Mitt Romney is a sore loser, still a firm believer in his 47% comments

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

This is completely unsurprising. Romney has always lived in his own little charmed world and responded in...not always as adolescent and churlish as all this, but usually pretty strange ways whenever that's been challenged.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

This is completely unsurprising. Romney has always lived in his own little charmed world and responded in...not always as adolescent and churlish as all this, but usually pretty strange ways whenever that's been challenged.

I think there's some question as to whether he actually believes what he's saying, or just thinks that it's what rich donors want to hear.

That's always been the case, though. Either the charmed world is also a floating one (which honestly is my theory) or it's just as much a construct as everything else and we're back to Romney as the first post-structuralist presidential candidate.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

He does a good impression of Jacques Perizeau.

"It is true that we were beaten, but in the end, by what? By money and ethnic votes, essentially."

Now that you mention it, the import of the statement actually is remarkably similar.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

If you have to call yourself one of the makers then it's not true.