No one will refer to him by his code name, Javelin.
For six years, Mitt Romney pursued a singular goal, fervently seeking to fulfill a dream his father, too, once held: winning the presidency.
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No one will refer to him by his code name, Javelin.
For six years, Mitt Romney pursued a singular goal, fervently seeking to fulfill a dream his father, too, once held: winning the presidency.
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Like losing a superbowl, losing a title match for the presidency brands the runner-up a failure. But, Romney is no loser. Nearly accomplishing his life's ambition, he has nothing to be ashamed of. Coming within a few percentage points of the presidency is pretty damn impressive. I wish him well.
It's nice of you to wish him well-- I wish him _ordinary_. I wish him the life of the 47% he disdained.
Thank Christ this guy didn't win. Enough said.
Well, Thank God, if he does get out of politics for good. His only reason for being in politics was to fulfill his own dream. People saw that charade. Personal ambition does not made for good leadership. Never has. Never will. Romeny is a cold, calculting, process driven business man with no empathy towards a large segement of the popluation as it stands in the year 2012. We are NOT living in 1950. And the clock cannot be turned back on progress as much as some might like it to be. Sorry to those who belive otherwise, evolution is real and it effects the political landscape. If the GOP expects to be a meaningful party for the future, it better learn to embrace progress rather than deny it.
Amen, brother! And it's useful and startling to remember that Romney emerged as the "least terrible" of a stunningly bad slate of Republicn candidates. I mean, remember Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Michelle Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, and of course, Rick Perry? In a year when the seated President was vulnerable, THAT was the best that the GOP could find? And Huntsman couldn't even make an early cut? The GOP has a lot of soul-searching to do, if they want to remain viable at all. The headlong rush to the right is NOT going to get them the White House in 2016.
Ending up in California should be a good idea. He can bask in the sun, enjoy his billions, and ride up and down in his new car elevator. (I strongly suspect there will be no dog on the roof.) I think that aside from his lies and prevarications, he's probably a fairly decent man, but he never belonged in politics. That requires a steadiness of purpose and an ability to stake out a position and stick to it.
Mitt Romney should try to get a job with State Street Corporation so he can help its current CEO Jay Hooley and Hooley's sidekick Allen Greene with the Off-Shoring of the firm's 750 Fund Administration Division positions in downtown Boston, sending all of these Fund Accounting, Custody, SEC/IRS Compliance and financial reporting Jobs to PUNEA, India. Thank goodness Mayor menino and the BRA gave this firm a $11.5 Million dollar tax break, now your property taxes and my property taxes can be used to train Indian Nationals on the third floor of the Hancock Tower to take jobs back to INDIA tha tcould have been held by our kids or their grandchildren...
Now that Obama is back in the 47% that Mr Romney talked about will have all of us paying for them as well as E Warren and Patrick. PAY until you die and then they wiill want more.
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Drop in when you become coherent.
Goodbye Mitt. I for one won't miss you.
I am so relieved this guy did not win the presidency. I was in a state of high anxiety every time I thought about the Supreme Court, about what would happen to Roe v. Wade, about gays and lesbians who are in the military, about gays who are married but still living with DOMA, about the looney tunes he would be beholden to because of the millions they put up for this horror show called a campaign for the presidency. I was afraid that vouchers and use taxes and fees would replace a system of reasonable taxation. In Massachusetts this guy replaced taxes with fees in the most regressive way. He says he was not running as a Mormon, and got angry when people asked about how that religion informed his views of the law. He refused to answer any such questions, saying, "I know my religion better than you," but never articulating how that religion even informed his views. He often took stances suggesting reporters had a hell of a nerve to ask him questions. In sum, the man seems to have an exalted view of himself, his abilities, and his right to lead....almost messianic in its certainty. I'll bet he has never ridden the subway. If he had, even once, and stayed with the experience rather than held his nose, he might have had a sense of who actually lives, works, and VOTES in this country. In the end, he got what he deserved....a lonely ride in the back seat of a Swedish car, not even an American made one. Even that shows symbolically how out of touch he is. No savvy politician, even in defeat, would leave in a non American car.