Posted on 12/03/2012 10:26:14 AM PST by Colofornian
SAN DIEGO — The man who planned to be president wakes up each morning now without a plan.
Mitt Romney looks out the windows of his beach house here in La Jolla...He devours news from 2,600 miles away in Washington about the "fiscal cliff" negotiations, shaking his head and wondering what if.
Gone are the minute-by-minute schedules and the swarm of Secret Service agents. There's no aide to make his peanut butter and honey sandwiches. Romney hangs around the house, sometimes alone, pecking away at his iPad and emailing his CEO buddies, who've been swooping in and out of La Jolla to visit. He wrote to one who's having a liver transplant soon: "I'll change your bedpan, take you back and forth to treatment."
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The defeated Republican nominee has practically disappeared from public view since his loss, exhibiting the same detachment that made it so difficult for him to connect with the body politic through six years of running for president. He has made no public comments since his concession speech in the early hours of Nov. 7, and avoided the news media last week during a private lunch with President Barack Obama at the White House. Through an aide, Romney declined an interview request for this story.
After Romney told his wealthy donors that he blamed his loss on "gifts" Obama gave to minority groups, his functionaries were unrepentant and Republican luminaries effectively cast him out. Few of the policy ideas he promoted are even being discussed in Washington.
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By all accounts, the past month has been most difficult on Romney's wife, Ann, who friends said believed up until the end that ascending to the White House was their destiny. They said she has been crying in private and trying to get back to riding her horses.
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And Obama’s lies don’t bother or offend you? I do know that Mitt’s dad was very active in civil rights - so maybe he was referring to his dad marching with MLK. I don’t know, because this statement is new to me. I did some research on his dad and he indeed was active in civil rights and marching. Are you sure you have your stories straight?
I happen to think that Newt is also as dishonest as the rest of them. I just happen to think that most if not all politicians are somewhat dishonest.
Mitt wouldn’t embrace the tea party or conservatives, and maybe that rather than voter fraud is what defeated him. So, in any case - we’re stuck with a bigger liar in the WH than what you purport Mitt to be.
You and I both know that the election is over as does the rest of the world, so you can drop the romneybot routine now.
The challenge for conservatives now, is to end Romney’s disastrously negative influence on the GOP, and his war against conservatism and the tea party.
I’m talking about talking about the Romneys.
Class envy? How about the OTHER two angles I mentioned in post #35?...Mitt's linkages to the abortion & porn industries
And a fourth -- that he's a RINO? And that he caused MILLIONS of voters to for the VERY first time...vote for a BIG GOVT, pro-abort!
They’re not bashing the Obamas - even though they support third trimester abortion...
This kind of comment, shows all FREEPERs exactly where you and your ilk stand: You couldn't simply castigate Obama for being pro-abortion alone. Why? Because that might implicate Mitt as well.
Therefore, you have to "reach" for third-trimester abortions" as a distinction.
Translation for everybody here: You couldn't give more of a rip about less-gestationally aged pre-borns...which, btw, are over 99% of all abortions...as with Tiller the Killer the dead in Wichita, very few late-term abortionists exist anywhere in the U.S.!!!
That's the bottom-line, and it's a pathetic ethic!
I agree that virtually ANYONE would be better than Obama-—BUT- when Romney failed to endorse the massive Chik Fil A demonstrations OR even mention Obama’s unconstitutional Amnsty we thinking patriots knew the game plan was a losing one
Hey Ansell why don’t you fill us in on how your brilliant so-con heros Akin and Murdock are doing? They truly set back the pro life and conservative movements. The dims will be using their misogynistic and factually untrue remarks to keep the war on woman alive for years. Now we have candidates who can’t even answer how old the earth is.
Romney was actually the best candidate on the the right. As another poster said he was too decent for the times.
One good debate did not a campaign make.
He essentially backed down most other places...except for his campaign ads..which is what he did in the primaries...using his ads to attack his competitors.
You know, when you go up vs. a boxer that doesn't even know how to duck, weave and bob vs. punches, your comment really doesn't say much.
Why would someone who is smart retreat to Califoria?
Most everybody else is trying to get out?
They’re not bashing the Obamas - even though they support third trimester abortion
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Kid I bash both the Obamas and the Romneys for their support of third trimester abortions...
and the first and second too..
as I do anyone else who do so...
#1...Please read post #35, which partially exposes Romney's indecency
#2...Hell is filled with people who had a good track record of giving $millions...perhaps 1-2% (or more) of what they made over their entire lifetime
#3...$millions of Romney's $ went to the Mormon church, which has openly attacked ALL Christian churches as being apostate and having embraced supposed 100% creeds that are an "abomination" to the Mormon gods.
If you only even looked at say, a would-be Muslim POTUS candidate, and noticed how Islam claims that Christians are "infidels"...that would hardly be "inspiring" to Christians to vote for him...never mind all of the other Muslim baggage.
And if a would-be Muslim candidate had given $millions to Islamic Web sites and publishing houses to openly slander the worldwide Christian church...do you somehow think that would be a "feather" in their hat??? Really?
Nobody is promoting Obama on this thread, but people are promoting Romney’s hard left politics and anti-conservatism, by promoting the man even after he lost an election that could not be lost.
Romney’s father never marched with MLK, yet Mitt told people that for decades, including while he was running for president, Mitt has also claimed that he himself marched with MLK.
Romney’s entire life is a constant barrage of lies, he is driven to lie, he is compulsive about it, for one thing, he was trained in it.
Mitt Romney has a national reputation for lying and being deceitful, he always has, his 20 year political career of campaigning for office has amazed people with his willingness to say what ever fits the moment, or the campaign.
Do you know what Mitt Romney’s abortion position was on election day?
Issues Romney chose not to run on:
Abortion
Government spying
Soldiers rotting in prison for being mean to the enemy
Open borders
President is a Communist (so EASY to prove!)
Dodd-Frank
EPA’s plans for permanent depression
TSA groping
NDAA
President murdering American citizens
FAIR Tax
Abolish Dept. of Edumacation, Labor, Commerce, Interior, Energy, etc.
Fiat money/gold standard
And I do understand the general tenor of your argument. Dennis Prager said today that one leader from the City of San Bernardino, CA has advocated that every citizen in that city consider arming themselves because it appears they as a city can no longer afford a police force. They are basically broke.
Romney lost because he ran a poor campaign and was a poor candidate.
His comments about the 47% were simply stupid and inaccruate. CONSERVATIVES admit the economy is in the tank, job opportunities are compromised, businesses are not hiring and this jerk comes out and actually states he doesn’t want the votes of people who are forced into unemployment, food stamps and even welfare as result of the Obama generated recession? STUPID. INACCURATE.
At a time Americans who ARE working are concerned about KEEPING their jobs he says “I like to fire people.” DUMB and DUMBER.
Romney buys a 17 million dollar house near election time, and brags about how he will put another 5 + million into it to make it comfy.
Yeah, give the Democrats a bit MORE ammunition to bury your butt, Mitt!
Abortion
Romney couldn't run on this...he himself was pro-abortion...which is what we have saying for 5 years...and few listened...
Government spying
Hey, many ex-Lds missionaries (like Mitt was) are in the CIA...spying away...
Besides, the Mormon church authorities have taught Mitt well...they spy on their own members via a nebulous sounding "Strengthening the Members Committee"...do you own google search on that for more info.
Open borders
Just in 2011 alone, the Lds church had to replace two illegals they had made into bishops...Mitt certainly wasn't going to be more conservative on this than his own church, which was already to his right on some issues!!!!
Romney would have been a great president.
All this hand-wringing in regards to various and sundry reasons that we lost is a waste of time. Dealing with the opponents that we had to just meant that they would stop at nothing to cheat, steal and lie to get the win. Reports of Black voters in rural Maine counties, “not dozens of them but hundreds of them” who do not live there and never did, should tell one exactly what happened. Whenever we tolerate lawlessness, tumult and chaos we deserve the government that we get. (P.S. it’s not like it’s never happened before- see the 1960 election).
Add Romneycare, which adds to the abortion numbers.
Also, it is hard to run against Obamacare, when you started Romneycare.
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