From the Globe:
Romney, whose last presidential bid was hampered by his image of excessive privilege and insensitivity, may recognize the trouble his real estate holdings could cause in another campaign.
He is taking steps to shed some of his property, including retaining a broker who is currently showing the La Jolla home to potential buyers, according to a Romney aide. The aide would not disclose the asking price or explain why the former Massachusetts governor and his wife, Ann, want to sell the home after more than four years of city permitting, hearings, and construction.
That really sucks. Seemed like he was just trying to be a regular guy. Buying a house + fixing it up.
Yep, the neighbors were pretty hard on him, which probably doesn’t happen as much back in MA.
Perhaps they’re more tolerant of cross-dressers in MA.
http://imgur.com/gallery/xu1kt
Looks fake but funny!
I ran into Mitt (almost literally) a few months ago when I was coming around that curve right next to his LJ house. He was getting out of a gold SUV (gold colored, not real gold). No security in sight, which I found interesting. Probably had a ex-SEAL in the port-a-potty out front and a sniper on the roof. I kept on going. Love that neighborhood though.
Yeah, Photoshopped for sure.
And yes, the Barber Tract is a splendid neighborhood.
I, too, saw Willard Romney cavorting on the sand at Dunemere. In the natural light he looked eerily lifelike. Excepting, perhaps, the hair.
Lacking a political bone in my body, I can say the following objectively: He walks like one of those plant-eating dinosaurs–a trachodon maybe–on his hind legs, with arms held in front of his chest, hands sort of flopping.
But hell, I walk with a bit of a Vegas limp myself.
To stay on topic, his 11,000sf m?a?u?s?o?l?e?u?m? casita is in keeping with La Jolla’s modern history. Any number of Texans, Iranians, and Grosse Pointers have scraped historic board-and-batten bungalows in favor of heinous, zero-setback abominations. Nothing to see here.