This is where Mitt Romney comes in. He also stopped campaigning, except for the fact that he didnt stop campaigning, he just stopped calling it campaigning.
As Malcontends points out, Mitt is collecting things that the Red Cross does NOT NEED!
Unfortunately, due to logistical constraints the Red Cross does not accept or solicit individual donations or collections of items. Items such as collected food, used clothing and shoes must be sorted, cleaned, repackaged and transported which impedes the valuable resources of money, time, and personnel. - Red Cross
A quick recap before we get to the egregious act of Mitt Romney, The East coast gets hit with a devastating storm, President Obama stops campaigning and starts working bipartisanly with republicans from the east coast to help Americans. Mitt Romney, continues campaigning but instead of giving a speech, he collects unwanted items in a battleground state(not in a Hurricane Sandy affected area) so he can take have a nice photo op so the American people know "he cares". While this is not necessarily bad, it just shows him to be the shallow empty shell that we all know he is.
However as Capper likes to say, there is more there is always more! At first glance you can say, its nice that Mitt has taken the time to collect all of these items, even if they are not wanted by the Red Cross, as someone can use them. You can not control what people bring when they want to give and you ask for donations.
STOP THE PRESSES!
The Mitt Romney campaign BOUGHT $5000 worth of supplies from Wal-mart so the crowd would have something to give away!
By the time Romney's motorcade rolled up to the high school, the projector screens were displaying Red Cross donation information, and grocery bags stuffed with supplies were piled up in a corner of the gym.
Romney kept his speech brief, expressing concern for the victims of the storm, while trying to keep the mood of the event upbeat. Standing on a small platform, he recalled a time in high school when he and his classmates were charged with cleaning up a football field covered in garbage.
“The person who was responsible for organizing the effort said, 'Just line up along the yard lines,'" the candidate said. "'You go between the goal line and the 10-yard line. And the next person, between 10 and 20, and then just walk through and do your lane. And if everybody cleans their line, why, we’ll be able to get the job done.'"
"And so today," he went on. "We are cleaning one lane, if you will."
The crowd of about 2,000 erupted in applause.
But even as Romney, clad in blue jeans and rolled-up sleeves, hustled around his area of the gym, shaking hands, thanking supporters, and stacking cases of bottled water on top of each other, signs of stagecraft remained.
As supporters lined up to greet the candidate, a young volunteer in a Romney/Ryan T-shirt stood near the tables, his hands cupped around his mouth, shouting, "You need a donation to get in line!"
Empty-handed supporters pled for entrance, with one woman asking, "What if we dropped off our donations up front?"
The volunteer gestured toward a pile of groceries conveniently stacked near the candidate. "Just grab something," he said.
Two teenage boys retrieved a jar of peanut butter each, and got in line. When it was their turn, they handed their "donations" to Romney. He took them, smiled, and offered an earnest "Thank you."
So not only did they get a cache of goods the red cross could NOT use for Hurricane relief that was needed in "non battle ground states", but it was the Romney campaign itself that bought the unwanted supplies! I guess the people working the Romney campaign have not had much experience giving. Then in Mitt's effort to show how much he relates to "the folks" he told a story of how when he was in High School, he helped clean up the football field once. Which is analogous to cleaning up NYC after the storm.
Mitt set a new low in American politics yesterday and further showed why he has no business ever being considered for the Presidency of the United States! Mitt though, is in on the joke, as he could not get out of that event fast enough, he had to get to a concert!
Also Fox & Friends desperately tried to make Mitt Romney the hero here:
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