Like a wounded animal Mitt Romney still licking his wounds after devastating defeat at the polls.

Courtesy of the Washington Post:

Mitt Romney looks out the windows of his beach house here in La Jolla, a moneyed and pristine enclave of San Diego, at noisy construction workers fixing up his next-door neighbor’s home, sending regular updates on the renovation. He devours news from 2,600 miles away in Washington about the “fiscal cliff” negotiations, shaking his head and wondering what if. 

Gone are the minute-by-minute schedules and the swarm of Secret Service agents. There’s no aide to make his peanut butter and honey sandwiches. Romney hangs around the house, sometimes alone, pecking away at his iPad and e-mailing his CEO buddies, who’ve been swooping in and out of La Jolla to visit. He wrote to one who’s having a liver transplant soon: “I’ll change your bedpan, take you back and forth to treatment.” 

It’s not what Romney imagined he would be doing as the new year approaches. 

Four weeks after losing a presidential election he was convinced he would win, Romney’s rapid retreat into seclusion has been marked by repressed emotions, second guessing and, perhaps for the first time in the overachiever’s adult life, sustained boredom, according to interviews with more than a dozen of Romney’s closest friends and advisers.

So I think we can go ahead and confirm that Mitt Romney had NO plan in mind for if he lost the election, because he NEVER seemed to believe that he would not lose. I think we can thank Karl Rove, and his insidious vote stealing programs, for convincing Mittens of THAT!

This new melancholy Mitt HAS to be the result of a serious reentry into reality that he simply was not prepared for.

In fact we have already witnessed his struggle to regain some sense of normalcy in a series of pictures.

Mitt Romney pumping gas.

Mitt Romney attending the movie Twilight so that he can see how teenage vampires deal with their angst.

Mitt Romney trying to improve his mood by visiting the happiest place on earth.

And finally, like a drowning man, Mitt Romney clinging desperately to the one person that he knows will have to accept him, despite his many failures.

Can you even IMAGINE how completely overwhelmed this guy would have been by the challenges of the Presidency?  I think Ann Romney was sending the country a message when she said:

"I think my biggest concern obviously would just be for his mental well-being."

She knew he lacked the mental  stability to handle the job, and fortunately for all of us we more or less figured that out as well.