Posted on 12/31/2014 9:01:14 PM PST by SoConPubbie
I told you last night, there was only one way for this year to end on Hot Air. May one word ring in your ears as the ball drops, my friends: Romneymentum.
Hopefully you’re all already liquored up sufficiently to dull the pain.
“I know exactly what Mitt’s going to do,” [Ken] 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.”…
“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.
That changes, Gardner said, “if it doesn’t look like they can do it.”
Later in the piece Gardner suggests that Romney’s bored by his retirement, which naturally means … he should run for president again? What?
Actually, I’m playing a little trick on Romney-haters by linking this piece. When you think about it, this is good news for you guys, not bad. Bush is already in the race and Chris Christie, who’s cramming on foreign policy and traveling the country to pile up favors before jumping in, will almost certainly follow soon. If only one of them were running, there’s a chance that that man would underperform early against conservative challengers, sparking the type of RINO panic that might draw Romney in as a savior. With two marquee centrists running, though, there’s zero chance that they’ll both underperform. One of two things will happen: Either one of them will consolidate most of the centrist vote at the other’s expense, propelling that man towards the top of the field, or they’ll split the centrist vote roughly evenly while some conservative champion races ahead. Even in the latter scenario, though, Romney would probably stay out and campaign on behalf of Bush or Christie (likely Bush) rather than jump in to try to usurp them as centrist champion. A late entry under those circumstances would simply be too risky. Instead of gobbling up Bush’s and Christie’s support, Romney might split off only a few voters, deepening the split among centrists and increasing the odds that Cruz is nominated. Imagine that it’s September 2015 and Cruz is pulling 25 percent with Bush and Christie each stuck in the mid-teens. If Romney then jumps in, you might well end up with him, Jeb, and Christie each pulling numbers in the low teens while Cruz remains basically unaffected. (Making a splashy announcement as the self-styled party savior and then fizzling would be hugely embarrassing for Romney too, needless to say, another reason why he’d be disinclined to do it.) The establishment impulse, wisely, is always towards consolidation, not diversification. Romney getting in would confound that logic. The day Christie announces, it effectively ends the “dream” of Romney 2016.
So there’s the “good news” for tea partiers as 2014 winds down — instead of nominating Mitt Romney again, your worst-case scenario only involves nominating, um, Jeb Bush or Chris Christie, who, by the way, already lead the field. Happy new year!
looks like the GOP really doesn’t want Conservative votes.
they ignore us we can return the favor and watch them lose to a Dem again
You do Reagan an injustice with this map - why have you colored Maryland blue for Mondale? Reagan won every state bar Minnesota and DC. The correct map is here:
http://presidentelect.org/e1984.html
The world is so different. Do you really think Ted Cruz can get all that sea of red??
Well, we know Romney, McCain and Dole can’t.
Let’s give a conservative a shot for once.
He’s at the ready to come riding in on a White Horse. How prophetic.
Save Romney from Romney
And you forgot STEP 5: After GOP is destroyed, Hitlery wins and we have an even worse next 4-8 years.
Let’s not make the same mistake some of you made last time, which was standing out of the vote because you didn’t get your “perfect candidate.”
And look what that got us: 8 years of Bork Obunga fascism.
Don’t you realize YOUR non-vote means the socialist/fascists need ONE less vote to win because you’re not voting??
Or did you really WANT to have Bork Obunga elected? Now that you all see the damage a tyrant can do to our country, maybe that worn-out notion of letting Obola win so he can mess things up and a white knight conservative will ride up and rescue us. Didn’t happen after 4 years.
Let’s put it this way: if the election were between Slick Willie Tampon and Bork Obunga and those were your ONLY two choices, would you stubbornly sit out the election? As much as I despise Slick Willie, he wouldn’t do as much damage and incite racial divisiveness as Bork Obunga has. So I would vote for the lesser of two evils.
Polygamy? It’s bad enough one ex-wife gobbling up everything you worked for. Now imagine four of them. And four mother-in-laws (unless you marry sisters) won’t that be fun?
Please no Romney, Christie or Bush, America cannot survive with yet another 4 years of an Obama Administration
That’s how they won the last time, no doubt about it and we need to remain aware of that but we should anticipate a new strategy as well. We need to unify, but we should unify behind more than one candidate. Otherwise, we will be left in disarray should they manage to knock out our favorite and it definitely looks like they are going to try to knock out our favorite.
Willard doesn’t stand for anything...
Hes a RINO of the first water...
Ted Cruz ....RUN! Open the money gates of the grass roots and the billionaires will NOT be able to keep up, or weild their extortion stick!
Don’t worry abourt Romney and friends.They want Samual Smiths utopia,The lefty wants a Saul Alinsky Utopia...ENOUGH..... we want a Constitutional America ruled by LAW.
Ritt Momsey & Co. are has beens.They could not win against a sophomore senator from Illinois/Indonesia/Kenya/Pakistan/Saudi Arabia/ oe wherever , a pyschopomp nullity. So how could Mitt the Sh*t win against ANYONE?
....this really sounds like a stretch.
A Utah real estate developer who worked with Romney 12 years ago?!
someone is just trying to stir up angst.
If anyone needs proof that Cruz really is the conservative he presents himself as, Romney’s opposition should be enough evidence to prove Cruz’s value. Cruz is the man the GOP needs to repeal Obama’s legacy, and he has my support.
“Let’s not make the same mistake some of you made last time, which was standing out of the vote because you didn’t get your “perfect candidate.”
Einstein defined you, oh so very well.
The Uniparty thanks you for your support.
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