	Bobbie Jo	Jul 2012	#47
Perfect comparison!	JNelson6563	Jul 2012	#54
why would he write crap like that?	Liberal_in_LA	Jul 2012	#49
I wonder if he has the stones to admit it was ghostwritten??	Blue_Tires	Jul 2012	#168
England is lucky that a body of water separates them from Romney's ambitions.	Erose999	Jul 2012	#51
Yeah, but you can't run for King.	hifiguy	Jul 2012	#57
I don't think Romney would be above playing the game of thrones though.... I mean the Mormons could	Erose999	Jul 2012	#138
Not so much a "leak." It's in GoogleBooks for anyone to read. Here's more:	Chiyo-chichi	Jul 2012	#56
but the only people to have read the book are opposiiton researchers	Viking12	Jul 2012	#71
Fair enough.	Chiyo-chichi	Jul 2012	#73
Mitt the Twit is really a gift that keeps on giving, isn't he?	alphafemale	Jul 2012	#58
To be fair, every country's houses are small compared to his 11,000	sinkingfeeling	Jul 2012	#59
Oh come on, he lived in his son's basement...	SunSeeker	Jul 2012	#131
There houses are so small, they even can't fit car elevators	JPZenger	Jul 2012	#159
I just posted that quote on the Telegraph's comment section - I suggest we all post this quote on	Douglas Carpenter	Jul 2012	#61
Mitt should have hired a plagiarist like GW did to write his book...	Kalidurga	Jul 2012	#62
K & R	OmahaBlueDog	Jul 2012	#63
Don't want to buy? Hell, they make something I NEED to buy: Newcastle Brown Ale	mikeytherat	Jul 2012	#64
Duzy Award material in this thread!	northoftheborder	Jul 2012	#65
grantcart	Diclotican	Jul 2012	#67
what an idiot.	fishwax	Jul 2012	#70
Another thing England makes that the world wants to buy: dressage saddles!	Chiyo-chichi	Jul 2012	#72
What? No dentistry gaff yet?	longship	Jul 2012	#76
So, if Romney wins . . . war with England?	tclambert	Jul 2012	#77
Does this idiot have any idea of English pride in weathering the blitz?	Spitfire of ATJ	Jul 2012	#78
No, he has no idea...	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2012	#145
Hitler declaring war on us made that decision for us.	Spitfire of ATJ	Jul 2012	#169
Yep...	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2012	#172
Not to mention the ambitions of the Right who wanted to Assassinate FDR.	Spitfire of ATJ	Jul 2012	#174
geeze that's bad	Whisp	Jul 2012	#79
This message was self-deleted by its author	allan01	Jul 2012	#80
re:Romney on England: "It is a small island . . doesn't make things. . the world wants to buy".	allan01	Jul 2012	#81
Ah yes, chickenhawk Romney thinks he's	Mendocino	Jul 2012	#83
As long as he promises to protect the island of England from the Soviet Union,	tclambert	Jul 2012	#84
Romney staff offended their British hosts	DearAbby	Jul 2012	#85
oh my...how embarrassing	limpyhobbler	Jul 2012	#87
Amazing. I hope the Guardian picks it up.	Vinca	Jul 2012	#88
Well, Romney should certainly be an expert on putting out things no one wants to buy... n/t	gkhouston	Jul 2012	#90
Hey Mitt--what language did you write your book in?	panader0	Jul 2012	#91
Here it is in context	Courtesy Flush	Jul 2012	#92
Well, it has been 200 years	Spirochete	Jul 2012	#93
The quote's been picked up by other sites and spread via twitter	Iterate	Jul 2012	#94
I have emailed to the Guardian.	grantcart	Jul 2012	#100
What is going on with this man?	wendylaroux	Jul 2012	#95
he wants to win	CountAllVotes	Jul 2012	#99
It's that CEO mentality talking. He's the chief executive. So might as well say "king."	calimary	Jul 2012	#106
They don't say y'all or like cheesy grits in England.	Initech	Jul 2012	#103
Was he hoping that Hitler invaded England?	Rosa Luxemburg	Jul 2012	#104
He's with the Koch family, check out this by Thom Hartmann on MM & V. Devastating:	freshwest	Jul 2012	#108
it's very worrying	Rosa Luxemburg	Jul 2012	#110
OMG this quote should be posted on the UK board. It would be delicious to hear them go at Mittens!	freshwest	Jul 2012	#107
Watch his approval rating among Republican voters shoot up	nxylas	Jul 2012	#109
OMG!! I just saw this on The Ed Show! Grantcart sure is spreading it around! LOL!	DippyDem	Jul 2012	#115
Dear England	Deb	Jul 2012	#116
that ones gonna leave a mark	90-percent	Jul 2012	#117
Mitt would've got the Hershey Squirts every time the air raid siren went off	NBachers	Jul 2012	#125
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Monty Python, Shakespeare, and too many thespians to mention...	peacebird	Jul 2012	#119
"Old Europe"	moondust	Jul 2012	#120
Don't diss on Marshall Amps Mitwit	Phlem	Jul 2012	#121
Better amps are still made in the UK.	harmonicon	Jul 2012	#134
I bought a Marshall 100 watt stack in London in 1968	aint_no_life_nowhere	Jul 2012	#153
It depends on the specific amp model and year as well.	harmonicon	Jul 2012	#155
Unfortunately, I experienced a financial crisis in about 1980	aint_no_life_nowhere	Jul 2012	#161
I'm sorry to hear that.	harmonicon	Jul 2012	#162
It is nuts	aint_no_life_nowhere	Jul 2012	#163
I wish I would have had musicians in my family to give me some guidance at that time.	harmonicon	Jul 2012	#166
Yes	Phlem	Jul 2012	#175
Hiwatt and Vox too.	Erose999	Jul 2012	#139
Back in the day I had a Vox Berkeley II with a Beatle bottom.	xtraxritical	Jul 2012	#165
And yet........	Smilo	Jul 2012	#122
They also make the best jet engines in the business	Populist_Prole	Jul 2012	#126
That is bloody insulting as fuck!!	and-justice-for-all	Jul 2012	#128
I certainly want to buy a Dallas Rangemaster and the chair that Christine Keeler sat in	Tom Ripley	Jul 2012	#129
"...doesn't make things. . the world wants to buy".	Raster	Jul 2012	#132
Does Gov. Romney even know that England is NOT an island? It is located on one of the British Isles	Douglas Carpenter	Jul 2012	#135
I am reminded of Sarah Palin's comment about the "country" of Africa. nt	tblue37	Jul 2012	#171
The quote is now mentioned in a ForeignPolicy blog!	Iterate	Jul 2012	#140
I'm gonna hear about this all week from my English friends!	agentS	Jul 2012	#146
That racist quote about Obama from RMoney's aide last week- I certainly believe it now!	agentS	Jul 2012	#147
I am hoping that Mitt's visit to Poland produces something classic	Walk away	Jul 2012	#148
Bain Companies in England	Betty Jo	Jul 2012	#149
So, in a nutshell:	malthaussen	Jul 2012	#151
Oh now THAT'S funny	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#152
And while Britain was fighting Hitler, your family was....?	JPZenger	Jul 2012	#158
I'll take a half-dozen of these, please:	Blue_Tires	Jul 2012	#167
He must have got a shock watching the Olympic Ceremony	Londoncalling	Jul 2012	#176
He's an educated man who thinks the rest of the world is made up of idiots.	undeterred	Jul 2012	#177
I don't understand why he'd go out of his way to insult a long time ally like that.	Marr	Jul 2012	#180

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