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Mitt Romney eyeing presidential run in 2016, longtime friend says
Deseret News ^ | 12/29/2014 | Lisa Riley Roche

Posted on 12/30/2014 1:09:12 PM PST by iowamark

Mitt Romney is eyeing a third run for the White House and will get in the race in the coming months if he doesn't like how the GOP field is looking, his longtime friend Kem Gardner said Monday.

"I know exactly what Mitt's going to do," Gardner, a real estate developer who helped bring Romney to Utah to lead the 2002 Winter Olympics, told the Deseret News. "I think over the next few months, a lot of things will happen."

But Spencer Zwick, who raised $1 billion for Romney's 2012 campaign, said the decision is a personal one for Romney and isn't going to be dependent on how any other Republican in the race is doing.

"I don't believe Mitt Romney is going to make a decision to run or not based on who's doing well or who's not," said Zwick, so close to Romney he's been called his sixth son...

Gardner, however, said Romney is watching to see how the other potential Republican candidates fare, especially Bush and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, before deciding whether to run again after losses in 2008 and 2012...

Romney's decision hinges on who is shaping up to be the party's potential nominee, Gardner said.

"If it's Ted Cruz that's the candidate, he's in. If it's Jeb Bush, he's probably not," Gardner said.

He said Romney doesn't want to cost fellow moderate Republicans Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie support at this point in the race...

Jowers estimated Romney has between three and six months before his big-money contributors start committing to other candidates...

"He's here without a rudder and getting restless," Gardner said. "There's only so many cookbooks you can write."

(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 2016gopprimary; cruz; mittromney; romney; romney2016; tedcruz
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To: iowamark
Mitt Romney eyeing presidential run in 2016, longtime friend says

Good. Split the RINO vote with Jeb and Fatso.

21 posted on 12/30/2014 1:18:52 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It should be the other way around.


22 posted on 12/30/2014 1:19:10 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: iowamark

So, we are to believe that the best candidates for 2016 is either Jeb (removing Immigration as a campaign issue) or Romeny (who removed Health Care as an issue from the 2012 campaign).


23 posted on 12/30/2014 1:20:27 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: samtheman

Zwick was Romney’s national finance chair in 2012 so maybe a billion is not too far off.


24 posted on 12/30/2014 1:23:24 PM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: hosepipe

As long as he only eyes it and doen’t try to win the nomination.


25 posted on 12/30/2014 1:24:41 PM PST by Duckdog (If it wasn't for NASCAR my TV would have gone out the window years ago!)
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To: Paladin2
"Willard should have put in double the effort last time."

Not very easy when the media ignores him and Obama has his IRS shutting down his donors.

26 posted on 12/30/2014 1:25:02 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Paladin2

Who cares ... Obama will eliminate the 22 amendment by fatwah and the republicrats wont do anything to stop him.


27 posted on 12/30/2014 1:25:23 PM PST by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Romney’s “charity” consists of Mormonism and works within and for his Mormon cult and fellow Mormons, and is part of his required giving to his religion, if he fails in that requirement then he loses Temple membership and his place in heaven, and he won’t become a God.


28 posted on 12/30/2014 1:26:27 PM PST by ansel12 (They hate us, because they ain't us.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Actually should be Rino on top... they be doing the screwin


29 posted on 12/30/2014 1:26:29 PM PST by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: C210N

This is because when voters were surveyed about the 2012 election in 2014, Romney wins big in a do-over. Something like 68% of the vote.


30 posted on 12/30/2014 1:27:14 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: iowamark

31 posted on 12/30/2014 1:27:31 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

The media should have given more coverage to Mitt reverting to his pro-abortion position, after he won the nomination.


32 posted on 12/30/2014 1:27:47 PM PST by ansel12 (They hate us, because they ain't us.)
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To: iowamark

Mitt: Please make a deal with your buddy Jeb Bush to both stand down.


33 posted on 12/30/2014 1:27:56 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Paladin2

I am not sure the comment about Bush is true. I don’t think Mitt wants Jeb to get the nod. Not at all.


34 posted on 12/30/2014 1:29:25 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: iowamark

Romney and/or Bush a Republican death wish.


35 posted on 12/30/2014 1:29:26 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: iowamark

Mitt Romney is eyeing a third run for the White House and will get in the race in the coming months if he doesn’t like how the GOP field is looking, his longtime friend Kem Gardner said Monday.

Yeah, if the field is looking too conservative, he’ll
get in.

This guy had a billion dollar war chest and couldn’t
win? L is for Loser.


36 posted on 12/30/2014 1:30:45 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I agree. Cruz looks like a villain cartoon character while Mitt Romney looks like Clark Kenk aka Superman. I think the men are threatened by Romney’s manliness. Cruz sounds gay. That feminine voice of Cruz’s and his snake like mannerisms! Don’t need any photoshopped pictures for THAT visual! Just LOOK at Cruz!


37 posted on 12/30/2014 1:31:37 PM PST by rodeo-mamma
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To: tet68

People put way too much faith in money. Cruz does not need a billion Romneybux. He just needs to do what he does. It’s obvious people respond to it.

There isn’t enough money to turn me to Mitt. And he proved there isn’t enough to turn the country.


38 posted on 12/30/2014 1:33:26 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (1`)
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To: iowamark

No Thanks. Been there done that and lost...


39 posted on 12/30/2014 1:33:59 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: iowamark

Maybe his running mate will be better this time around......................

40 posted on 12/30/2014 1:34:27 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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