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Ann Romney Moans About Being a Nobody After Mitt Lost in 2012
Speaking to Chris Wallace of Fox News, Ann Romney compared the end of the 2012 Presidential campaign to serving in their church, “And now all of a sudden, you’re released and you’re nobody. And we’re used to that.”
Mitt and Ann Romney gave their first post-election interview to guess who? Fox News! Shocking, right? It will air on “Fox News Sunday” at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Watch here:
Chris Wallace painted a bleak picture of life after a campaign loss, “In a flash, it was all gone.” He didn’t stop there. Wallace drove the knife in, “Secret Service, the crowds, the intensity, the minute by minute schedule and suddenly — nothing. How tough is that?”
Ann Romney said it wasn’t tough because it was just like serving in their church. It was an “adjustment”, she said. Mrs. Romney explained, “In our church, we’re used to serving and you know, you can be in a very high position, but you recognize you’re serving. And now all of a sudden, you’re released and you’re nobody. And we’re used to that. It’s like we came and stepped forward to serve. And you know, the other part of it was an amazing thing, and it was really quite a lot of energy and a lot of passion and a lot of — a lot of people around us and all of a sudden, it was nothing….
But the good news is, fortunately we like each other.”
“You’re released and you’re nobody” to “all of the sudden it was nothing…” Whereas Mitt Romney compared his wife’s version of “stepping forward to serve” to a roller coaster ride and he seems to be glad he’s off.
If Mitt Romney thinks the campaign was a roller coaster, he ought to try leading the Republican crisis-addicted House to water. Happy sequester day.
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74 Responses to Ann Romney Moans About Being a Nobody After Mitt Lost in 2012
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Bea
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 1:48 pm
If it makes her feel any better, I never thought of her as anything terribly impressive in the first place, so no big loss from my perspective. But of course, my perspective is not Ann’s. I don’t get the impression she much cares for my perspective, so schadenfreude! Couldn’t happen to a more deserving, self-satisfied pseudo-queen. A pox on them both.
Andi
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 1:42 pm
very well said! kudos!
just mel
Mar. 3rd, 2013 at 11:36 am
I second that!
Anne
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 1:55 pm
I find her whinefest enormously amusing, especially since one does not have to succeed in politics or be First Lady to be a “somebody.” She was arrogant with an acute sense of entitlement that was expressed in the statement “It’s our turn.” I would say, hands down, that Willard and Annie were the rudest, most condescending, and most out-of-touch potential First Couple I’ve seen in my lifetime.
Faux Ann Romney
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 10:53 pm
You hit the nail on the head! Brava.
Jim Porter
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 1:57 pm
Great comment! My feelings exactly. Ann RMoney – harpy!
SUNNY
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 1:58 pm
She can always serve in a soup kitchen since she has all this free time now or she can go hold crack babies while the REPUBLICANS find them good pro life homes.
Carrie
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 2:14 pm
Lol yeah cuz republucans spend so much time on the born.
Sugapea
Mar. 3rd, 2013 at 5:05 pm
Exactly, Carrie! Why don’t Republican’s get that?
Did they forgot the words:
“Whatever you did for the least among you…You did for me”.
To help the ‘Richest’ among us is sadly the only GOP GOAL.
Maranon
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 2:24 pm
The Vatican is looking for a Pope, since she is in use to serving in the church and wants to be in the limelight, may consider applying for the job. ha
D. Lowrey
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 10:05 pm
The Vatican is looking for a Pope Actually…I wouldn’t wish this nag on anyone…even the child molesters in the world’s oldest business. Just wish Willard would get his gas giant reward by getting his reward in the afterlife and calling out this nag to keep the house and nursery in the gassy core of their afterlife paradise.
brian bloomer
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 2:37 pm
As an agnostic who has seen the folly of his ways, I have fallen to my knees to thank God that they did not succeed in their self-serving quest for the White House. I have since joined the family of The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints and the Southern Baptist Convention. (It’s the very least I could do.)
PSzymeczek
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 1:21 pm
You may have something there, Brian. I wonder if I can go join the Amish community my great-grandmother belonged to?
Heychief
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 2:37 pm
Ann and her husband Mitt are “Losers”. That’s something
Reynardine
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 2:57 pm
Mitt ado about nothing
phooeyrat
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 3:07 pm
This simply appears to be a case of money can’t buy everything; don’t it? Thank “God” the American-public or who ever is responsible for these corporate-elites not being elected to lead our country’s citizens down the path to corporate-slavery of the masses. In my opinion.
mack
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 3:08 pm
Ann has Palinitis; everything she says is word salad and has no structure or point.
Kim
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 3:12 pm
WOW! can you PICTURE her as First Lady? There is no gracefulness in this woman at all! Go away Ann we have a OUR First Lady and she is WONDERFUL.
Frank
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 3:34 pm
I skipped the video and just went straight to the “fingernails on a blackboard” feeling I get hearing Ann’s voice from the screen capture instead. That woman creeps me out something terrible.
Mike Haack
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 3:48 pm
Hey Lady…
It’s Ok, You were a Nobody Before He Lost.
Sandra
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 11:10 am
My thoughts exactly. Most Americans and I would venture to say around the world have never heard of this critter had her husband. In otherwords Ann I’ll never be Queen, you were always a nothing.
GO AWAY and take your creepy husband with you, please. You’re both a pox on humanity.
C West
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Maybe she can take some of Mitt’s tax exempt money and buy some porkchops to hang around her neck. That should find her some unquestioning friends and maybe lick some of that mascara off her face.
Barry Roope
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 4:21 pm
A great tradgedy was adverted when President Obama won re-election, can you imagine Mitt and Ann representing America and deciding what direction to send the country, Most Americans will probably never realize just how awful things would have gotten under Romney. America prayed and voted that the best man would win, and he did, President Obama
Andy Rix
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 5:58 pm
Well Barry, I beg to differ with your “Most Americans will probably never realize just how awful things would have gotten under Romney” comment. More than half of America knew exactly what a disaster it would have been and acted accordingly. Contrary to your comment (and a few others comments), more than half of America is quite intelligent, the remaining are just poorly informed, or afraid of brown people.
Judy M
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 4:50 pm
How shallow can these two people get?
SinghX
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 11:20 am
I “ripped” this statement from Tim Wise’s synopsis of a talk he gave at Providence College; he was summarizing the view of two, self-identified christian conservative students who didn’t seem to see or understand much outside of their bubble. It is a very descriptive and accurate way of answering your query “How shallow can these two people get?”
“…It speaks to what an utterly sheltered, provincial and fundamentally ignorant world view these persons have been given heretofore, by their parents, high schools, priests and preachers, and by a larger society that has no room for any understanding of America and Christianity that isn’t laudatory. Their inability to hear of evil, let alone address it, is rendered all the less likely by such a sheltering, and their ability to engage in even the simplest rational dialogue with others, or even with history, is made almost impossible..”
zumpie
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 4:59 pm
Yes, she was totally fine about it and used to it. That’s why she spent the next two months weeping her eyes out every day.
Us people, woke up, met and decided, no crown for you, Marie-Ann Romnette!
Shiva(Moderator)
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 5:24 pm
The only serving he did in his church is putting money into it so we could hide his taxes.
I am sure he is a good father and inside a good man, the less face it using your church to avoid paying your taxes for over 15 years is not what a good Christian is all about as far as I’m concerned.
But then again the Mormon church along with the Catholic Church gets out of paying taxes on billions of dollars worth of property that they own. And probably other church organizations to a much lesser degree.
pizza the hut ailes
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 5:50 pm
‘you people’ wont have willard to kick around anymore…. i dont know which one is more repugnant…. willard or mrs magic horse…. like they dont have help in that large house in la jolla, seeing mitt shopping for honey nut cherrios? please.
goo.gl/KEXf2
Lori
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 9:30 pm
“You people” just don’t understand how hard it is to be them! (Gotta go wipe my tears now.)
GeneralLerong
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 6:29 pm
She and $arah “Bullseye” Palin can cry in their beer together after their afternoon shopping spree.
Jack
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 7:14 pm
This, ummm…this isn’t whining. She’s not whining. I’m not a huge Romney fan, but she’s just pointing out that it’s like walking out of a Fun. concert into an empty soundproof room. Which is pretty much exactly what it’s like. They went from having blacked out incredibly busy schedules to just being people, and there’s going to be some whiplash there. This kind of gleeful name calling and misattribution of sentiment (the title of this article implies that she’s desperate for some kind of tabloid attention, and she’s clearly not) is a real problem in journalism. But sure, congratulate one another about what a terrible human being she must be. I’ll look for rational discourse elsewhere.
Anne
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 8:05 pm
They have justly earned the contempt that’s being directed their way. If memory serve me correctly, and it does, Ann Romney was actually in tears after learning that Willard Romney had lost his bid for the White House. Their own words as well as his own actions during the campaign came back to bite them in the worst way.
Peter Barnett
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 9:31 pm
If you campaigned so hard for something so long, you would be in tears too.
Anne
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 10:14 pm
Yes, life is hard, isn’t it? I’m quite sure those tears resulted from having their insular bubble shattered when they got a badly needed dose of reality upon learning that he had lost instead of winning like he was told he had. Because of the way they acted with their sense of entitlement and his numerous, pointless lies, along with his phoniness, he deserved to lose.
Chris
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 1:12 am
You are on the money Jack. I am really no fan of these people but this article is crap and the responses are even sadder. Petty, and almost worse coming from people who espouse tolerance and acceptance. Selective tolerance is not tolerance.
Reynardine
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 8:37 am
On the contrary, all tolerance is selective. Our whole system of laws and customs is based on the premise that some things are tolerable, some only partly or conditionally so, and some not at all.
Sandra
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 11:15 am
@ Jack, ‘I will look for rational discourse elsewhere.’ Bye Jack.
Andy Rix
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 11:21 am
Happy hunting.
Burt Firks
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 11:50 am
These disgusting, amoral creatures lied a blue streak to the American people for years. They treated us like stupid peons who should be required to vote for them. They felt entitled to the presidency, are tax cheats and criminals, and belong in jail. Nothing anybody could say about them is any more cruel or heartless than their own actions. In short, Suck it, Ann and Mitt, you horrible, evil monsters!! Good riddance and I hope you both croak in the most horrible and painful manner, and soon. These two horrible “things”, The “Romneys” are the archetype of everything that is wrong with the USA AND humanity.
djchefron(Moderator)
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 12:03 pm
But,but what about the magic tidy whities?
ibwilliamsi
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 8:28 pm
Ann Romney was, is, and always will be a nobody – except on Kolob.
Rick Storm
Mar. 1st, 2013 at 9:59 pm
First of all why would anyboby with an ounce of intelligence even listen to fox news let alone Mitt or his wife, id rather have a high colonic?
jake
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 12:37 am
The Romneys need to ruminate longer.
Taylor
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 12:46 am
Boo hoo.
Chris
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 1:09 am
Oh come on, I am as liberal as they come and they were being quite gracious. This makes me a little bit sick, such hypocrisy. Nothing they said was even the slightest bit “moaning” or whining. Please people grow up. I hate what they do, but I don’t hate them – they have no clue.
Anne
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 9:34 am
Reynardine is right–all tolerance is selective and no one with an ounce of mental intelligence or moral integrity would tolerate everything. No one who is “as liberal as they come” would have found a Romney presidency tolerable. During the course of the election, he showed his utter contempt for at least 47% of the American population that he claimed he wanted to serve. If he had been elected, that contempt would have resulted in the kind of legislation that would have set this country back years. So, as far as most of us are concerned, he and his equally arrogant, self-entitled wife deserve all the criticism that’s being directed at them on this forum. Spare us your holier-than-thou outrage.
Sandra
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 11:24 am
Chris, we’re still reacting to their campaign of lies, distortions, manipulations and insults ie., you people, the 47%, corporations are people too my friend, and not releasing their many years of tax returns, the way Romney made his millions off the backs of real, hardworking American citizens whom he left jobless,miserable and traumatized and without a thought of how these Americans would be able to feed their family, keep a roof over their heads, clothe their family.
Sorry, it’s hard trying to find anything ‘nice’ to say about this man and his missus.
Burt Firks
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 11:54 am
Wrong. Sorry. They are pure evil, and knew darn well what they were doing, and would have gleefully sold out the entire country for a few more dollars for themselves. Rich pigs like the Romneys care nothing for America. Money has no country, in the end. I”m sure they already had plans to loot the entire nation, watch and laugh as it burned, and then move to some authoritarian regime where they could abuse and torture and exploit the masses to their hearts content yet again.
Paws
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 7:56 am
The problem is that they are just very unsympathetic people so it’s difficult to feel too sorry for them and to write this off as just whining. I can’t be too hard on them for this though. It must be an enormous letdown.
Reynardine
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 8:31 am
I agree: this column would have been pointlessly petty had they been less haughty and acted less entitled before the election. As for not knowing what we missed…most of us have nightmareishly vivid pictures of what we missed.
ben
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 9:22 am
Is this attitude a pre-requisite to being a democrat? Is this what you want to stand for – rudeness, arrogance, and down right contempt for the opposition? How embarrassing you jugemental people have become! You have no right to complain when the GOP responds in the same way!
djchefron(Moderator)
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 9:39 am
WHEN?
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Anne
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 9:57 am
One reason Willard lost is because the tape came out showing him voicing his utter contempt for
“47%” of the very Americans he claimed he wanted to serve. He never recovered from that self-inflicted blow. As for your comments about Democrats what we’ve all said here is tame compared to the ugly vitriol I read any time I go on far right forums about us. He’s going to speak at the CPAC, and I suspect what he’ll have to say will indicate that he hasn’t learned anything of value from his defeat.
Shiva(Moderator)
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 10:05 am
Ann Romney was the same on secret tapes. She held the people in utter contempt when speaking to her own kind(the very wealthy)
gsb
Mar. 4th, 2013 at 10:07 am
Shiva:
People believe Ann R is a privledged,arrogant, Women,exempt from the restraints of life, placed on others. Ann believes she is free from these restraints also.
How could she be otherwise? She, married into a family who are considered and placed very high on the ladder of the Morman Church.The Romneys have led a very privledged exsistance for generations. Ann climbed leeps and bounds up the ladder of society when she married Mitt. She really believes she, is entitled. losing this election was a very large come down,losing it to a black man was an insult.
Paws
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 1:52 pm
The Romney’s have contempt for a good majority of the American people.
Like I said elsewhere, the loss probably stung and it would be difficult for any couple to get through. But they cannot spend months looking down their noses at people and dismissing their plight, and then expect those same people to turn around and be sympathetic to them.
babs
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 9:41 am
so glad these 2 are out of the limelight…got so sick of them and their self-righteous, entitled attitudes..
Robert Chapman
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 12:47 pm
Mitt Romney campaigned on the proposition that losers should fail.
Now that the Romney family is living the life Mitt planned for the rest of us, Anne is bellyaching.
So typical.
PSzymeczek
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 1:24 pm
Boo-freaking-hoo, Ann. My heart bleeds.
Mitt Romney
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 1:30 pm
Such an insufferable cunt…
knight4444
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 1:54 pm
I don’t typical call anyone a ”cunt” but calling Ann the C word is an insult to all cunts!!
Hogdaddee
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 1:31 pm
She was a nobody before Mitt ran, remained a nobody before Mitt lost – and now – the world would be little affected if she would spontaneously combust
knight4444
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 1:45 pm
WOW! and this is what republicans wanted as the first lady????!!
Mary Staley
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 2:20 pm
You all are right. She is not now, never was, nor will she ever be An Anybody! She is less than nothing, having raised their spawn to be exactly like her and Mittens. We are so lucky to not have them in our White House…..we would have never gotten the stink out!
Brian Loudermilch
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 2:25 pm
Madame Dressage should Grow Up and Get over
the Fact that Mitty the Moron LOST.
Ann Romney’s 15 Minutes of Fame are OVER.
She Was NOTHING before the Election and
She is Still NOTHING Now.
Tough Shit.
ChristineIAm
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 3:18 pm
Ba-Bye! Don’t let the door hit you in the a$$!
Lynda
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 4:48 pm
So, she says all of a sudden you (she and her other half) are nobody. Funny, I thought they always were!
labman57
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 6:55 pm
Ann Romney, who is accustomed to telling others what to do, is still indignant and outraged that lowly citizens of meager means and limited social stature were even allowed to have a voice (and a vote) in deciding her husband’s fate.
Eddie Powell
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 9:27 pm
Poor Ann. In her finest hour… mental illness and all.
Sherlock
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 9:51 pm
I understand Anne’s lament—her husband could not buy the presidency— the first and only thing the Romneys could not buy. Mitt bought the primaries.. What a wake up call. They lost to those 47% unclean leeches plus a few MSNBC liberals.
Poor Anne– she is nobody with 562 billion dollars.
All Republicans are EVIL.
Carrie Faith
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 11:08 pm
oh, was she an important person once???? oops, my bad
Sean
Mar. 2nd, 2013 at 11:56 pm
Oh honey, you were always nobody.
Nik DeWitt
Mar. 3rd, 2013 at 7:22 am
“Fortunately, we like each other”? “Like” is the closest you could get to describing the emotional state of your marriage? No wonder you couldn’t relate to over half of America. That makes exactly 1 for each of you. Don’t worry though, Anne, nothing has changed. You’re still a rich bitch nobody.