That’s the part about being out of touch, clueless, and a likely disaster as President.
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?
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:
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.
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.
Show me the coffin!
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.
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.
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.
Barack Obama is also clearly not “just anyone.”
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. "
Of course it can. But Mitt Romney is a very bad example of this principle.
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.
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.
Then Romney turned to the factory workers and offered a bigger bonus to whoever found the golden ticket.
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?
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.
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.
Mitt’s a Michigan boy and Detroit is in bad shape. maybe he’s looking to do something there.
Wait, is he really related to Sanford Dole?
I’m pretty unhappy about not being President myself. So?
Why, Bob Dole woulda given his right arm to be President!