Mitt Romney: Dumb As A Rock

You think Eastwood was bad?

Accompanied by National Guard vehicles, the caravan inched through water that at some points was a foot or more deep, submerging gas stations, flooding homes and covering front laws. Residents stood in the water and watched the motorcade pass. Flood protection was clearly on the minds of residents. A man who waved a neon yellow sign reading “Mitt is Our Man” wondered why levees had not been able to protect the low-lying areas of this fishing community. “It has really destroyed us,” the man said to Romney after the motorcade stopped on the side of the road. “I don’t know why we can’t come up with something that saves all.” Up the street, a giant pink sign hung on the balcony of a flooded house. “Where is our levee protection?” it read.
Romney and Jindal spent close to an hour meeting with first responders and local officials. Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office and talked with a local resident, Jodie Chiarello, 42, who lost her home in Isaac’s flooding. “He just told me to, um, there’s assistance out there,” Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. “He said, go home and call 211.” That’s a public service number offered in many states. Chiarello said she will likely seek some other shelter because her home was submerged in the flooding. She expressed frustration about the town’s lack of flood protection. “We live outside the levee protection that’s why we get all this water because they close the floodgates up front and all they’re doing is flooding us out down here,” she said. “It’s very frustrating, very. We go through Katrina and Rita and now we’re going through Cindy, Lee and now Isaac.”

It’s a tragedy that she lost her home, but also a real shame that ABC news did not catch her on video responding to Romney by saying “what home? I just told you, it’s under water, it’s destroyed.”