Pic of Romney Unguarded Goes Viral

A rare spotting of the ex-presidential candidate

There's no limos, Secret Service agents or attentive aides. Just a guy pumping his own gas, hair somewhat disheveled. Such is life for losing presidential candidates.

A photo of Mitt Romney in an unguarded moment posted on the liberal-leaning site Reddit.com is attracting considerable attention. The picture was presumably taken in the San Diego area. The gossip site TMZ.com claims to have spotted Romney and his wife Ann seeing "Breaking Dawn - Part 2" in nearby Del Mar, CA, not far from their oceanfront home in La Jolla.

Some Reddit users have a rather unsympathetic take on Romney's diminished status from the campaign trail. "MY ANTI-IRONING RAY WILL RUMPLE EVERYONE'S CLOTHES!!! YOU WILL ALL JOIN ME AS A HAS-BEEN!!!" wrote user "iamadogforreal".

But others had a more measured take. "It is pretty amazing that in such a short period of time you can go from missing becoming the leader of one of the most powerful countries in the world by a couple % to pumping your own gas like everyone else," wrote "agwayclerk".

Via reddit.com and TMZ.com.

Does this picture make you have sympathy for Romney?

[PNWest]

I wouldn't have sympathy for Romney even if his car elevator broke down.

[PNWest]

I am having second thoughts about this. It seems to me that someone got pretty much up in Romney's face to snap this shot. I wouldn't like it if someone did that to me if I was pumping gas. Romney deserves some privacy even if I didn't vote for him.

[Dan_Tien]

@PNWest Fuzzy like a long shot with a telephoto lens or, more likely, a phone camera. He surrendered his privacy willingly.

[PNWest]

@Dan_Tien It looks to me like a phone shot. Romney looks like he is looking directly at the photographer. If so the guy was only a few feet away from him. Could have been pretty scary having a stranger come up to you at night while pumping gas. As a presidential candidate he knows more than we do what kind of nuts are out there.

[Dan_Tien]

@PNWest I think he can afford private body guards if he wants them, even if he doesn't rate Secret Service agents now. Barack Obama would be dead meat if he tried to pump his own gas without a surrounding SWAT team.

[PNWest]

@Dan_Tien He certainly has the $$$ to hire guards. He may need them. The secret service is scared sh*tless with all the legitimate threats they've had with Obama. Those guys have done a stellar job. I hope they continue to do so. There are far too many nutjobs out there and we sure don't need another national tragedy.

[Souljah]

Wow !! give the guy a break he's had a rough month...

[CanisCanemEdit]

This is news? Only on politix.

[thejimbo]

@CanisCanemEdit And only on crummy tabloid sites like TMZ...

[Fishbone345]

I'd be more concerned about the movie he attended. Romney is a Twi-tard. Somehow that doesn't surprise me in the least.

[VVP]

Chalk it up to Mormons in support of other mormons.

[Fishbone345]

@VVP You get me.

[Real4WheelDrv]

I don't NEED to have sympathy for him, he still has no monetary worries whatsoever, and now that he's out of the spotlight the majority of death threats if not the majority of name calling etc. will go away.

[Fishbone345]

Right? "Do you feel bad for this multimillionaire that has not one of the problems you have, that looks a bit disheveled?"
Yah, no.

[GetAwake]

Had he done 5hit like that BEFORE the election people might have seen him in a different ligh---well...probably not. The dude still has an elevator for his garage.

[DARSB]

So after being on the losing end of the campaign he moves to a blue state? Well, I guess at this point it doesn't matter - unless he's trying to establish residency so he can run against Jerry Brown...

[PNWest]

Romney will never run again for public office. He certainly could not win in California. He'll just go back to hiding his money in offshore tax havens and taking road trips with his dog strapped to the roof of the car. At least now he can go back to hiring illegals to do his lawn.

[PNWest]

@artjeb Rather hostility reaction isn't that. You having a bad day?

[Denizen_Kate]

Impossible to drum up any sympathy for someone who can afford beach-front property in La Jolla. His wife has say absolutely NO to any more campaigns, so let's hope she makes him stick to that. California politics are bad enough already.

[artjeb]

@PNWest A hostility reaction ?
NAH .Just objecting to your post about his money whis is his & can do whant he wants to do with it.
Only jealous ppl complain about what others do with thier own money

[Suff]

Because nobody else goes outside with their hair tossed, and without body-guards. He doesn't care. He's rich, full of millions, he doesn't need your sympathy; he and his wife are perfectly happy.

[Nat]

How do you know he and his wife are "perfectly happy"? Have you been living with them or something? No one knows whether people are truly happy or not, especially when they are in the public eye and are running for President. That "perfectly happy" didn't describe Anne's remarks while she was stumping for him, playing on people's sympathy and saying how hard it was.

She also said in an interview that if Mitt lost, he would never run again. Sounded pretty final and it didn't sound "happy".

[Suff]

@Nat Why should Mitt spend millions on another election?..

[twinertia]

Are we certain this is Rmoney, and not Bruce Campbell?

[Real4WheelDrv]

Bruce Campbell is too busy shopping S-Mart to get caught in a candid photo.

[twinertia]

Groovy!

[Real4WheelDrv]

@twinertia Stay out of housewares, lest ye be overwhelmed by Deadites....and AWESOME....

[Polusalo]

@Real4WheelDrv
:D Upvotes! Upvotes for all your posts!

[Kptpredsfan]

If the republicans are looking for a star, then they need to find out who was doing Mitt's hair during the campaign. The force is strong with that one. ZING!

[Romney_Rube]

Romney is on the precipce of going all GORE and gaining lots of weight while melting down. Perhaps we can establish a special fund to help defeated presidential candidates.

[bizaroWorld]

How bizzare that he pumps his own gas. Joe Biden and the other Democrating pundits had me believing Romney had servants for such things. Something is very wrong here.

[MongoAPillager]

i think a sore winner is more laughable than a sore lose,give it up politix

[Jasonopolis]

Embarrassing to know that Politix actually posted this. A learned leftist should even be ashamed.

[Kptpredsfan]

i think the story was TRYING to be a point about how viral it went, not about the image itself. I'll give it to you that its a fail, but I'm not ashamed just mildly amused. lol

[Jasonopolis]

@Kptpredsfan They are going after a guy who lost an election. How is that even relevant? With everything else going in the world right now?
This site sucks....

[Kptpredsfan]

@Jasonopolis There are always a few stinkers in every batch of stories on here, I tend to skim over the ones that are fluff. Unless I can get a few laughs (mostly myself) out of posting on these, i just move on normally. But I do love this site! It's good fun to debate the issues

[Jasonopolis]

@Kptpredsfan It's OK. But it is very leftist. What fun is it for you liberals to debate a righty, when it's 10 against 1?
I've started chatting on my MENSA website and find the people are more even and not as divisive.
The example that I'll use (why it sucks to be a righty on here) is that when I post something that a liberal does not like, I get 8-10 replies and I do not have time to respond to all of them.

...Good grief my fingers get tired....

[PNWest]

@Jasonopolis Hey Jason. If this site is 10:1 liberals:conservatives how do you explain the fact that all of the polls that they put up here come out in favor of the conservative position? Fact of the matter is that there are far more conservatives here than liberals.

[tomincali]

wow a rich guy pumping his own gas,wonder if obama knows how to operate the gas pump.

[Nat]

We won't know till he's out of office.

[Starsplash]

I dont know. Lets ask Michelle.

[tomincali]

@Starsplash Hilary might have the inside scoup on that

[MongoAPillager]

i think he just left a bar with Christie on the floor,leave me out to dry again bubble boy!!!

[LetsAllBeHappy]

what can we expect re. Christy crying because he talked to bruce springsteen

[Cheenoguy]

Slow news day or is this site turning into TMZ?
There is a lot (and I mean a lot) to criticize or mock Mitt for, but for looking a bit disheveled while going to a movie with his wife? Seriously? His relationship with his wife and kids is one of the few things I found endearing about the man.

[Denizen_Kate]

I actually like him better a little messy.

[martydotcom]

next they'll be quoting Gloria Allred

[Cheenoguy]

@Denizen_Kate
Messy Romney just seems more human.

[LarsHampton]

Did he clean the windows and check the tires?

[Nat]

No. He doesn't need my sympathy. He looks rather unhappy. He's lost enough without people saying they pity him. And he'll continue to be a loser. He chose it, he got it. All the millions in the world can't make you happy if you are also grubbing for power and can't get it.

[LetsAllBeHappy]

just think Al Gore, Beard, long hair, weight gain, massages, and affairs

[artjeb]

@LetsAllBeHappy And a lot of HOT air from him.
Thats how we get global warming

[ACTSmom]

Maybe he's unhappy because he's having to pay $5.19/gallon for gas in California. Or because people are still following him around making pictures...

[Denizen_Kate]

@artjeb - Global warming comes directly out of the pie hole in Donald Trump's face.

[Jim49418]

@LetsAllBeHappy But Al Gore is a liberal. You wont see anything negative about liberals on these threads. Politix only starts threads that bash conservatives.

[artjeb]

So if he is pumping his gas Just what is wrong with that ?
UHHH does potus pump gas ?
I doubt it because he is babyied everyplace he goes.
It could be ROMNEY likes it now without any worries like potus has