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This was yet another meme moment in the Romney campaign. While in New Hampshire at an event ostensibly designed to defend himself from charges of being a capitalist vulture, Mitt said the following:

I like being able to fire people who provide services to me. You know, if someone doesn’t give me the good service I need, I want to say, ‘You know, I’m going to get someone else to provide this service to me’

Romney protested that he was talking about “firing” health insurance providers whose service he didn’t like, not employees (which was true), but the damage had already been done

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A reference to a 2007 Boston Globe story, resurrected for this campaign, about a 1983 vacation Romney took with his family. As the story goes, Romney never let his family, except for his wife, stop to take bathroom breaks while driving. This also applied to Seamus, the family’s Irish setter, who on this trip was strapped in a crate on the roof of their car. The story continues:

Somewhere along the way, poor Seamus soiled the crate and the car’s back window. As The Globe reported it, Romney stopped at a gas station, hosed down Seamus and the car, put the dog back into the wind-protected kennel and drove on

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Although this very closely resembles “masturbating” when taken out of context, sadly, Comedy Central’s Indecision blog reports that Mitt is actually saying mass debating in this clip.

See this Royce da 5'9" lyric for another example of this easy mix up.

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This line was Romney’s response to a heckler while on the campaign trail in Iowa. In response to a question about why he was promoting entitlement reform rather than raising corporate taxes as a way of reducing deficits, Romney angrily responded:

Corporations are people, my friend… of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People’s pockets. Human beings my friend

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Romney famously – and to much derision – began singing snippets of “America the Beautiful” as part of his standard stump speech

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Romney famously spoke the first of these lines during a CNN interview. He later claimed that he was taken out of context and that he is “concerned about all Americans”

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A vicious video montage by Atkin to the tune of Eminem’s hit

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Admittedly, it would be interesting if a President got elected with a platform of “Kill people, burn shit, fuck school”

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Domo’s “cold” flow – which he compares to a Frigidaire refrigerator here – has made him rich like Batman’s tycoon alter ego. Forbes Magazine gave Wayne the number 8 slot on their list of the richest “fictional 15,” with an estimated worth of $7 billion

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Domo, perhaps ironically, uses the Southern rap-affiliated slang “trill” here, normally thought to be a mixture of the words “true” and “real”

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