Poor Mitt.

By all accounts, the past month has been most difficult on Romney’s wife, Ann, who friends said believed up until the end that ascending to the White House was their destiny. They said she has been crying in private and trying to get back to riding her horses.

No honey, it wasn't your destiny. You will never live in the White House and no one gives a flying fuck about your sickening stories.

I can't even imagine having my dreams of being married to the most powerful man on earth shattered like that, and having to retreat back into my humdrum life of million dollar mansions with only my olympic horses to console me.

Anne is a woman of delicate sensitivities, nearer to heaven than any of you drooling detractors could possibly understand. And now she and her husband have been denied their rightful place in the sun through the actions of dull-witted and unwashed peasants no doubt corrupted by demonic forces. It's all so unspeakably sad…

I'm sorry. I'll never say baaad things about Mitt and Ann again. I promise.

I can't believe they actually thought they would win. How arrogant.

you should be sheepish about badmouthing your betters.

Your immeasurably BETTER betters.

doubly delish!!!

I don't know if it's their wealth or their religion or both that made them/her believe in this "destiny", but it's hard to understand the arrogance. It's sad there is no way to get thru to them or their minions to where they could actually get it, but I fear they will continue to live in their cocoon and pity us for our ignorance. As for me, I hope to never read another story about the Queen and her horses.

Visit his garage with the parking elevator. Yell at people "get off my lawn" (oh, wait that was McCain)

Romney has had everything handed to him on a silver platter his entire life. He does not know defeat. At. All. That's why he's having a difficult time coping. It's a completely alien concept to him.

his contributions.

I guess "over-attainer" would be a better term.

That should have prepared his palette for tasting the agony of defeat.

He got his ass whopped.

Ever get the idea that he is also an over estimator?

A Romney presidency just shouldn't ever have been the remotest possiblity. I think even most Republicans think so now, too.

I hope it eats away at his rotten soul for the rest of his days. A fucking liar who believes in nothing except $$$. Good riddance!

It really does apply to so many threads!

It is highly disturbing to which extent the Romney campaign AND most other Republicans deluded themselves about their chances of winning. Their ability to completely shut out reality and surround themselves with pollsters and pundits who told them what they wanted to hear as opposed to the truth is frightening in its scope. To think that this lot could ever get into power at the White House is frightening.

in which a mega-multimillionaire retreats to lick his wounds while:

• He "looks out the windows of his beach house here in La Jolla" (my heart is breaking for him)

• He has been "spotted driving a new black Audi Q7, a luxury SUV manufactured in Slovakia." (it's what we all do when we're feeling down)

• His "wife, Ann, who friends said believed up until the end that ascending to the White House was their destiny ... has been crying in private and trying to get back to riding her horses." (I always go for my dressage horse when a case of the blues washes over me)

• "They ordered their turkey dinner from Boston Market, the home-style restaurant chain, because there were too many kids running around the house to bother with cooking a feast." (What kind of idiot am I, who cooked for three straight days for Thanksgiving? I could have ordered out from Boston Market.)

observations on poor mitt and ann romney. Yeah, the ones who told us to F*** OFF.

The US "media" tried their damdest to prop them up but like mccain and his sidekick.. the American People were just too smart.

What happened to supporting AMERICAN cars, Mitt? Oh yeah, I remember, he'd let Detroit go bankrupt and have all our cars imported from Japan and Europe. Can't have those union thugs interfering with the Bain model!

I guess a Cadillac Escalade or Lincoln Navigator were not upscale and luxury enough!

I usually feel sympathy for the loser of the presidential election*, even if I wanted that candidate to lose, because I can certainly relate to loss, disappointment and failure and I imagine that no matter what a person has achieved, they still feel such things just as acutely as I do. However, this article serves only to remove any ounce of sympathy I may have felt for Mitt Romney. No aide to make him a sandwich? Really? That's some great loss when he can afford a huge staff of household help? You get the impression that what they lost out on was a lifestyle/status upgrade and not the opportunity to serve the American people.


*I make exceptions for people like Dick Cheney who, quite frankly, doesn't even seem human.

According to the article, it was just 5 children. In an enormous house. Probably with at least part time household help. I thought the Romneys were supposed to epitomize the ideal American family.

I'm also an idiot: I make my Thanksgiving dinners from scratch, and it something comes up, like a trip to the emergency room (minor kitchen accident, everything's fine now) my guests will just have to cope with things being a bit disorganized. Buying dinner from a chain restaurant? I can only imagine what the Romneys' state dinners would have been like.

And yeah, that is too many children running around.

Breeders, the lot of them!

I stress out every year cooking for my extended family the ones left alone, the widows and cousins, and their families because thats what families do. We don't order out, we cook together laugh, sometimes tear up on our missing family members.......but Boston Market.

I'll be lookin' for ya big buddy in the next gangnam style flash mob at the Clairemont Town Square.


Tikki

Eh, I'm not sure you can call a man an "overachiever" simply for being wealthy when he was, y'know, BORN wealthy. And it's not as if he was a Steve Jobs or something, adding new things to the world through his business. His entire "business" was destroying functioning companies and sucking out the money. He leveraged capital, which he was BORN with.

Not an overachiever, sorry.

Ecstatic he has gone into hiding and left public life. He's not making ignorant statements every day that continue to tarnish the GOP brand - not that McInsane and others aren't stepping up there to take his place. There's a reason only 3 senators are still beating that Benghazi dead horse - it's a dead horse.

And good grief. You guys on the right need to stop with the editorials about how Willard is such a good man and was the right candidate. Obviously you are wrong because the US electorate didn't agree with you on Nov. 6th. By quite a margin I might add.

He would have businesses to run, but he was not really a business man. He just lives off money he got by closing down businesses.


Get a job,Mitt.

Hope he becomes a hermit and withers into oblivion.

What a troll.

clueless asshole Republicans.

how often have I read that about this man? Oye. Has no idea how to think before he speaks? Be gone for good; he would have been such a disaster.

and I have been in tears of laughter over it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021912828

A$$hole.

".... moneyed... repressed emotions... disappeared... detachment... ascending to the White House/destiny... (new car) made in Slovakia... Iowa (supporters haven't) heard from him... official residency..."


After years that certain jerks just *will NOT go away* - and by jerks I mean Joementum, Grifter PALIN, and Mc5planes - maybe this particular jerk is being "disappeared" even by his own party since the article says he shows no interest in rebuilding/rebranding it.

I have no desire to gloat, just don't want to hear of/from him again.

We have troops in the field, a fiscal "cliff" situation, and Disney is threatening to ruin the Star Wars franchise.

Why the musings of this private citizen are of any concern is beyond me.

Just as newsworthy.

I am getting sick of hearing about how much of a rough time this has been for Romney and how "depressed" he is. First of all, compared to millions of people here in this country, his problems PALE IN COMPARISON. He is healthy, wealthy, has beautiful homes, and a beautiful family that loves him. Does he have to worry about paying the bills? NO! His wife has MS, but is she as bad as many who have the terrible disease? Thankfully - NO. He is 65 - Does HE have to worry about whether he can retire or whether he needs to pick up part time work? NO!

You want to know what a "rough time" is? When you're President of the United States in 2009, the country is losing 800,000 jobs per month, and we are looking at entering a second Great Depression, as thousands are involved in two wars overseas. And you handle all of these challenges with style and grace.

THAT is a "rough time". NOT losing an election that you were destined to lose all along if you listened to all of the mainstream pollsters instead of retreating into denial. EVEN WHEN your "internal polls" (which had you winning in a landslide on election day), had you losing the election all throughout the process until several weeks before election day. EVEN BY THOSE NUMBERS - that shows that it wasn't like the campaign thought all along that they had this election in the bag!

Is it a disappointment for Romney? Yes. Just like it was for our guys in 2000 and 2004. And the results of those elections were MUCH closer than 2012. But we didn't see our guys slip into seclusion. It has been almost a month - it is time for Mitt to start acting like a man and deal with it.

post it. I, for one, can't get enough of it.
I would also like to read about queen ann having a breakdown...
This shit makes me smile.

I can't get enough either!

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to have a peanut butter and honey sandwich delivered.

Or not.

Frankly I wish he would just move to where his money is. That is his true passion.

Sorry, I can't work up a single bit of compassion for this worthless family that has visited so much misery on others -- and apparently enjoyed that misery so much.

I weally weally haz a sad for poor Mr. Womney and his wittle fee-fees.
Let me wipe away my salted tears.
Fuck him. Pardon my language, but I believe in the Rude Pundit's manner of dealing with people like him.
Let me be more clear: FUCK HIM. And that wife of his and the Rafalca she rode in on. Also.

And this is different how, exactly? They could never be bothered to provide details, they never had a plan. That is, if you count out, "We are going to let Congress work out the details."

I can't think of even one thing. It is no wonder he has no sense of self pride or the feeling of achievement that only a success at the end of a difficult struggle can give. He has never experienced either. I don't even want to imagine what his reaction would have been to a world leader telling him "no".

they are nothing but fucking parasites

Sorry Mitt, you weren't 'preordained' to be crowned POTUS. Best worry about your potential legal problems with hiding your income now.

Just because you WANT to be president and think you deserve it, does not mean anyone else wants to elect you..


I so want to be 30 yrs old, tall, beautiful & rich....but I never was..and never will be..

It's a better plan to accept what you have, and be grateful for it. Pining away for things you cannot have will drive you nuts


edit: I WAS 30 once

To go through such an intense and grueling campaign and come up short has to be pretty demoralizing for anyone. Especially when so many people worked so hard for you and you feel like you let them down.

I know from experience what it's like to try really hard for something and fail, though fortunately I've never had the whole world watching.

I in no way wanted him to win, but for some reason, I am finding it hard to take pleasure in stories like this. Is it wrong that on some level I can't help but feel sorry for anyone in his position?

Romney represents everything that is WRONG with America - that bastard got rich off the backs of real workers while trashing the less privileged - he has been entitled his entire life and for years he has felt entitled to the presidency.......well guess what? He was not able to pull off what Dubya did, so he is where he fucking belongs. I hope it bothers him the rest of his parasitic-rich-ass life.

It's satisfying enough to me that Obama gets another 4 years as president, and that the meeting they had the other day wasn't a meeting to facilitate the transition. I'm happy that we don't have to watch them ride in a limo together to Romney's inauguration.

I don't need to take pleasure in Romney's personal misery over losing in order to feel at peace. Just knowing that he won't be president and that we have another 4 years of a president I admire and respect for the first time in my adult life is enough for me.

these republican tyrants ran America into the DITCH

that it doesn't even occur to him that he 'let them down.' More likely, he feels that they let him down. Somehow, it couldn't possibly be his fault.

I think the article said something about how one of Romney's friends/donors said that Romney had called and said "sorry I let you down."

I read an article the day before the election where they interviewed Mondale, Dukakis and Dole about what it's like to lose a presidential election, and it made me realize how hard it must be for anyone. I know how down I get when a candidate I support loses, so I can't imagine what it's like to be the candidate, or a top adviser to a candidate. In some ways the latter might be worse, because you feel like you have someone you believed in down.

I'm so sad that Mitt Romney is sitting around bored in his $12 million beach house in La Jolla.

get in your audi and take a ride in your elevator

I guess we will never be able to get through to the 47% of people
who voted for this mor[strike through]m[/strike through]on

How sad. Not.

Sure it's a bit rainy these days, but there is so much he can still do in La Jolla and do very little harm unlike what he would have done to the world in Washington. Enjoy life and your ill-gotten millions.

During the election i replied to a post saying that when/ if he lost he would end up in a straight jacket mumbling too himself,Seems like i wasn't too far off, The post i replied to i believe was about ann robme having to calm poor mittens in times of pressure. Gotta say i love all these replies on this post

WHAT AN ASSHOLE

If he can't think of creative ways to spend his $millions, I'd be willing to help the poor gut out

... I don't think Mittens has spent one minute thinking about being POTUS, reflecting, or worrying about the direction of the country.
I think to him it wasn't about "Presidentin' ", it was about having the title and being able to be the biggest, most important dick in the room.

"Repressing emotions"? Dear Goddess, he never had emotions to repress in the first place, other than contempt and arrogance!!

What a sad, pathetic man you are and always will be, Willard Romney.

My children got together and cooked Thanksgiving dinner for all of us at their widowed grandfather's house. We had turkey, vegetarian loaf, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans , brussels sprouts, crescent rolls, peanut butter rolls, 8 homemade pies and a pumpkin cheesecake!

Even with all of his millions, most of us average Joes are more thankful for what we have than Mitt is.

Sounds like a great Thanksgiving! Especially the Brussel sprouts! Love 'em!!!

to go back to obviously.

Actually this is really pathetic. His life is really empty now that campaigning is finished of course as it would be for anyone, but these stories exposing exactly HOW empty and shallow his "real" life actually is/was must be pretty humiliating....

More than that, I wonder if this has given he and Ann (and the rest of the Rmoney family) some pause about the "prophecies" of their bogus religion. They really believed they were "destined" to win, "destined" to fulfill the White Horse prophecy. Its clear they truly believed in that nonsense when you read this piece.

But they didn't win.

It would be interesting if a reporter could get a scoop on if losing has had any impact on their faith.

Powerful acquaintances support you, emotionally if not financially. Even political hacks and the political parties (R in this case) have standards, yet when The Run is lost, there isn't even anyone to hire. That's the problem.

He's been The Governor and the Candidate for President but now, just Private Citizen.

I couldn't be sure before, but I think Mittens might be an Introvert Personality Type...this retreat and...seclusion...seems to fit that, as well as a lot of his behavior in dealing with people in Public...

Also, this IS probably the first time in his life that he couldn't have something he wanted, and how he deals with it will be telling. All Men have to journey through this process at some point; I hope he LEARNS something form it, hope he gains some insight...
Since he was not actually able to do any Executive-Level damage to this Nation, I say we let him be. It's very true that he DID deserve our scorn while he was the Candidate, but I don't think Wrath becomes us in this case, unless he does something Publically Stupid going forward. Bush on the other hand...well, lets just say that I hope the next time he is able to leave his house, he's in a Casket.

As for Ann, and her grieving over not becomming Prom Queen, well, just fuck her.

"How much money can I make" is just another pissing contest to him.

'DETACHED'? When was this not the case? It's not hard to make the argument that he lost the election BECAUSE he was too detached from Reality.

Boo frickin Hoo!!

Not to mention that he was going to go to Washington to work with Republicans to sell the rest of the country to the Wall Street / Business community.

Now that right there could be cause to send one into permanent seclusion.

so why isn't this fucking asshole creating jobs with his money. even if Obama raised taxes and he had to pay more he would still have a lot of money.

why isn't this fucker out there creating jobs ?

fucking asshole with his fucking asshole friends.

it makes me happy if he is not feeling good.

Many of us who suffer and endure personal loss in our lives still have to get up in the morning and get to the job or we'll be out of one.

We can't lay in bed wondering or worrying about a the next day.

Maybe Mitt should get a job? Might take his mind off his woes...

Unless you count running for president as a job.

By all accounts, the past month has been most difficult on Romney’s wife, Ann, who friends said believed up until the end that ascending to the White House was their destiny. They said she has been crying in private and trying to get back to riding her horses.

people with that amount of wealth and free time would 'suffer' from boredom. They can do almost anything, go anywhere, buy any toys they want.

And if they are truly the super awesome wonderful fantastic people they think they are, they could use some of their time and some of their money to make a positive difference in the world instead of building car elevators in La Jolla.