Yeah, like take a whale of a dive...
No thanks.
So I says to myself, “Self. Cain’t you see (I talks to myself in southernese)...cain’t you see that the only way Romney was ever going to get to be President was if someone really really really bad was elected President first and then all of Romney’s many many faults as a candidate would then seem so very small compared to this really really really bad President. So, since he did not get the nomination in 2008, he had to torpedo the 2008 Republican ticket behind the scenes, which he did wonderfully in a variety of ways without getting the blame, and also torpedo any Republican competition that might arise against him, which he also has been doing constantly.
All is working beautifully for him and now no one, not even the candidate most Americans really want to have as President, can get in his way this time.
Myself was dumbstruck by the thought.