What happens if t Mitt completely falls apart?

[jorno67]

Seriously...what happens if he freaks out, has a nervous breakdown, loses what's left of his mind? Do they run Ryan for the POTUS and find a new VPOTUS candidate? Or do the scrap the whole thing and choose a loser?

I ask this because it is painfully clear that Mitt is not used to people questioning him or pointing it out when he his inaccurate or requesting more details of one of his plans. He is certainly not used to working around other peoples schedule. So what if this new world he has stepped into - our world - is too much for him? What happens next?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Dunno, but I hope it happens on live TV

because I want to watch.

[porphyrian]

3. ! n/t

[valerief]

4. Oh, damn, that'd be some great teevee! I'd love to see him have a meltdown.

He's such a piss-poor excuse for a human that he doesn't deserve sanity.

[xfundy]

5. ^This.

[lunatica]

15. And we'd get to watch it over and over and over and over again

Only this one would be Mitt's scream.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. Romney has been compared to a Roomba in a corner.

Bump...bump....bump...bump....

Maybe if he keeps bumping into that corner he'll just short out with a few pops, fizzes and sparks.

[madaboutharry]

37. Yes.

[catbyte]

38. I wish Telemundo had caught his hissy fit on tape last week

[Laurajr]

2. you know I was kinda getting the feeling

that was going to happen...his behavior always struck me as weird. Maybe it will be his wife that falls apart she was acting weird when she was telling people how hard it was and get in the ring...like they were prize fighters.

[oldhippydude]

14. Ann appears to be channeling her inward Martha Mitchell

apologies to those too young to remember Watergate

[lunatica]

19. My recollection of Martha Mitchell was that she kept telling us there was a cover-up

in the Watergate issue and no one would listen to her. Am I mistaken?

[oldhippydude]

26. eventually yes..

by that time she already had a reputation of bat shit crazy

[barnabas63]

28. Martha...

...was not bat shit crazy. She told the truth.

[WCGreen]

40. Cassandra....

[madokie]

6. I kinda think that we're a witness to this very thing

Mitt slowly coming unhinged. He's a cooked goose if ever there was one.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

7. We salvage the spare parts and built a convection oven...

In answer to the question, I really do think he's going to have an "Ann" moment during the debate when Obama backs him into a corner, pushes a little too hard, and me makes some decidedly unpresidential statement.

I don't think it's possible to switch the ballot at this point. It's either Romney or it's nobody.

[CTyankee]

74. Well, I think there "could" be another scenario...

The party chiefs, along with the Koch brothers, arranges to have Mitt confined to a private hospital where he will be taken for treatment of a "rare brain tumor." In reality, they have tried, but failed, to persuade him to step down willingly and have given him large doses of a highly potent sedative that has rendered him unconscious. They announce that his condition is irreversible and that he has slipped into a coma.

They set up a press conference where Paul Ryan is declared the Presidential candidate and a new VP candidate is chosen, perhaps Jeb Bush, who permits himself to be put on the ticket "out of great concern for the gravity of the situation for the Republican Party."

I haven't quite figured out how this scenario ends, but it sounds pretty good so far, doesn't it?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

75. Perhaps with Kevin Kline as a Romney look-alike? (nt)

[CTyankee]

80. Sorry, I've been reading Daniel Silva's latest thriller so my mind was deeply into the

conspiracy mode...

Actually, I really think that if the party sees Armageddon coming with this candidacy they might be able to pull off a resignation of Romney from the ticket (w/o the drugs and plots), an elevation of Ryan to the top spot and who know what as the new VP selection. They wouldn't win, but they could carry it off as a plausible way of just letting the thing play out so they can regroup and return in 4 years.

I've been thinking of this election as the "possible" end of the road for this GOP. The downticket could suffer greatly and we could regain the House and keep the Senate. Then we'd get stuff done. The GOP would have to change or die an excruciating death...

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

82. I look at it this way...

Clinton wins in 1992, balances the budget but loses Congress in 1994.
Obama wins in 2008, enacts health care reform but loses Congress in 2010.

It seems like Democratic Presidents in modern times are getting these tiny windows of opportunity where they can get something accomplished. I'm hoping that we'll retake Congress and Obama can do something big this year (overturn Citizens United perhaps), before the conservative backlash takes Congress away again in 2014.

But who knows? Maybe the GOP will fracture itself so badly this year that they can't piece anything together for the next election cycle. That would be nice.

[CTyankee]

83. Our only hope is in the fact that Occupy is a far younger movement than Tea Party.

Occupy will just outlast the fuckers.

I hope.

[SDjack]

81. Campaigning for president is "hard work", and Willard isn't used to "hard work."

He will be checked into a private clinic for treatment for strained vocal cords (but really total exhaustion) before the election. Repugs will have no good solution. They don't dare unleash Lyan Ryan. So, they will have one or two surrogates complete Willard's speaking obligations, with Willard present, drugged, and silent.

[CTyankee]

84. I like the way you think!

[lame54]

8. Call tech support

[tama]

9. He

starts the painful process to reconnect with his basic humanity?

[Arugula Latte]

24. But that assumes he has some to reconnect to.

Past bullying incidents from the hair-cutting to the "prank" of making a blind guy walk into a wall to Seamus on the roof to all his remarks cutting down people who wear cheap rain jackets or don't make enough money to pay income taxes make me think he has always been a privileged, arrogant, narcissistic creep with sociopathic tendencies, unable to empathize with anyone who wasn't born as rich & awesome as Willard Mitt Romney.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. I'd probably have a heart attack I'd be laughing so hard

I'd collapse to the floor in laughter and remain there until after November, completely immobilized, if I witnessed Romney completely freaking out and yelling obscenities. I'd hope it wouldn't be a general reaction on the left as it might decide the election, even if they put in a sub for the Romnobot

[ruffburr]

32. thank you for that pictue, i'm still lmfao

[Bluzmann57]

11. Not sure

Maybe a lot of nuts and bolts flying around? Or are robots more high tech than that nowadays?

[grasswire]

12. I'm getting worried about our nuclear arsenal with his finger...

...on the button.

He's a hot-head. A crackpot.

And apparently he doesn't have a MINDER.

[Autumn]

13. I will pay to watch it. Over and over and over.

And never get tired of watching it. As for what happens next? Who gives a fuck as long as they drag him off stage.

[a geek named Bob]

16. I'm waiting for this one...

Romney's gonna have a screaming fit, when his fee-fees get hurt. (The peons are allowed to question his Vision?!? Perish the thought!)

I can see it now...

Obama calmly and coolly asks a question, that calls out yet another in the Great Plan of Romney and Ayn Ra--er... Paul Ryan.
Romney "gets upset" about the incredible impertinance of said question.
Audience blinks at Romney.
Faux Noise vainly tries to spin a win.

[Blue Belle]

45. Wait... He has a vision?

When did that happen?

[a geek named Bob]

55. But, truly, who can such a great man be so dynamic and persuasive

without a noble and glorious guiding vision. Think of the semi-divine radiance that his deportment seems to invest ennoblement on those around him. How can you think on Romney's words, his precise use of the multiple meanings of these words, and yet fail to be enraptured by the magnamity, yes even the purity, of his guiding spirit?

For is he not but the greatest and most noble of the patriarchal FIRE-based job creators? Such a self-created economic giant of a man, is one whom we can all take lessons from. Let us be thankful, that He is willing to impart some of his hard-won wisdom to such as we.

Behold the man!

(Do I really have to use the word here?)

[Blue Belle]

56. No need for the sarcasm smiley...

I'm picking up what you're laying down.

Sadly, I think this is spot on as the conversation taking place inside Mitt's brain.

[a geek named Bob]

69. Mitt really needs to see somebody about his strange quirks...

At this point, I'm starting to wonder if he's got a psychotic break.

[randome]

17. I honestly think it's possible he melts down and withdraws.

I have NEVER seen anyone this bad at politics. In addition, he seems to think it's all about him so the possibility of a meltdown just keeps going up, IMO.

[Bucky]

18. Romney didn't get to where he is today by being the sort who folds in the clutch

He got to where he is today by being the sort of guy who's position and composure is entirely unaffected by his ability to actually do the job.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. That may be true, except that in his previous work it's all been in private.

He's never been subjected to this level of public scrutiny before. As a business executive one can deal with pressure by yelling at staff, drinking your lunch (unless you're a Mormon), squeezing your stress ball, or firing people, and it's all done in those "quiet rooms." This time, though, his fuckups have been spectacularly public and people are questioning him, and he does. not. like. it.

[movonne]

34. I believe that if he didn't inherit a lot of money he would

be just another freeloader..having money to start with does give you a BIG advanage...

[Douglas Carpenter]

20. in 94 he was at one point ahead of Teddy in the polls - and then that lead completely evaporated

Perhaps this is stressing him out even more. I don't think he's going to have any kind of nervous breakdown. But he might make the mistake of appearing increasingly shrill. The base loves shrillness - but that will only undermine his campaign even more,

[Buns_of_Fire]

21. Much hilarity will ensue! nt

[L0oniX]

22. They can always grab the Nate.

[aquart]

27. Please. They have long experience running incompetent candidates.

[ruffburr]

29. ONE CAN ONLY HOPE!!!!

[athenasatanjesus]

30. It will still be a close election.

A republican candidate would have to assassinate a bus full of nuns for the election not to be close.

[MFM008]

85. that would change what?

It wouldnt matter. crazies will still vote for him if he comes out bloody and eating baby animal brains.

[mzteris]

31. hmmmm....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251103918

suddenly a Ryan/Jeb ticket due to "health reasons" (insanity) or some "accident" (hey Mitt, I'd avoid riding in any small planes...)

[discopants]

33. Bullshit Mountain will spin his meltdown as "presidential"

The vast majority of Fox News republicans will still vote for him regardless, and claim Obama is the one who's lost control of his campaign.

They are voting against Obama anyway, so if Mitt had a total meltdown what would it matter?

[jmowreader]

35. They'll use a three-step strategy

Step 1: Dump the R 'n' R ticket and instead run Chris Christie and Joe Arpaio.

Step 2: Have Christie smoke Phillies Blunts everywhere he goes, including hospitals and grade schools. When people tell him to quit smoking those damn things he will go off: "You can't tell me what to do! I'm the Republican candidate for president, fuck you very much."

Step 3: Have the Christie-Arpaio ticket run on a platform calling for a doubling of all taxes, elimination of both social and infrastructure spending, death sentences for getting abortions (a law that will be retroactive to the date the Roe decision was handed down), and the formation of a national police force called the Committee for State Security.

If they can't completely lose the election with a candidate that smokes cheap cigars in front of your kid, tells people to go fuck themselves, can't come up with a better running mate than the dogcatcher of Maricopa County, and wants to double your taxes and start the KGB right here in the land of the free...America will finally have the president it deserves.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

36. It's too late for them to start with a new guy. He's the nominee.

Go to YouTube and read the comments from Right Wingers. They're saying he's RIGHT about the 47% feeling like they're "victims" and they need to get up off their lazy asses and get a job. To the Republican Base, this election is a choice between valuing work or wanting the government to give you a free ride at THEIR expense. They never could look at Obama and think of anything other than "Welfare" because he's black. They also think he's taking away their rights as a punishment for being born white.

Did you see the movie "Gangs of New York"?

There's a scene where the nativists are screaming that Lincoln is going to make white people slaves. That's EXACTLY the fear out there today with these idiots.

See, they act like freedom came in a pitcher and it was poured into glasses for the people until the pitcher was empty so every time a group comes along that wants freedom they think they're being asked to pour some of what is in their glass into this new group's glass and they're SICK OF IT. They're screaming "NO MORE! I will not give up some of my freedom to this other group that I hate."

That why they say things like, "Freedom is under assault" when someone wants equality.

To them, they are fighting for their freedom.

It's really sad.

Plus, they LOVE it when Romney says something to piss off the Liberals. They get off on that.

To give you an idea of how delusional they are, I asked one of them on YouTube, "How's that whole 'Ryan getting booed at the AARP' thing working out for you?" and he actually replied with, "It's hard to spread a message of love in a room full of haters."

There is a segment of the population that is out of it's mind.

[bluestate10]

52. The most baffling issue is those people you described are the 47%.

But they have spent literally their entire lives voting against their best interests because politicians hold out bogeymen in front of them then watch those idiots run off to vote for cutting their wrists. They see imaginary people buying booze and steak with food-stamps. I have never seen that in my life and I have been behind people that used food-stamps to buy food and never, never saw a liquor store that took food stamps. My parents certainly didn't buy steak or liquor when they got food-stamps during a period of hard times. The food that we eat was not elegant, but it kept us alive.

I have seen the republican voting 47%ers. They are a sad bunch, full of imaginary demons and rage. Most also live paycheck to paycheck and need policy changes protecting workers rights and providing affordable health care for them and their families.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

54. In this case it's probably the infiltration of the church by the Right Wing,...

....some people haven't gotten the memo that Republicans aren't the Party of God.

They honestly believe "Demoncrats" are killing babies as a blood offering to Satan and engaging in debauchery.

[Hutzpa]

39. That will be made for TV watching

popcorn will disappear overnight from stores across the country.

[malaise]

41. Well for starters hubby would probably have to take me to the

hospital because I'm sure I'll damage myself ROFL.

[madinmaryland]

42. I assume the party will be a frothy mess!

[beac]

43. Santorum 2016!

[Erose999]

59. He'll never get the endorsement of the Hotel/Motel Laundry Association of America thats for sure.

[tavalon]

44. Sorry, I'm afraid he won't

He's a sociopath. Anger is really the only emotion he has access to.

[blaze]

46. In 2008 the question was raised, "What happens if a candidate dies?"

Interesting read here:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2008/09/dead_by_election_day.html

[DearAbby]

47. what happens next?

[bluestate10]

49. You would drink that shit?

I would rather ice down my urine and drink that.

[bluestate10]

48. Don't underestimate Romney.

Romney has no core, but he can be cunning. Democrats in Massachusetts had him dead to rights, but he got elected governor through withholding information and lying. The great misfortune is that the democrat running against Romney and her advisers didn't run an efficient campaign that would have cornered Romney and showed him for what Romney is, a deceitful liar. The good fortune this time around is that Romney is running against President Obama. We know that President Obama won't lose his cool. The hope is that President Obama lands enough body shots to cause Romney to unravel on national television. I don't see the moderators doing their jobs and calling Romney to task on some of Romney's bullshit lies via questions. President Obama must walk into debates with the mindset that he has Romney and the moderator against him, then use his Obama cool to demolish both.

[Major Nikon]

50. You swap out the batteries and he's as good as new

[ryan_cats]

51. Celebration Time C'mon!

Celebration Time C'mon!

Sorry about the commercial, it's the only one I could find.

[M_M]

53. Don't Worry

Apple alreaddy has a contingency plan to cannibalize his parts into the iPhone 18, due in March.

[Jennicut]

57. He will have a data system error soon.

It's just the way robots are, can't help it sometimes.

[Erose999]

58. The media will prop him up and cover his ass if he implodes. They have too much invested in the

Obama v/s Romney narrative to back out now. So they will coddle little Mittens as he cries WEEE WEEE WEEEEEEE all the way home.

[ecstatic]

60. Yep. They'll compare it to an imaginary meltdown Pres. Obama

had.

[desertduck]

61. Spin. Rinse. Repeat.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

62. His "also ran" footnote becomes more interesting.

[lunatica]

63. I think no one knows what happens

They'll have to come to some consensus which means that maybe the whole party breaks down because good luck with anyone in the Republican party agreeing on anything lately. Now isn't that something to look forward to? I think it is!

[just1voice]

64. They'll keep him propped up like a failed bank if he fails

He exists only because of our massive propaganda networks and they don't care about reality, they will create whatever reality they want to sell.

[Ganja Ninja]

65. My guess is a lot of write in votes or Republican's voting Libertarian.

That or they stay home and don't vote at all.

[NickB79]

66. They'll have to take a minute to reboot his positronic brain

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=positronic+brain+data&hl=en&client=ubuntu&hs=4yD&sa=X&channel=fs&biw=1280&bih=579&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=9SGs6QCWg6rb9M:&imgrefurl=http://subspacecommunique.com/node/962&docid=1BiXbgWWv1T4tM&imgurl=&w=618&h=409&ei=D5xgUITqONKxygHKi4HICg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=424&vpy=147&dur=612&hovh=183&hovw=276&tx=158&ty=88&sig=101017037156644126510&page=1&tbnh=118&tbnw=157&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i 9

[lillypaddle]

67. Pap is talking about this right now

substituting on Ed's show. He is convinced Rmoney is literally unraveling.

[NYC Liberal]

68. Remember when Bush flipped out on live TV in 2004 during the town hall debate?

After Kerry criticized his "Go it alone" strategy in Iraq, Shrub lunged forward at Charlie Gibson and started screaming "I GOTTA ANSWER THIS! LET ME ANSWER! YOU TELL TONY BLAIR WE'RE GOING ALONE! TELL TONY BLAIR WE'RE GOING ALONE!"

[renie408]

78. I will never understand why we lost that election.

[NYC Liberal]

86. For one, not mercilessly going after Bush and his record at the convention.

Instead we had to be "civil" as speaker after speaker at the RNC attacked Kerry nonstop.

Thankfully it looks like we learned from that.

[Javaman]

70. I think a self imposed feeding frenzy in the repuke party will occur. nt

[bigtree]

71. Obama landslide nt.

[Bake]

72. 1. We laugh. 2. We win.

3. We laugh some more.



Bake

[JanMichael]

73. I have wondered if he will be able to handle the debates

without a nasty temper tantrum--

He does not seem to be able to speak off the cuff well at all.

[99th_Monkey]

76. Mittens will never run out of Smirks and Giggles ~nt

[mindwalker_i]

77. Then we tell him to pull his buffed, white ass up by its bootstraps

I hope he stays in until the end. It makes the rest of the Repubs look bad.

[LongTomH]

79. How would we notice?

[krispos42]

87. I imagine his staffers...

...would desperately apply cotter pins, bayonet clips, roll pins, nuts, screws, bolts, and C-clips as they tried to reassemble his mechanical parts into a humanoid shape again.


Sorta like Buster on "Mystbusters".