Why didn't Romney play up his Olympic stint in the election?

[Hamlette]

I'm in Utah and people here loved Romney for "saving" the Olympics. We all know that he did it with more money than the Feds have ever given to a games but he was loved and respected, even by some nonMormon Democrats, for how the Olympics came off.

But I didn't hear him talk about it. I suspect it was because Obama defined him when the race was early and he was busy fighting off attacks about his time at Bain and as governor but I expected him to pivot to a "I saved the Olympics, I can save the country" mode. I never heard it if he did.

Course, I'm not in a swing state, in fact my state was probably the reddest this year, so we didn't see any national ads. Did he talk it up in ads in swing states?

[Skittles]

1. because it would have reminded people of his more recent Olympic stint

when he pissed off the host nation

[FSogol]

2. Because he saved it with a massive influx of Federal $$$$.

Something he purports to be against.

Plus, no one in Utah wants to revisit all the corruption and waste.

[Bigleaf]

7. Exactly. Watch this video and see Romney talk about all that Federal money he got for the SLC Games

[ProudProgressiveNow]

8. +1 nt

[liberalmuse]

3. I lived in Utah during the Olympics...

He did not leave Salt Lake City a popular man, and he was actually connected to the bribery scandal. But he took all the records with him, and the stories I'm seeing now about his Olympic stint do not match what I remember. He pretty much pulled the same crap I've been reading about today. After the Olympics, he pull up everything and left a lot of people flipping HUGE bills. He is essentially a high-end grifter.

[treestar]

9. Between refusing to show his taxes,

scrubbing the computers re his governorship and this, it seems R$ does not like to be held accountable for whatever he's done.

[Scootaloo]

4. He cracked it out a few times in the debates

But right-wingers tend to hate the Olympics because, y'know, it involves other nations.

[Brother Buzz]

5. Can you say London?

He took his 'strong' suit out of play with his own mouth

[EC]

6. Likely because of all the Federal Grants that built that...

Since he loves to think he did it all by himself...he couldn't let people know that the olympics happened at all was because of government help.