How Dare Romney Withdraw Back Into Private, Profit-Seeking Life

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Dana Milbank: How Dare Romney Withdraw Back Into Private, Profit-Seeking Life After I and My Political Correligionists Trashed Him and Kept Him From Taking Office

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Apparently, having been rejected by the liberal media elite, Romney now finds himself in the curious position of owing them something anyway.

I sense a pattern here. A pattern that involves endless obligations to work for free or donate money to the liberal machine, even if -- nay, especially if -- you actually oppose the liberal machine.

The nation is heading toward the “fiscal cliff,” but have no fear: Mitt Romney is coming to the rescue — of Marriott International Inc.
In his first public comments since election night, the defeated Republican presidential nominee issued a statement Monday announcing his next step. An appeal to national unity? A charitable initiative?

No, he announced that he was rejoining the hotel chain’s board of directors. “It is an honor to once again be able to serve in the company of leaders like Bill Marriott,” said Romney’s statement, distributed by Marriott.

It was emblematic of the tone-deaf, I-have-some-great-friends-that-are-NASCAR-team-owners moments that contributed to his loss. The country is in a crisis, political leaders in a standoff, and Romney is joining his buddy’s corporate board.

Romney is a private citizen now and free to do as he chooses. But it’s not as if he needs the money; the $170,000 in cash and stock that Marriott directors received in the most recent year reported is but a sliver of the $20 million or so Romney takes in annually from his investments.

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Romney’s post-election behavior has been, in a word, small. Never again, likely, will his voice and influence be as powerful as they are now. Yet rather than stepping forward to help find a way out of the fiscal standoff, or to help his party rebuild itself, he delivered a perfunctory concession speech, told wealthy donors that Obama won by giving “gifts” to minorities, then avoided the press at a private lunch with President Obama. ​

 

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Dana Milbank: How Dare Romney Withdraw Back Into Private, Profit-Seeking Life After I and My Political Correligionists Trashed Him and Kept Him From Taking Office

—Ace
Ace of Spades HQ

Apparently, having been rejected by the liberal media elite, Romney now finds himself in the curious position of owing them something anyway.

I sense a pattern here. A pattern that involves endless obligations to work for free or donate money to the liberal machine, even if -- nay, especially if -- you actually oppose the liberal machine.

The nation is heading toward the “fiscal cliff,” but have no fear: Mitt Romney is coming to the rescue — of Marriott International Inc.
In his first public comments since election night, the defeated Republican presidential nominee issued a statement Monday announcing his next step. An appeal to national unity? A charitable initiative?

No, he announced that he was rejoining the hotel chain’s board of directors. “It is an honor to once again be able to serve in the company of leaders like Bill Marriott,” said Romney’s statement, distributed by Marriott.

It was emblematic of the tone-deaf, I-have-some-great-friends-that-are-NASCAR-team-owners moments that contributed to his loss. The country is in a crisis, political leaders in a standoff, and Romney is joining his buddy’s corporate board.

Romney is a private citizen now and free to do as he chooses. But it’s not as if he needs the money; the $170,000 in cash and stock that Marriott directors received in the most recent year reported is but a sliver of the $20 million or so Romney takes in annually from his investments.

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Romney’s post-election behavior has been, in a word, small. Never again, likely, will his voice and influence be as powerful as they are now. Yet rather than stepping forward to help find a way out of the fiscal standoff, or to help his party rebuild itself, he delivered a perfunctory concession speech, told wealthy donors that Obama won by giving “gifts” to minorities, then avoided the press at a private lunch with President Obama. ​

Romney was going to primarily be engaged in profit making whether or not he won the white house. Why do you think he was running? To serve the public? LOL!