So what did we lose by not electing Romney?

[jmowreader]

Just off the top of my head...

The ability to say things like "Our troops are fighting for our freedom in four separate wars!"

The forthcoming Dickensian economy

Reading all those stories about how GM failed because of the economy two months before Chrysler and Ford failed because GM's collapse took all the parts manufacturers with it

Not seeing the emergence of "full service foreclosure firms" that do everything from throw the former homeowner out on the street to set a date for throwing the new one out because they can't make the payments either

[Drunken Irishman]

1. I'm convinced Romney would redeploy troops to Iraq.

[jmowreader]

2. He would also have invaded Iran and Syria...so, four wars

None of which anyone in HIS family would have been sent to fight in.

[TexasTowelie]

6. You forgot Libya and Egypt.

Iceland too since they rebelled against the natural order of things (aka kissing the bankers asses).

[Lint Head]

3. By now all trees would be the same height.

[Retrograde]

28. But they would be the right height! (n/t)

[2naSalit]

4. ...and

we'd all be required to convert to Lds.

[VanillaRhapsody]

5. and have lots and lots of children!!!

[TlalocW]

7. All store-bought cookies would be marked as

Inferior-brand.

Dressage replaces baseball as national pastime.

TlalocW

[Lordquinton]

10. That second one

I could get behind, but at what cost?

[TlalocW]

14. How about $20?

Cuz you're good people.

TlalocW

[pacalo]

8. What did we lose by not electing Romney?

The chance to read the comments of rage on rightwing chat sites as Romney's policies begin to affect their lives.

[jmowreader]

18. You are truly high

They would blame all the effects of Romney's policies on Obama, Clinton's penis, and of course Jimmy Carter. Just like they blame the bank bailouts that happened in 2008 on Obama. TARP was signed a month before the 2008 election, but it's still Obama's fault.

They also claim the growth that happened kn 1984 was the third year of Reagan's 1981 cut and not the two tax hikes and runaway spending Reagan imposed between Kemp-Roth and the start of the growth. Reaganomics was a supreme failure but the failures are placed a Carter's feet.

[Jamaal510]

9. We missed out on seeing FOX News

and Limbaugh run out of material to keep their fans tuned in. Let's face it--Obama is the #1 reason why they continue to make money. Rank-and-file RWers need the daily "chill pill" when their party doesn't have the White House, and that is what keeps them tuning in regularly. With a President Romney, they wouldn't have anybody in power to really be angry at anymore.

Oh, and let's not forget that we missed out on seeing President Romney's "whassup gangstas?" line in the Google hangouts.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. Well, they didn't quite run out of stuff during the Bush/Cheney (p)residency

Back then, they were able to work up people against the Dixie Chicks and other terrorist-loving liberal traitors whenever we worked up the urge to not say that we didn't agree with their approach to fighting their "war on terror".

[DFW]

11. Hunger riots

Urban violence from large groups of desperate Americans with nothing left to lose.

Minor excitement of that sort.

Plus a few irreparable, accelerated environmental disasters.

Probably President Ryan after Willard threw in the towel before his first term was up.

All in all, on a national level, I think we probably made the right decision. Just a hunch on my part, you understand.

[davidpdx]

23. Willard wouldn't have made it a year

He would have been in the basement in the fetal position screaming "make the voices stop"

[DFW]

24. A frighteningly likely scenario... n/t

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. Nothing that I'm aware of

Although it most certainly wouldn't have been good, I'm still at a loss to explain what Romney's platform really was and what he would've wanted to do if elected POTUS. He was, frankly, a complete cipher during the campaign.

[jmowreader]

19. Cut taxes, deregulate, get rid of Obamacare

He would have approved Keystone XL on his first day in office, spent the next six months repealing everything Obama did (with special emphasis on Dodd-Frank; rich people already buy health insurance so the effect on his friends is minimal, but Dodd-Frank is a real problem) and spent the rest of his term whining about "the problems of the previous administration." In short, the exact thing Shrub did, but Romney wouldn't have started with Clinton's economy.

[Gothmog]

13. The 1% lost, everyone else won

[Yavin4]

16. All those good jobs cleaning up Rafalca's horse shit n/t

[Rozlee]

17. That 2 trillion dollar tax cut that my portion would have been a beer to cry in.

[savalez]

20. The White House would have car elevators. n/t

[FSogol]

21. We'll never get to hear more of his rap

[whistler162]

22. We lost all the threads on DU complaining about

ever decision of the President makes and how he is the worst right wing hack of all times..... OH wait.... never mind!

[okaawhatever]

30. Ding, ding....we have a winner. For those who think it couldn't be worse, believe me it could be

much worse.....

[bemildred]

25. Eight years of war, recession, bubbles, debt, corporate bullying, and international ridicule. nt

[SmittynMo]

26. It's not "What did we lose". Its "What we have gained".

I can't imagine what we would be like if that idiot was in the White House today. Destruction of my upcoming Social Security comes to mind first.

[jmowreader]

27. I was playing off Ann Boleyn's comments

Please don't call her Queen Ann. That's the nicest part of Seattle and shouldn't be sullied by association with Mitt's wife.

Ann said just a few days ago that America lost by not electing her useless husband. We lost out on a lot of things, and they're all bad.

Mitt could have worked to fix the damage he caused...kinda like if someone sets a forest fire he has to go out and set things right. But that comes as part of your sentence; we don't award you the keys to the governor's mansion. I believe Romney could just as effectively fix the damage if we put a computer and phone line in his cell.

[Lint Head]

29. Elevators for cars.