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Mitt Romney Breaks Post-Election Silence in Fox News Interview: Campaign Was Like a ‘Roller Coaster’

Mitt Romney Breaks Post Election Silence in Fox News Interview

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures as he speaks at a campaign stop at Meadow Event Park, in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. Credit: AP

NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — Fox News’ Chris Wallace has landed the first post-election interview with defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann.

Wallace said on “Fox News Sunday” that the interview will air on his show next week at 2 p.m. ET and then again at 6 p.m. ET on the Fox News Channel. Additional portions will be on Fox News Channel the next day. Wallace says he’ll ask Romney how he has dealt with the defeat, what he plans to do and his thoughts about President Barack Obama’s second-term agenda.

“It’s an adjustment,” Ann Romney said about postelection life in the yet-to-be-aired interview. “But it’s one that I think we did well.”

Mitt Romney referred to his failed presidential campaign as a “roller coaster.”

“We were on a roller coaster, exciting and thrilling ups and downs. But the ride ends. And then you get off and it’s not like, ‘Oh, can’t we be on a roller coaster for the rest of our lives?’ It’s like, no, that ride’s over.”

Fox News spokeswoman Ashley Nerz says the interview will be taped this week in southern California, where Romney has spent much of his time since the election.

Romney has also said he will speak March 15 to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, an annual event that draws leading Republican voices.

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Comments (77)

  • KidCharlemagne
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:33am

    Romney was just Teddy Kennedy version 2.0:

    ————–
    “It’s now my pleasure to introduce my collaborator and friend….Senator Edward Kennedy…

    Senator…..(applause)”
    April 12, 2006: “Romney-Kennedy Health Care Bill Signing”

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  • YOURSENSEI
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:11am

    This is what you must know:

    Two reasons why Romney lost.

    1) Fox News

    2) He and Ann are supported by Friends of Hamas.

    It is so.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:21am

      This is what you must know:

      You are very selective in your reasons. A more complete list would include:

      1) MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS… .

      2) He and Ann supported confrontation with Iran for Israel’s sake; not in America’s interest.

      It is so.

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    • CarolinaGirl
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:05am

      NO, you are wrong. Two reasons why Romney lost: 1) Blacks & Hispanics. 2) Voter Fraud.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:21am

      CarolinaGirl, the biggest reason was “do for me,” “I need your help,” I can’t do it on my own,” “I need a sugar daddy and government will do,” women.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:25am

      CAROLINA…. i’m sure voter fraud was rampant but the reason Romney lost was “Candidate Fraud”.

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    • kywillie
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:21am

      Romney was the worst candidate since Nixon and you know it. He would come out in favor of whatever would get him elected because he somehow thought it was his birthright. People saw right through him and that is why he lost. His ideas on the economy were to go back to what almost caused the second great depression which we are still digging out of. I’m not saying that this was all Bushes fault for the crash nor is it all Obamas credit for the recovery. The crash was because everyone looked the other way while every financial institution was lining their pockets with unstable practices. This is why we need regulation.

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  • soybomb315_II
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 8:28am

    i really thought we had seen the last of Romneyshams

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 8:46am

      Good guy, great couple, just too gov-knows-best progressive. His parents were the same.

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    • AUsername
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 8:58am

      i might have considered him if he wasn’t a zionist traitor.

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  • huey6367
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 8:22am

    We still love ya Mitt!!

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  • noslave
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:53am

    THE RIDE IS OVER?? thats because so many obama supporters jumped in the cart,and those taxpayers that may be left, cant pull it anymore?,so the whole thing comes to a halt?

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  • americansfightingforcommonsense
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:19am

    Compare in contrast!
    Romney’s = Bright, Honest, Hardworking, Faithful, Believe in the Free market
    Obama’s = Dim, Dis-Honest, Lazy, Believe in Communism/Marxism

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  • americansfightingforcommonsense
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:14am

    Wow! We really missed out as a nation. Mitt and Ann would have been the best thing for America in the past 30 Years. They would have changed the tone of politics, but No we had to re-elect the most corrupt couple ever. The Obama’s used our own money against us by paying people with cell phones, food stamps, and tons of other free things. Mitt and Ann are the kind of Americans that made this nation great and would have righted the ship. Instead we are sinking in debt. $16.6 TRILLION thus far and $40 Billion a day! Barack Hussain Obama said about George W. Bush that the national debt growth of” $6 Trillion in 8 years was UN-American and UN-Patriotic.” Now Obama has grown the national debt by $6 Trillion in less than 4 years. NOW WHO IS UN-AMERICAN AND UN-PATRIOTIC ?

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    • rfycom
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:38am

      Stop repeating crap you hear and tell us your own damn opinions. Are you a man or a mouse?

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    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:58am

      nah, Ron Paul and Gary Johnson would have made a much better president because they would return the office to what it used to be

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    • ShamanWorld
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:01am

      Yeah, Mitt and Ann would further hand our country over to NAFTA sucking jobs and the Military Industrial Complex and their highly overpaid “contractors” sucking billions of US taxpayers for the Oil and Pharmaceutical Industry(Poppy plants in Afghanistan=Painkillers and heroin and morphine etc in first world countries) Mitt Romney is a phony just like the rest and he would have broken conservatives hearts with his spending for wars and corporate welfare. Romney would have been like George W. who was supposedly a “compassionate conservative”(lol) For all of you worried about our ever growing National Debt I say this…Look back at the history of our country: robbed the Indians for much of the continental USA, used slaves to build the foundation of the nation, interfered and warred in many countries worldwide to protect our “interests”,such as oil and other natural resources and strategic areas. We have also helped many countries and forgiven many debts(to china too) Today ou debt is to Communist China(technically our adversary), and Japan(who we still pretty much occupy is not in a position to “demand” anything to the USA. It is almost certain that at some point we will NOT pay China, and instead we will face them in the battle for control of the future World influence control of the seas, and global resources. In short, When the SHTF, China and its bankers and the World Bank or anyone else we owe, wont be able anything to say the USA owes the anything; exce

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:00am

      I didn’t vote for Romney in the primary either, but you know damned well he would have been head and shoulders above Obama.

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  • FloraBelleza
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:35am

    Add your comments

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    • AbrahamsSheepdog
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:59am

      em and feed em fish heads” -I’ll say it for ya Mitt ol buddy

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    • AUsername
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:00am

      Republican party stop appeasing zionists, there the reason you will never take the presidency, Americans don’t want war for them they would even rather welfare and food stamps over that.

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  • theonlynana
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:33am

    Mitt & Ann, honest inside and out, people who refused to throw stones taking the high road instead of the low “O” road. Lets face it maybe we the employers must hit rock bottom before we can or would be willing to accept an honest man.

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    • neverending
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:01pm

      @THEONLYNANA – that is so true, I don’t think it is even possible for a genuine, deep down honest and decent person to even be able to step that low. The only match for the sorry sob’s are more chicago ruthless thugs. A better role model for a family, decency and caring about others does not come in any better form then Governor and Mrs. Romney.

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  • FloraBelleza
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:21am

    Nobody would had defeat Obama, nobody, not even Chris Christie. The MSM is to blame, they are dirty and corrupts, besides, Obama not won the election, he stole.

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    • Brillodesol
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:42am

      @Florabelleza — Well… giving “free” stuff to those who just extend their hands… how can he lose, right? Last minute trick… giving the “Dream Act” a little push…making illegal immigrants believe that they are going to be heard and be granted a residence… playing his last cards… even though immigrants don’t really know that he has been the President that has had more deportations than any other one!!! He fought dirty, the media helped him and he won… pitifully… without integrity and without the respect of a real Presidential character. Now his wife and him are enjoying the celebrity status that they so much wish for. Can’t wait for him to be done and over with…

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  • fastfacts
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:49am

    Did you hear that even the liberal publications are saying give Detroit to Romney. They know he would have been a good president for the economy but that is not what they wanted, they wanted a liberal ideolog and now we have one.

    And in preparation for 2016, they are already attacking Marco Rubio because they know he is a scary proposition, as Van Jones put it, against anyone, even Hillary. Look at Al Gore rip into Rubio for not being “scientifically minded.” ( http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2013/feb/gore_rubio_pitiful.html ) This moron, Al Gore, is a waste of space.

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  • Anamah
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:48am

    I thought about them as an amazingly good, constructive people. I am sure they have survived the grotesque bullying, the hand made roller coaster, they must be much better than the country is… because America now is even worst; is more devastated now than then, we now ought almost 2 more trillions because since, our nation has been increasingly abused, raped by this false Messiah full of resentment, this angry little man with his heavy hermetic mind, as dumb close ideology, this sick mind filled of lies, empty promises amidst an endless court of big lobbyist.
    Anne and Mitt may be a little sad but I am sure they are okay, much better than we are.
    I missed them so much and even now!
    They were not needing us, it were us that were in need of them.
    It was for us, the American people who lost our opportunity in 2012 election; we lost our chance to clean our home and improve our direction as a country, it was the moment to take the wheel and be in charge going into the pursuing of happiness, not with an ungrateful stubborn but with the hard working man with an extraordinary ability to lead, and manage to make grow wealthy across a free society. A dedicated man ready to give us the successful country he also loves.
    But what a surprise how well organized can the madness be, our artisan stupidity took the worst turn to chose the constant campaigner, the big divider to intoxicate each and every fiber of our society…we choose the nothing, the falsehood full of bad intent

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  • soybomb315_II
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:11am

    Whenever mitt romney shows his face, i hope republicans remember how they threw their vote away and should have voted for constitution party or libertarian party instead. Force the republicans to reform the election system to allow for multiple parties and get rid of the archaic “winner-take-all” electoral system

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    • Brillodesol
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:31am

      @Soybomb…. Boohooo!!!!。・゚゚・(>д<)・゚゚・。 If you call those "parties"… so you say. deal with reality.

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    • imperative
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:05am

      @Brillodesol

      That attitude ensures that nothing will change for the better. Thank goodness our founding fathers didn’t have your attitude.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:45am

      SOY: Divide and conquer : works swell for the opposition.

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    • imperative
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:11pm

      @barber2

      Are we to unite irrespective of the position of the party? Should we be happy that Republicans have won even if they’re little different than Democrats?

      I think people must look at politics as they do sporting events. They just want the home team to win, with no consideration given to the ethics or principles held by that team. That’s fine in sports… not in real life.

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  • dmerwin
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:38am

    Sorry, but we need winning conservatives not losing “moderates “

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    • Brillodesol
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:06am

      Who is a winning conservative? Did he run for President? O it was just your mere wish? Think like a loser… and you’ll be one for sure!!!

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    • RIDEMODELS
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:51am

      I dont think there will be a next time…..I have read too many articles on China and the way the president ran to them first after the election, seems to me that China wants in here really bad, but they want guns gone first….I watched college football with a whole lot of Hyundai commercials, they have taken over movie theaters and now sports and most people have no idea what China really owns……Pretty scary stuff but I guess we dug our own hole here with cheap labor…….I don’t really see a next time election…We will be a Chinese extension….But wouldn’t it be funny if they were testing us with Chinese restaurants and they are not happy with the typical over weight liberal mom yelling at the cashier cause her order be wrong….That is why I try to be kind to all people in the food industry…..Not likely to be another election from what I can tell.

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    • Simonne
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:22am

      Brilllo, how true. Mitt was not only the best candidate, he was a good man. Sure he made mistakes but look how the media treated him and are doing the same thing to Rubio. Obama made loads of them but the media always remained silent in regards to them.
      I will be watching the interview because I actually miss them. Once I did my research on him, I liked him more than ever. It was such a loss as we are in such a mess. Extreme conservatism candidate will never have a chance of winning as most people are moderate. The democrat party is now extreme & the republican is slowly becoming the same way but on the right.

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    • AUsername
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:24am

      So far the only one to possibly stand up is Rand Paul.

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    • imperative
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:32am

      @Brillodesol

      “Think like a loser… and you’ll be one for sure!!!”

      So true… and note that it was those who thought we had to support Romney who lost.

      There were much better conservative candidates., but they were attacked by the Republican establishment, and so many voters blithely followed along. Obama was an easy candidate to defeat, but Romney and the establishment couldn’t get it done.

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  • Verceofreason
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:22am

    Have you called Paul Ryan to thank him?

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  • Brillodesol
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:16am

    Some of the commentators did not even wanted him for President… so what are you complaining about?! Whinning all the way…go ahead!!

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  • resme
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:13am

    Mitt Who?

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    • Verceofreason
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:21am

      Is Ann a Lesbian now?

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    • asybot12
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:44am

      To verce, how much milk (not cool aid ) do you drink. Why you ask, read an article on the “lancet”. People that drink cows milk like you do (calcium) have a problem, their brains calcifies, as yours did many years ago.

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    • Brillodesol
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:13am

      @ Verce — Are you a man? It seems that when a ‘man’ goes to attack a woman… loses two important things… and makes you a _ _ _ _ _!!!! Get it!!! Don’t be so low…. show some character would ya?

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    • RIDEMODELS
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:03am

      Stop it……They are a great couple….millionaires but a great couple.

      I would just like to tell Mr. China man that I love sweet and sour chicken and that you Wok!!….Hopefully I will be able to keep my gun now.

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    • AUsername
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:18am

      how many people have he laid off since board of the Marriott?

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  • lassiegirldawn
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:11am

    How can there be an informed decision when the people who are supposed to give you informed information is being bullied into only one view like this commie in chief has done to the press. Woodward had the guts to stand up and I hope the rest of the press stands behind him and tell the truth about this bully. Romney is a good businessman, would he have made a good president we will probably never know, but he did have love of country and is a morale man, not like the in the closet that we have now.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:59am

      Excellent post!

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    • Brillodesol
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:09am

      Great post!!

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    • TheEDGE
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:11am

      Being bullied? I think you give them too much credit. The media are absolutley falling all over themselves to be the next to lick the first couple. The MSM and the current administration are one in the same.

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    • PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 8:01am

      The very ignorance that allowed Jim Jones to succeed is identical to the ignorance that allowed 0 to succeed. 0 has a “cult following” and they have a symbiosis of evil. The real atrocities are yet to come.

      I would like to be positive, but the MEDIA must WAKE UP and the indoctrination of the children MUST STOP.

      I was at a very small meeting the day before the election. Josh Romney said that four of Mitt’s sons did not want him to run for President and so that leaves 1 son and his wife that did. 2012 was the most important election EVER and that is what the RNC gave us to defeat a Usurper, Marxist, Cult leader! IT IS OUTRAGEOUS. I do not forgive the RNC! Mitt Romney is probably a very nice person….That is NOT what we needed to DEFEAT 0. We needed someone that would BASH the Media into TRUTH!

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    • imperative
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:03pm

      “How can there be an informed decision when the people who are supposed to give you informed information…”

      By impacting the culture in a positive way that exposes the misinformation. And you know what? This requires lots of patience toward and acceptance of those who have honest disagreements.

      Unfortunately so many Republicans react with hostility toward the slightest disagreement or the most honest questions. This turns people off, and helps to lose elections.

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  • repairsea
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:41am

    He didn’t want to be President so he should have stepped down. He has wasted enough of my time.

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    • RIDEMODELS
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:54am

      Obama only won by half the votes and most of the country did not vote…..Mitt was a moderate but at least the NRA backed him and that is what mattered for me…….But the UN wants a list of gun owners for a reason, and I believe that reason is China…..I don’t think there will be another election.

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  • JTHmishmash
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:38am

    He definitely wasn’t my first choice….or second or third and so on for the GOP nominee, but he would have been much better than President Obama. Kinda disappointing to listen to him talk again, it takes me out of denial that we have to deal with President Obama for another 4yrs. Romney seemed like a nice genuine guy, looking forward to watching the whole interview and seeing him at CPAC.

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  • spfoam1
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:26am

    The left went nuts, frightening themselves and others, with speculation about what might happen IF Romney is elected. At the same time, they ignore all the BS that IS happening while Obama is in office. Somehow, these idiots FELT that a gay racist Marxist would solve economic problems better than a very sucessful businessman. Even now, the closed minded useful idiots attack Romney, while Obama poses with his nose in the air like a dictator, and runs the country into the ground.

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    • FloraBelleza
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:30am

      The left was very scared after the first debate, even Michael Moore said that the left should be prepare to call Romney the next president of USA in SNBC. But them, they realize that only playing dirty and steeling that election would put Obama again into the WH, that you have.

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    • ShamanWorld
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:40am

      @Spfoam. Do you really believe that the Dems and Repubs both are actually NOT acting? If Romney had of won, we’d have already attacked Iran and maybe even another full scale Korean War. It has been shown that Mitt Romney has a “special” relationship with bb nuts-yahoo(Israeli pms) from their days in business and college. This kind of foreign connection made Mitt vulnerable, he was seen by real “awake” people(NOT people who only get their info from talk radio and mainstream media including Fox) as an Israeli stooge and possibly even a Manchurian candidate. Not to say BarryO likely isn’t a closet homosexual, Manchurian candidate himself; here’s a small tidbit about Mitts connects….There is chatter that the Benghazi fiasco was perpetrated by foreign black ops who wanted a Romney win (and who had inside information)and it was done to make BarryO look bad(cant protect our ambassadors etc)right before the election(to overshadow BarryO using killing of Bin Laden as a selling point for re election. Chris Stevens was supposedly walking the streets and running guns to al Qaeda in Libya. He may have been a sacrifice to Mitts election hopes. The world we think we know, is a lot darker and deeper

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  • Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:17am

    It wasn’t like a roller coaster, it was like the parachute jump. The primaries were like the part where you just sit there doing nothing and you get dragged to the top of the ride, and the general election was like the part where they let go of you and you drop slowly but steadily until you can’t fall any further.

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  • Citizen-1
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:16am

    He’s awesome and would have been 1,000 times better than what we have. Obama sucks…

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    • Brillodesol
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:13am

      I second that!!

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    • asybot12
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:52am

      I third that! I still wonder to this day what happened between the two debates, for some reason Romney had Hussein by the bills and backed off. To this day I really wonder what happened there?. Threats on the family?? Chris Christie’s betrayal during the storm? (where are the reports of Romney’s personal aid to NJ?) , the so called “neutral objective” media??

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    • neverending
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:55pm

      I 4th that.

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  • drs1969
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:08am

    If he speaks at CPAC, then Christie should have been invited, too. No difference.

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  • soybomb315_II
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:08am

    Mitt Romney’s ride is over but ours is just begining

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    • DLV
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:15am

      Yessssss! Muahahaha our ride is just beginning! The takeover of America by the progressives shall commence!

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:16am

      His run was like a roller coaster to me, made me sick to my stomach at the end.

      Come on, he couldn’t beat this guy????? Obama all but gave him the election on a silver plater, and he choked.

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