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Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« on: March 07, 2012, 09:20:09 AM »
As if Barack Obama wasn't a stoopid enough name the Republicans seem determined to have someone called Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich as their candidate to lead the "free world".
What is the matter with these people? Why not just elect Willy Wonker?   confused:
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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2012, 09:23:42 AM »
In a few years it will be Britney or Brad etc.....

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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2012, 09:32:20 AM »
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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2012, 09:32:55 AM »
I had assumed that Mitt was some sort of nickname but it seems his name is actually Willard Mitt Romney. He is, apparently, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Gawdelpus!

Meanwhile Newt is a shortened version of Newton ~ his full name being Newton Leroy Gingrich and his family are, it is said, Lutherans
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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2012, 09:33:14 AM »
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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2012, 09:38:53 AM »
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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2012, 09:43:22 AM »
Barman...?  rubschin:



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Is there an age limit then......... rubschin:

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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2012, 09:44:01 AM »
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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2012, 09:49:02 AM »
Barman...?  rubschin:



Not a hope mate  point:

Is there an age limit then......... rubschin:

IQ too  high prolly....  whistle:

Akchewlee you have to be a citizen of the USoA and mega rich. Not an ex-pat Brit resident of Cyprus living in reduced circumstances.
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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2012, 09:55:33 AM »
Barman...?  rubschin:



Not a hope mate  point:

Is there an age limit then......... rubschin:

IQ too  high prolly....  whistle:

Akchewlee you have to be a citizen of the USoA and mega rich. Not an ex-pat Brit resident of Cyprus living in reduced circumstances.

Oh...  redface:
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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2012, 10:26:13 AM »
And what are the real bosses names i.e. their wives ?
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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2012, 10:52:01 AM »
Why not just elect Willy Wonker? 

I think the correct spelling is 'Wonka' although I can see how the typo would have occurred
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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #12 on: March 07, 2012, 11:16:40 AM »
Why not just elect Willy Wonker? 

I think the correct spelling is 'Wonka' although I can see how the typo would have occurred

Quite right DS but my mind was, as you surmise, playing with the name in advance of someone else doing so.  lol:
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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #13 on: March 07, 2012, 11:27:52 AM »
And what are the real bosses names i.e. their wives ?

Newt has been married three times according to Wiki:
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Gingrich has married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old and she was 26.[148][149] They have two daughters from their marriage: Kathy Gingrich Lubbers is president of Gingrich Communications,[150] and Jackie Gingrich Cushman is an author, conservative columnist, and political commentator[151] whose books include 5 Principles for a Successful Life, co-authored with Newt Gingrich.[152]

In the spring of 1980, Gingrich left his wife after beginning an affair with Marianne Ginther, who was nine years his junior.[153][154] In 1984, Jackie Gingrich told The Washington Post that the divorce was a "complete surprise" to her. According to Jackie, in September 1980, Gingrich and their children visited her while she was in the hospital, recovering from surgery, and Gingrich wanted to discuss the terms of their divorce.[155] Gingrich has disputed that account.[156] In 2011 their daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, said that it was her mother who requested the divorce, that it happened prior to the hospital stay, and that Gingrich's visit was for the purpose of bringing the couple's children to see their mother, not to discuss the divorce.[157] Although Gingrich's presidential campaign staff continued to insist in 2011 that his wife requested the divorce, court documents obtained by CNN from Carroll County, Georgia, indicated that Jackie had asked a judge to block the process stating that although "she has adequate and ample grounds for divorce... she does not desire one at this time [and] does not admit that this marriage is irretrievably broken."[158]
Gingrich alongside wife Callista at a townhall in Derry, New Hampshire

According to L. H. Carter, Gingrich's campaign treasurer, Gingrich said of his first wife: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer."[159][160] Gingrich has denied saying it. His supporters dismiss Carter as a disgruntled former aide who was miffed at not being asked to accompany Gingrich to Washington.[161]

In 1981, six months after the divorce from Jackie Gingrich was final, Gingrich wed Marianne Ginther

Mitt's missus is
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Ann Lois Romney (née Davies) (born April 16, 1949) is the wife of American businessman and Republican Party politician Mitt Romney.
Ann was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998 and has credited a mixture of mainstream and alternative treatments with giving her a lifestyle mostly without limitations. In one of those activities, equestrianism, she has consequently received recognition in dressage as an adult amateur at the national level and competing professionally in Grand Prix as well. In 2008, she was also diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a non-invasive type of breast cancer. She underwent a lumpectomy in December of the same year and has since been cancer-free.

She too is a Mormon, her father was Welsh ~ she & Mitt named their first child "Tagg" ~ they have 4 other sons ::)
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Re: Silly Name Competition or an Election?
« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2012, 01:05:10 PM »
Look on the bright side Snoop, Palin could be in the running.  eeek:
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