If you just lost the Presidential election, and had to scramble to write a concession speech because you were so cocksure that you'd win that you didn't bother to write one in advance, you might have a lot on your mind. Maybe you'd take a minute to thank your tireless campaign workers. Maybe you'd say, "What the heck, let's eat that Victory Cake; it'll just go to waste if we don't!"
Maybe you'd call Karl Rove at FOX News and bawl him out for not winning the election for you. Perhaps you'd call your webmaster and tell him or her to take down your pre-prepared "President-Elect Romney" website, which you'd been proudly showing off to the world even before Election Day. Maybe you'd console your wife, telling her that moving into the White House would only have been downgrading, and that public housing was really not good enough for you, anyway. Maybe, after calling the President to congratulate him on his win through gritted teeth, you'd take a minute to phone your sons and break the bad news to them personally. Maybe you'd loosen your tie, announce that those grapes were probably sour anyway, and go take a nap.
There are any number of things a losing candidate can do to wind down a long and exhausting campaign, and Mitt Romney probably did some of the things above.
Mitt Romney also made sure to cancel all Romney campaign staff business credit cards–in the middle of the night–which meant that some staffers, newly unemployed and straggling home after an emotionally devastating loss, discovered that their taxicab drivers were really pissed off because their Romney campaign credit cards were being declined.
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