Mitt Opposes Shutdown

Romney opposes GOP strategy that led to government shutdown | Deseret News:

Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney said before giving a speech at the University of Utah Wednesday that shutting down the government is the wrong way to oppose the nation's new health care law...

On Ann Rmoney Running

What Are The Gobshites Saying These Days? - Esquire

...I realize that the Herald has been utterly traumatized by the withdrawal of former Senator McDreamy, but the idea that all the Massachusetts Republican party needs to revive its hopes is to conjure up the magic name of...Romney!...is a call for an intervention of the most vigorous sort. By all means, let's gauge Ann's interest in getting out there and meeting You People again. Or let's see if the family's mad Bene Gesserit mind-skillz truly have the ability to warp the minds of the unwary.

If you understand the allusions, then you might just be a nerd.

More On The Mitt Loss

The story behind Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential campaign to President Obama - News - Boston.com

The Other Lie Of The Year

Update: One of the top political lies of the year was the whopper about Obama’s “apology tour” - McPherson, KS - McPhersonSentinel - McPherson, KS

Yesterday, I told you HERE that Mitt Romney has won PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year award for his bogus rhetoric about Jeep moving its U.S. production operations to China.

I failed to note, however, that PolitiFact’s list of 10 finalists for the top award included THIS OTHER WHOPPER from Romney:...

What We Can Learn From Mitt

Campaign 2012: The Report Card - TIME

Has there ever been a less gracious presidential loser than Mitt Romney? I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt during the campaign. I figured he was just dialing for dollars when he massaged the Boca Raton fat cats' fantasies about the lack of "responsibility" on the part of the 47% who don't pay income taxes. But it turns out he really believes that stuff...

Mitt In Magicville

With Romney in Disneyland, Where is the G.O.P.? : The New Yorker

“...When you’re in a hole, stop digging. He keeps digging,” Lindsay Graham said of Romney, on “Meet the Press.” “We’re in a death spiral with Hispanic voters because of rhetoric around immigration. And candidate Romney, in the primary, dug the hole deeper.” He wasn’t a lone figure with a shovel; there was a whole big-donor-powered earth-mover working with him. But that, now, is the G.O.P.’s problem, not his. While Graham and others are working on their death spiral, Romney seems happily fascinated by the twirling of Luigi’s Magic Tires. And it’s better that he is.

Thieving Dems Or Whiny GOPers?

‘Unskewed Polls’ founder claims Obama stole election

Dean Chambers, the conservative blogger who vaulted from obscurity to fame in the last few weeks of the presidential election by “unskewing” polls he found to favorable to President Obama, has a new Web site claiming that Democrats stole the election...

Destroying More American Jobs

Sikora: GOP insulted voters' intelligence | Online Athens

...But the worst lie was the central point of the Republican campaign narrative: That Mitt Romney was qualified to run the country because he was a successful businessman who created Bain Capital and thus could create American jobs. As the presidential campaign was in the final stretch, in October and earlier this month, Bain Capital — which Romney founded and is still invested in — was, and is still, in the process of doing what it has always done, shutting down a profitable manufacturer. Bain is closing Sensata Technologies, a manufacturer of automotive and aviation sensors in Freeport, Ill., and shipping all 170 American jobs, and the facility’s machinery, to China.

The Republicans need look no further than their own big lies for their resounding defeat. The American electorate doesn’t like to have its collective intelligence insulted so glibly.

The Lonely Mitt

Republicans Mourning for Mitt Romney? Not So Much - ABC News

Republicans are over it.

And most of them aren't doing much mourning for Mitt Romney.

Just over a week since the two-time Republican presidential hopeful failed to deny President Obama a second term, instead of offering up condolences for a candidate who garnered 48 percent of the popular vote, GOP leaders seem to be keeping Romney at arm's length...

1%ers Flogging Mitt Over 47%ers

Jindal, Walker denounce Romney’s ‘gifts’ comments

Piercing The Bubble

Michael Winship: On Election Day, Money and Magical Thinking

...Last week, that so-called reality collided with one huge fact -- that a younger, more ethnically diverse and liberal population is increasing in size. Resistance is futile, as they say in those science fiction movies, but as long as the conservative right live in a media cocoon and act like sightless bats, trying to find their way with high frequency shrieking that bounces off the walls and only they can hear, you've got trouble, my friends. Even Dick Morris, that unctuous pollster and paragon of propriety, had to admit that his prediction of a Romney landslide was wrong because, "This isn't your father's America..."

Keep Believing That, Mitt

The Clueless keep on being clueless.

Romney Blames Loss on Obama's 'Gifts' to Minorities and Young Voters - NYTimes.com

A week after losing the election to President Obama, Mitt Romney blamed his overwhelming electoral loss on what he said were big “gifts” that the president had bestowed on loyal Democratic constituencies, including young voters, African-Americans and Hispanics...

Oh. And boo-hoo.

The Party's The Problem

Parker: Romney was better than Republicans deserved

...But the real problem is the Republican Party, which would not be recognizable to its patron saint, Ronald Reagan. The party doesn't need a poll or a focus group. It needs a mirror.

The truth is, Romney was better than the GOP deserved. Party nitwits undermined him and the self-righteous tried to bring him down. The nitwits are well-enough known at this point - those farthest-right social conservatives who couldn't find it in their hearts to keep their traps shut. No abortion for rape or incest? Sit down. Legitimate rape? Put on your clown suit and go play in the street...

Stealing Mitt's Ideas

Democrats Like a Romney Idea to Cap Tax Deductions - NYTimes.com

With both parties positioning for difficult negotiations to avert a fiscal crisis as Congress returns for its lame-duck session, Democrats are latching on to an idea floated by Mitt Romney to raise taxes on the rich through a hard cap on income tax deductions...

Political Indecency

William Laney: Mitt Romney Is a Decent Man -- Who Ran an Indecent Campaign

...There was cruelty in Mitt Romney's campaign modus operandi. He seemed to welcome, and enjoy, disparaging comments about President Obama. He did nothing to discourage the all-too-frequent birther remarks, and he even referred to this disgusting non-issue on at least one occasion himself.

Yes, I believe Mitt Romney is a decent man; but I also believe that he ran an indecent campaign...

Election Reaction Roundup

Lotsa opinions from varied sources: The New America: What the election teaches us about ourselves - CNN.com

The Era Of The Liar

Frank Rich on the GOP’s Denial -- New York Magazine

...The American weakness that Romney both apotheosized and exploited in achieving this feat—our post-fact syndrome where anyone on the public stage can make up anything and usually get away with it—won’t disappear with him. A slicker liar could have won, and still might...

Is This The Stupidest Excuse Of All?

Fox News Guest Pushes Obama ‘Rape Camp’ Conspiracy - Truthdig

Pot & Kettle Theatre: Rove Edition

Karl Rove: Obama Won 'By Suppressing The Vote'

Mitt Romney lost the election because President Barack Obama engaged in voter suppression, according to Republican political strategist Karl Rove.

My Sentiments Exactly

Cannonfire: "Why Mitt lost: A parable"

...I am happy to say goodbye to Allen West, happy to see a quick end to Richard Mourdock, happy not to have to think about Todd Akin. I'm happy that the Dems -- almost unimaginably -- gained two seats in the Senate. And while I'm not happy that Obama won, I am overjoyed that mendacious Mitt Romney lost...