Suckers.
While President Obama is stuck dealing with the fiscal cliff, war in Gaza, a slow financial recovery and a Twinkie shortage, Mitt Romney is gassing up the car and heading to Disneyland!
It's more fun than soda pop and cherry cordials!
But honestly, Romney deserves a vacation. He's been campaigning for six years straight, and his only reward is being kicked out to pasture way over there by George W. Bush.
Romney twisted and turned and dodged his way around every obstacle his party and his opponents threw at him, nearly caught up at the very end, and then stumbled just short of the finish line.
He was the second-to-last person on the island. Wonderful prizes for the runner-up include scorn and derision from all sides.
If this were China, he'd be summarily executed and his image would be photoshopped out of the history books.
As it is, Republicans are backpedaling away from his positions as quickly as possible. Romney is a continental divide in conservative America--all policy positions fall to one side of him or the other, but none stay near him.
Either Tea Partiers are doubling down on tax cuts and substitution of church for state, or the Marco Rubios and Bobby Jindals of the party are expressing their shock (shock!) that Romney could be so dismissive of minorities and young people. Doesn't he know anything about demographics? Doesn't he read Nate Silver?
I suppose Romney's drubbing is actually a sign of a healthy democracy. He lost, and now he's heading home (the one in California, not the one in Massachusetts or the one in New Hampshire). He's not in a gulag. He's not leading his generals in a coup. He's not hiding in the jungle cultivating cocaine to buy guns.
And if Obama had lost, he'd be doing the same thing. Because as much as we complain about our election process (the Electoral College makes puppies cry), it's worked 57 times.
And each of the 43 times a president has stepped down or fallen down, the system has successfully shepherded a peaceful turnover of power.
That's not nothing.
So let Mitt Romney enjoy his retirement, far away from any power or responsibility. We've all earned it.
