2012 Election: Epilogue
Nov. 22nd, 2012 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23There's nothing better for a politician than after the election.
It is actually not a bad thing. It humanizes them.
Bob Dole was a boring old, white guy before 1992, but after the election, we got to see his lighter side as he showed some of his trademark wit and humor (Sure, we finally got sick of seeing him hawking viagra and making goo-goo eyes at Britney Spears, but it would never have happened if America hadn't come around to embrace him).
The same can be said of John McCain circa 2000, a candidate that ended up being loved by both sides of the aisles, to the point people were suggesting he might be John Kerry's running mate. (My friend R reminds me that McCain ain't that popular with liberals nowadays.
You can even say it for Rick Perry, whose career seems dead but may be getting ready for a second act. His self-deprecating humor at June's Gridiron Dinner makes him a prime candidate for the 2016 GOP nomination (according to Newsweek. See, I am not the only one talking 2016 already. Add that to Newsweek's other observation - that Jeb Bush is a dull speaker- and you may be on to something.)
Form the Dallas News's coverage: He poked at front-runner Mitt Romney several times. At the debates, Perry said, “I kept waiting for him to say, `Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?’ ”
Yeah, that's pretty good.
So it goes for Mitt Romney who is in the news now more than he was those last few days before the election.
Oh, sure on a political front, it's not so good. Romney blaming his election loss on an implication that Latinos and Afircan-Americans would get a gift from Obama in exchange for their votes (a comment that is getting ridiculed by Newt Gingrich and other Republicans)
Instead, it's the Mitt Romney that is taking the kids to Disneyland and going down the roller coaster in his business casual dress.
Equal noteworthy was Romney taking the family to see the new Twilight movie and even *gasp* pumping gas in San Diego.
I suppose even them it's probably curtains for Willard, but maybe he still has one more future high profile job left in him.
Meanwhile, Obama can do the things he can't do when he was running for President.
Like inviting "Gangnam Style' star PSY to the White House.
Okay, maybe not quite yet, but after a post-election interview with The Associated Press in which Obama admitted that he just saw the video and thought he could do the dance. Well, the rumors won't go away.
Obama did have Olympic hero McKayla Maroney and the other medal-winning gymnasts over to the White House; and yes- even Obama asks to do the "Not Impressed" face.
It is actually not a bad thing. It humanizes them.
Bob Dole was a boring old, white guy before 1992, but after the election, we got to see his lighter side as he showed some of his trademark wit and humor (Sure, we finally got sick of seeing him hawking viagra and making goo-goo eyes at Britney Spears, but it would never have happened if America hadn't come around to embrace him).
The same can be said of John McCain circa 2000, a candidate that ended up being loved by both sides of the aisles, to the point people were suggesting he might be John Kerry's running mate. (My friend R reminds me that McCain ain't that popular with liberals nowadays.
You can even say it for Rick Perry, whose career seems dead but may be getting ready for a second act. His self-deprecating humor at June's Gridiron Dinner makes him a prime candidate for the 2016 GOP nomination (according to Newsweek. See, I am not the only one talking 2016 already. Add that to Newsweek's other observation - that Jeb Bush is a dull speaker- and you may be on to something.)
Form the Dallas News's coverage: He poked at front-runner Mitt Romney several times. At the debates, Perry said, “I kept waiting for him to say, `Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?’ ”
Yeah, that's pretty good.
So it goes for Mitt Romney who is in the news now more than he was those last few days before the election.
Oh, sure on a political front, it's not so good. Romney blaming his election loss on an implication that Latinos and Afircan-Americans would get a gift from Obama in exchange for their votes (a comment that is getting ridiculed by Newt Gingrich and other Republicans)
Instead, it's the Mitt Romney that is taking the kids to Disneyland and going down the roller coaster in his business casual dress.
Equal noteworthy was Romney taking the family to see the new Twilight movie and even *gasp* pumping gas in San Diego.
I suppose even them it's probably curtains for Willard, but maybe he still has one more future high profile job left in him.
Meanwhile, Obama can do the things he can't do when he was running for President.
Like inviting "Gangnam Style' star PSY to the White House.
Okay, maybe not quite yet, but after a post-election interview with The Associated Press in which Obama admitted that he just saw the video and thought he could do the dance. Well, the rumors won't go away.
Obama did have Olympic hero McKayla Maroney and the other medal-winning gymnasts over to the White House; and yes- even Obama asks to do the "Not Impressed" face.
