Romney Pisses Off Iowa Cafe Owner

Molly Ball:

Mitt Romney visited a cafe in western Iowa last week, and the cafe's owner was not impressed.
Dianne Bauer, owner of the Main Street Cafe in Council Bluffs, told a local TV station that Romney's staff trashed the place, that Romney didn't greet or thank her, and that when he called her afterward to smooth things over, she felt she was being mocked.

"He responded 'well, I'm sorry your table cloths got ripped off, wadded up and thrown in the back room' and I took it as mocking," she said. "We're the ones he's wanting to get the votes from, you'd think we would have been treated better." She says the whole experience left her wondering.
"With how he treated me, is that how he's going to treat others? You know, if he gets in office is he going to be that way to us little people?"

Bauer also noted in her interview with the local Fox station KPTM that when Rick Perry paid a visit during the primary, he went out of his way to schmooze her -- a perfect illustration of Perry's natural, glad-handing political style vs. Romney's general lack of human touch. (It's also a reflection of the increased security and production values of a general election vs. a primary, though, regardless of candidate: The owner noted that the Secret Service presence was "all out, like you'd think Obama was here.")

Romney is coming to our neighborhood to visit the renowned Republican diner of K's in Troy (Santorum was there in the primary).  He's coming on Sunday night, the day the restaurant has always been closed.  However, they will open for his visit, and no doubt he'll be disgusted by the wet grill frying burgers in grease. I won't be there.