The Young Turks: Cenk Uygur: Mitt Romney - 'I Don't Have A Political Career'

Source:The Young Turks- Governor Flip Flopper (Republican, Massachusetts) I mean Mitt Romney  (easy mistake) talking to CBS News's Bob Schieffer, on Face The Nation.

"Is Mitt Romney a politician? The 2012 Republican Presidential candidate said "I don't have a political career" in an interview with Bob Schieffer on CBS's Face The Nation. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down." 

From The Young Turks

Cenk Uygur is someone that I agree with as often as Jews declare their love for Palestine and Arabs declare their love for Israel. Well, perhaps even more often that that. But Cenk nailed Mitt Romney on the head (to use an ageless cliche) when he said that Mitt Romney only doesn't have a political career, because he keeps losing. 

Mitt lost a very winnable U.S. Senate seat to Ted Kennedy in 1994, when even Teddy wasn't a very popular Democrat (perhaps even in Massachusetts) and when Democrats all over the country and not just in Congress, got their asses handed to them. But Teddy since his opponent was Mitt Romney, was one of those few Congressional Democrats who managed to survive 1994, because his opponent was Flip Flopper. I mean Mitt Romney, but you get the idea. Ted Kennedy was the Democrat who nicknamed Mitt Multiple Choice, a political nickname that Mitt is still trying to live with, almost 20 years later. 

Go up to 2007-08, when Mitt Romney was perhaps the best funded Republican running for President, in a field that didn't have a Republican frontrunner the whole time, until John McCain gets hot in early 08 and starts winning a bunch of primaries. But Mitt finishes 2nd or 3rd in that field, because he spent about a year trying to convince Republican voters that he wasn't who he really was, which was a flip flopping politician, who has no consistent record as a politician. 

So sure, if you want to play semantics, Mitt Romney is not a career politician. But to be a career politician, you first have to get elected and get reelected over and over. And Mitt Romney is still trying to figure out how to get elected in the first place.