Willard Romney (Mitt to his friends ... well, former friends) put down his book and got off his bed. After heading across the carpeted room, he knocked on the steel door. "Guard, what's all the commotion out there?" he asked.
Through the small opening in the door, the guard replied "The Secretary of State is making a scheduled visit."
Romney nodded, then started to ask who she was coming to see, but the guard wouldn't say. He had already told him enough, apparently.
Sighing, he headed back to his bed. Looking around, the room looked like the room of a typical house. Carpeted floor, bed, bookshelf, sink, a partitioned toilet area in the corner ... but it was still a prison cell. He couldn't leave and he couldn't have any visitors either. His only company was the guard outside his door. The one standing out there right now was about as conversational as they came, so most of the time he was left to his own thoughts.
Romney knew nothing of what was happening outside his cell. Not from the outside world or even other parts of the prison. He wasn't allowed to interact with the rest of the prisoner population, both because he wasn't trusted to be with them and for his own safety.
It may seem odd that a Republican like Romney would be a prisoner at Woodstock, a place for political enemies. But he was there because he was viewed by his own kind as a revolutionary. He wasn't conservative enough, in their eyes. He kept trying to "bridge" the two political sides, saying that the world would be a better place if both sides worked together, instead of one side dominating the other, but his fellow Republicans wouldn't have it. They saw him as a threat and dealt with him in kind. Most of them, however, had reservations about brainwashing him, but they couldn't just let him wander around, spreading his doctrine of cooperation. So that's why he ended up here.
He couldn't be trusted to be with the general population of the prison. They didn't want him to give the other prisoners any ideas about his ideal America. But, even though he was, for the moment, misled in his ideals, he was still a Republican, one of them, so they still cared about his safety, and that was the other reason he had no contact with the rest of the prisoners. Romney may have viewed the other prisoners as potential friends, but given the hatred that the liberals had for the conservatives, the other prisoners would not have mutual feelings on the matter. Some of them may even have killed him, if they got the chance.
So there he was. Essentially a prisoner in solitary confinement. Now and until the day he died.
