Mitt Romney: now just "a toxic asset to unload"

[Greenbeard]

A fitting way to describe Romney at the end of his long efforts to buy his way into American public life.

His utter inability to accept defeat with grace--or at least refrain from being a total dick, as always--is giving his Republican brethren a ready-made excuse to cut him loose, once and for all.

There appears to be no Romney Republicanism to propagate. No Romney strategy to emulate. No Romney technology to ape. No generation shaped by his failed effort. And no Romney infrastructure to inherit, though he may still be asked to write and bundle quite a few checks. Romney's bewildering post-election explanations of his defeat — Obama, he said, had bought off Americans — drew almost universal condemnation from leaders of his party, but the comments were more excuse than cause; party figures from Ari Fleischer to Bobby Jindal appeared to be waiting to kick Romney to the side of the road. The candidate did them a favor when he complained that Democrats had simply bought off young people and minority voters, a churlish line that erased any lingering Republican affinity for him as, when all else failed, a good-hearted guy.

Romney is being erased with record speed from his party's books for three reasons. First, many Republicans backed him because they thought he had a good chance of winning; that appeal, obviously, is gone. Second, Romney had shallow roots, and few friends, in the national Republican Party. And those shallow roots have allowed Republicans to give him a new role: As a sort of bad partisan bank, freighted with all the generational positions and postures that they are looking to dump.

"Romney is now a toxic asset to unload," the historian Jack Bohrer remarked Saturday. "The only interesting thing left to his story is how they dispose of him."

Good bye, Mitt. May we never hear from you again.

 

[tyroneweaver]

gee another hate romney thread. imagine that, another excuse to make fun of Mormons.

 

[Greenbeard]

gee another hate romney thread.

But we've finally found a topic that can bring Republicans and Democrats together!

 

[Stephanie]

boy oh boy

 

[AmericanFirst]

gee another hate romney thread.

But we've finally found a topic that can bring Republicans and Democrats together!

Dimwits go better with putin.