# Predict how Mitt and Ann will respond to losing **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 31, 2012, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416 "2012-10-31T10:32:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/41 "2012-10-31T16:17:14Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > And an amended tax return filed November 7. We’ll never know for sure, but that 1040-X was probably filed moments after the 1040 was. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/42 "2012-10-31T16:20:10Z")
I fear for any family pets. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/43 "2012-10-31T16:23:06Z")
Ann smile and wave for a day or so and then completely disappear from the public eye. She’s not having fun. I predict that Mitt will get out about three sentences of well-prepared gracious admission, followed by a long series of poorly veiled hints around what the Republicans plan to do to prevent any real work getting done in Washington for the next four years. He will then take a long rest, followed by a series of speaking engagements in which he will exhort the populace to give money to Republican causes. Shed of his strict handlers, he will quickly show himself to be the male Palin. I also predict that within the week he’ll dump the dorky proto-Reagan hair-do. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/44 "2012-10-31T16:23:26Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > Ann is a bird flipper. There’s no predicting what Mitt will say, he might claim he never ran for president. \HAH!\ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/45 "2012-10-31T16:32:25Z")
I can’t see Romney doing any fundraisers or speeches for Republican candidates in the future. For one thing, the party will quickly shun him. For another, Mitt’s first love is making money for Mitt- his time will be far more profitably spent going back to corporate raiding. No time for politicking any more nor any time for punditry or commentary. He’ll be in obscurity, perhaps getting a mohawk to avoid recognition. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/46 "2012-10-31T16:42:06Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Well I predict whoever loses will be generous and gracious. You do not come this far in politics by having the attitude of a spoiled 5 year olf Nixon did. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/47 "2012-10-31T16:42:40Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > He will then take a long rest, followed by a series of speaking engagements in which he will exhort the populace to give money to Republican causes. Shed of his strict handlers, he will quickly show himself to be the male Palin. I don’t see it. Palin got a taste of the good life outside Alaska, extra pocket money and a bunch of followers and craved more of it. That’s part of what made her who she was on the national stage following the election. Romney’s always had the good life, extra pocket money and a passel of loyal people down the org chart. It’s not a novelty to him like it was to Palin. Palin picked her path to avoid retiring to Alaska, Romney is already retiring to a quarter-or-half billion dollars. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/48 "2012-10-31T21:23:22Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > C. Montgomery Burns, no? [in reference to **Elvis** ’s quote] Sigh, yes … I weep for this younger generation who never knew when “The Simpsons” was _good_. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/49 "2012-10-31T21:38:31Z")
Well, if Obama lost, I don’t see him trying to run for any other office. Once you’ve been POTUS, that’s kinda it. He will likely play the same circuit as Bill Clinton, with slightly less success (Bill being quite the natural schmoozer). Speeches, appearances, etc. Probably a little less so because he has a family and doesn’t want to travel constantly like Clinton. If Romney loses, it’s back to Bain to rape and pillage the economy once more. I don’t foresee him spending a lot of time on politics going forward. He has zero need for the money made by going the talking head gig. Although contrary to popular opinion (see my earlier thread on it), I do think he may consider another shot in 2016. In which case he may well try to stay in the public eye until then. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/50 "2012-10-31T21:52:27Z")
I’ll be interested to see where Romney lands on the political spectrum once he’s freed from the need to win elections. He’s been so all-over-the-map on almost every issue that I’m honestly curious about what he really thinks. As to what he’ll do, I imagine he’ll just go into normal “retired elder businessman” mode. Sit on a bunch of boards, use his connections to help out his kids business endeavours, maybe get a position with political think-tanks that have a strong business slant. His political career will be over, he doesn’t really have any financial need to go the talking-head/speaking circuit route and at 66, he’s getting kind of old to try and get back into being a finance/manger guy. And unlike Carter-Bush I-Clinton, he doesn’t really seem the type to do the international do-gooder. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/51 "2012-10-31T22:01:58Z")
It seems to me Democratic former presidents and candidates stay fairly active on the do-gooder circuit. Jimmy Carter makes Mother Theresa look lazy. I don’t recall hearing much from Republican former-anythings, unless it’s having something named after them. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/52 "2012-10-31T22:04:44Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > Tagg Romney gets shoved in a doggie carrier on the roof for the long drive back to the car elevator house in San Diego. > > Ann Romney binges on a couple dozen show horses. You know they’ve been dying to buy some crazy extravagant shit since Mitt’s been running for President for six years. Maybe like a horse elevator, solid gold Cadillac Escalade. He’s definitely going to stimulate the economy a bit. Mitt will buy Handsome Jack’s horse for Ann, so she can train it for dressage. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/53 "2012-10-31T22:08:17Z")
The last time a favored Democrat lost to an unpopular Republican, the left on this board went _crazy_, predicting thousands of more deaths in Iraq w/o the leaders of Al Qaeda paying the ultimate price, more Patriot Act violations of civil liberties and even saying economic disaster was now unavoidable. Good thing they were wrong. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/54 "2012-10-31T22:13:47Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > It seems to me Democratic former presidents and candidates stay fairly active on the do-gooder circuit. Jimmy Carter makes Mother Theresa look lazy. > > I don’t recall hearing much from Republican former-anythings, unless it’s having something named after them. More coincidence then anything else. Recent Dem Prez’s have been relatively young compared to their GOP counterparts. The exceptions being Nixon, who was _persona non gratia_, and Bush II, who probably isn’t as much damaged goods as Nixon, but still probably wants to keep (or the GOP would prefer he kept) a low profile for at least a few years until the more painful bits of his Presidency have faded from memory. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/55 "2012-10-31T22:15:00Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Gracious concession speech. > > Followed by Republican leaders who will vow to make Obama fail, make the economy tank, obstruct every bit of legislation they can find, and try for impeachment sometime in the next 4 years. I think that if Romney loses, at least a few Republican congressmen will realize, “this shit ain’t working” and actually try to work with Obama to gain some public favor. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/56 "2012-10-31T22:17:23Z")
I predict he will end his concession speech with, “God Bless you all and God Bless the United States of America. Thank you.” I am going out on a limb, I know. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/57 "2012-10-31T22:34:31Z")
The final time anyone will give a shit that Mitt sounds Presidential. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/58 "2012-10-31T22:45:50Z")
I predict he will sink into a depression. When he loses it is game over, and he has been planning this thing for at least 5 years (probably a lot longer, back in 2008 I was going on the assumption a big part of his run was to prep for 2012). I don’t know if Ann Romney will care much. But Mitt will not take it well. As for his concession speech? No idea. I’m assuming cordial but there is no telling. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/59 "2012-10-31T23:10:36Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Well, if Obama lost, I don’t see him trying to run for any other office. Once you’ve been POTUS, that’s kinda it. Unless you come back for another term like Grover Cleveland. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416/60 "2012-10-31T23:43:03Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > I predict he will sink into a depression. When he loses it is game over, and he has been planning this thing for at least 5 years (probably a lot longer, back in 2008 I was going on the assumption a big part of his run was to prep for 2012). That’s just silly. Politics is just one of his vocations. He’ll be invited to be on dozens of BoDs-- this is just one of the “games” he has played over the years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predict-how-mitt-and-ann-will-respond-to-losing/639416.md?page=4)