Romney says Fuck You to entire staff.......Really!

[busterbrown]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/09/romney-staffers-stranded-when-campaign-killed-credit-cards-on-election-night/

[Raster]

1. Stay classy, Willard, right to the end.

[Barack_America]

34. Hey, at least he didn't make them build the stage!

Welcome to corporate America, young Republicans.

[Texin]

49. I'm surprised he didn't expect them to take a cyanide pill for "their" incompetence.

Wow. He's more liked that video of "Mitt in the Bunker" than even cynical me thought.

[crunch60]

64. Romney is no longer running for office, so he doesn't care what anyone thinks of

him. He thought all his money could buy him more Power, and with more Power his standing within the money $$ !% community was all he needed to fulfill his massive ego. That didn't happen, he wasn't elected President, so he no longer needs his staff of anyone else he considers beneath him, the 47%. That is who he is, a selfish corporate demagogue.

[calimary]

85. Yeah, no kidding. The comments are MOST interesting.

LOTS of people dumping on him - basically saying that this would have been the kind of presidency we could have "looked forward to" if HEAVEN FORBID wrongney had won. Someone even commented - "after all, he likes to fire people." How does it feel to be used up and promptly discarded, mittians? Wonder if any of them will finally realize that he's nothing but an IGMFU (I Got Mine, F-U)? Yet another republi-CON illusion from their very own kkkarl rove-built/koch brothers-funded "reality." If any of them really had expected to be respected or treated honorably, they shoulda signed on with the other team.

[Scuba]

94. Great post, thanks.

[Whisp]

2. what an insufferable jerkoff.

the man can't do anything human

[Kablooie]

12. He's a businessman to the core. Cut any losses no matter what the human cost.

It's been his history and he's simply continuing in correct form.

[Poiuyt]

68. The best businessmen I know care deeply about their people

Romney's just an asshole

[WinkyDink]

78. "Best" isn't necessarily "wealthiest". That's the Romney standard.

[Atypical Liberal]

79. Precisely. And this is how he would have run a country.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Showing his true colors.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. Wow ...

Maybe some of these staffers will come out a say, how lucky we are to have dodged the modern gop bullet.

Had that happened to me, there is absolutely no way I would have anything to do with the gop ... ever again, ever.

[hfojvt]

51. really? Because I volunteer much of my time and money for my candidates

Prior to election day 2006 I rented a car to drive to Topeka to a rally and then drove south all the way to Yates Center and home showing off my bumperstickers.

This little snippet kinda made me ill "In 2010, Hillary Clinton’s campaign was still soliciting donations to retire the last $771,000 of the $5.9 million debt it accrued in the bruising 2008 Democratic primary fight."
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1sLwa)

The Clintons are multi-millionaires but they won't pay their own campaign debt out of their own millions.

[1StrongBlackMan]

58. Were you on assignment FOR the HRC campaign ...

and under the understand that your expenses would be covered ... as these campaign workers must have been, since they were issued campaign credit cards?

Doing something on your own, even in support of and to benefit someone else does not create an expectation that you will be compensated.

[hfojvt]

81. bite your tongue

I wouldn't do a thng for HRC, although I thought about getting an autographed copy of her book, for my mom (who doesn't like Hillary either).

I did a fair amount of work for Boyda, and even donated (and got three t-shirts).

My point is that they got paid to do what I did for free. I did not get any paid hotel rooms or rental cars or cabs.

If they were just in it for the money, then I am not sure I want them on my side either.

I probably would not be happy to be stiffed out of some of my pay, especially by a rich candidate like Romney, or Clinton, or Grayson, but on the other hand, I would be happy to be paid at all for some of the stuff I do for free.

[1StrongBlackMan]

82. Sorry ...

My bad. I thought you were saying that these staffers SHOULD have been stiffed.

[ruffburr]

5. Glad you posted this

I was going too, This gives you a real picture of how this dick would run /ruin the country.

[tk2kewl]

6. heard it on the radio in the car this morning

made me smile

[agtcovert]

7. Awesome

Some candidates care and shed some tears with the people that helped elect them.

Others just shed credit cards.

[Carolina]

8. Frankly, I do not

feel sorry for them. They got their firsthand lesson in how Rmoney screws people. Their guy was (and is) a narcissistic loser and now they experienced it personally, directly. Too bad, so sad... NOT

[ywcachieve]

10. spot on

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. That's right. You don't want to be ripped off by scam artists? Don't follow them. n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

9. Who said The Twit isn't consistant?

The Twit is the personification of the corporate fathead: Mr. I built it all by myself with no help from anybody, least of all the peons who work for me. He has no appreciation for the work these people do for him, and it shows.

More than anything else, that's why I voted against him.

[crunch60]

69. In Mitt's mind, the workers don't really exixt, he can't see them as people, they are only there

as peons to get the work done and stroke Mitt's ego, so he can say, "see what I built", see how well I could manage the economy.

[RomneyLies]

11. So now they know how that guy in that commercial felt

when he was ordered to build the stage that Bain Capital went on to tell him he was fired.

[global1]

13. They Should Have Known As This Is The Guy That Likes To Fire People......nt

[ProudProgressiveNow]

14. What else could we have expected...

What an ahole!

[Downtown Hound]

15. You mean to say he's actually a chronic asshole

and that stupid smirk he wore for the entire debates was totally phony? Gee, who knew?

[Jennicut]

17. That's Mitt for you.

One only has to look at the history of Bain to see what Romney does to people.

Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps! Fiscal Conservatism!

[JohnnyLib2]

18. This really should help the tell-all books, heh, heh.

[meeshrox]

40. Can you imagine what they'll say?

Oooohhh, I'm already getting giddy thinking about it!

[UnrepentantLiberal]

52. Good point.

Payback will be a bitch.

[Hutzpa]

19. That'll teach them

for choosing money over loyalty. Bunch of losers.

[busterbrown]

20. Yea, we should get on right wing sites and post this. Of course they are going to blame this on some

low level staffer. Last words out of Willard's mouth....."Fuck em"!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

21. I can't think of a better epilogue for the Rmoney campaign story.

[grantcart]

22. turns out that the campaign didn't get the donation stream that they thought they would

The campaign (not the SuperPacs) is probably heavily in debt.

It makes the huge bonuses paid to the top people very ironic.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014297414

[Raster]

41. And turns out that Rmoney never put a dime of his own money into his own campaign.

[grantcart]

44. My understanding from 2008 that it was one of Ann's conditions that no more personal money

would be spent, and that this would be the last time.

[Raster]

48. Well I guess we know who wears the magic pants in that family, now don't we.

[grantcart]

86. She might have had a good point

She might have been using it as a test, if we can get others to finance the primary then we shouldn't try to run in the general.

She might have been hoping that it would have brought the whole thing to an end earlier.

[Raster]

88. I get the feeling that Ann would have LOVED to have been FLOTUS and wave to all....

...the commoners from the South Portico, but did NOT get the feeling she has enjoyed the election process to get there.

[aquart]

59. And I'm sure he won't blame her for that.

[Retrograde]

53. Just like he "built" Bain Capital

All on someone else's dime, no cost or risk to him - but he gets all the rewards!

[1StrongBlackMan]

61. Well ...

that IS the model he has excelled at.

[crunch60]

80. I read Mitt made millions on this election, via huge money being spent in media-

advertisement. Bain owns Clear Channel. I will look for the article.

[uponit7771]

84. that's crazy!!

[Auggie]

23. And after he canceled their credit cards their jobs were shipped to China

[coalition_unwilling]

24. My wife said it best "If you lie down with a snake, you're going

to get bit."

[bongbong]

25. Irony overload

So the profts-for-myself-and-none-for-you guy screwed over his foot soldiers.

Add this to the mountain-to-the-moon sized pile of ironies that repigs have already come to love.

*) poor people voting for a billionaire
*) "business experience" means "I know how to outsource jobs and nothing else"
*) ignorant people (repigs like coward Nugent) calling smart people "stupid"
*) women voting for repigs
*) students voting for repigs
.......

[TeamPooka]

26. man of the people

[begin_within]

27. Even if he had won, he probably would have done the same thing

"Thanks for helping elect me... now hitchhike home... and good luck..."

[L0oniX]

28. They found out that they are part of that 47%.

[Chorophyll]

29. This is why I don't vote Republican. This is why we do not need a "businessman"

running the country.

There's not a strong enough obscenity to express what I think of these people.

[SemperEadem]

37. exactly right

[marble falls]

30. out of touch with reality from beginning to end.

[Kaleva]

31. Most likely a high up in the campaign staff made that decision

Romney himself may have not been aware of it.

[SemperEadem]

36. two days have gone by and he hasn't said or done anything to reverse it

so yeah, the buck stops with him.

[Raster]

42. Sorry, I can totally see Rmoney saying "cut off the cards" as he left the stage.

Surely a high up issued the directive...I guarantee you Willard not only knew about, signed off on it.

[Posteritatis]

46. If so, said high-up felt comfortable making that decision

I've never heard of a stunt like that happening in the wake of any of the other concessions.

[leftyohiolib]

70. romney is a top-down style manager, he made not have made the calls and the shut-off date/time

was probably pre-arranged but it was his decision to shut them off at midnight election's day end

[sibelian]

32. That's what you get for siding with the dicks.

End of.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

33. He is a Bishop after all, a man of the cloth

In his case, it's the combo cotton and linen cloth on which our currency is printed.

[SemperEadem]

35. that 47% thing is really 100% if your last name isn't romney...

that is breathtaking.

[Coyotl]

38. At least he didn't have his buddy with the weird hair call them to say "You're Fired"

What the weird hair guy's name again? Tramp?

[hvn_nbr_2]

39. "I like being able to stiff people." nt

[Jim__]

43. Romney is an asshole. And, nothing but an asshole. - n/t

[Zambero]

45. "I don't worry about those people"

"I like to fire people for bad service"

Ironic that the ones who worked to get Willard elected were the first to get a rude reality check on what he stands for. His early words should have tipped them off.

[Buzz505]

47. That was the name of the game.

they got what they were campaigning for.

[gholtron]

50. This is what the country dodged

Thank God President Obama got re-elected

[lark]

54. Mitt cares about one thing only

HIMself, HIS money, HIS family. Otherwise, it's FU, he doesn't give a damn, as he proved once again. He's contemptible and thank God the American majority saw thru his many lies.

[Ccarmona]

55. What A

PRICK!!!

I could see once he got in, he'd issue SS checks to recipients and then cut off the finds to back them so they wouldn't clear when the recipient tried to cash it.

[Rob H.]

56. Not just a LOL, but a guffaw out loud comment at the rawstory page:

"Why didn't they just ride their tax-exempt dressage horses home like a normal person?" - Flying Squid

Well played, sir/madam!

Edit: and another one: "Maybe they can get rides home strapped to the roofs of cars." - lardheppus

Some of the comments are pure gold.

[Patiod]

57. Would Dem staff get a credit card for cabs?

Maybe they would, but I wonder.

The staffs I've worked with have always seemed very lean - folks sharing a rented house, hoping volunteers would bring snacks, water and markers.

I picture those young people working in Obama's Chicago office taking mass transit, not cabs.

[Renew Deal]

60. I'm not convinced it was the wrong thing to do.

Those credit cards are ripe for abuse.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

62. Am I alone in thinking this a mistake? He is "shellshocked".

I believe his response gives insight as well. We definitely dodged a bullet.

[Raster]

71. We dodged a major bullet!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

73. I've changed my mind after listening to what the GOP is up to today. He was setting an example.

We still dodged a bullet, but he is showing other wealthy internationals how to respond to having to pay more of their fair share.

[progressoid]

63. Romney defenders at Forbes are saying this was a good thing to do because

otherwise they would have charged up a big bar tab or something!

So they are basically calling their side a bunch of freeloaders and thieves.

[1StrongBlackMan]

65. I wonder ...

if many reporter/journalist has reached out to any staffers to get their story?

I'm willing to bet, these staffers' story will be far more interesting than the usual "tell-all" books of the senior staff.

[loudsue]

66. The weird thing is.....it probably turns those kids on to see

Mitt going so "capitalist" on them. The more helpless they feel, the more they feel they need the republicans in charge.

REMEMBER: THESE PEOPLE AREN'T LIKE THE REST OF US!!

[deutsey]

67. Ha ha...Slapped by the invisible hand of the free market n/t

[AllyCat]

72. "Not normal protocol for political campaigns" but then again

this is no ordinary politician. This one thinks he is the only one who knows how to be a businessman and there is just no way a business man like RMoney is going to tolerate a loss. Campaign credit cards open when the campaign ends are a loss. Hey, money is money!

[Shankapotomus]

74. a just and fitting end

his treatment of workers of companies Bain bought and sold foreshadowed this.

[Nika]

75. The vindictiveness of this shallow man is incredible

But this is no terrible surprise to those of us who had had a good grasp on what an incompetent and shallow idiot he was as a human being.

[WinkyDink]

76. You wouldn't want them to just be MOOCHERS, would you?

[Strelnikov_]

77. What a hoot n/t

[jmowreader]

83. Charming

And the labor lawyers are rubbing their hands together now. There is some expectation here that if the campaign flew you to Boston and put you in a hotel room, the campaign wouldn't leave you stranded and stuck with the hotel bill if the useless candidate lost.

There could be a settlement here: we will pay your reasonable expenses if you don't write a tell-all book.

[Rex]

87. Just goes to show you how fucked up the GOP really is

never have I seen an organization that HATES people as much as the GOP.

[Raster]

89. The GOP LOVES the 1-2% and hates the rest.

What is amazing is the reaction of the 1% after Rmoney lost...they just could not understand WHY we would not want to elect Rmoney.

[Rex]

93. Ya that was amazing, it was as if they thought they paid

enough money for the new CEO to replace the old CEO. How shocking and out of touch they are.

[Raster]

98. That's just how the United Corporations of America do business.

And quite frankly, if the whole truth were known, the 1% and their Corporate entities probably did pay large sums of money to influence the election in their direction, and I don't mean legal influences.

[Blue Owl]

90. Mr. Corporations-Are-People ain't no friend of mine

Good riddance, you shit-heel.

[Patiod]

92. Serves those Alex P Keaton m%#fuc#ers right nt

[mercuryblues]

95. I was talking to my son about this

and he wasn't quite grasping the impact of this asinine move unti I told him.

This is like taking a date to the prom and making her walk home because she wouldn't have sex with you. She's going to be pissed the next day and start bad mouthing you to anyone who will listen.

It hasn't taken long to find out that rMoney really didn't have a concession speech, was planning on a $25,000 fireworks show, made his workers pay for their own ride home, charged journalist for access on election night, was totally shocked he lost and had a private, elite reception for his big donors.

The leaks have only just begun. I can't wait for the full implosion. I am evil like that.

[undeterred]

96. Better his staff than the country!

[tabbycat31]

97. Well this demoralized a bunch of staffers

Many of who will go onto work other races (I am a campaign staffer myself).