Romney, the weird rich kid peeing in everyone’s pool

FIRST we had George W Bush being misunderestimated, now we have Mitt Romney being mischaracterised.

Romney, the weird rich kid peeing in everyone’s pool

I had to look it up, but apparently the word does actually exist, no matter how wrong it sounds. A bit like Romney who has spent the past week giving a masterclass in how to lose friends and alienate people on his first ever foreign tour.

’Your Olympics are rubbish,’ he told the British, just as seven years worth of intense preparation was about to come to a spectacular head. Oh boy. When you find yourself sharing a sense of righteous outrage with Eton Toryboys like David Cameron and Boris Johnson, you know things are bad. Why was Mitt there in the first place? It was like inviting the weird rich kid to your party, more out of wary politeness than sincerity, only for him to smush your cupcakes and pee in your brand new pool.

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