Does anyone remember that guy, Mitt Romney?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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mitt WHO?
I was saying to my wife just this morning how Romney is already long forgotten. There are, of course, the blame games and questions of what went wrong. But he was always just a vessel for Obama hate, and I bet just a handful of folks had any feelings for the guy. Unlike McCain, he will have no public profile and will slip very fast into realm of irrelevancy.
I would have said that until recently. But the first debate changed it. My feeling is the debate may have swayed a few undecideds but, more than anything, Denver caused Mitt’s less hard core base to warm to him substantially. I think a lot of them wound up believing he really would be a great president. The hard core base, however, never believed he was a real conservative and the debates did nothing to alter that conviction.
If I read my Romneys rightly, he’ll write another book or two. His ego can’t handle what really happened to him this election. The economy will continue to grow though. Romney will have lost any hope of relevance on that issue, even by corporate media standards.
Well, Mitt’s certainly not Fox News material. Mitt is going to need a really long time to figure out a way to rationalize the total destruction of his ego that took place on Tuesday. This was supposed to be the culmination and complete validation of everything he had done in his life up to this point. But at least he doesn’t have to deal with the whole daddy thing that George Bush spent so much time trying to come to terms with.
There’s a very simple rationalization to salve his ego. “I made it farther than Daddy did.”
Yes, but somehow I doubt that thought gives him much solace. I’m not sure if I recall a candidate who appears to have been so blindsided by his defeat. Just wonder how many nights he is going to spend lying in bed, staring at the ceiling and trying to figure this whole thing out?
But he shouldn’t have been blind sided.
http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=334783#c19648040]
This is from one of Willard’s volunteers;
Newhouse gets on and tells us that Romney is up by one nationally in Rasmussen and Gallup. Which of course everyone on the call already knew 12 hours earlier because we are freaking enthusiastic supporters volunteering to take time off work and sit in a polling place all day. So thanks for telling us nothing. But then the internals…cool! He’s going to tell us that we’re going to shock the world tomorrow! Or he’ll say we’ve locked down VA, FL, NC and CO, and are surging in OH and WI. Or maybe a tease to expect at least one state to go in our column that nobody is talking about. Something, anything. No. He says that internals show 6 races in swing states within two points. So get out there and do good work, because these are margin of error races. Thanks. That was it. Not “we’re up by very small margins within MoE”, or “we’re leading a couple and trailing a couple”. No, just “6 races within 2 points”, which is really saying “we’re down in six swing states and can’t even say any that we are winning. It was the most demoralizing call they could have had. They simply should not have even done it. I told my aunt about it (she was supposed to be on the call, but couldn’t get through). She was completely demoralized too. Of course, 24 hours later I understood. The internals were right. They trailed in every single freaking swing state. But why even have that call? And why tease it as getting to hear from a couple of special guests, when it is a couple of people nobody cares about?
Damn if the internal pollster KNEW the night before R money was down in six swing states, and was telling their campaign volunteers, why didn’t they tell Willard?
Or was it the case Willard being the CEO type wouldn’t take bad news, so the minions under him stopped giving it to him, and started spinning the polls before they told him.
PS; read the original article it is about the total cluster f*ck the Willard’s campaign pushed on the GOper GOTV ops. And how many many people know it. They know why they lost, total incompetence from the top down if they are honest, and if they aren’t they probably will repeat some of the same mistakes.
Also a loser but with higher name recognition. At least the verdict of history preserves George’s integrity, something which may elude his “flim-flam man” offspring.
Perhaps Mitt and John McCain can start a recovery group.
Mitt has done the same for the Republican party as for many other faltering enterprises; created immense, untraceable profits for his partners and left the target a weakened shell. Time to move on.
Looking back, the whole presidential campaign has sort of a final scene of Newhart quality to it. You wake up, “Honey I had this TERRIBLE DREAM! There were all of these crazy people! You wouldn’t believe it.”
But, now that it’s over, things really aren’t much different than before. Except that now you’ve had a view into a disturbing alternate reality and, as a result, can now appreciate the one you’ve got much more.
Well that settles it. No more Japanese food before bedtime.
That’s totally insane. I love it!
His legacy is just the right size.
He’s got his magic underwear and multiple bank accounts to make him feel better. Trust me, he sleeps like a baby.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY
I think so…
I seem to remember some guy called “Mitt Romney” saying London wasn’t ready for the Olympics. Was that him?
I’m still baffled by how many votes he did get. Those 47% “want things” I guess. Would somebody pass the Cool-aid?
BTW BOO, THANK YOU and STEVEN D and all the other pond critters for keeping my emotions somewhat under control through this laborious campaign season. I got my daily fix of what was happening without having to look at Mitt,s mug or listen to the talking heads!