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Coyotl

(15,262 posts) Thu Dec 20, 2012, 02:18 AM Dec 2012

Time Names Mitt Romney Man of the Year 1912 = Andy Borowitz

December 19, 2012
Time Names Mitt Romney Man of the Year 1912
Posted by Andy Borowitz
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/12/time-names-mitt-romney-man-of-the-year-1912.html

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—In an extraordinary gesture of recognition for a losing Presidential nominee, Time magazine today named former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney Man of the Year 1912.

In a press release explaining its decision, Time’s editorial board wrote, “Even though his quest for the Presidency was unsuccessful, Mr. Romney’s ideas about foreign policy, taxation, wealth inequality, and women’s rights typified the year 1912 as no one else has.”

In giving Mr. Romney the nod, Time said that he beat out such other candidates for Man of the Year 1912 as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic.

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Time Names Mitt Romney Man of the Year 1912 = Andy Borowitz (Original Post) Coyotl Dec 2012 OP

Mitt is way too regressive for 1912 BainsBane Dec 2012 #1

Agreed Sherman A1 Dec 2012 #2

Except the presidential election of 1912 Proud Public Servant Dec 2012 #3

A difficult decision between Mitt and the Captain of the Titanic DreamGypsy Dec 2012 #4

BainsBane

(53,072 posts)

1. Mitt is way too regressive for 1912

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 04:44 AM

Dec 2012

That was the Progressive era, trust busting, etc.. Romney definitely belongs a decade earlier in the Gilded Age.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

2. Agreed

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 07:57 AM

Dec 2012

I think he is an excellent choice.

Proud Public Servant

(2,097 posts)

3. Except the presidential election of 1912

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 08:17 AM

Dec 2012

Was a four-way race between three bona fide progressives and a socialist. We should be so lucky...

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)

4. A difficult decision between Mitt and the Captain of the Titanic

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 12:45 AM

Dec 2012

In giving Mr. Romney the nod, Time said that he beat out such other candidates for Man of the Year 1912 as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic.

“It was very close between Romney and the Titanic guy, but we gave it to Romney because it took him slightly longer to sink,” Time wrote.

Under the command of Edward Smith, the Titanic's passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe seeking a new life in North America.

Mitt also took a lot of the wealthiest people in the world down with him, but fortunately many emigrants and immigrants escaped the fatal sinking.

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