Zany letter writer applauds Mittens for building an elevator, for his car

Never, ever overestimate the intelligence of readers of the morning newspaper.

This missive ran in today's edition:

I just finished reading the letter from Ronald Primavera, "Romney is no Caesar" (Reading Eagle May 29), and felt the need to offer an alternate view of Mitt Romney's elevator comment.

Someone in the United States had to design, procure the materials, manufacture, ship, transport, provide fuel for the truck, receive and install, wire and use the elevator. And yet here is another limousine liberal from Wyomissing questioning Romney for purchasing and owning an elevator.

Would Primavera want Romney to stop spending his money or, worse yet, be forced to hand it over to the government? Look at how many jobs would be negatively affected, creating the very unemployment conditions Primavera is complaining about.

Maybe if we created incentives for more Romneys to be minted, there would be more money injected into the economy to buy more planes, yachts and elevators, and everyone would benefit, including the U.S. treasury.

I would rather support job and wealth creators such as Romney, than job destroying, private-sector demonizing politicians such as President Barack Obama.

Truly, this must be satire.

(Hint: I would prefer he handed the money over to the government, because his 13.9% tax rate is less than the one paid by you and me.

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This whole Mitt iPhone mess would not have happened if Steve Jobs were around to exert quality control

The Twitters are abuzz * this morning, mocking the Mitt Romney brain trust for submitting an iPhone app that allows users to customize campaign poster with an image of their choice and the slogan "A Better Amercia."

Their is much revelry to be had.

Hurry, kiddies, download your *FREE* app today, before the Kenyans running Cupertino stop guffawing long to yank off the "With Mitt" boner and replace it with an update.

 * From the Twitters (#Amercia):

This wouldn't happen if Mitt Romney outsourced his iPhone app to a company outside the US. Oh wait, maybe he did.

Romney app didn't misspell America... He was sending code indicating who really runs AmerCIA.

Mitt Romney didn't misspell "America." He expects us to beg for "merci" very soon.

Mitt Romney misspelled America on his new app, which is no big deal until he invades Iraq when he meant Iran.

If you're applying for a job, and you misspell the name of the company you want to work for, you won't get that job.

Some poor app designer is getting strapped in a cage on the top of a car and driven across country tonight.

Stupid Romney campaign misspells America in stupid iPhone app

Oh, my, "Amercia" will surely go to the dogs if Mitt is elected, because his campaign cannot even spell correctly the name of the country their candidate wishes to lead.

The Mitt campaign thought it had the first and last laugh because it did not allow iPhone users to customize the text in its lame app, the way John McCain did when he did a "Joe the Plumbe"r web interactive that foolishly allowed people to plug in nonsense like "I'm Patty the Abortionist and I Support John McCain."

This whole app is one giant abortion, and I will not update it until after November 6.

How the Obama camp plans to beat Romney like a gong

John Heilemann in New York magazine:

Romney really, actually thinks that if you just take care of the folks at the top, it’ll trickle down to everybody else,” says another Obama operative. “But no one believes that stuff—no one! And once you puncture that, there’s nothing left. He’s not likable. He’s not trustworthy. He’s not on your side. You live in Pittsburgh and you’ve got dirt under your fingernails, who do you want to have a beer with? It ain’t fucking Mitt Romney. You’re like, ‘Shit, I’d rather have a beer with the black guy than him!’ ”

Shit, I'd rather have a (FILL IN YOUR OWN DISGUSTING DRINK HERE) with the black guy than him.

(The whole article is essential reading.)

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