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Romney explored creating new political party with Manchin: book
The Hill ^ | 09/14/2023 | SARAH FORTINSKY

Posted on 09/14/2023 6:10:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

The best of both worlds 🥸🐷🤮


41 posted on 09/14/2023 7:43:18 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: srmanuel

Well, there you go. Negative campaigns in primaries can set it up so you lose a general election.

Reagan’s 11th commandment makes a lot of sense, because after a primary campaign, you need your party to be united for the general election.


42 posted on 09/14/2023 7:44:07 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Basically he wanted to still be in the Uniparty without having to pretend to be a Republican because he hates the base and never wants to have to pretend to be a conservative again.


43 posted on 09/14/2023 7:49:53 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Seems Mitt couldn’t disrespect Senator JD Vance more. Wasn’t sure about JD at first, but this raises his political stock even further.


44 posted on 09/14/2023 7:56:54 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Maybe the stolen election of 2020 and then the Durham Report release would have been a clue that Trump is looked at like an incumbent being persecuted by the govt and the Dem party, but the R team has a lot of swamp scum in its midst that thinks Trump should do something else than run again..

Trump doesn’t have a united R team behind him because scum like Bush,McCain,Cheney,Romney, some R team scum that the R team peddled for the White House before Trump, can’t stand he infiltrated their swamp party..

Unity with swamp scum isn’t a long term strategy post Trump. Certainly not during Trump era either..


45 posted on 09/14/2023 7:58:55 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: delchiante

the republican (uniparty conglomerate member) is being deconstructed... and either the brand will be upgraded to full maga, or it will be replaced... or the nation will fall and it will not matter.

the phony “constitutional” nation we fell in love with as a people... has now taken her makeup off... and what we now see, is and has been a demonic whore hound for a very very long time...

just because they transitioned “slowly” over the decades or even the last century does not mean that the evil change did not happen. It simply means that it spanned generations who failed to pass on the real and concrete vision of what and who we were.


46 posted on 09/14/2023 8:06:27 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (utilize leverage at every opportunity.)
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To: MIA_eccl1212

Well stated..


47 posted on 09/14/2023 8:14:15 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Negative campaigning is part of the game, it’s not the negative campaigning that is wrong, what’s wrong is when you go after the person’s family and make accusations that are over the top.

Accusing Casey DeSantis of faking cancer is beyond reprehensible for another Republican to do that.

The thing the MAGA crowd don’t seem to understand, the Republicans can only win when they are united, MAGA can’t win on their own, neither can the establishment, there has to be some type of peaceful coexistence, they don’t have to like each other, but they can’t be at war with each other, unless they want to continue to lose elections they should be winning.


48 posted on 09/14/2023 8:37:59 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Jess Kitting

It’s true.


49 posted on 09/14/2023 8:42:11 AM PDT by vivenne
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To: pepsi_junkie

You’ve summed him up quite well.


50 posted on 09/14/2023 8:44:19 AM PDT by vivenne
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oooh...I know! How about “Grifter Party”? The motto is we’ll support whoever pays us the most graft!


51 posted on 09/14/2023 8:46:42 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: srmanuel

If it were anyone other than Romney you might have a point but Romney has lost his base by bashing Trump and the other voters never liked him in the first place.


52 posted on 09/14/2023 8:47:59 AM PDT by vivenne
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The “Commie squish” party.


53 posted on 09/14/2023 8:49:27 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: vivenne

The Romney could appeal to don’t like Trump, so he has not lost them, you may not agree with me, not all the people who will vote for Trump are 100% behind him, he’s the lesser of two evils for a small percentage of Republican voters, maybe 2-4%, if that’s true, Romney will appeal to them.

Go back and look at the 2016 state by state results when Trump won, take as little as 1-2% off his totals and he doesn’t win the election.


54 posted on 09/14/2023 8:51:54 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: srmanuel

Well, I think the hatred for Trump has taken its toll on Romney. He doesn’t look well to me so perhaps he will go home and take care of himself instead of furthering his demise by running for Pres.


55 posted on 09/14/2023 8:55:51 AM PDT by vivenne
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I've posted my opinion on this several times, romney is running for president. I have been pooh poohed every time by freepers claiming he is an irrelevant "has been".

Romney's ego is unrestrained and he sees himself as the anointed savior of the country.

56 posted on 09/14/2023 9:19:47 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: ChicagoConservative27

‘Romney’s plans for the party, according to the biography excerpt, would not be to support a separate candidate, but to “pledge support to the candidate who came closest to aligning with its agenda.”’

So instead of a spoiler candidate he wanted to make an entire spoiler party. What a doofus.


57 posted on 09/14/2023 9:48:31 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27
A Centrist:


58 posted on 09/14/2023 9:53:11 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Whig Party 2.0 - bump for later.....


59 posted on 09/14/2023 2:04:50 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What do you get when you cross a RINO with a DINO. A frisky dog-like dinosaur with a horn in the middle of its head?


60 posted on 09/14/2023 3:33:09 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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