# Candidates: moving on **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 5, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-moving-on/643078 "2012-12-05T16:25:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-moving-on/643078/21 "2012-12-06T01:51:39Z")
Saw Dubya on TV today and it wasn’t a recording from four or more years ago. Looks older and more beat-up, much more than four years of “regular” relaxing would do. If I were one to suggest such things I’d say he’s back to drinking, but I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-moving-on/643078/22 "2012-12-06T05:42:37Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Come on, they’re not _all_ closeted… 🙂 Yes, they are. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-moving-on/643078/23 "2012-12-06T09:44:11Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Having an SUV and shopping at Costco is “weird”? It is for a multimillionaire. One would expect them to perhaps have an SUV for their personal shopper, but certainly not to shop themselves. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-moving-on/643078/24 "2012-12-06T14:21:25Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > It is for a multimillionaire. One would expect them to perhaps have an SUV for their personal shopper, but certainly not to shop themselves. Now, now, multi-millionaires are people, too, you know. Or at least, the corporations that made them the money are. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-moving-on/643078/25 "2012-12-06T14:35:37Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I heard that Obama guy found himself a job. I heard it’s the shittiest job in the country, tho. They always give the shittiest job to the black guy. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-moving-on/643078/26 "2012-12-06T19:01:04Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Punditry pays better and doesn’t come with the fearful taint of responsibility. I’m pretty sure Rush Limbaugh is a fearful taint. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-moving-on/643078/27 "2012-12-06T19:26:10Z")
Yeah, but the only thing he’s responsible for is some frightened Haitian boys. Doesnt’ count. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-moving-on/643078/28 "2012-12-06T19:53:13Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > I’m pretty sure Rush Limbaugh is a fearful taint. _…Say yes, I’ll be here when the morning comes I’ll be right here, and I ain’t gonna run I bought this house, now I am the boss Ain’t no taint gonna run me off!.._ ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-moving-on/643078/29 "2012-12-06T19:54:58Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Yeah, but the only thing he’s responsible for is some frightened Haitian boys. Doesnt’ count. I’m sure he scares the mental midgets who believe every word he says. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-moving-on/643078/30 "2012-12-08T13:37:27Z")
Poor Mitt is even getting savaged by his own former advertising gurus: [Ex-Romney advisors hit Mitt’s post-election PR campaign](http://washingtonexaminer.com/ex-romney-advisors-hit-mitts-post-election-pr-campaign/article/2515070#.UMNB2I4z20s) > [@](#): > > Now he does it! That’s what ex-advisors to Mitt Romney are saying after they’ve seen at least six attempts by the losing GOP presidential nominee to connect with middle America and show his softer, funnier side. > > “We tried and tried to get him to interact with voters. The campaign just kept saying he wasn’t good at that,” a former Romney public relations advisor told Secrets. “So what does he do? He waits until after the election to show up at McDonalds, Costco and Boston Market. Crazy.” (my underlining) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-moving-on/643078.md?page=1)