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The Ryan pick all of a sudden makes sense now
Mitt Romney ‘had no desire to run,’ son says
Mitt Romney didn't want to be president, anyway.
That's what Tagg Romney, Mitt's oldest son, told the Boston Globe for its big post-mortem on his father's failed presidential bid published on Sunday.
“He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life," Tagg Romney told the paper. "He had no desire to ... run. If he could have found someone else to take his place ... he would have been ecstatic to step aside.
"He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them," Tagg continued. "He has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn’t love the attention.”
Romney's reluctance to become commander in chief has been hinted at by his sons before. Before their father sought the 2012 GOP nomination, several said they tried to convince him not to run.
"I tried to convince him not to," Matt Romney told Conan O'Brien in June. "I think there were a few of us that tried that. I just felt for us as a family, this isn't the best thing. But ... for the country, we think it's the right thing."
The Ryan pick all of a sudden makes sense now
Mitt Romney's transition team spent $8.9 million in government money, $740,000 on furniture
The Romney campaign's use of those resources was governed by the General Services Administration, but even within those constraints, it reminds you that this is a campaign that's facing complaints from nine media outlets over inflated costs on the campaign trail. How do you spend $8.9 million?
The design, construction and space planning for the Romney team’s office space, which took up multiple floors in the Mary E. Switzer building a couple miles from the White House, cost about $2.5 million. The furniture bill came in around $740,000, and basics like office supplies cost about $30,000. The biggest chunk by far came from communications and related hardware. Items such as IT services, computer equipment and cell phones cost $5.6 million. The GSA noted that some of the resources would be recycled; Dell La ude Laptops bought for Romney’s 500-strong transition team, for example, will be used by other parts of the federal government. Rent charges were waived by the GSA, as they traditionally are for transition teams during the President-Elect phase.
That's $1,480 in furniture, $60 in office supplies, and $11,200 in computers, cell phones, and IT services for each member of Romney's transition team. In addition to the rent being waived, salaries are not included in what the GSA covers. By contrast, in 2008, when Barack Obama was actually elected president and began his transition after the election:
Mr. Podesta said he expected the transition to employ some 450 people and have a budget of about $12 million. Of that amount, $5.2 million will be paid by the government, with the remaining $6.8 million coming from private sources, he said. Contributions will be limited to $5,000, he said, and the transition will not accept money from political action committees.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/1...28Daily+Kos%29
The story behind Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential campaign to President Obama
To this day, Romney’s aides wonder how it all went so wrong.Romney himself blamed demographic shifts and Obama’s “gifts”: *federal largesse targeted to Democratic cons uencies.
His campaign made a series of costly financial, strategic, and political mistakes that, in retrospect, all but assured the candidate’s defeat, given the revolutionary turnout tactics and tactical smarts of President Obama’s operation.
One of the gravest errors, many say, was the Romney team’s failure, until too late in the campaign, to sell voters on the candidate’s personal qualities and leadership gifts. The effect was to open the way for Obama to define Romney through an early blitz of negative advertising. Election Day polls showed that the vast majority of voters concluded that Romney did not really care about average people.
"He is a very private person"
"he loves his country"
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/...QjL/story.html
Yes. The super-patriot, USA-loving was/is "VERY PRIVATE" so much he en led himself, and his Queen "You People" Ann, to secrecy about his serial tax evasion felonies, which he figures "his" God doesn't care about financial felonies.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 12-23-2012 at 04:46 PM.
What the kind of name is Tagg? Sounds like something Palin would name her re baby.
I was just thinking that. The ultimate redneck name
I was thinking the same thing... poor Trig.
lol naming a re baby after a type of math he'll never even be able to dream of grasping
^what's sad is she named her baby Trig...something he'll never be able to do...
I don't think her less re ed kids should have that dream either; momma sure doesn't get it.lol naming a re baby after a type of math he'll never even be able to dream of grasping
Daddeh probably doesn't either since he's even dumber than momma
Aren't they part ice beaner (Eskimo)
That all may be true but I still fantasize about shooting my load in Sarah's pussy with no rubber on....I bet her pussy is good...Daddeh probably doesn't either since he's even dumber than momma
Aren't they part ice beaner (Eskimo)
I was thinking that name was european. Something that a scandanavian or swedish parent would name their kid. lol
LOL secessionist re , ice beăner (Daddeh probably doesn't either since he's even dumber than momma
Aren't they part ice beaner (Eskimo)
Romney campaign caught off guard by fact that Obama staffers worked
Rich Beeson, the Romney political director who co*authored the now-discredited Ohio memo, said that only after the election did he realize what Obama was doing with so much manpower on the ground. Obama had more than 3,000 paid workers nationwide, compared with 500 for Romney, and hundreds of thousands of volunteers.
“Now I know what they were doing with all the staffs and *offices,” Beeson said. “They were literally creating a one-to-one contact with voters,” something that Romney did not have the staff to match.
And why didn't the Romney campaign have the staff to match? Team Red had more money than Obama, and Romney ended the election with $12 million in the bank because they had run out of places to spend money!
Perhaps if they hadn't spent $100 million more than the Obama campaign on advertising, but got maybe 20 percent of the spots, they might've had some cash left over to, you, reach out to voters ...
... which is the only reason a campaign exists for in the first place
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/1...28Daily+Kos%29
Stupid flows deep in this thread.
It was an old family name.
if you've never jerked off to a pic of Sarah Palin that makes you a stupid in my book...Stupid flows deep in this thread.
It was an old family name.
from hillbilly Book of MethiStupid flows deep in this thread.
It was an old family name.
While we're on ed up Mormon, Inc members (red-state white, of course) a guy named Crappeaux...
Conservative Mormon Senator Arrested for Drunk Driving
A Republican Mormon Idaho senator was arrested for drunk driving early Sunday morning—despite the fact that he has often professed to abstain completely from alcohol in accordance with the teachings of his faith.
A Mormon bishop, Crapo has previously told the Associated Press that he doesn’t drink because alcohol—in addition to coffee and tea—is prohibited for followers of the Mormon faith.
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-an...-drunk-driving
Is the idea here that if Mitt wanted the presidency bad enough, he would have it?
the republicant party is a joke lol.
About as much as we think if you really wanted the girl who you stalked and frightened, you would have her.
Wow...
It's scary that you focus on such thoughts. Especially since you change the facts to suit your hatred of me.
Why are your panties in a bunch? Did you have a bad batch of beer and swerve it to your costumers?
Yes they are. About half as much of a joke as the democrats are. Pretty sad that we have such sorry politicians.
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