From Mitt Romney, speaking in 2004 about John Kerry:
“There’s a Senator from my state who wants to get elected President. I don’t know why he would want to do that, because he would have to move into a smaller house.”
From the man whose new home will have an elevator just for his cars.
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regexp
April 4, 2012 at 10:06 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
To be fair – the reason he needs the car elevator is that the plot is small and there is limited space to expand.
a miasma of incandescent plasma
April 4, 2012 at 10:08 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
an elevator just for his cars
To be fair, people can ride in it, too.
_Arthur
April 4, 2012 at 10:09 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yes, he would have to leave some of his 4 cars in the driveway, when they’d be exposed to the rain.
Can’t have that.
Mr Ed
April 4, 2012 at 10:29 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’ve often though this would be a good idea. Who here hasn’t gotten up early on early on a Monday when staff is just getting in and found that the BMW is blocked in by both the Rolls and the Aston. The time it takes me to get someone to move the cars could be used to create jobs. I think the money wasted on tax incentives for energy efficient windows would better spent on car elevators for job creators.
Alverant
April 4, 2012 at 10:34 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well his wife did say they had the “heart of a small family” so I guess they need the extra room to hide the bodies after they took their trophies.
Reginald Selkirk
April 4, 2012 at 10:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
When I become super-rich (don’t hold your breath), I want to put a turntable in my garage. Without a turntable, you have to either back the car in or back it out.
noastronomer
April 4, 2012 at 10:38 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
… and he stole the joke anyway.
valhar2000
April 4, 2012 at 10:40 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Does this work for conservatives, then? I thought that conservatives believe that wealth is good, and showing it off even better.
rabbitscribe
April 4, 2012 at 10:47 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m just a middle-class American. My car has to take the stairs.
chrisj
April 4, 2012 at 11:02 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Valhar2000:
Conservative wealth is good, because it gets spontaneously generated by god (through the instrument of big business) to show how wonderful that person is. Librul wealth is bad, because it is made by selling people things, which is mere trade, and thus Communist Islamic Atheist Satanism.
Or something.
LightningRose
April 4, 2012 at 11:44 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
A good idea, Bruce Wayne had one for the Batmobile in the 60′s TV series.
But you could also build a drive through garage with two doors for each parking space. Newer fire stations often have this feature.
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
April 4, 2012 at 12:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yes, but is it big enough to fit a whole corporation? Remember, corporations are people too, my friend.
The Lorax
April 4, 2012 at 12:17 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I can’t wait for Republicans to call Romney out on his flip-flopping just like they did with John Kerry.
What? You say they won’t? Even if it’s hypocritical? Even if it means they’re flip-flopping just as bad? Oh, so business as usual then.
jufulu
April 4, 2012 at 12:49 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And here i thought that the elevator was so the staff didn’t have to climb stairs carrying groceries to the kitchen.
vmanis1
April 4, 2012 at 12:49 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
`I’d build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen,/Right in the middle of the town./A fine tin roof with real wooden floors below./There would be one long staircase just going up,/And one even longer coming down,/And one more leading nowhere, just for show.’ (`If I were a Rich Man’, from Fiddler on the Roof)
harold
April 4, 2012 at 5:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Of course it’s big enough. You can fit a whole corporation in almost ANY elevator. Technically, Corporation-Americans have no physical form whatsoever, but even if you want to be a pedant and demand a printout of their Articles of Incorporation, it will still fit in a dumbwaiter.