Oh, how the businessmen rib each other! The businessmen in this case being Mitt Romney, whose “business” career was mostly as a hand-shaking middle man who was always insulated from taking the downside on a financial venture that went to hell, and some fellow with whom he was chit-chatting at an event yesterday. My how they ribbed each other with the language of Capitalists! The one guy calls Mitt Romney a failure, Romney tells him he’ll fail one day — again, this is Mitt Romney telling a potential voter he’ll fail at business one day — and then they all go out for a spot of kip, perhaps, just as Saints Ronny and Tip would.
From Molly Ball at the Atlantic, here’s the report of this fine exchange, handled with typical Romneyan grace.
On a day Romney ought to have been doing a victory lap, his status as the nominee all but assured, it’s safe to say things didn’t go as planned.
Even an attempt at a joke with a sympathetic questioner fell a little flat. The man said he was a businessman too, with the only difference being that Romney talks about having failed, and “I haven’t failed yet.”
“You will,” Romney assured him. “It’s the nature of the private sector.”
Everyone had a laugh, sure, but Mitt Romney has gone out and bought his company and looted it of everything already. It’s the nature of the private sector, this financial intermediary role of leveraged buyouts that came to prominence in the last ~20 years is! It is simply the nature of the private sector, of the Market.
[Atlantic]
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Newell woke up before noon?
Nah, he's still up from last night.
Newell is like rust: never sleeps
He's on a trip to Thailand.
It's just not right to have Wonkette posting while McDonalds is still serving breakfast. I mean, some of us aren't even drunk yet!
You drink alongside McDonald's breakfast?
MY HERO!
If you have them supersize the McBourbon, you'll get there quicker.
He can afford meth now that the new boss kept him on.
Dark night of the insomniac soul?
I'm going to start reading every Mitt Romney quote in a Kang/Kodos voice.
And then Romney was all like, "Hey, you remember the last Republican we elected to be President, don't you?" while his campaign manager ran for the Etch-A-Sketch.
Mitt Romney doesn't feel your pain so much as he subjects it to valuation, purchase, and finally repackaging into subprime "middle class agony bonds."
hedged with Desperation Default Swaps
Ha! Still better than Santorum Indulgences.
Evaluating. Is. A Form. Of. Feeling. My. Friend.
Mitt's going to learn a lot more about failure before it's over.
Mittens gets an F in dog handling, personality, core values, etc., but he deserves an A in flip-flopping.
Failure is Mittens' number one product.
Woo hoo, gonna get mah FAYILL on!
“You will [fail],” Romney assured him. “It’s the nature of the private sector.”
And that's why our health care and the insurance we depend on should be kept in the private sector so it can fail us.
Precisely. You should be a Republithug speech writer.
In (r)Money's case, I'm predicting his next major failure will be in the public sector.
I'm guessing early November. 2012.
Failure is just success rounded down, y'all [spit!]
On script: "I believe in America. I believe in You"
Off script: "You will fail. Mormon-baptism anyone?"
Hey Mitt you will fail it is the nature of elections. Of course you will have to go to your new home in San Diego and contemplate ways to stick it to the voting public.
I hurt my back and couldn't sleep so I got up early so I could comment early in whatever thread was running but now I'm so sleepy that I don't have any snark.
Romney needs to get his ass to a teleprompter and take it with him wherever he goes. Some of his best lines are his throwaway remarks, like "Corporations are people, too, my friend." After all, if he can carry a dog cage on his head then he can strap a brace on his chest to carry around his cue cards. Or just pretend he has the longest case of laryngitis in history and let his blonde, Caddy-lovin' "We don't have that much money" wife do all the talking.
The man's a compassionless tool. A robot. I loathe him. As, apparently, do many Republics. But, with their blind obedience to whatever Faux Newz tells them to do and a discipline that would be a credit to Hitler Youth, they turn out in droves to defeat the "half-breed." (See last week's Bill Maher).
I hope your back feels better.
So do I, especially since the doctor won't prescribe the heavy narcotics because they were killing my liver. That seemed like a bad thing, because it would pretty much wipe out the health benefits of staying sober for 30+ years. (Too sleepy to count them up).
That's what happens when you let your liver get out of shape. You need to start exercising it regularly.
This pic would appear to be a useful learing tool—my 3-year-old kid knows very few words, and yet you have captured TWO of them (dog hat) in a single picture.
Is it too much to ask for you to photoshop the dog hat to the top of a more appropriate learning delivery vehicle?
I want that hat for Halloween!
"Failing Business Venture"…yet another of the Sacraments of the "New Capitalism".
Mitts saving his Failure for November.
*Shaking Etch-A-Sketch* Be gone, panderbot. Supporter of Ryan's "Road to Despair".
Oh Mittens, dog carrier hats are sooooooo 2005.
The Geek Squad should be sued for the shitty job they did on Mittbots reprogramming and virus protection.
I was trying to draw a dog on top of Mitt Romney on my Etch-A-Sketch….I know how Mitt feels…failure's a bitch!…thank the magic underwear for shake away….
Mitt is just waiting to bottle and sell your tears of rage and frustration.
Mitt is just waiting to borrow millions against your future tears of rage and frustration, pocket half of it, outsource the rage to the third world, and walk away, leaving you with the loan. (You lose … but that's the nature of the private sector.)
Fixed it for ya.
Glowingly reported in the most favourable of terms by the likes of Jim Kramer at CNN Money and the rest of those carnival barkers..
So in one speech, he boxed himself into a corner on his "conservative" views, praised George W. Bush, expressed support for the hated bailouts and joked about the failures that result in thousands of layoffs.
*golf clap*
Wait – is he saying that, under his administration, we can count on Failure?…or is this his way of etchasketching the Massachusetts experiment?…
A little from column A, a little from column b…
When I am president, you ALL WILL FAIL mwahahahahaha
Did that Macnutten kid paint this?
Mitt went on to add, "Let me know when you do, so I can hedge your ass!"
Mitt's mothership isn't comin' back for him—is it?
He's a Romulan? Well, that would explain the hair…
Best photoshop job ever, Jim.
It was the alt-text which made me snort tea
The man said he was a businessman too, with the only difference being that Romney talks about having failed, and “I haven’t failed yet.” “You will,” Romney assured him. “It’s the nature of the private sector.”
A capitalist dick measuring contest means seeing who can be the bigger dick.
"I don't know many actual citizens but I do know the rulers of many other countries."
Jim, are you trying to Swiftboat Romney with the dog hat?
Fess up, Jim. You just wanted to post this (awesome) picture.
"Some of my best friends are failures"
"I keep hearing the president say that he's responsible for keeping America from going into a Great Depression," Romney said. "No, no, no. That was President George W. Bush and [then-Treasury Secretary] Hank Paulson."
OK, on the one hand Mittens is against the "Big Government" boogeyman…
Then, he tries to claim that W and Paulson saved the economy from the destruction that happened on their watch, as a result of their policies…
Which, if there were *any* truth to that claim at all, would be due to the bailouts that happened on W's watch…
Etch a Sketch can only do so much, Mitt…
Romney – poster child for Creative (self) Destruction.
He means, what's your dirt doing in Bossman's hole, boy?
WHAT…WE HAVE HERE…IS A FAIL-URE TO……..COMMUNICATE.
Failure? Just wait 'till November, Mittens; you'll be served a huge, steaming buttload of it…
"And if you haven't failed yet be sure to get in touch with my boyz over at Bain", he went on. "They'll see to it lickety-split. Ann, hand me a baby-wipe, would you dear?"
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