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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Sorry Mitt,
You were too good of a man for these times. Now a man has to be a lying, dirty double dealing, sorry MoFo to be in politics.
I am sure they are devastated, Romney was groomed for this and I am sure it is a great shock he lost.
They’ll get over this, play with grandkids and like most ‘also rans’, fad away.
“Ann and Mitt’s public devotion to abortion doesn’t bother you at all?”
I have come to the conclusion that there are MANY “Margaret Sanger conservatives” out there.
The election is over, you don’t have to keep promoting the liberal, pro-abortion, gays in the military, homosexual scout leaders, anti-gun, Obamacare, Mitt Romney any more.
The challenge for conservatives now, is to end his disastrous influence on the GOP, and his war against conservatism and the tea party.
Amen.
Good reply ansell, no fan of Romney but he would have been an improvement vs Obama. What I don’t get is the bitter FReeper like ladyjane continuing to blame conservatives for the loser that was Romney and co. All I can say is GET A LIFE!
Good grief. Palm, meet face.
What has people upset is watching their candidate lose was should have been a slam dunk win.
There’s very little to be gained by talking about the Romneys period.
None of us really give a damn what Romney is up to now. Thanks for the losing campaign, Loser. Thanks for destroying any conservative that stood in your way so we could actually win the election.
You’re right. Mitt could be 5 days cold in the ground and a better President than “O” on his BEST day!
Get a clue, dear. It wasn't the Mormon angle and it wasn't class envy behind so many American patriots' rejection of Romney. It was HIS RECORD, which was that of a competent functional Democrat. If pro-state-run health care, pro-tax-funded abortion, pro homosexual agenda from elementary schools to the military to adoption agencies, pro global warming and pro activist liberal judges Romney is what the Repblican party offers forth, what the hell is the point of being a Republican?
Some of us don't vote for liberals, period. You do.
I’ve never read such a ridiculous and sophomoric news article.
The Times is quite literally “reporting” rumors in some cases and making up others. Then it just flat-out beats Romney with a stick putting into the article catch phrases that are totally unnecessary (his “CEO buddies...”).
This article shows that the Left is afraid that Romney will use his near-win to attack from outside of Washington. Something that he should consider.
Like him or not, he landed serious punches on Obama. A Romney untethered by Party could be beneficial.
Besides, Obama didn’t really win anything to brag about - what, his amazing economic and foreign policy plans got him re-elected??? C’mon. Even the vote count was awful close.
If Romney went on the attack and became a talking head (a la Palin) then he could really do some damage to an already fragile Administration.
I’m not promoting anyone. I merely suggested these were the choices we had this election, so STFU, smart a**.
Too 'good' of a man? Wow!
Mitt advocated just three months ago that babies whose moms' health (not life) was suspect -- as determined by the abortion industry -- were up to be 'snuffed out.' All from a man who believes that pre-existent spirit babies are born on another planet and await bodies to inhabited here.
And a full three years AFTER he supposedly underwent a "pro-life conversion" over embryos, he announced on a Katie Couric interview (Dec 2007) that...
...parents (yes, he properly used the word "parents") could either give up their embryos for adoption [otherwise known as the Snowflake adoption process]...
...OR, parents could choose to give them up for "research"...
My...how "pro-choice" of Mitt on parenting!!!
And you call him "good"
Your pro-life/pro-abort discernment radar is WAY off the mark!!!
Furthermore, in July of 2007, even the Mormon church owned Deseret News questioned Mitt's linkages to the porn industry via being LONG-TIME on the board for Marriott, which has sold porn movies to its customers.
The DesNews wrote an editorial entitled "The Nasty Taint of Pornography" -- and cited Mitt's $25,000 per year he pulled in from Marriott...which totaled into hundreds of thousands of $ from Marriott over the yrs
Lastly this man -- like the 15-20% of all Mormons who are 'temple Mormons' ... Mormons who believe they are "gods in embryo" and will one day steal praise, worship, prayers and glory from THE ONE TRUE GOD ... has no qualms about practicing idolatry.
Your "good" is so relativized that promoting and paying for abortions (what RomneyCare has done); getting employment $ from the porn industry; and practicing open idolatry is ignored.
But, hey, you weren't alone. MILLIONS of others chose to ignore the above as well...proving that they can compromise and capitulate when they want to as well...
Can you imagine how fruitful the Romneys would be if they were evangelizing the truth of Christianity? May our prayers be heard for their conversion and that they see the light.
Mitt...
Thanks for giving it the old college try, but it’s time to exit the stage now.
(Might be a good pt...except here you are talking about the Romneys :) )
It’s like this:
I live in CA, the most socialistic and bankrupt and screwed up state in the nation. When I moved here, this was the greatest place. We had EVERYTHING. Great weather, beautiful scenery, gorgeous weather, a Republican governor, a creative, talented, energetic, entrepreneurial population, no shortage of interesting things to due and talented people and creative ideas, and yes, a pro-business environment. In point of fact, I was just a college grad student at the time, by I secured two part time jobs within one week of plane landing down to help pay my way through grad school. Those were the days! We had such a vibrant economy here, anyone who wanted to could find work and become successful.
Then, in 1992, after voting 40 years Republican (except for the 1964 landslide), the state, almost overnight, shifted SOLIDLY BLUE, voting not only for Bill Clinton that year, but Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein as well. CA has not looked bavk ever since....it just turned sold left after 1992.
Now I was always hoping and praying that the rest of the nation would not follow suit. Look at our huge mistakes, our high unemployment, our out of control unions, our massive debt, and out of control spending and state legislature, our intense anti-business climate.....no the rest of the nation seems adamantly determined to make the same mistakes as both California and Europe.
It’s not just the people of CA who have their heads imbedded up their rectums. Obama would have still won the election in both 2008 and 2012 WITHOUT CA’s electoral votes.
I have had more time to adjust than others. Buy my worst nightmares have come true. The rest of the nation is following CA’s (and Europe’s) path towards socialism and government dependence and handouts. Perhaps there are historical forces working out there that we conservatives cannot reverse. Ancient Rome made the same mistakes as the decadent republic and later the emperors made the urban masses dependent upon public largesse. Then it eventually crumbled. The human condition doesn’t change very much over the centuries.
I started off this election not liking Romney. By the end, I really thought he’d make a decent president and would be able to try to bring people together to try to resolve our fiscal nightmare. I also saw what a decent person he is personally with all his charitable acts and giving. I guess we’ll never know what type of president he would be but I do think the better man lost the election.
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