Let no one say that Mitt Romney left the political stage gracefully or with even a shred of dignity left. The best you can say is that he somehow mustered the self-awareness to avoid even further indignities. He will not run for the presidency a third time, which pretty much hands the reins to Jeb, if Jeb can somehow ride the bucking clown car all the way to the acceptance stage in Cleveland next summer.
In the end, he signed off calling for an “end to the grip of poverty,” causing something between a collective shrug and a guffaw. He then reiterated the importance of electing a “conservative” president, thereby eliminating any hope that he might stand for something within the modern Republican Party that could ultimately save or redeem it.
For such a rich man, it is hard to believe how worthless he is.
Good riddance, Mitt, you smug, self-centered, self-righteous gasbag. You would have been a horrible president because you cannot relate to the feelings, needs, and circumstances of regular people in this country.
You didn’t get it when you ran the first two times, and you didn’t get it this time. You never will.
Go home(s) to your family and stay there. Nobody likes you.
Signed, America
Mormon robot to the end.
That was his major problem…the thing everyone pretended to ignore.
This of course will reduce the saliency of issues of poverty and inequality in the upcoming GOP campaign from zero to some number less than zero…
riiiiiiiiight!
And Mittster and Buffy (“…its OUR turn now”)were going to be SOOOOOO believable in the role of rich do-gooders.
Romney advocating for poor people.
Fighting for Peace.
Fucking for Virginity.
Military Intelligence.
Look, this is a country where Kraft makes a fortune selling VelveetaTM to people who think it’s cheese.
In that environment, Mitt Romney would have been at least potentially salable as a social justice warrior.
I LOVE Velveeta. I have since I was a kid.
But, Mittens wouldn’t be believable as ANY kind of warrior … he wasn’t even when he was in France.
That Velveeta analogy is great (ven if a few outliers on the left love it). Whatever the heck it is, cheese it is not.
While sooner (as in January 2013) to rule out a 2016 Presidential run would have been better, he does get credit for being the second (Ryan was first) of the waste of time, useless and covetous, GOP gasbags to do so. Others that should stop sucking up political oxygen and spare the nation that they claim to love so much are Santorum, Palin, Trump, Jindal, and Graham. Not far behind them are those are the “not a chance” guys — Carson, Huckabee, Perry, and Rubio. Not sure why Christie is even in the mix because he seems not to have anything remotely looking like a base of support.
Add George Pataki to the list of “not a chance” guys — or the fact that he’s even considering running puts in in the comical stylings of the first group.
Is he still alive and out of prison?
Who?
Pataki.
Is he meeting with Christie to plot an Anybody but Dynasty strategy?
Christie-Romney for President
Mmmmmmmmm. I can’t see that on a bumper sticker. And it says pretty plainly that Christie better watch his political back.
Is Mitt as the most recent Presidential nominee now the “elder statesman” of the Republican Party? Or does he have to wait for the passing of Poppy Bush?
What about the last Republican president to serve two terms, and the only one in 27 years? Why isn’t he the elder statesman? (Just kidding, I know why.)
You have a point. Not everyone can steal two elections in a row.
But W is just too warm and comfortable painting in his bath to get out and do statesman. Which brings up his other record of accomplishment–the most days on vacation of any President in history.
The the perpetually juvenile never quite adjust to being called elder anything.
Doing nudes of himself for his sister. What’s with that?
There’s no way Mitt would accept VP at this stage – the dude’s way to vain for that. I also don’t see any love for Christie (who is toast anyway) from the Romneys.
If any one candidate benefits from Mitt’s departure from the ring, I’d say that it’s Scott Walker. He’s having a great January so far (which scares the hell out of me).
The elder statesman of the Repugs is none other than….Mr. John McCain, long-standing senator from a state on the Mexican border, Arizona, who has a thing for bombing and fighting. If you’ve never heard of him, you can get to know him every Sunday on the talk shows.
And apparently he told “supporters” he was sure he’d win if he ran. Clueless to the end. Now go try to find some use for yer hundreds of millions, Mitt, other than more residences and underground garages.
The coaches of Team Conservative and the its plutocrat funders seem to think they lost in 2012 solely because of the drawn-out spectacle of their Primary Clown Show, and that this must be avoided by quickly uniting around a single figurehead (who just conveniently happens to be the leading Repub establishment flunky).
We’ll see if the marginal Repub loons agree to play along or if they will see fit to buck the plan of campaign by refusing a Jeb coronation waltz. Have any of the so-called “establishment-hating” spittle-fleckers like the cretinous Erickson criticized Jeb as a fake conservative yet? Will Jeb be able to quell the inevitable attempt at a Bircher uprising? And will the Adelsons et al all agree not to self fund a Rubio or Tail Gunner Ted? All it takes is one rogue billionaire…
I have a hard time believing that the Team’s coaches will get all of Conserva-land’s leaning Happy Warriors to agree that Bushco III is the most compelling vehicle they have, especially as the party has become ever more crazy. But they certainly can’t let their ignorant and demented rabble of a base make the decision.
The idiots didn’t give up last time around, why should they now? Getting rid of the crazies in time to actually run semi-sane campaign would imply a somewhat united front by the money people. It would imply that some, if not all, of the reality challenged candidates would give up “for the good of the Cause” (re: Sarah Palin). It would also imply a grasp of Realpolitik that just ISN’T in the Tea Bags.
Koch Bros desperately want KeystoneXL … they own most of it, they will get the benefit of most of the profits. They don’t CARE who is president if they can get the operating scenarios they want.
Adelson would like to dictate who is in the WhiteHouse, but more, he’d like to stay out of jail for bribery in Macao.
Mercer is a legendary coder. Good coders THINK differently from the rest of humanity. And they ain’t nice.
The Baggerz still haven’t worked out that the REST of us don’t like them. Your looney uncle is still crazy and still thinks that deep down you agree with him.
No, Team Crazy is not singing the same verses to the song. They aren’t even singing the same songs. They’re not even in the same book.
Ring in the CLOWNS!!!!
He is interested in poverty? I’ll give him Jesus’ advice, “Go sell everything you have and give it to the poor!”
What’re the chances that he avoids the early scrum and gets ‘drafted’ back into the race in six months?
He got rich by being born into the upper class and richer by destructive financial exploitation rather than any useful contribution to society . So I see no contradiction at all between his wealth and his worthlessness.
Why change now? At least he is consistent.