# Mitt Romney: "It kills me" to not be in the White House **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 3, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936 "2013-03-03T19:26:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/41 "2013-03-04T14:21:20Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Think about what that says about how he views the job of President. > > He knowingly dismissed as beneath his notice and worthless almost half the country. That’s the part about being out of touch, clueless, and a likely disaster as President. > [@Shakes](#): > > I’ll take this to the extreme to illustrate my point: > > Back in the day, Christian slave owners thought they were doing God’s work by teaching these “savages” civility and bringing God into their lives. Should we have nothing but love for these guys too? You can make any point if you take it to such an “extreme”. People compare Obama to Hitler and say he’s a terrible President. That would be true if Obama actually was comparable to Hitler. I feel the same way about your example. I’ll readily concede many of Romney’s ideas were bad but which of them specifically are you comparing to slavery? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/42 "2013-03-04T14:26:32Z")
I read the quote in the newspaper about him regretting not being in the White House, and I thought: well, it’s like the Super Bowl. Anyone who works hard for something so difficult has got to be extremely motivated to get it, and I can’t begrudge anyone that. I was prepared to give him a pass, because like others have said, I’m certain that Al Gore went through the same thing. But then I saw the context of the quote: > [@](#): > > “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” To be a Type A competitor and be upset with falling short is a very human thing. To then point fingers at the person who beat you and say they’re doing a crappy job is really childish. ETA: I truly believe that Mitt has some redeeming qualities, this episode notwithstanding. And then there’s Ann Romney. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/43 "2013-03-04T14:26:53Z")
Of course it’s killing him. Can you imagine the sense of entitlement a person would have living his life? To have everything he has ever wanted, then to have the final biggest prize, which he seemed to think was his until the very last minute, pulled from his soft tender hands? It must have gutted him emotionally. It may have literally knocked a few years off his life. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/44 "2013-03-04T14:30:05Z")
Show me the coffin! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/45 "2013-03-04T14:30:08Z")
> [@Saraya](#): > > The reality is that Mr. Romney earned a lot of his success the old fashioned way. By having an extremely privileged upbringing including a private education, his college and postgraduate school paid for, a free house, a huge chunk of stock gifted to him and Daddy’s little black book with the direct telephone numbers of all the most influential people in the state? Gosh, it’s amazing he got as far as he did with such handicaps. I don’t begrudge him his success but let’s not pretend that just anyone could do what he did without his significant starting advantages, nor that all his success was due solely to good old-fashioned hard work. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/46 "2013-03-04T15:03:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I don’t begrudge him his success but let’s not pretend that just anyone could do what he did without his significant starting advantages, nor that all his success was due solely to good old-fashioned hard work. Why not? Barack Obama had none of the advantages Mitt Romney was born with, but he actually got elected President. So good old-fashioned hard work can succeed. ---
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/47 "2013-03-04T15:36:04Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > It’s kind of refreshingly honest, actually. There was an article in, I think, \*The Onion \*early in the campaign that summed up a lot of Romney for me. It “quoted” Romney as saying something like “Whenever I speak from the heart people hate me.” Still happening. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/48 "2013-03-04T15:42:21Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Why not? Barack Obama had none of the advantages Mitt Romney was born with, but he actually got elected President. So good old-fashioned hard work can succeed. Barack Obama is also clearly not “just anyone.” ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/49 "2013-03-04T15:45:46Z")
If only there was a Ghost of Christmas Present to parrot back at him in his own voice, " If they’d rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population. Good night, gentlemen. " ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/50 "2013-03-04T16:02:12Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Why not? Barack Obama had none of the advantages Mitt Romney was born with, but he actually got elected President. So good old-fashioned hard work can succeed. Of course it can. But Mitt Romney is a very bad example of this principle. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/51 "2013-03-04T16:12:13Z")
I’m no Romney fan but I don’t begrudge him for saying this, of course he thinks things would be better with him in charge. Also, to those comparing him to McCain and Gore - I’m pretty sure both of those guys publicly complained quite a bit about losing, and they’re both still bitter about it. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/52 "2013-03-04T16:13:30Z")
Saw a clip of him on TDS recently, and my overwhelming thought was, “Thank god I don’t have to see that insincere, patronizing smile any more.” As galling as I found Dubya’s smirk. I have no doubt that Obama has mannerisms/expressions that set some folk off, but I just couldn’t stand to look at the guy. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/53 "2013-03-04T16:19:45Z")
Then Romney turned to the factory workers and offered a bigger bonus to whoever found the golden ticket. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/54 "2013-03-04T16:27:46Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > …guy who never had to struggle for _anything in his life_ now is sad 'cause he didn’t get something he really, really wanted. > [@Dangerosa](#): > > I’m sure John McCain and Al Gore had similar thoughts. I’m not sure that either of them was tacky enough to express them > [@RickJay](#): > > It’s kind of refreshingly honest, actually. > [@For You](#): > > Apparently, Mrs. Romney feels… I’m amazed posters here actually think Romney and mrs Romney are naive enough to actually spontaneously share their feelings with the press. Of course everything they say, and when and where they say it, is scripted and spinned in every detail by several teams of professionals. So the rigth question is, who adressses Romeny with this statement and what do he and his team hope to accomplish with it? ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/55 "2013-03-04T17:27:27Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > I would have been very upset if McCain had won, and I still felt bad for him on a personal level when he lost. Romney, however, can suck a dick. And I’m not ready to stipulate the premise here that he actually has feelings anyway. He had feelings, I’m sure. Self-pity is a feeling, isn’t it? If you were speaking to empathy, I totally agree with you. That man probably ranks about as low on the empathy scale as it’s possible to go. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/56 "2013-03-04T17:37:28Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > I’m amazed posters here actually think Romney and mrs Romney are naive enough to actually spontaneously share their feelings with the press. Of course everything they say, and when and where they say it, is scripted and spinned in every detail by several teams of professionals. So the rigth question is, who adressses Romeny with this statement and what do he and his team hope to accomplish with it? I don’t know if that’s the case any more. Romney doesn’t hold any office, and is extremely unlikely to hold one again in the future. He’s anathema in his “home” state of Massachusetts, so he’s not running for governor or senator from here, and his trouncing by Obama means he’s got zero chance of being nominated for president again. I doubt he’s currently got a team orchestrating anything for him. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/57 "2013-03-04T17:51:21Z")
Mitt’s a Michigan boy and Detroit is in bad shape. maybe he’s looking to do something there. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/58 "2013-03-04T19:48:14Z")
> [@11811](#): > > Yes, but he got that sweet endorsement deal from Viagra _ **and** _ he had the family pineapple fortune to fall back on. Wait, is he really related to Sanford Dole? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/59 "2013-03-04T19:50:36Z")
I’m pretty unhappy about not being President myself. So? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-it-kills-me-to-not-be-in-the-white-house/651936/60 "2013-03-04T19:51:11Z")
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