What's Next for Romney?

squakbox

I've been reflecting upon the election, and although I like Obama, I feel bad that Mitt Romney didn't win. He has great business experience, and could have made an enormous contribution to the US recovery.

So what is next for Romney? Running for congress? Back to Governor? Or might Obama give him a cabinet position?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9662352/Mitt-Romney-would-be-willing-to-work-for-Barack-Obama.html

It would be a shame for such a rarely talented candidate to fade away.

boiledsweets

Paid speaker,to go around to high class gatherings as a paid speaker..

Brian?

Asset striping and outsourcing to China. His political career is finished.

Suryavarman

He is a liar and an opportunist (like most politicians) who cares what happens next for Romney? The further he stays away from politics the better. He's a very wealthy man, so I'd say he'll fade into obscurity to enjoy that wealth.

squakbox

Suryavarman wrote: »

He is a liar and an opportunist (like most politicians) who cares what happens next for Romney? The further he stays away from politics the better. He's a very wealthy man, so I'd say he'll fade into obscurity to enjoy that wealth.

Actually, I think that is very unfair and inaccurate. Romney has devoted virtually the last decade of his life to public service. And I think that it is exactly his type that should be attracted to politics, hence the motivation for my question!

boiledsweets

As far as i know,romney was caught (what he thought was off camera) in a room making a big speech about how obama has given too much to welfare,and medical welfare etc,and how this hits the middle classes and the upper class..That is what killed his election in the end,he was giving a speech to the privledged classes on how to pay less tax in america,cut the welfare..

Gandhi

Knocking on people's doors asking if they have ever read the book of Mormon?

When he started swinging to the right towards the end*, I was wondering if he knew he hadn't a hope of winning and was priming his image for the speaking circuit. I wouldn't be completely surprised if the leaked "47%" speech was not an accident. A guy with a quarter of a billion in his bank account can't be that stupid.

Extreme conservative, tea-party types are solid gold on the Washed-Up Politician Speaking Circuit. I think Rick Santorum make $40-50k per speech. A centrist is worth nothing.

*Yeah, I know he was continuously swinging towards any point on the compass depending on how the wind was blowing, but his overall trend was rightward.

Suryavarman

squakbox wrote: »

Actually, I think that is very unfair and inaccurate. Romney has devoted virtually the last decade of his life to public service. And I think that it is exactly his type that should be attracted to politics, hence the motivation for my question!

Unfair and inaccurate? It is a well accepted fact that he is an opportunist, I doubt that there has ever been a conversation where his flip flopping wasn't mentioned. And according to his politifact file only 31% of his statements on the campaign trail were either true or mostly true.

Like I said before, the further away from politics he is, the better. And the same goes for politicians like him.

[-0-]

His speech last night was probably his best.

He'll go home and roll around in the piles of cash he has.

LuckyLloyd

From http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...at_116090.html

After calling the president to congratulate him, a spent and disappointed -- but nevertheless smiling -- Mitt Romney made a brief speech to his supporters in Boston. Afterward, numerous pundits noted that they found his remarks uncommonly gracious. But Democratic consultant Paul Begala and former Republican White House press secretary Ari Fleischer found the speech notable for what was not in it:

There was no list of issues and causes that he’ll fight for in the future, no real discussion of the specifics choices Americans will have to make in the future. It was simply not, Fleischer and Begala observed, a concession speech from a movement leader.

This shouldn’t have been a surprise. Romney’s critics on both the right and the left often accused him of lacking “a core,” but those who are close him believe this misses the essence of the man utterly. “Core” values to Romney are his church and family, and to them he is a consistently devoted servant.

Mark McKinnon, a confidant of George W. Bush, describes Romney as a good man whose values run deep, but whose politics are “transactional.” That’s hardly a sin, given that the party’s politics are transactional as well. In 2002, Romneycare was considered a conservative market-based solution to coerce Americans into purchasing private health insurance. By 2012, Obamacare is a socialist scheme designed as the first step of a government takeover of the nation’s health care system.

To liberal writer Ezra Klein, Romney’s problem -- in terms of how he’s perceived -- is that what he most values is empirical data, which he thinks complement his natural management skills. “A lifetime of data has proven to him that he’s extraordinarily, even uniquely, good at managing and leading organizations, projects and people,” Klein writes. “It’s those skills, rather than specific policy ideas, that he sees as his unique contribution. That has been the case everywhere else he has worked, and he assumes it will be the case in the White House, too.”

But he won’t get the chance to prove that theory now. The American people, albeit by the narrowest of margins, didn’t choose a manager. For better or worse, they chose a leader, and it’s a measure of Romney’s core that when he said he’d be praying for him to succeed, the people who know him best believe him.

This was his play. I don't exactly know what he will do next, but I reckon his political career is finished. Don't be surprised either. Gore, Dukakis, Mondale and Carter all walked away from politics in different ways in the aftermath of their defeats.

Amerika

Romney would make the absolute best choice for the new position Obama promised to create... "Secretary of Business." Unfortunately he’s not an Obama donating unqualified green energy wacko businessman crony, so I doubt he would be considered.

Brian?

Amerika wrote: »

Romney would make the absolute best choice for the new position Obama promised to create... "Secretary of Business." Unfortunately he’s not an Obama donating unqualified green energy wacko businessman crony, so I doubt he would be considered.

Unqualified green energy wacko crony you say. Who would that be?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmations_of_Barack_Obama%27s_Cabinet

Give me one name.

Amerika

Brian? wrote: »

Unqualified green energy wacko crony you say. Who would that be?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmations_of_Barack_Obama%27s_Cabinet

Give me one name.

Just one? Brian Harrison.

InTheTrees

Hopefully we've heard the last of mitt and his dancing horses.

shortys94

Call all the women in those binders :-P

Brian?

Amerika wrote: »

Just one? Brian Harrison.

His cabinet post?

nagilum2

Amerika wrote: »

Just one? Brian Harrison.

How about A123 Systems CEO David Vieau, who gave $17,000 Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and other Democrats, then got a stimulus injection from DOE, then promptly collected his golden parachute as the company squandered the taxpayer dollars and went bankrupt.

Ozymandius2011

Fox said that he wasn't interested in running for President again but he will likely remain in politics to some degree. There isn't much of a history of failed Presidential candidates not already in elective office seeking election afterwards, though exceptions include Teddy Roosevelt.

Manach

He showed a degree of character and competance in the campaign and hopefully he will get to retire in good grace now the attack ads of the campaign are over.

Calibos

Manach wrote: »

He showed a degree of character and competance in the campaign and hopefully he will get to retire in good grace now the attack ads of the campaign are over.

Dude, this thread is about Romney!!

Fr Tod Umptious

One thing is certain and that is that he will live to be a big age, all lossing candidates do

George McGovern who lost to Nixon in '72 only died a few weeks ago aged 90
Jimmy Carter, lost to Regan in '80 is 88
Walter Mondale, lost to Reagn in '84 is 84
Mike Dukakis, lost to Bush in '88 is 79
George Bush, lost to Clinton in '92 is 88
Bob Dole, lost to Clinton in '96 is 89

Overheal

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

One thing is certain and that is that he will live to be a big age, all lossing candidates do

George McGovern who lost to Nixon in '72 only died a few weeks ago aged 90
Jimmy Carter, lost to Regan in '80 is 88
Walter Mondale, lost to Reagn in '84 is 84
Mike Dukakis, lost to Bush in '88 is 79
George Bush, lost to Clinton in '92 is 88
Bob Dole, lost to Clinton in '96 is 89

Hmm, so all of those losing candidates were old white men.

Interesting.

Fr Tod Umptious

Overheal wrote: »

Hmm, so all of those losing candidates were old white men.

Interesting.

Some were winners too, but in the main they were not that old when they lost

McGovern 50
Carter 56
Mondale 56
Dukakis 55
Bust 68 (yea that is old)
Dole 73 (old too)

Overheal

Barry was 47 and so was Bill

poeticseraphim

squakbox wrote: »

I've been reflecting upon the election, and although I like Obama, I feel bad that Mitt Romney didn't win. He has great business experience, and could have made an enormous contribution to the US recovery.

So what is next for Romney? Running for congress? Back to Governor? Or might Obama give him a cabinet position?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9662352/Mitt-Romney-would-be-willing-to-work-for-Barack-Obama.html

It would be a shame for such a rarely talented candidate to fade away.

Federal charges apparently

http://newsone.com/2074449/mitt-romney-ethic-charges/

He sternly criticized the Obama administration for that auto bailout ..turns out he profiteered from it illegally ....then tried to use it to bash Obama during the election..THAT'S SOOO ROMNEY...

He would have raped the US economy for his own pocket. His economic plan was mathematically impossible. Ryan did not 'have time to go into it'.

They would have shaken it down and beaten it like a pinata for themselves and their friends.

http://www.nationofchange.org/uaw-files-charges-against-romney-his-auto-bail-out-profiteering-1351783724

You could not make this stuff up could you? He is STILL making money off it.

And still people go on about what 'good' he could have done for the economy....oh yeah he 'could have' he sure wouldn't have though.

He was not even going to TRY to help 47% of the US ....he would have allowed the rest to have some crumbs off his corrupt crony filled table.

The same people who support Romney are the same people who supported Nixon after Watergate, and McCarthy after his hunt for red commies in the 50s.


Obama is not great but whether you are left or right the US is better with Obama. Some people just don't get that they fell hard for the bad guy.