Romney has little interest in helping the Republican party

[Measure_for_Measure]

@aceplace57

I keep hoping Romney would take a position like Chairman of the Federal Reserve or even Treasury Secretary.

I didn’t agree with Romney on a lot of issues but he knows capital trading and investments. He’s got a natural talent for it. Properly supervised, he could really help our country’s economy.

There is no evidence that Romney knows anything about macroeconomic policy. We know he didn’t know enough about people and project management to beta-test his ORCA get out the vote software.

Romney ran an investment shop with a modest number of employees. Most of his profits came from 10 deals - and 4 of those companies went bankrupt. Knowledge of financial engineering and equity salesmanship in no way implies that he would be the proper guy to regulate the banking industry. Your analysis is impressionistic and superficial. Admittedly that perspective received little push-back during the campaign.

[gamerunknown]

@Measure_for_Measure

There is no evidence that Romney knows anything about macroeconomic policy.

Oh, he’s got a fairly solid grasp.

@Romney

If it looks like I’m going to win, the markets will be happy. If it looks like the president’s going to win, the markets should not be terribly happy. It depends, of course, which markets you’re talking about, which types of commodities and so forth, but my own view is, if we win on November 6th there will be a great deal of optimism about the future of this country. We’ll see capital come back, and we’ll see—without actually doing anything—we’ll actually get a boost in the economy.

There you go. The confidence fairy, sprinkling magical dust into the pockets of investors and campaign contributors.

[BobLibDem]

@Chronos

Y’know, on thinking about it, you’re right. That’s the sort of thing a bachelor fresh out of college, with no close family or friends, would do. But Romney has at least a wife and three sons, and probably other relatives. And he certainly has plenty of social connections. Surely, he must have gotten at least a couple of invitations-- Is he just turning his back on them?

It’s not at all how I pictured the Romney Thanksgiving. I was thinking Ann would have spent three days cooking, at least four kinds of pie, Mitt would have hand-cranked some ice cream, there’d be turkey, ham, swee potato casserole, stuffing, the whole nine yards, and afterward Ann would sit on Mitt’s lap, eating some pie a la mode as Mitt smokes a cigar and they watch the grandchildren take their whacks at an Obama pinata.

[Revtim]

First pinata I’ve seen that is hung by the neck…

[Der_Trihs]

@BobLibDem

It’s not at all how I pictured the Romney Thanksgiving. I was thinking Ann would have spent three days cooking, at least four kinds of pie, Mitt would have hand-cranked some ice cream, there’d be turkey, ham, swee potato casserole, stuffing, the whole nine yards, and afterward Ann would sit on Mitt’s lap, eating some pie a la mode as Mitt smokes a cigar and they watch the grandchildren take their whacks at an Obama pinata.

I tend to picture a staff of Mexican illegal immigrants doing all the cooking instead. And he ends the evening by having them all hauled off & deported before he has to pay them.

[smithsb]

He hauled them off too soon. On opening the oven, he found Crow - not turkey. Hence, off to Boston Market.

[Wesley_Clark]

I can’t blame him, the GOP didn’t really like him and it was obvious. Why would you want to stay in a sham marriage now that you don’t have to? Mitt struck me as a plutocratic technocrat who was indifferent to social issues while the GOP wanted a plutocratic ideologue who had strong opinions on social issues. Mitt tried to pretend to be that but it was obvious he was faking.

Besides, how was the GOP going to rebuild and rebrand itself with Romney anyway? Romney honestly has little credibility on issues like that. I have no idea who they will pick if they do decide to rebrand themselves, but Romney wasn’t someone who came across as principled.

I remember after 2008 when the GOP tried to rebrand themselves, they hired Michael Steele as GOP chairman, then turned around and passed laws making it harder for non-whites to vote. I’m sure their rebranding in 2013 will be along the same lines.

[Marley23]

@Wesley_Clark

Besides, how was the GOP going to rebuild and rebrand itself with Romney anyway?

Perhaps if they had some kind of Etch A Sketch…