Romney's last, greatest 'turnaround' falls short

If I never see that smile again it’ll be too soon.

So sad, he’ll spin the wheel and fly his private jet to one of many mansions.

But I gotta give him credit, he held back the racist right-wing crazies from turning this election into another 2008.

Obama won.
Live with it, haters.

This article has got it wrong. Romney did not have to re-invent himself, I think he is an excellent person/candidate and should have defeated Obama soundly (going by economy etc.) But it is the Republican Party that needed reinvention. Romney was in the wrong party- his father was a good man too. Republican PArty needs to jettison the Tea PArty, homophobes, women-haters, misogynists (Mourdock etc), extremist evangelicals, racist far-right wingers etc. That’s a make-over worthy of reality TV shows.

“Turnaround plan”?
More like “turnover” plan (turn over the USA to the wealthy).

This was an excellent overview of what happens when you sell out your ideals to appease extremists. I think we all watched and admired Romney’s elegant concession speech. That is who he is. But that is not who the Republican Party is. Their cynical spin-laden scheme of deceit and demagoguery is finally dead as a doornail. And we are all better off for it, Mitt Romney included.

Caspary : The trouble with your solution to the GOP’s problems is that it sounds eerily like the Democratic Party. What’s left? The Corporate Wall Street Party? As for Romney being an excellent candidate, well, I must disagree. He was the best of a VERY poor field and that is faint praise, indeed. I never trusted him, liked him or respected him. He came across like a salesman pushing a defective product. Obama has his flaws, but he’s done a satisfactory job with what he inherited. Now it’s up to the GOP to work with him, not undermine him at every turn.

Obama’s victory is historic – while a win is a win, never before has a President been re-elected to a 2d term with less of the vote than he got the first time. Every President who does a reasonable job in the first term has added to his total. Here, John Boehner can claim more of a mandate.

SayHey, not sure about that. Boehner’s inability to bring his TP dogs to heel essentially provided Obama with a very high visibility alternate target for the American people’s displeasure. Also, the GOP lost seats in the House, so bragging rights are limited. It’s the GOP primary process and gerrymandering that’s the real problem with the Congress and our current government regime.

SayHey, not sure about that. Boehner’s inability to bring his TP dogs to heel essentially provided Obama with a very high visibility alternate target for the American people’s displeasure. Also, the GOP lost seats in the House, so bragging rights are limited. It’s the GOP primary process and gerrymandering that’s the real problem with the Congress and our current government regime.

Romney and the GOP just didn’t have what it takes. Obama won because Obama was the better candidate.

It is truly unfortunate that Mitt will not be able to effect his plan and make America attractive for business ivnestment.

I sincerely hope, yet I’m highly skeptical, that Obama will put forth such a plan for organic job creation and economic growth.

I would have voted for McCain four years ago, except for the possibility of Sara Palin being president without knowing that Africa is a continent, and other grade school geography. She was a deal breaker.

I would have voted for Ron Paul, except he wasn’t on the ballot.

I wish the Republicans would get the message that the Tea Party types and social conservatives are destroying their party. Democrats are pretty good at voting for somebody electable in the primary, and compromising some of the things they want in a candidate to get their party elected.

This country can breathe a collective sigh of relief. I don’t believe Romney is evil incarnate, but I do find his character to be greatly lacking and not to the standard of an American President. He’s a man who shows no compunction about telling a bold faced lie if it helps him get what he wants. That was one of the first lessons that my parents taught me about character; you tell the truth even when it hurts. Lies have a way of coming back to haunt you. Perhaps that was demonstrated by last night’s election results.

When Romney was in prep school he held another young man down and forced a haircut on the poor guy. That’s crossing the line from being a normal kid to being abnormally mean.

A few years later he had the audacity to march in favor of sending young American men to fight and die in Vietnam, but when it came his turn, he got a deferment and went to France instead. Again, if I had no intention of serving our country in the military when I was of age I would not advocate for war, a war that I didn’t feel was important enough for me to go and fight. It’s just morally wrong.

I found his strapping his dog to the roof of his car to be offensive, especially to travel long distance, especially 12 hours! What was he thinking? I’d never consider doing that to my dog. Romney has a love for cars. He even had an elevator installed in at least one of his houses for his cars. My guess is that Romney didn’t want to get dog hair on his car’s interior. The dog must have been scared sh__less. It ended up crapping all over itself. That’s unthinkable.

Then there’s Romney unwillingness to pay his fair share of taxes in a country that has given him a life that the other 7 billion on this planet can only dream of. Overseas bank accounts? Taxation isn’t a punishment. It’s an investment in your country, and Romney did everything he could to avoid investing in America, yet he would have been willing to send our tax-supported military to fight wars around the world, paid for by American tax payers.

I personally don’t find much to admire about Bain Capital, either. Yes, it’s legal. Some outcomes were good, some not so good. But it’s not about saving jobs, as Romney would have us believe. It was about making money on companies that were struggling. Helping people keep their jobs was not part of the equation. Usually, it involves downsizing and that means laying people off. It was all about Romney making money. Again, that’s fine and is perfectly legal. But don’t try to convince us that Bain Capital was some kind of job rescuing organization whose mission is to save people’s jobs.

And of course there’s the lying. I’ve never in my life seen a politician who lies as much, as boldly, and as readily as Mitt Romney. If he’ll lie like that on the campaign trail, he would most assuredly lie to us as Commander in Chief. We had enough of that from George W. Bush and the negative consequences are still being felt.

Good riddance, Mitt Romney. No need to feel sorry for the guy. Thanks to this country, which he was so willing to turn his back on when it suited him, he will live out his life like a king. America dodged a bullet last night. Good for us. We don’t often do it, but this time we were able to see through the propaganda and do the right thing. Hurray for America.

GOP needs re-engineering in going about doing good for all and they now have the opportunity to demonstrate the intent by their actions of cooperation in congress as public watches over the next 4 years, to come-around to help them next term.

Short of that, it’s just beating around the bush (of their conservative policies that are out-of-date high-time).

americanguy
Who’s hating who…

4 more years…talk to you then…

However you want to look at it, 57 million American Citizens were on his side and against Obama. That’s a lot of Americans that wanted Obama out. And with that in mind, Obama better remember that too. If he thinks he is going to just keep up his slam through tactics and get very far, boy is he wrong. I hope the conservatives in Washington remember the number 57 million when legislating.

@QuidProQuo: But it wasn’t enough to win and the GOP didn’t show Obama similar consideration when he won by a bigger margin the first time. Let’s see if they learned their lesson this time or Hillary will clean the GOP clock by a larger amount in 2016.

PCScipio: agreed! What a creepy plastic corporate company-man smile. Fake as everything else about the guy.

It is odd that all Republican candidates seem to be perfect used car salesmen.

“And then came superstorm Sandy, which drowned out Romney’s message and gave his opponent a week of favorable-and free television exposure” – sadly, it was the luck of the draw that did Romey in

The 47% comment again is taken out of context; he didn’t say he wouldn’t worry about them, but only in the election. And that’s because he knew they’d vote their interest, which they did. Nearly all the result can be explained by their involvement in the govt’s boom and bust policies, and the need for help now. The Dems may have tried to shift the blame, but I doubt the majority believe that. They simply followed the money.

Second-to-last paragraph: “great” should be “greet”.

Romney’s loss is America’s win. That guy was a dud.

It does appear the US presidential campaign is getting more like a derision, a deceptive talk-show, albeit extremely costly and wasteful. (btt1943, vzc1943)