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by The Troubadour
Marc Ambinder has a brief piece up at GQ entitled "How the Secret Service Said Goodbye to Mitt Romney." The piece begins with this delicious opening:
At some point, early Wednesday morning, when Gov. Mitt Romney and family were tucked into bed, a quiet call went out on the radio channel used by his Secret Service agents: "Javelin, Jockey details, all posts, discontinue."
Of all the indignities involved in losing a presidential race, none is more stark than the sudden emptiness of your entourage. The Secret Service detail guarding Governor Romney since Feb 1. stood down quickly. He had ridden in a 15-car motorcade to the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston for his concession speech. He rode in a single-car motorcade back across the Charles River to Belmont. His son, Tagg, did the driving.
I'm clearly a horrible person, for the image of Tagg driving and Romney suddenly without his entourage brings nothing but a smile to my face.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/08/1159254/-How-the-Secret-Service-Said-Goodbye-to-Mitt-Romney
Romney Planned Fireworks to Celebrate Victory
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021767989
Mitt Romney's Campaign Cancels Staffers Credit Cards In The Middle Of The Night (Forbes)
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10021770034
Despicable jerk to the bitter end.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Good riddance to bad, really bad rubbish!
Oh yes........ and good to see you back ProSense!
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)Thanks!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)krawhitham
(4,634 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)nichomachus
(12,754 posts)can fuck up a one-car motorcade.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]To savor at leisure.
yardwork
(61,331 posts)I assume that Anne was Jockey.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)The sons were Rambler and Gremlin.
AMC Motors -- Assholish Mendacious Chumps.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)I give up on Ann's name, except perhaps 'screech owl'
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)as in Otis elevators
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)Tagg has a black hat and jacket on to keep Mitt from breaking out into a sweat
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)for wasting their time guarding a nobody.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)sheshe2
(83,137 posts)tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)my mistake!
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)devilishly fun
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)rustydog
(9,186 posts)rides with credit cards Willard killed way too quickly...bitter irony?
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Indeed, he won many points with me by keeping Palin off the stage and trying to get his supporters in line.
Romney, on the other hand, was a lying fuckstick who encouraged every bad feeling his supporters were having, or smiled wanly at them. He never had the stones McCain had when McCain told that woman that her delusions about Obama weren't true.
Romney is a coward and a fraud, and a nasty piece of business to boot, so I'm firmly happy seeing him eating shit in a way that would have disturbed me for McCain, or Dole, or even Bush senior (Dubya was just a frat boy asshole).
Romney can suffer no "indignity," because he conducts himself without any dignity.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)Election nite I said the same thing to the husband. McCain was honorable. Romney was an evil bastard that couldn't open his yap without bullshit pouring out.
DemocracyInaction
(2,506 posts)was back seat bitching all the way!
dmr
(28,313 posts)I saw them drive away. Mitt looked terrible.
Indpndnt
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Yeah, Jockey, I understand with Rafalca and all. Although, Annie is more like Rafalca's rear end.
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)But the Bayonet reference is more fun!
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)dem4ward
(323 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)rzemanfl
(29,523 posts)babylonsister
(170,928 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)babylonsister
(170,928 posts)Sandy get you? I hope it wasn't too bad.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)a bit of damage to the roof, but we were spared the worst. Thanks.
Waltons_Mtn
(345 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)codjh9
(2,781 posts)Cha
(295,537 posts)end of his days. How Obtuse were they to think they were going to win? Fireworks and no concession speech.. that's the mitt we've come to know and loathe.
Thank you, ProSense
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)powergirl
(2,393 posts)He can pay for his own security detail. Probably won't be able to stop traffic and block tunnels, though.
lapfog_1
(29,147 posts)after he loses... and everyone evaporates.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,968 posts)was a good surprise for him suddenly.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
ProSense
(116,464 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)(I love smilies
ProSense
(116,464 posts)join you?
City of Mills
(2,880 posts)if they got in a minor fender-bender at a stoplight on the way back home, just to top off their night
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)gkhouston
(21,642 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Seriously, what idiot thinks like that?
FailureToCommunicate
(13,968 posts)Thanks, ProSense!
Glad you got power back and are okay (under the circumstances!)
Ztolkins
(429 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Welcome back.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)cliffordu
(30,994 posts)of these merciless psychopaths.
I really, really do.
I wonder if Ann asked where "the help" went the next morning.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)mzmolly
(50,952 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)joanbarnes
(1,715 posts)skydive forever
(442 posts)But its kinda worth it.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)JB126
(165 posts)I love the image of Mittens and Ann losing their SS detail. So empty, so alone, so forgotten. Bah,ha,ha,ha!!!! I guess it wasn't your turn after all.
BlackM
(26 posts)At least the SS said goodbye - Romney's way of saying goodbye to his campaign staffers was to cut off their credit cards stranding some without so much as cab fare at his campaign HQ during his loss.
Mitt Romney's Campaign Cancels Staffers Credit Cards In The Middle Of The Night
http://www.forbes.com/sites/helaineolen/2012/11/08/mitt-romneys-campaign-cancels-staffers-credit-cards-in-the-middle-of-the-night/
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)Even so, it's kind of amazing that he did that, isn't it?
Welcome to DU!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Greg: Mr. President, once again, we really wish you wouldn't do that. You put yourself at great risk, sir.
Matt Douglas: Oh, yeah, right. Let me ask you something. In all the years ex-presidents have had Secret Service protection, has there ever been even one assassination attempt on any of 'em?
Chet: Uh, no, sir.
Matt Douglas: I find that sad. The minute you're out of office they don't care enough about you to kill you anymore. People are FICKLE.
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)justcheckinin
(7 posts)go far beyonnd the norm and bet romney's guys have guys protecting our guys - this man is a multi billionaire
no way offshore is only 250 plus million, romney is a multi billionire
icymist
(15,888 posts)I'm glad to see that you're okay, ProSense!
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)I was worried that I'd have to start looking things up on my own.
me tooOOOO!!!
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)-snip-
Romney has his family. When the race was close, agents would joke about the number of "j" words they'd need to come up with in order to give every one of his children, their wives, and all of their children code names. That's 29 people who would have received, if not protection, at least a protective survey and recommendations from the Service. Quietly, plans had already been put in place to assign protective details to all of them, just in case.
-snip-
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/11/how-the-secret-service-said-goodbye-to-mitt-romney.html#ixzz2BhTdEGQj
DCKit
(18,541 posts)You must be young and stupid to not know that.
Raster
(20,996 posts)- First, you obviously have not read the original article posted in GQ:
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/11/how-the-secret-service-said-goodbye-to-mitt-romney.html?mbid=social_twitter_gqmagazine
Nowhere, is there any smattering of schadenfreude. - The commentary you interpret as schadenwhatever is most likely attributable to the KOSack who quoted the QC piece in his diary.
- So where are you getting off called Armbinder: "....evil, bad,... young and stupid"?
DCKit
(18,541 posts)If so, I can admit it, and I'll leave my post up. No hiding shit.
Raster
(20,996 posts)It was cool to read this article, because I had the same question: when do Rmoney and Lyin' lose their SS protection and how does this happen?
So it was good information for me.
And as for the schadenwhatever, it's a bit hard NOT to feel that way. Both Rmoney and Lyin' obviously had such disdain for the common man and woman. It is a bit good to see them get their cumuppance in such a public way.
Anyway, have a GREAT day!
DCKit
(18,541 posts)You're the best of us.
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)I wouldn't even try to top that.
Don
DCKit
(18,541 posts)That one was easier than the last and I'm hoping it's going to become a trend.
Raster
(20,996 posts)MineralMan
(146,116 posts)It should have been Pacer for Mitt and Gremlin for Ann.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)oh, the indignity.
Pisces
(5,584 posts)Raster
(20,996 posts)...Welcome back, Pro and CONGRATULATIONS! You've been a stalwart Obama supporter through thick and thin.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Yeah, it's a great feeling.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,605 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I bet he was terrified that some vicious Obamamob would attack him at any moment.
And...welcome back (again)!! Hope you're finally thawing out and things are getting back to normal. I had no idea you were on the east coast. I thought all you paid Obamabots lived in luxury homes in CA.
Oh...one more thing...thank you for all the work you've done here. I don't know who you are, but you damned sure are on top of shit. You've helped me win (or at least shut down) many arguments.
11 Bravo
(23,921 posts)Nika
(546 posts)If the emtiness created by the Secret Service's departure bothers him, he can get more goons.
ailsagirl
(22,833 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)scene I saw, briefly, of him in the back seat of that one regular car was priceless. His face was like the rain that was falling. Gloomy. I loved it. Seeing him in utter defeat.
upi402
(16,854 posts)He will make it through. awww