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<i>"Nobody liked Romney except voters."</i>

The period should be moved back two words there. That was the whole business with the parade of clown leaders in the GOP primaries: even in the GOP, <i>nobody liked Romney</i>. They only rallied around him because they thought he could beat the Muslin.

Honestly, I'm not even sure everybody in his family likes him. Certainly Seamus didn't.

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<i>he was a charismatic African American president with a billion dollars, no primary and a media that often felt morally conflicted about being critical. How easy is that to replicate?</i>

Poor Romney, if only the Dems had run a white man in his sixties with no moral center, no program, no policy positions, and a tendency to say vile things about the unwashed electorate, then we'd have seen a <i>fair</i> election. Even playing field, people!!

Also, that $1 billion? Came from hundreds of thousands of small donors, a.k.a. voters; unlike the $1 billion Romney had, which came from Sheldon Adelson, Foster Friess, and about 3 other people. Interestingly, Romney himself seems not to have put any of his own $250 million on the line. So much for having "skin in the game."

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As if Ike could even get the GOP nomination these days.

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i don't know about all this, but i DO know i went to that party once.

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<i>Romney became the nominee the same way Ramen noodles become dinner: There’s nothing else around, and you have to pick something. And the Hot Pockets believe in evolution.</i>

this sentence (and this post) make me smile. nice work rich.

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So I'm guessing the guy who just said that being "too liberal" was an <em>advantage</em> in this election, also insists vehemently that this is a "center right nation", just because. Some of us find that kind of cognitive dissonance so jarring it hurts.

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"Just because the boat is sinking, doesn't mean you should throw out the whole idea of plotting a course further north than planned to make slightly better time."

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<i>At the end of the day, Mr. Stevens just wants people to continue hiring him, pretty please.</i>

In spite of the fact that he's someone so stupid that even his smartphone makes fun of him.

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When the wealthiest, most despicable people lose don't they always still try to find a way to make it look like a win?

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