Poor Mitt. He is still grappling with his loss and desperately trying to come up with a reason that for his drubbing that he and his funders can live with. This is his latest.
”I spoke with President Clinton the day before yesterday, he called and spent 30 minutes chatting with me. He said a week out I thought you were going to win. And he said, but the hurricane happened, and it gave the president a chance to be presidential, and to look bipartisan, and you know he got a little more momentum, and of course he also said that when he was watching Ann speak at the Republican convention, he decided he was tempted to join the Republican Party. So he may have just been effusive with generous comments as he chatted.”
And there you have it. The Big Dog campaigned his heart out for Barack Obama; running around from State to State for weeks; giving the best, or second best speech at the Democratic Convention; losing his voice so long and loudly did he praise PBO, and generally doing as much as was humanly possible to see the President re-elected. But in the end, it was all for nought. He could just as soon have stayed home and watched a loop of Queen Ann's Convention speech. Because, as Bill now knows, it wasn't the President's policies and message, nor his trustworthiness or his likeability. It wasn't the work of thousands of volunteers or the best campaign strategy in history. It wasn't the tireless work of the Big Dog and all those other incredible surrogates, e.g. Bruce Springsteen. Oh no.
It was superstorm Sandy. I'm really glad Mitt cleared that up for me, because I thought I was voting for the best man for the job. Or maybe it was that free birth control or something, or my kids getting affordable education. Huh. I'm confused, and I'm thinking my free gifts (all gifts are free) are going to be under the Christmas tree, because the mailman has only dropped off bills.
At the writing of this, there was no response from Bill Clinton, and I'm thinking that Romney's remark about Bill's almost voting Republican because Queen Ann is so hot, and she likes horses and women, like that, might have been his attempt at a joke. Or maybe the whole thing was a joke. Or it was a complete lie. I'm guessing the latter because Romney has certainly proved to be a much more proficient liar than a comedian.