"What Romney Lost" Good piece in NY Review of Books by G. Wills

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http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/nov/09/what-romney-lost/

What happens to those who lose a presidential campaign? Some can do it with heads rightly held high, and go on to give valuable service to the nation. We were reminded of this just two weeks before the recent election, when George McGovern died. Though he underwent a humiliating defeat by Richard Nixon forty years before, he was a man of integrity, some of whose ideas were continued by people who worked in his 1972 campaign, like Bill and Hillary Clinton, veterans of his Texas office that year. McGovern was re-elected to the Senate after his presidential loss, where he performed important services, like defying the cattle, egg, and sugar lobbies to set up national dietary standards. This was a long-time commitment of his. Even before he went into the Senate, he had served as President Kennedy’s point man in the Food for Peace Program. In 1998, President Clinton appointed him his ambassador to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, where he worked effectively to curb world hunger. Above all, though he was a heroic flyer in World War II, he was a principled opponent of useless militarism.

What public service do we expect from Mitt Romney? He will no doubt return to augmenting his vast and hidden wealth, with no more pesky questions about where around the world it is stashed, or what taxes (if any) he paid, carefully sheltered from the rules his fellow citizens follow.
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I'm loving the abject dismantling of Romney. I can't get enough of it. Does that make me a bad person?

[Indpndnt]

1. That piece was brutal -- and wonderful!

If you're a bad person for liking this, I'm right there with you.

[ProSense]

2. Great takedown

Many losing candidates became elder statesmen of their parties. What lessons will Romney have to teach his party? The art of crawling uselessly? How to contemn 47 percent of Americans less privileged and beautiful than his family? How to repudiate the past while damaging the future? It is said that he will write a book. Really? Does he want to relive a five-year-long experience of degradation? What can be worse than to sell your soul and find it not valuable enough to get anything for it? His friends can only hope he is too morally obtuse to realize that crushing truth. Losing elections is one thing. But the greater loss, the real loss, is the loss of honor.

Like I said in another thread, Romney is likely going to be more bitter than McCain.

Mitt is an arrogant, condescending asshole who, after years of running for President, finally got the nomination. He thought he was a shoe-in, but learned that his money couldn't gloss over his flaws and wasn't enough to buy him the Presidency.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/101768318

[Grateful for Hope]

3. Very good article.

I also thought the comments were very interesting. Lots of intelligent people read that blog.

[ThomThom]

4. hopefully he will be indicted for tax evasion

a little justice please