CNN Isn’t Even Trying To Hide It Anymore

---

CNN Panelist Calls Mitt Romney A “Religious Fanatic” For Encouraging Mormon Graduates To Have Families

Mitt Romney spoke at Southern Virginia University commencement last week.

SVU is 92 percent Mormon, so Romney mentioned things Mormons are familiar with like the importance of marriage and family.

He quoted from Psalms 127:3-5 where it says a man is blessed for having a “quiver full of” children.

And talked about his own family.

Romney has five sons and plenty of grandkids.

On CNN’s Piers Morgan Thursday, Maeve Reston suggested the reason Romney didn’t poll well with single women voters was because he was “very much into” his family.

And Marc Lamont Hill called Romney a “religious fanatic.”

---

Marc Lamont Hill also said that Romney told the graduates to have “binders full of children”. I am really surprised that no one on the panel mentioned polygamy.

You don’t have to like Mitt Romney or agree with him, but you have to admit the man practices what he preaches. He’s been pretty damn successful at it too. I could think of worse role models.

---

---

Interview with Mitt and Ann Romney

---

Mitt Romney: “It kills me” to not be in the White House

Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, did not win his race for the White House, but in his first post-election interview today on “Fox News Sunday,” he wants everyone – friends and foes alike – to know that he’s not exiting stage right.

In a wide-ranging discussion, the former Massachusetts governor and his wife, Ann Romney, opened up on the reasons for their loss, their adjustment to life after the campaign, and President Obama’s leadership since his reelection, making clear that they were disappointed by the loss, but even more disappointed about the direction the country has taken since then.

“Nero is fiddling,” Romney said, likening the president to the infamous Roman emperor who played his fiddle as Rome burned.

“No one can think” that the fight over the sequester “has been a success for the president,” Romney argued. “He didn’t think the sequester would happen. It is happening, but to date, what we’ve seen is the president out campaigning to the American people, doing rallies around the country, flying around the country, and berating Republicans.”

He suggested that the president may be more interested in “showing pain” and wielding the sequester as a weapon against Republicans than in actually finding compromise.

And that adversarial, campaign-style politicking, Romney said, has poisoned the well of compromise instead of enabling the president to engage with opposition. “I don’t see that kind of leadership right now,” he said, and “it kills me not to be in there, not to be in the White House” to provide that direction.

Instead, after his loss, he watches, more bystander than inside player. But until the very end, Mitt Romney said, he was convinced that it would turn out differently. “We were convinced that we would win.” When talking about the moment it became clear, after the numbers from Ohio began rolling in on election night, that victory was slipping out of reach, he said “it’s hard, it’s emotional.”

Ann Romney described the “crushing disappointment” she felt – “Not for us, our lives are going to be fine. It’s for the country.”

---

You can waste a lot of time obsessing over what might have been but damn, that was a tough loss. It’s gonna be a long four years.

(Unless the sequester kills us first.)

---

Where the hell is Mitt Romney???

---

That’s right, campers! It’s time for another exciting episode of Where the hell is Mitt Romney???

MSNBO:

Where in the world is Mitt Romney? (Hint: Not in D.C.)

Mitt Romney has kept an aggressively low profile since getting blown out by President Obama on Nov. 6. So perhaps it’s no surprise that he didn’t travel to Washington, D.C. for today’s inauguration. But the failed GOP presidential nominee reportedly didn’t even watch the event on TV.

Romney put out word through people close to him that he wasn’t going to watch President Obama take his ceremonial oath on Monday. Instead, he planned to be at one of his homes in La Jolla, Calif.

A Romney aide told NBC the former Massachusetts governor and his wife Ann have “no big plans.” And when asked if he’d watch the ceremonies, the aide said, “doubtful.”

Romney’s absence makes him the first losing candidate not to attend since 1989, when Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis didn’t attend George H.W. Bush’s swearing in. Instead, he stayed in his home state, watched on TV, and ate a tuna sandwich.

MNSBC host Lawrence O’Donnell weighed in on Romney’s no-show, saying it was an “understandable choice to not come here [to Capitol Hill] especially if you’re not a man of Washington…I get that, but I don’t get why you have to take that extra step and say ‘I’m not gonna watch.’”

“It isn’t the moment where he should have announced that about himself,” O’Donnell added.

Host Rachel Maddow said by making it known he wasn’t going to watch, Romney was “making himself the story.”

---

But wait! There’s more:

Addicting Info:

It is a tradition for the runner-up in any presidential election to be honored on the day that the President is sworn in. You can look through the history books and find dinners in honor of John McCain, John Kerry and Al Gore; you have to go back to Bob Dole to find one who did not at least attend festivities, although Dole himself was in D.C. on that day and held private events. To find a defeated opponent completely snubbing the inauguration, one has to go back to Walter Mondale in 1985, who left Washington D.C. prior to Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration.

Given this history, some look to the last presidential hopeful for the Republican Party to see where he is today and finds him eerily missing. Like Mondale, Mitt Romney is as far away from Washington D.C. as possible. A spokesperson said it was doubtful that Mr. Romney would be attending any events, or even watching the inauguration.

This, of course, lends credence to the claims by some that Mitt Romney did not want to be President at all. Or, perhaps, he’s just a sore loser suffering from “taking my ball and going home” syndrome. He didn’t win, so he wants to deny ever being in the race. It is doubtful that he will ever make himself a player on the national stage again.

So now we have a Republican party left without any leadership. Had Romney shown up, it would have been a sign that he could remain a leader in the party. Instead, his absence leaves the party adrift, teetering on collapse. The party’s open embrace of unpopular positions leaves them with little option but to rig elections, something they no longer even try to hide in their attempt to manipulate the process of putting someone in the White House.

---

So was it Dukakis or Mondale? Who cares.

What none of the several articles and blog posts on this subject bothers to mention is that all those other guys had business in Washington DC – they were sitting senators or in Gore’s case he was the outgoing vice president.

So exactly what was Romney supposed to do anyway? Show up at a couple dinners? Was he even invited to the inauguration? Mitt holds no elective office or official position in the GOP. I’m sure John Boehner would really appreciate Mitt showing up and trying to lead the party.

Mitt lost the election. He has no plans to run for office again. They complained because Sarah Palin stayed in the news even though she initially tried to resume her former life. Now they are complaining because Mitt is trying to go away.

Fucking asshats.

---

Doesn’t Mitt Romney Care About The Fiscal Cliff?

Mitt and Ann at ringside

---

ZOMG!!! Breaking news from the Washington Post:

Mitt Romney attends Pacquiao-Marquez boxing match

For sheer happy weirdness, nothing quite rivals the surreal encounters that occur at a major boxing match. Saturday night, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, as Manny Pacquiao readied himself in a dressing room for his fourth mega-fight with legendary Mexican foe Juan Manuel Marquez, Mitt Romney appeared. A guest of the Nevada Athletic Commission, Romney had dropped by to wish the Filipino superstar good luck.

A seated Pacquiao was having his hands taped in preparation for putting on his boxing gloves. An aide casually introduced him to Romney, who expanded on the introduction: “Hi, Manny. I ran for president and lost.”

---

It’s a good thing we didn’t elect Mitt Romney. What kind of a leader goes to a boxing match when the government is facing a financial crisis?

---

BREAKING NEWS!!! – Mitt Romney Spotted At Costco!!!

Romney pumps his own gas!

---

ZOMG!

Mitt Romney loads up at Costco

Try as he might, Mitt Romney could never sell voters on the idea that he was just like regular folks who shop at Costco.

But the gossip website TMZ captured Romney and his wife, Ann, on an expedition to the warehouse store near their home in La Jolla, Calif., loading up on pantry staples and paper products. The TMZ photo gallery is worth clicking through.

The photographer captured Romney inspecting toy cars — made in China, natch — and pushing his cart loaded with Christmas wrapping paper, Kirkland paper towels (i.e. the store brand), V8 drinks and Arrowhead bottled water. Plus there are photos of Romney unloading a gigantic box of Bisquick and other purchases into a black Audi Q7 SUV. Ann Romney pushes her own cart of Costco purchases behind her husband.

---

I really don’t know how to deal with all this excitement!

I am glad to see that Gannett has their priorities straight. But what about Sarah Palin? What is she doing today?

Enquiring minds want to know.

---