First, The Onion imagined it. And now, it's realâkind of.
To be clear: These âRomniacsâ are not Wall Street bigwigs or paid campaign operatives. Many of them, but not all, are Mormons like Romney. What unites them is a powerful â and unusual â excitement for a candidate who struggles to excite anybody else...The bad news is that there doesnât appear to be that many of them â a small, eclectic scattering in a nation with 137 million registered voters.
âWe are in the thousands,â said Judi Rustin, 61, the poet in Arizona. âAnd we all bleed red Romney blood.â...âIs anyone out there?â a user named Bob Riley wrote at Romniac.com in early March. A site administrator welcomed him. And then .â.â. nothing. For three weeks and two days, no other Romniacs answered his query.
I did not know about Romniac.com until I read this article, but I have now bookmarked the shit out of that site.