Philip Rucker at the Washington Post is out with this new piece, based on dozens of interviews with Romney’s friends and neighbors: Mitt Romney looks out the windows of his beach house here in La Jolla, a moneyed and pristine enclave of San Diego, at noisy construction workers fixing up his next-door neighbor’s home, sending regular updates […]

Gentleman’s Quarterly (GQ) produces a “25 least influential people” list for the year. And the man who occupied the nation’s attention for at least a large chunk of the year and received nearly half of the country’s vote as he aggressively challenged an incumbent president made the top of the list (and yeah, the top […]

#MittStalk2012 continues as Mitt & Ann stop to allow college students to take a picture of them as the almost-First Couple were leaving Limone Pizzeria in Salt Lake City, Utah. Apparently they looked like they enjoyed their meal and who can blame them. The same day a reviewer on UrbanSpoon gave the restaurant a great review: “Good […]

I feel like this photo is symbolic in some way. And also, it was just a little bit before Romney had lunch with President Obama at the White House.

On Thursday, President Obama and Mitt Romney will meet together for the first time since Obama defeated Romney on November 6. “On Thursday, Governor Romney will have a private lunch at the White House with President Obama in the Private Dining Room. It will be the first opportunity they have had to visit since the […]

Romney’s chief campaign strategist Stuart Stevens, who has kept his head low since his campaign’s loss on November 6, penned an op-ed in the Washington Post today: “Mitt Romney: A good man. The right fight.” Nobody liked Romney except voters. What began in a small field in New Hampshire grew into a national movement. It wasn’t our […]

Asked by the Weekly Standard about a potential second presidential run in 2016, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum’s reaction was similar to that of most other potential 2016 candidates: “I’m open to it, yeah,” Santorum replied. “I think there’s a fight right now as to what the soul of the Republican party’s going to be and […]

Speaking to the U.K.’s Daily Mail, a former senior adviser to Mitt Romney specifically named Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as “craven hypocrites” for bashing Mitt Romney only days after praising the former Republican nominee and lobbying for cabinet positions in a Romney administration. “There were one or two well-known […]

Romney, who has largely avoided public attention since his defeat to President Obama last Tuesday, returned to Facebook yesterday by posting a candid picture of himself (with notably ruffled hair) hugging Ann. ”Hope everyone had a great Thanskgiving! Much to be thankful for this year,” the former presidential candidate wrote. The misspelling of “Thanksgiving” serves as […]

In an interview with Politico‘s Mike Allen, Jim Messina, the 2012 Obama campaign’s manager, revealed that his team believed that former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who also served as President Obama’s Ambassador to China, would likely have been a tougher general election opponent than Mitt Romney. “Um, hmm, that’s a good question,” Messina said when Allen […]