Mitt Romney planned Boston Harbor fireworks show that was scotched by election loss

[sasha031]

Mitt Romney had planned to celebrate his election as the nation’s 45th president with an eight-minute fireworks display over Boston Harbor.

The same company that does some of the illuminations for Boston’s Fourth of July celebration was poised to ignite fireworks within view of Romney’s party at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center to celebrate a win over President Obama.

A permit filed with the City of Boston said the detonation could occur any time between 7 p.m. Tuesday, just after the first polls closed, and 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, which ended up being just before Romney conceded the race.

Instead, Atlas Professional Fireworks Displays unloaded the pyrotechnics from mortars set up on a barge near the Bank of America Pavilion and carted them back to its headquarters in Jaffrey, N.H.

http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/11/08/mitt-romney-planned-boston-harbor-fireworks-show-that-was-scotched-election-loss/qmgtVKPq4zNnDyb9FbLWeJ/story.html

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Ahh the old "unopened game 7 champagne". Gotta love it.

[HooptieWagon]

2. Narcisism nipped in the bud.

How fucking presumptuous and arrogant.

[MineralMan]

3. It would have been much better if the show had gone on.

Let the GOOPers watch the celebration and weep. I hope the Romney campaign prepaid for the show.

[exboyfil]

4. I wonder how typical it is to unload

a fireworks display? I am not sure I would want to be the one doing it. Mistakes happen when you do something infrequently (they also occur because of doing something too often and taking it for granted).

[Matariki]

5. Seriously that is so arrogant. Jeezus.

We were REALLY spared, weren't we?

[yashoo]

6. Plus the permit only lasted until 12:30am

Which means that even in a Mittens win, those things were only going off in the event that it was an early-evening butt-kicking

Keep the delusion coming!

[nc4bo]

7. Wut wut whaaaaaa. There's always the 4th of July.

Boy, he just KNEW this was his destiny.

Good riddance Romney - we didn't want you, don't want you and will never want you!

[karynnj]

8. Weird considering that the people of Boston would not be celebrating

Didn't the city go about 80% for Obama. In a way, he would have been better off not have put his headquarters or celebration there. (From their perspective, image that they had to leave their ballroom and walk through a happy celebrating city. )

[Tennessee Gal]

9. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[MuseRider]

10. And something nice for the little people

you know "those people" who will get little more from me than this. The least I could do for them.

What a jerk, a presumptuous one at that!

[renate]

11. bwahahahahaha!

And here's a nice little slideshow that I found at the bottom of that article that is also gladdening--it's pictures from abroad:

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2012/11/07/election-view-from-abroad/cHwnzczzlnf5fY5ne8JMGM/pictures.html?pg=1&t=150&cp=1

#9 is especially sweet!