Posted on 12/16/2014 7:46:48 AM PST by DoodleDawg
Mitt Romney has become the acid reflux candidate: He just keeps coming back up.
There has been poll after poll, story after story and now, over the weekend, a “Ready for Romney” website emerged that may or may not be serious. (I am guessing “Masochists for Mitt” was already taken.)
The Mitt boomlet is driven by three major forces:
First, the belief that the potential Republican field for 2016 is so weak — even though you can find more than a dozen reasonably serious candidates in it — that Mitt will rise head and shoulders above it. It’s the Simon and Garfunkel scenario: “A nation turns its lonely eyes to you. (Woo. Woo. Woo.)”
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Mitt, Jeb, and NJFatboy will have plenty of dough, but may offset each other pretty effectively.
That's right. Take it like a man and blame it on the wife. *sigh*
Romney isn’t doing it to please his wife, he’s doing it to please the ghost of his father.
I’m with you. They can’t take my vote for granted this time around. Either nominate a conservative, or count me out.
Whatever the reason, it’s obvious to me he didn’t before, and doesn’t now, want to do it. Like in 2012, after he goes full bore to get the nomination, he’ll just go through the motions, ho-hum, as a candidate. A Leftist dream.
I don’t buy it. Nobody drafted Mitt, he wound up at that level due to his own desires and ambitions.
Yes, he was lackluster as a candidate, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t want to be President, it just means that he sucked at campaigning.
Well, we disagree.
I see Romney the way I saw Fred Thompson. For whatever reason (pressure from somewhere - probably their wives) they ran but didn’t want to - their heart wasn’t in it.
Romney did a pretty extreme reversal before and after getting the GOP nomination. He was pretty aggressive to get the GOP nomination but seemed disinterested as a POTUS candidate.
His job was to block a conservative from getting the nomination.
Bingo.
“He was pretty aggressive to get the GOP nomination but seemed disinterested as a POTUS candidate.”
I think the difference was the opponents. When he was wrangling with conservatives in the primary, he was at his most passionate. When he faced Obama, he couldn’t get as worked up, because they did not disagree as fundamentally.
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