Romney’s speech took many attempts to get to this point.
BOSTON, MA (TheBadgerCA) – Leading up to last night’s defeat to President Barack Obama, Republican candidate Mitt Romney announced that he had only written a victory speech and had nothing prepared in the event that he lost. Found on the losing side last night, Romney delayed his concession, scrambling with aides frantically to create a speech that would sum up his journey to the election night.What resulted was a heart-felt and honest “thank you” to his staff and Republicans alike. The final speech did go through several drafts. What follows is several speech attempts written by Romney as found in his waiting area on crumpled-up sheets of paper.
“When I went and said ‘47%’, well, it appears my math may have been off slightly…”
“You know, I was telling Ann just the other day, if this were any one of the companies I owned in the past, you’d all be fired…”
“This has been a campaign of ups and downs. There are many triumphs, and many lessons. One lesson I have? Next time I get Todd Akin and Donald Trump to shut their freak-show faces and just smile at the camera…”
“Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck…”
“[doodle of what appears to be Romney being pulled up into a space ship by a tractor beam]”
“Really, Massachusetts? Really? Okay, let’s be like that.”
“I thank God for this opportunity. I thank you all here tonight. I thank all of America. Except of course Ohio, Virginia, Iowa, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado. All of you can eat it. Maine, enjoy the fires of Hell. You’ll be in there with that closet-case Ryan holding open the door. Don’t let the flames lick up and burn your precious little asses.”