But the negotiations collapsed in acrimony because Gingrich and Santorum could not agree on who would get to be president. ‘In the end,’ Gingrich says, ‘it was just too hard to negotiate.’
Bloomberg Businessweek has a story about how Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich nearly ran for president together on a quote-unquote “Unity” ticket.
…
Hope that second to pick yourself up from fainting helped.
I am sorry that I will not be your president – but I will be your co-worker and I will work shoulder to shoulder alongside you. In the end, we’ll win for the same reason we’ve won before because our cause is just and it is right.Mitt Romney, speaking at CPAC today. While he was respectfully received by the crowd, Politico writes that “indifference pervaded the halls” prior to his speech. source
“I’ll look at what’s happening right now, I wish I were there,” Mitt Romney said of the ongoing sequestration battles in Washington. “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.”
(Photo credit: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images)
Buck up, old fella. You’re sounding a little depressed these days. You know, there’s this thing called thought leadership that you could try. That’s what Rush and Palin try to do.
Heard there was going to be a sequester. Got prepared at CVS.
As a former Honey Nut Cheerios junkie I’ve never felt more closely aligned to Mitt Romney, the real Mitt Romney we’re only just now discovering
The trees are the right height.
Everyone knows that Honey Nut Cheerios are more expensive at CVS than they are at the grocery store. Mitt just doesn’t care. I admire that.
In case you were wondering what Mitt’s been up to since the election, Fox News did an interview with him. here’s a sample, above. ”We were on a roller coaster, exciting and thrilling, ups and downs. But the ride ends,” he told a captive Chris Wallace. “And then you get off. And it’s not like, oh, can’t we be on a roller coaster the rest of our life? It’s like, no, the ride’s over.” The full interview hits Sunday.
This is really an opportunity for Governor Romney to thank all his supporters and friends.A senior aide to Mitt Romney, on Mitt’s upcoming speech at CPAC 2013, which we hope doesn’t get mixed up with his now-useless inauguration speech.
He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire to … run. If he could have found someone else to take his place … he would have been ecstatic to step aside. He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them, but he has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn’t love the attention.Tagg Romney • Discussing his father Mitt, who he had to convince with his mother, Ann, to run for president. Tagg made the comment in a long post-mortem article written by the Boston Globe’s Michael Kranish, which pinpoints what, exactly, happened. The biggest problem, according to the Globe report? The campaign did very little to focus on Romney’s personal and leadership strengths — and Obama’s campaign was much better at reaching individual voters than Romney’s. A great Sunday morning read.
Mitt Romney spotted in the wild.
bigfoot.
yikes
“I once had it all…” Jesus, it looks like he’s been sitting around eating nothing but McDonald’s and swimming in his money vault all day.
(Source: thatcablenewsblog)
“Romney is now a toxic asset to unload,” the historian Jack Bohrer remarked Saturday. “The only interesting thing left to his story is how they dispose of him.”
We spent five years talking about this guy in one form or another. It feels sort of harsh to kick him to the curb as described in this quote. Though it’s happening. Interesting piece by Ben Smith, nonetheless. (ht chrisamico)
I’m moving back to New York in a few days. Unlike past...
OMG. I got so...
In this week’s Newsweek, a little...
Tumblr this morning. [h/t anne]
#@#$%!.tumblr.com
Here’s a hidden feature that shipped in...
Kicking while he’s out: Someone managed to put together a real-time graphic showing the decline of Mitt Romney’s Facebook Like count since he lost the election on Tuesday. In the past four and a half hours, he’s lost 2,500 fans — though it’s possible that some of them are spam accounts. The creator of the visualization better hope Romney doesn’t get a gig on “Dancing With the Stars.” (ht Hacker News)
Obama wins Florida, tops Romney 332 to 206 in electoral votes
Barack Obama has been declared the winner in Florida, topping Mitt Romney in the final electoral vote tally 332 to 206, AP reports.
Florida officials said Obama had 50% of the vote to Romney’s 49.1%, a margin of about 74,000 votes.
Photo: President Barack Obama addresses supporters during his election night rally in Chicago, Nov. 6, 2012. (Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)
It’s official, guys.
Copyright 2009-2013 Ernie Smith • Ask us stuff! • E-mail us • Follow us on Twitter • Follow us on Facebook
