Mitt Romney: “It Kills Me Not to Be in the White House”

Multi-millionaire didn’t get what he was entitled to, whines
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See, the thing is, Mitt Romney was supposed to win the presidency. He was entitled to win. And he would have, too, if only he hadn’t been up against a guy who gives away free stuff to those troublesome minorities.

Mitt Romney stood by his belief that President Obama was aided in his re-election by giving gifts to minority voters, during an interview that aired on “Fox News Sunday.”

“The president had the power of incumbency, ‘Obamacare’ was very attractive, particularly to those without insurance, and they came out in large numbers to vote,” Romney said. “So that was part of a successful campaign.”

How can you fight against that? Can you blame Mitt for being a little bitter about the whole thing? Mitt Romney: ‘It Kills Me’ Not to Be President.

In his first television interview since the election, the former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential nominee told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” that he was convinced he’d win until Ohio’s vote came in, and that he damaged his campaign by failing to attract black and Hispanic voters and speaking too freely in his infamous “47 percent” comments.

“I’ll look at what’s happening right now, I wish I were there,” Mitt Romney said. “It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done. The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together; the president leads. And - and I don’t see that kind of - of leadership happening right now.”

Romney, as have congressional Republicans, accused Obama of “campaigning” rather than governing as the sequester loomed. That, Romney said, has been counterproductive.

“Well, no one can think that that’s been a success for the president,” Romney said. “He didn’t think the sequester would happen. It is happening. To date, what we’ve seen is a — the president out campaigning to the American people, doing rallies around the country, flying around the country and berating Republicans and blaming and pointing. Now, what does that do? That causes the Republicans to — to retrench and to put up a wall and to fight back. It’s a very natural human emotion.”

Ann Romney said her husband, had he won, would have solved the sequester by now.

“I totally believe at this moment, if Mitt were there in the office, that we would not be facing sequestration right now,” she said.

OK, all sarcasm aside — can you believe these spoiled whiny multi-millionaires? They lost the election because the American people saw through the pandering to the true Mitt Romney: the rich elitist snob who held them in contempt, and would blatantly lie in his quest for power. With every ungracious word out of their mouths, the Romneys just confirm that this impression was dead on.

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127 comments
1 austin_blue  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:15:04am

Would that it were true…

I’m kidding, of course. But you’re right, Charles. The sense of entitlement from this whinging loser is just breathtaking.

2 erik_t  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:15:33am

What a fucking whiner. He makes Sarah Palin look like an adult.

3 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:16:06am
“I’ll look at what’s happening right now, I wish I were there,” Mitt Romney said. “It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done. The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together; the president leads. And - and I don’t see that kind of - of leadership happening right now.”

So he wants Obama to knock some GOP heads around? Bullshit.

4 erik_t  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:18:26am
The president brings people together

I wonder if Mitt’s aware that more than 47% of Senators are Democrats.

5 Mentis Fugit  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:18:34am

How DARE the Ni-CLANG promise to look after anybody but the wealthy. How DARE he!

6 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:21:18am

What an ungracious asshole. It’s just amazing to me to see this kind of childish whining from someone who was almost the President of the US. Man, did we ever dodge a bullet.

7 Mattand  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:21:57am

Well, Mitt’s right about one thing: the sequester would have been solved if he were POTUS.

Of course, it would have been “solved” by him giving in to every idiotic demand the Tea Baggers wanted. And to be honest, he’d be almost a puppet president. His gutlessness in kissing up to the radical right in order to be elected was astounding. He wouldn’t be able to brush his teeth without the OK from the Koch Bros, Fox News, Limbaugh, et. al.

It’s really hard not to read the transcripts of these interviews and not see them as entitled racist snobs. Complaining about minorities as one of the reasons he lost? Fuck you, jerk.

Seriously, Republicans, you actually wanted this guy to run the country?

8 allegro  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:22:51am

There is probably a real fact in there. The sequester wouldn’t have happened if Mittens was president. The wealthy and corporations would have been given further tax cuts, there would be an increase in government give-aways to multi-billion dollar corporations and the social safety net would have been entirely gutted to pay for it.

9 Gus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:23:09am

Lindsey Graham is apparently ranting about Benghazi again. Capping off a week of outspoken Republicans: Justice John Roberts, white male; Justice Antonin Scalia, white male; Reince Priebus, white male; Lindsey Graham, white male; Mitt Romney; white male… About the most diversity they had was Ann Romney.

10 Tigger2005  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:25:33am

No, we wouldn’t be facing the sequester if he was President. He pretends the sequester is due to Obama being incompetent and that he would have avoided it via his mad Presidentializing skillz. No, we would not be facing the sequester because the Republican Congress would be rubber-stamping his agenda and because the Democrats are not obstructionist assholes.

11 Stanley Sea  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:26:52am

re: #10 Tigger2005

oops, sorry!

12 Varek Raith  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:28:10am

Dear Mitt,
You’re only proving you were not and will not be suited to be PotUS.

13 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:28:18am

re: #1 austin_blue

Would that it were true…

I’m kidding, of course. But you’re right, Charles. The sense of entitlement from this whinging loser is just breathtaking.

I don’t see it as surprising, actually. Given Mitt’s background, especially who his father was, I think the idea that he could fail to be President never entered his mind.

14 Gus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:30:18am

re: #10 Tigger2005

No, we wouldn’t be facing the sequester if he was President. He pretends the sequester is due to Obama being incompetent and that he would have avoided via his mad Presidentializing skillz. No, we would not be facing the sequester because the Republican Congress would be rubber-stamping his agenda and because the Democrats are not obstructionist assholes.

Pretty much. The Democrats were very cooperative with Bush on the whole. Bush was signing off on pretty much everything that congress sent to the WH. That changed in 2006. No one really forcefully question GWOT. No one really forcefully questioned the Iraq War…

15 Blue Point  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:31:07am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

What an ungracious asshole. It’s just amazing to me to see this kind of childish whining from someone who was almost the President of the US. Man, did we ever dodge a bullet.

The House and Congress is full of undodged bullets.
Mitt is truly an idiot.

16 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:32:11am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

I agree completely as a matter of fact I even made a page on it.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

17 Interesting Times  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:32:31am

Mitt, Mitt, the whiny twit
Oh so very full of shit.

18 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:33:21am

He doesn’t reconsider his ideas, he’s upset he didn’t lie better about the hated 47%.

19 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:34:32am

And compare this with the earlier interviews with his offspring who claimed that he really didn’t want to be POTUS and had to be reluctantly talked into running. All positions are still Romney positions.
/

20 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:35:18am

re: #15 Blue Point

The House and Congress is full of undodged bullets.
Mitt is truly an idiot.

The bolded part goes for both parties.

21 Evolving Deep Southerner  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:35:18am

Who in the hell could have thought the Romneys coming out for an interview now was a good idea? Did Romney think it a good idea, or was he armtwisted into it by any of the many interests he shills for? Seems like those interests would be twisting his arm to keep his fucking face off of their televisions.

22 austin_blue  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:35:45am

re: #13 Dark_Falcon

I don’t see it as surprising, actually. Given Mitt’s background, especially who his father was, I think the idea that he could fail to be President never entered his mind.

The stories, after the election, about his team being truly shocked {SHOCKED!} that they lost are infamous. Apparently, the R’s were as clueless about statistical analysis as they are about the rest of the peer-reviewed sciences.

They are in dreadful need of a whack from a clue bat.

23 allegro  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:37:32am

re: #20 Dark_Falcon

The bolded part goes for both parties.

Aaaaand the fairy dances through…

24 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:39:45am

I’m sitting in my car waiting for my wife because she just had to buy some tea. On a Sunday. Just before we’re to be hit with a snowstorm.

25 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:39:46am

BBL

26 Lidane  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:41:24am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Man, did we ever dodge a bullet.

The last two elections have been clear cases of America dodging a GOP bullet.

In 2008, we faced the possibility of a complete joke of an uneducated, inarticulate spokesmodel ending up a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Then last year we ended up with an entitled rich asshole and his zombie-eyed granny starver running mate thinking they could just buy the Presidency with enough Citizens United money, so it didn’t matter that they were brazenly lying and trying to scare the bigots.

Expect 2016 to bring even more Republican fail. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

27 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:42:43am

re: #22 austin_blue

The stories, after the election, about his team being truly shocked {SHOCKED!} that they lost are infamous. Apparently, the R’s were as clueless about statistical analysis as they are about the rest of the peer-reviewed sciences.

They are in dreadful need of a whack from a clue bat.

Romney: ‘My Heart Said We Were Gonna Win’

Looks like Mitt Romney can’t trust his heart to tell him the truth.

28 Lidane  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:42:49am

re: #20 Dark_Falcon

The bolded part goes for both parties.

Please don’t pull that MBF shit. The raving idiots in the House GOP are far more of a problem than anyone in the Democratic party could ever hope to be.

29 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:43:18am

re: #26 Lidane

The last two elections have been clear cases of America dodging a GOP bullet.

In 2008, we faced the possibility of a complete joke of an uneducated, inarticulate spokesmodel ending up a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Then last year we ended up with an entitled rich asshole and his zombie-eyed granny starver running mate thinking they could just buy the Presidency with enough Citizens United money, so it didn’t matter that they were brazenly lying and trying to scare the bigots.

Expect 2016 to bring even more Republican fail. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

Santorum/Cruz 2016 - And we’ll get your little dog too!
/

30 jaunte  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:43:42am
“The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together…”

…In quiet rooms, excluding those bottom dwelling, “taker” 47% scum.

31 sagehen  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:44:08am

re: #22 austin_blue

The stories, after the election, about his team being truly shocked {SHOCKED!} that they lost are infamous. Apparently, the R’s were as clueless about statistical analysis as they are about the rest of the peer-reviewed sciences.

They are in dreadful need of a whack from a clue bat.

Their entire strategy hinged on voter suppression. Pennsylvania + Ohio + Florida, that’s the ball game, and the Justice Department pushback on their attempted poll taxes (whoops, I meant voter ID laws and eliminating early voting and short-changing minority districts on machines ) fucked up their plans.

32 Lidane  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:46:59am

re: #29 Feline Fearless Leader

Santorum/Cruz 2016 - And we’ll get your little dog too!
/

Santorum is the front runner for 2016. He came in second to Mitt, so by their rules, he’s the one to beat. And Cruz has all the retards thinking he’s principled and a model for conservatism, so it wouldn’t shock me if he was the VP nominee.

33 Gus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:48:00am

re: #32 Lidane

Santorum is the front runner for 2016. He came in second to Mitt, so by their rules, he’s the one to beat. And Cruz has all the retards thinking he’s principled and a model for conservatism, so it wouldn’t shock me if he was the VP nominee.

Cruz would be “interesting” VP candidate for obvious reasons. :D

34 allegro  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:48:27am

re: #32 Lidane

Santorum is the front runner for 2016. He came in second to Mitt, so by their rules, he’s the one to beat. And Cruz has all the retards thinking he’s principled and a model for conservatism, so it wouldn’t shock me if he was the VP nominee.

But… but… birth sertifikit!

35 austin_blue  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:50:44am

re: #32 Lidane

Santorum is the front runner for 2016. He came in second to Mitt, so by their rules, he’s the one to beat. And Cruz has all the retards thinking he’s principled and a model for conservatism, so it wouldn’t shock me if he was the VP nominee.

Born in Canada. Thank the gods!

36 LWNJ  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:52:33am

If it’s “killing him,” he’s taking too damn long to die. Metaphorically, I mean.

37 Lidane  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:52:39am

re: #35 austin_blue

Born in Canada.

Ok, fine. They’ll go for Rubio, then. Of course, that will still set off the birther retards anway. Heh.

38 jaunte  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:53:55am

re: #32 Lidane

Santorum is the front runner for 2016. He came in second to Mitt, so by their rules, he’s the one to beat. And Cruz has all the retards thinking he’s principled and a model for conservatism, so it wouldn’t shock me if he was the VP nominee.

They’ll probably want to push for a special amendment for him.

39 Lidane  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:54:52am

re: #38 jaunte

They’ll probably want to push for a special amendment for him.

They would have pushed for that same amendment for Schwarzenegger if he’d been a complete wingnut tool.

40 Gus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:55:09am

re: #38 jaunte

They’ll probably want to push for a special amendment for him.

Yeah. They were babbling about that once way back one WRT Arnold. Good luck with that.

41 Gus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:56:13am

I actually like the idea. The natural birth requirement just reeks of xenophobia and nationalism.

42 kirkspencer  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:56:19am

re: #37 Lidane

Ok, fine. They’ll go for Rubio, then. Of course, that will still set off the birther retards anway. Heh.

Not going to matter. He was born of US parents working in Canada, and all but a very tiny minority will raise a complaint.

I said it last thread and I’ll say it here. Ignore Rubio and Santorum. The two names to watch are (Jeb) Bush and Cruz. The former is the establishment’s real “next”, the latter is the real base candidate.

43 Batman  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:56:40am

The sequester wouldn’t have happened, since congressional Republicans wouldn’t have a reason to spite Romney.

44 Gus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:57:06am

“Cause you just can’t trust them furriners.”

[Banjo music.]

45 Mattand  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:58:50am

re: #20 Dark_Falcon

The bolded part goes for both parties.

Unfortunately, a lot of the people dodging electoral bullets are Republicans who are willing to destroy our economy to prove a point.

46 Gus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:00:09am

Alexander Hamilton. Furriner!

47 jaunte  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:01:42am

re: #44 Gus

[Banjo music.]

It’s Furrin!
[Link: bluegrassbanjo.org…]

48 Lidane  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:02:57am

Here, have some Godwin:

NRA President: Yes, Go Ahead And Compare U.S. Pols To Hitler

The president of the National Rifle Association has weighed in: comparing American politicians with gun control proposals to Adolf Hitler is doing it right.

A day after pro-NRA protesters arrived at the state capitol in New York with signs equating Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) with Hitler, NRA president David Keene went on an Albany, NY radio station and defended them.

49 Gus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:04:05am

re: #48 Lidane

Here, have some Godwin:

NRA President: Yes, Go Ahead And Compare U.S. Pols To Hitler

Yeah, they’re hopeless.

51 Mattand  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:07:13am

re: #48 Lidane

Here, have some Godwin:

NRA President: Yes, Go Ahead And Compare U.S. Pols To Hitler

Gotta love the sings. Over to the left: a sign about misspelled words. Over to the right: A sign containing the immortal phrase, “Growen’ a pair”.

How anyone can vote for a party that contains rocket scientists is beyond me.

52 Kragar (Antichrist )  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:07:55am

re: #48 Lidane

Here, have some Godwin:

NRA President: Yes, Go Ahead And Compare U.S. Pols To Hitler

Says the guy most likely to lead a modern beerhall putsch.

53 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:13:30am

” ‘Obamacare’ was very attractive, particularly to those without insurance, and they came out in large numbers to vote,”

You mean Romneycare on a national level?

And forcing people to purchase health insurance is an “entitlement” and a “government giveaway”?

Fortunately, Mitt is only preaching to the choir, and then only to the (male) sopranos…

54 Kragar (Antichrist )  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:15:18am

re: #53 Sol Berdinowitz

” ‘Obamacare’ was very attractive, particularly to those without insurance, and they came out in large numbers to vote,”

You mean Romneycare on a national level?

And forcing people to purchase health insurance is an “entitlement” and a “government giveaway”?

Fortunately, Mitt is only preaching to the choir, and then only to the (male) sopranos…

Next thing you know. the government will start requiring you to get a driver’s license and auto insurance just to drive a car you bought with your own hard earned money. Tyranny!
/

55 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:16:53am

re: #54 Kragar (Antichrist )

Next thing you know. the government will start requiring you to get a driver’s license and auto insurance just to drive a car you bought with your own hard earned money. Tyranny!
/

Or a state charge you to use some of its roads or bridges!

56 SpaceJesus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:17:04am

cry me a riviera, mitt

57 jaunte  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:17:52am
Romney, as have congressional Republicans, accused Obama of “campaigning” rather than governing as the sequester loomed. That, Romney said, has been counterproductive.

“Well, no one can think that that’s been a success for the president,” Romney said. “He didn’t think the sequester would happen. It is happening. To date, what we’ve seen is a — the president out campaigning to the American people, doing rallies around the country, flying around the country and berating Republicans and blaming and pointing. Now, what does that do? That causes the Republicans to — to retrench and to put up a wall and to fight back. It’s a very natural human emotion.”

Because (R) feefees are more important than the strength and health of our nation.

58 stabby  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:19:47am

What amazes me about the free-stuff whine that he makes pretty often now, is that his original 47% remark was admission that his belief was that the only reason people would vote for him is that he was giving his own free stuff to people who pay higher taxes. That’s no more than say 1/4 of the country, and it comes from taking that programs away from the poorer half, who funny thing, have almost nothing to take.

So his entire theory of politics is one of redistributing wealth that’s what he wanted to do he just picked the direction where he would hurt the majority of people really really badly in return for helping wealthier people by amounts they might not even notice.

Doh!

59 stabby  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:21:25am

I mean you can’t leave out of the picture that his plan would have lead to the government being thoroughly insolvent, and destroying medicare and Social security as a result.

60 stabby  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:23:12am

Oh well, he’ll get to be king of a planet in the afterlife, right?

61 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:36:52am

re: #54 Kragar (Antichrist )

Next thing you know. the government will start requiring you to get a driver’s license and auto insurance just to drive a car you bought with your own hard earned money. Tyranny!
/

The counter-argument is that you can always opt out of mandatory insurance by not owning a car. I guess we could include an option to let people opt out of free emergency health care…

62 dragonath  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:37:23am

re: #60 stabby

I find Romney’s religion to be the least mockable aspect of his personage. It’s bad enough he wanted to turn the USA into the Planet of the Apes.

63 Eclectic Cyborg  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:41:07am

re: #62 dragonath

I find Romney’s religion to be the least mockable aspect of his personage. It’s bad enough he wanted to turn the USA into the Planet of the Apes.

“get your hands off me, you damned dirty 47 percenter!”

64 Kragar (Antichrist )  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:41:18am

Ann Romney: ‘I’m happy to blame the media’ for election loss

“I’m happy to blame the media,” Ann Romney told Fox News host Chris Wallace in an interview that aired on Sunday.

“Do you think the media was in the tank for Barack Obama?” the Fox News host wondered.

“Anytime you’re running for office, you always think you’re being portrayed unfairly,” Ann Romney explained. “And of course on our side, we believe that there’s more bias in favor of the other side. I think that’s a pretty universally felt opinion.”

65 Gus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:42:54am

Apparently Mitt and Ann Romney don’t believe in taking personal responsibility.

66 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:43:24am

re: #61 Sol Berdinowitz

The counter-argument is that you can always opt out of mandatory insurance by not owning a car. I guess we could include an option to let people opt out of free emergency health care…

Something is triggered in the back of my mind saying that in some states you can still drive a car without insurance providing that you have proof of (x) amount of dollars in an escrow type account set aside in case you’re in an accident and deemed at fault

67 Gus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:44:05am

The Mitt and Ann Romney Whine Tour 2013™

68 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:44:47am

re: #67 Gus

Dang. You beat me to it.

69 dragonath  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:45:43am

If I didn’t know any better, I’d think Romney is angling for some kind of elected position in next few years.

70 Pawn of the Oppressor  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:45:52am

“And we would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for those meddlesome kids NI*CLANG*s”

71 Amory Blaine  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:52:28am
‘It Kills Me’ Not to Be President

Spoken like a truly entitled dirtbag.

72 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:52:46am

The Official Version seems to be that Obama won with help of ACORN in 2008 and by using his Presidential prerogative to give away “free stuff” in 2012.

73 Gus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:53:03am

Asked where homosexuals should sit in the parliamentary chamber, he said: “No minority should climb all over the majority. Homosexuals should even sit behind a wall, and not somewhere at the front.

“They must know they are a minority and adapt themselves to smaller things.”
— Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa

74 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:57:27am

re: #64 Kragar (Antichrist )

Ann Romney: ‘I’m happy to blame the media’ for election loss

Actually Miss Ann, I think there’s a lowly bartender with a cell phone camera that you should be blaming.

75 Evolving Deep Southerner  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:57:37am

re: #64 Kragar (Antichrist )

That woman, I’ll tell you. Mitt should take an inventory of his houses, find the one with the most opulent attic, and lock her up in there.

76 erik_t  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:58:05am

re: #73 Gus

“They must know they are a minority and adapt themselves to smaller things.”
— Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa

You’d think that someone who grew up under the thumb of a stronger power would not anxiously appropriate his own thumb for squishing someone else.

Funny how people’s minds work.

77 sattv4u2  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:58:24am

re: #73 Gus

Asked where homosexuals should sit in the parliamentary chamber, he said: “No minority should climb all over the majority. Homosexuals should even sit behind a wall, and not somewhere at the front.

“They must know they are a minority and adapt themselves to smaller things.”
— Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa

I’d blame old age, but he’s only 69

(hmmm,, maybe it’s age anyway!!! )

78 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:00:47pm

“The president had the power of incumbency, ‘Obamacare’ was very attractive, particularly to those without insurance, and they came out in large numbers to vote,” Romney said. “So that was part of a successful campaign.”

People without health insurance, voting to have health insurance. Whocouldaknowed? Maybe if Willard had come up with his own answer to the problem….Oh, wait….Obamacare is his answer because Obamacare is Romenycare.

Asshole.

79 Stanley Sea  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:01:50pm

re: #76 erik_t

You’d think that someone who grew up under the thumb of a stronger power would not anxiously appropriate his own thumb for squishing someone else.

Funny how people’s minds work.

Makes me worry about getting old. 2nd instance of supposed smart people being incredibly idiotic.

Lech is way more blech than Woodward though.

80 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:02:52pm

re: #77 sattv4u2

I’d blame old age, but he’s only 69

(hmmm,, maybe it’s age anyway!!! )

A very, very conservative culture when it comes to sexual mores. And do not forget the predominant role the Catholic Church plays in Polish life and politics.

81 Gus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:03:07pm

As part of the same interview in 2012, he that if his son were a homosexual he would pray for him to stop going down the wrong road.

At a political campaign rally in 2000 he said “I believe those people need medical treatment”, continuing with “Imagine if all people were like that. We wouldn’t have any descendants.”

On 1 March 2013 he said in a television interview, when asked about gay people, “they have to know that they are a minority and adjust to smaller things, and not rise to the greatest heights”. He concluded that gay politicians, if elected, should be seated “behind a wall”

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

82 dragonath  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:04:56pm

Honestly, I don’t understand how Romney can go around and chastise voters for voting for their own self interests.

83 Amory Blaine  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:05:39pm

It’s Jimmy Carter’s fault!!

84 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:06:07pm

re: #83 Amory Blaine

lol

85 Gus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:07:23pm

It’s not age. He’s just a clueless bigot.

86 dragonath  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:07:52pm

Just watch. Romney will be the most “electable” Republican in 2016.

87 Amory Blaine  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:10:02pm

re: #73 Gus

God damn it.

88 kirkspencer  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:10:16pm

re: #72 Sol Berdinowitz

The Official Version seems to be that Obama won with help of ACORN in 2008 and by using his Presidential prerogative to give away “free stuff” in 2012.

Yep. If they weren’t all such low information voters Romney would have won. (Don’t laugh. That’s part of the Official Version - all the low information voters that listened to the MSM.)

89 Amory Blaine  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:11:30pm

Don’t believe your lying eyes.

90 dragonath  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:11:46pm

re: #88 kirkspencer

I believe everything I hear on the radio!

91 kirkspencer  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:11:55pm

re: #87 Amory Blaine

God damn it.

All men are of heaven and earth. Each great man has his feet of clay, each low his heart of gold. The only pure lie in Heaven and Hell and can only be used as guides to follow and avoid.

92 jaunte  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:12:36pm

re: #81 Gus

At a political campaign rally in 2000 he said “I believe those people need medical treatment”, continuing with “Imagine if all people were like that. We wouldn’t have any descendants.”

It’s that same slippery slope that Bryan Fischer is so worried about.

93 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:12:48pm

re: #88 kirkspencer

Yep. If they weren’t all such low information voters Romney would have won. (Don’t laugh. That’s part of the Official Version - all the low information voters that listened to the MSM.)

Not really low-information, they were well informed by the MSM what the government was giving away (phones, health care, food stamps, etc.) and just wanted to cash in on it while the gettin’ was good.

Had Romney won, he would have put them all to work by now.

/

94 Eclectic Cyborg  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:13:33pm

re: #89 Amory Blaine

Don’t believe your lying eyes.

Great, now the Eagles are playing in my head…

95 dragonath  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:14:33pm

re: #94 Eclectic Cyborg

Who’s the Quarterback?

96 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:14:53pm

re: #95 dragonath

Who’s the Quarterback?

Joe Walsh

97 Lidane  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:15:30pm

re: #65 Gus

Apparently Mitt and Ann Romney don’t believe in taking personal responsibility.

Of course they don’t. They’re Republicans.

Didn’t you know? Lazy, entitled brown and black people are why Mitt lost. That and the lamestream librul media. It wasn’t that he was a shitty candidate or that the GOP’s naked bigotry, ignorance and greed were rejected by voters. It’s all someone else’s fault.

98 Mich-again  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:18:01pm

Mitt grew up a spoiled rich kid who expected special treatment and privileges and no repercussions for bullying and breaking laws. He hasn’t changed a bit. He’s a despicable person. Go away Mitt.

99 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:20:17pm

re: #87 Amory Blaine

God damn it.

Vaclav Havel is probably the best person who was also a politician that I can think of.

100 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:22:22pm

re: #99 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Vaclav Hagel is probably the best person who was also a politician that I can think of.

Wasn’t he a friend of Hamas?

101 scottslemmons  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:22:24pm

Hell, if Romney had been elected, he and the teabag Congress would’ve already shut down Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, any form of non-corporate welfare, public schools, and any voting rights for anyone who might vote for a non-Republican. Jim Crow would be legal nationwide already. Gay people would be illegal. Joe Arpaio would be in charge of the FBI. They’d already be working on auctioning off all public land and seizing private land they wanted someone richer to own.

I really do get plenty nervous about what’s going to happen the next time a Republican gets into the White House, ‘cause I worry they’re just going to unleash their ids on everyone…

102 dragonath  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:24:02pm

Life is a blur of republicans and meat!

103 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:24:06pm

re: #100 Sol Berdinowitz

Wasn’t he a friend of Hamas?

Heh. Thanks. Corrected.

104 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:24:48pm

re: #101 scottslemmons

Er. no. That’s massive hyperbole.

105 Decatur Deb  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:25:15pm

re: #97 Lidane

Of course they don’t. They’re Republicans.

Didn’t you know? Lazy, entitled brown and black people are why Mitt lost. That and the lamestream librul media. It wasn’t that he was a shitty candidate or that the GOP’s naked bigotry, ignorance and greed were rejected by voters. It’s all someone else’s fault.

Weren’t too lazy to stand in Florida polling site lines for 6 hours.

106 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:26:09pm

re: #103 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Heh. Thanks. Corrected.

Brnoghazi!!!

107 Lidane  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:26:36pm

re: #105 Decatur Deb

Weren’t too lazy to stand in Florida polling site lines for 6 hours.

And now you know why they want to shitcan the Voting Rights Act.

108 dragonath  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:32:33pm
109 Sol Berdinowitz  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:35:54pm

re: #105 Decatur Deb

Weren’t too lazy to stand in Florida polling site lines for 6 hours.

They counted on Obama not being able to mobilize the voters like he did in 2008.

But Todd Akin and his ilk did, while Romney failed miserably at getting the GOP base out in sufficient numbers to support him.

110 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:41:41pm

“healthcare appeals to low-income voters.”

Gee why do you suppose that is? Could it be because Walmart and other big corporations that employ low-wage workers REFUSE to provide health insurance?

What an asshole. So glad I voted for Obama this time around.

111 Kragar (Antichrist )  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:45:50pm

David Gregory spars with Boehner: ‘Mr. Speaker, that’s just not true’

In an interview, taped Friday after last-ditch negotiations failed, Boehner insisted that Obama and Senate Democrats were to blame because they did not send any proposal his way.

“Even today, there’s no plan, from Senate Democrats or the White House, to replace the sequester,” he said.

But Gregory was unconvinced, pointing out that Obama had in fact outlined what he required in a compromise deal. Importantly, that framework included specific mention of entitlment and spending cuts—both of which are central to Repubican demands—that he’d be willing to make.

“Mr. Speaker, that’s just not true,” Gregory said. “They’ve made it very clear, as the president just did, that he has a plan that he’s put forward that involves entitlement cuts, that involves spending cuts, that you’ve made a choice, as have Republicans, to leave tax loopholes in place.”

“Well David, that’s just nonsense,” Boehner interrupted. “If he had a plan why didn’t Senate Democrats go ahead and pass it?”

Senate Democrats did not pass a competing bill to avert the automatic cuts because Republicans in that chamber effectively fillibustered their efforts. The bills passed by the Republican-led House were also a solely a symbolic gesture, as they did not address revenue increases, making them a non-starter for Democrats.

112 jaunte  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:56:14pm

re: #111 Kragar (Antichrist )

Amazing. He can’t answer; every time he gets close to an answer, he veers into boilerplate.

113 AlexRogan  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 12:57:01pm

re: #110 Vicious Babushka

“healthcare appeals to low-income voters.”

Gee why do you suppose that is? Could it be because Walmart and other big corporations that employ low-wage workers REFUSE to provide health insurance?

What an asshole. So glad I voted for Obama this time around.

Romney’s comments sound like he’s pissed that the country isn’t kissing his damned ring right now; fuck him and his wife for their whiny, vapid, petulant bullshit.

Today’s GOP, in all of its flavors, is pretty much the “Fuck you, we’ve got ours and want yours too!” party. Couple that with the strong undercurrent of bigotry and racism that’s pushed itself into the mainstream of the party since (at least) the 2008 elections and you have why I no longer consider myself a Republican. However, even when I still did vote GOP, I now realize that I was not only voting against my and my family’s best interests, but that of the nation at large.

Never again…

114 stabby  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 1:02:40pm

re: #64 Kragar (Antichrist )

“I’m happy to blame the media,” Ann Romney told Fox News host Chris Wallace in an interview that aired on Sunday.

“Do you think the media was in the tank for Barack Obama?” the Fox News host wondered.

“Anytime you’re running for office, you always think you’re being portrayed unfairly,” Ann Romney explained. “And of course on our side, we believe that there’s more bias in favor of the other side. I think that’s a pretty universally felt opinion.”

Actually, to me, it reads like she’s saying:
“I’m happy to have an excuse that I know is false, just so that all of the nice people don’t get upset,” I mean “Anytime you’re running for office, you always think you’re being portrayed unfairly” - isn’t she really saying “no, the media is equally unfair to everyone, but it’s human nature to blame the messenger.”

115 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 1:05:31pm

STAY CLASSY, BREITWIT. “IN MEMORY OF ANDREW”

116 stabby  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 1:06:55pm

Also, I detect the slightest wiff of a totally submissive suggestion from Mitt: ” ‘Obamacare’ was very attractive, particularly to those without insurance”

Isn’t there the slightest implication there, hidden in the bitter rejection of the voter’s needs, that maybe the Republican party would do better if it wasn’t trying to insure that poor people suffer and die from treatable diseases?

If people start repeating “we lost because of Obamacare” which is the opposite of their current mantra that the country has always hated Obamacare then we might see a less murderous Republican party.

Now if we can only convince them that they lose elections because they start too many wars.

117 stabby  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 1:17:58pm

re: #110 Vicious Babushka

“healthcare appeals to low-income voters.”

Gee why do you suppose that is? Could it be because Walmart and other big corporations that employ low-wage workers REFUSE to provide health insurance?

What an asshole. So glad I voted for Obama this time around.

Every time I am tempted to go to the Whole Foods around my corner, I remember their damn CEO whining that his unbelievably overpriced fair-trade, organically grown, luxury item food for left wing yuppies somehow isn’t overpriced enough for him offer health care (or even full time work) to the inferior scum who work for him and prevent his John Galt greatness from shining forth.

118 jamesfirecat  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 1:56:52pm

World’s smallest violin Mittens….

119 jamesfirecat  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 1:58:21pm

re: #7 Mattand

Well, Mitt’s right about one thing: the sequester would have been solved if he were POTUS.

Of course, it would have been “solved” by him giving in to every idiotic demand the Tea Baggers wanted. And to be honest, he’d be almost a puppet president. His gutlessness in kissing up to the radical right in order to be elected was astounding. He wouldn’t be able to brush his teeth without the OK from the Koch Bros, Fox News, Limbaugh, et. al.

It’s really hard not to read the transcripts of these interviews and not see them as entitled racist snobs. Complaining about minorities as one of the reasons he lost? Fuck you, jerk.

Seriously, Republicans, you actually wanted this guy to run the country?

It still would not have been solved if the Senate democrats had any spine and demanded more revenues just like Obama has though of coure democrats showing spine is never a guaranteed thing…

120 hambone  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 2:38:03pm

If Mitt was in charge would he not just follow the same formula he has always used. Just bust up the company country
sell off the profitable parts load the rest with debt and walk away with a tidy sum. Maybe he could buy the United State of Utah and rename it Annelandia

121 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 2:39:30pm
122 FriendsofHummus  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 3:03:58pm

Yes, Mitt how dare the president pass legislation that is appealing to people and make them want to vote for him. Seriously dude get the fuck over yourself and stop whining.

123 chadu  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 5:48:44pm

re: #1 austin_blue

Would that it were true…

I’m kidding, of course. But you’re right, Charles. The sense of entitlement from this whinging loser is just breathtaking.

Fuck him to death with spoons.

Bad goddamn loser.

124 chadu  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 5:52:06pm

re: #32 Lidane

Santorum is the front runner for 2016. He came in second to Mitt, so by their rules, he’s the one to beat. And Cruz has all the retards thinking he’s principled and a model for conservatism, so it wouldn’t shock me if he was the VP nominee.

Jesus Haploid Christ.

If you wrote this as a screenplay or story, the editor would round-file it.

125 stabby  Sun, Mar 3, 2013 7:13:38pm

Are there really people who think that Santorum is electable?

126 Bulworth  Mon, Mar 4, 2013 7:59:10am
“The president had the power of incumbency, ‘Obamacare’ was very attractive, particularly to those without insurance

Gosh, really? /

127 Bulworth  Mon, Mar 4, 2013 8:00:25am

re: #121 Vicious Babushka

I thought one of his boys, probably the one that wanted to punch PBO, some time ago said Mitt really didn’t want the job afterall?


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