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
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.
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.
This is just scratching the surface for bad 2012s.
Shockingly, people may have had a worse year than Romney tattoo guy.
Romney face tattoo guy decides to remove his face tattoo: We haven’t cried so hard since the Zune guy quit his volunteer job as Zune evangelist.
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 spoke about what I believed and I think that there was a period of time when the Romney campaign was falling apart, people were not optimistic, nobody thought there was a chance of victory and I felt that it was my duty at that point to go out and say what I said. And at the time that I said it, I believe I was right.Fox News analyst Dick Morris • Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity last night, on the matter of his woefully optimistic pre-election prediction that Mitt Romney would defeat President Obama in a landslide, with 325 electoral votes. Of note, right there in his explanation, an overt admission that he felt obliged to promote the idea of a Romney landslide (which was profoundly statistically unlikely) out of a sense of “duty.” He’s essentially admitting he’s more activist than pollster, which is fine — so long as your job description accurately reflects that. Otherwise, as an analyst, you’re doing anything but. source
How Skrillex got his iconic haircut. (OK, not really, but some definite seller’s remorse going on here.)
“The president was … elected on the basis that he was not Romney and that Romney was a poopy-head.” — Grover Norquist on Obama’s reelection and the looming fiscal cliff. Watch it on CBS.
Everyone is America is an infant except for me, because not wanting to pay taxes is a noble, adult endeavor.
This is what we give our airtime to, America. Grown men using the phrase “poopy-head.”
But seriously … I am not kidding.
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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.
A good thought from my friend Dave Beard, who suggests that Obama and Romney donate some of their leftover campaign money to help victims of Hurricane Sandy. What do you think? — Ernie @ SFB
(Source: twitter.com)
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