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Mitt Romney Gets Glitter Bombed In Minnesota

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Mitt Romney was reportedly glitter bombed before a rally in Eagan Minnesota, according to ABC News reporter Emily Friedman.

Friedman reports that the Republican frontrunner appeared “covered in glitter before a campaign crowd.”

RELATED: Watch Rick Santorum Get Glitter Bombed In Iowa

“This is confetti! We just won Florida,” Romney told the crowd. In footage from the event, family members were shown brushing off the glitter from the presidential hopeful’s blazer — much of it was still visible in his hair. After Romney began to shake hands, protesters thrust even more of it in his face. Fortunately, AP photographer Gerald Herbert was there to capture the moment.


(Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)

LGBT protester Nick Espinosa claimed responsibility for the attack, tweeting that he yelled “feel the rainbow, the 1% pays for hate, you’re not welcome in our state!” at the former Massachusetts governor.

Glitter bombing has been used as a tactic by activists to raise awareness of their target’s positions on gay rights issues — as Rick Santorum found out in Iowa when he took a fistful of glitter to the face by a demonstrator who yelled “Stop the hate, taste the rainbow!”

Watch the aftermath of Romney’s glitterbombing via ABC News:

Romney was glitter bombed again while giving autographs:

(h/t ThinkProgress)

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  • Gloves Tweed Donahue

    Now try that on Obama, who opposes gay marriage, you sick little dweeb, and see what happens.

    Some liberals grow older, but not up. I bet he spells America with a “k” .

  • Anonymous

    By ‘glitter bombed’, do you mean he made Romney watch the 2001 romantic musical starring Mariah Carey?  

  • Anonymous

    Can’t let one story pass without a random attack on Obama, can you?  There’s a difference between not being in favour of gay marriage and doing things like comparing it to bestiality like Rick Santorum, or giving money to groups like the Massachusetts Family Institute which have an anti gay agenda like Mitt Romney.

  • Gloves Tweed Donahue

    Romney has stated his position on gay marriage.

    Obama and Biden ( what a coincidence !) are lying about it to win another election. They are afraid to tell what they think, just to win one more election. Not a secret.

    They are liars.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    Weird that they haven’t tried to glitterbomb gay-marriage opponent Barack Obama.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    You don’t know what “random” means.

  • Anonymous

    I would just like to read one day, where someone took those glitter bombs and stuffed it up his burned out F#ass.

  • Anonymous

    “You’re not welcome in our state”

    Hilarious how these delusional idiots claim to represent the whole state.

  • Anonymous

    Random
    ran·dom

    adjective
    Informal. unknown, unidentified, or out of place: A couple of random guys showed up at the party.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/random

    Or, a completely out of place attack on the president regularly inserted into the comments section of stories that have absolutely nothing to do with him.

  • Anonymous

    delusional idiot who claims to represent a whole state

    sounds like a politician in the making to me

  • Anonymous

    No better way to share your opinions with others than assault.  It worked for Stalin and the Gestapo after all.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    Apparently, you don’t know what a presidential campaign is either. So that’s two so far. Please continue.

  • Anonymous

    And his (Romney’s) position is terrible and not what it used to be.  He is also a liar, just ask his own party about his myriad of flip-flops…

  • Anonymous

    So everything said or done to a republican or involving a right wing cause somehow directly relates to Obama and is grounds for an attack on the President even if the link is incredibly tenuous at best. Nice. :)

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like an MSNBC anchor to me.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless Clooney

    We can only hope that the Gay activist who is committing these assaults isn’t putting his bodily fluids all over the glitter the way Liberal hero/ Internet Bully Dan Savage smeared his bodily fluids all over Gary Bauer’s campaign office in order to infect Bauer and his employees.

  • Centrist79

    Think the whole glitter bomb is lame, but I would not classify as assault. It is only confetti and by Thursday Romney will have Secret Service protection, so really no shot of getting glitter bombed

  • Anonymous

    You consider confetti assault, you must be what they’re talking about when they say “wussification of America.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    It’s just odd that you’re commenting on this without knowing what a presidential campaign is. Apparently you think we’re just talking about Romney at… well, at random. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    Stand right there. Don’t move.

  • david r

     You’d feel different if you got glitter bombed.  It would be “an outrage!”

  • Centrist79

    Thanks for sharing your experience of being glitter bombed.

  • Anonymous

    That would actually be funny if they did.

  • Anonymous

    Mitt looks better with glitter. Actually looks like he has a personality.

  • http://www.bloodygoodgames.com/ BloodyGoodGames

    It should have been something smellier. This piece of sh*t, “I only pay 15 percent taxes on my BILLIONS of dollars” got off lightly, IMO.

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