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In reply to the discussion: Mitt Romney: 'It kills me' not to be president [View all]JHB
(37,159 posts)If you want to talk about unfair skewing, how about the surgical extraction of a single sentence from a boilerplate "we're all in this together" speech and then claiming Obama was saying that business owners didn't really build their businesses, the government did?
And then, instead of simply using it on the stump for a few days as often happens with gaffes and awkward bits, your dear husband turned it into one of his major campaign themes. Somewhere off in communist non-heaven, old Pravda editors and Soviet propagandists raised their spectral vodka bottles in salute!
Furthermore, surely you haven't forgotten that clown-car parade of the Republican primaries, where the one common theme was "anybody but Mitt"? He had that much resistance within his own party, yet you'd still convinced yourself he was a shoe-in for the general election?
Let's not forget, as you apparently have, Ann, the business about only releasing two years of tax forms, and incomplete forms at that. This was an especially important item for Mitt symbolically, because it was his own father who established the tradition, and he released 12 years while directly saying that many years' worth were necessary to provide a true picture because only a year or two could be engineered to look good on the surface. Once it became clear Mitt would drop out rather than release more than he had, it sure looked like he was hiding something. Considering that he'd been angling for a presidential run for over six years, what did it say about him that he didn't use that time to make things presentable?
Go ahead, Mitt, show some leadership yourself: go to the Republican leadership in congress and start knocking heads on your own. Surely the most recent presidential candidate has some standing in the party. Or do you concede that you're washed up because you didn't deliver the Democratic president's head on a plate, the same reason Newt lost his House speakership? That your only standing now is as a fundraising prop among a few well-off constituencies?
It's a measure of how much really has been handed to you two that you still can't absorb that you lost fair and square, even in the face of naked vote-suppression tactics by your party.
You two built your own doghouse, politically. Live in it. Trust me, it won't actually kill you, and the nation is better off for it.