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The selling of Mitt 3.0
Politico ^ | 1/13/15 | Maggie Haberman and James Hohmann

Posted on 01/13/2015 7:11:06 AM PST by DoodleDawg

Shortly after Election Day in 2012, a Mitt Romney supporter moaned to POLITICO about the failed GOP nominee’s performance: “We had no message, and we gave it to the worst communicator in the world.”

Two years later, Romney is mulling over another campaign for the White House, and this time, he says, things will be different.

In meetings with and individual calls to donors, supporters and former staffers, Romney is making it clear that he is likely to run, putting his time frame for a decision at “weeks, not months.”

Romney, who made a fortune in the financial sector and was cast by Democrats in 2012 as a heartless businessman, wants to make tackling poverty — a key issue for his 2012 vice presidential running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan — one of the three pillars of his campaign. The former Massachusetts governor also says he’ll have a different communications staff and hopes to show voters a version of himself they didn’t get to see last time. (There’s even a Netflix documentary he can point to.)

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


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016gopprimary; gop; romney; romney2016
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I also posted this to the Political Humor section because it'd be so funny if it wasn't so serious. Romney thinking he has a chance at the nomination is laughable enough. But Romney tackling poverty is like Marie Antoinette tackling hunger. No matter how sincere he may be it's going to come across as patronizing and phony.
1 posted on 01/13/2015 7:11:06 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

He may be selling, but we aren’t buying. There is no requirement that the candidate must have millions of dollars and lots of multi-millionaire cronies bankrolling him….hoping to cash in if he’s elected, of course. That should be viewed as a liability, not an asset, after seeing how poisonous this is to good government.


2 posted on 01/13/2015 7:14:44 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: DoodleDawg

Actually, I think he’s up to revision 350.15.0.1.13


3 posted on 01/13/2015 7:18:06 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: DoodleDawg

If he got elected, he might very well make Obamacare even worse, we need a repeal.


4 posted on 01/13/2015 7:18:45 AM PST by dila813
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To: DoodleDawg

you may be selling, but i ain’t buying.


5 posted on 01/13/2015 7:19:51 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: FReepers
Romney busts so many moves

I wouldn't trust him to be an ice cream man.
Support FR, defeat the rinos.

6 posted on 01/13/2015 7:21:02 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: DoodleDawg
Shortly after Election Day in 2012, a Mitt Romney supporter moaned to POLITICO about the failed GOP nominee’s performance: “We had no message, and we gave it to the worst communicator in the world.” Two years later, Romney is mulling over another campaign for the White House, and this time, he says, things will be different.

bust out laughing

7 posted on 01/13/2015 7:21:24 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: DoodleDawg

I like Mitt.

Really.

I will not vote for Mitt.

Really.


8 posted on 01/13/2015 7:22:04 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: DoodleDawg

Romney’s 2012 message can be broken down into two parts:

1 - I am not Obama
2 - I look a lot like a President should look


9 posted on 01/13/2015 7:22:14 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /S tag but is it really necessary?)
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To: DoodleDawg
The selling of Mitt 3.0

The title says it all. First, you have to "sell" Mitt because he is not an authentic conservative (severe or not). And secondly, "3.0". It is laughable how Mitt must "REFRAME" himself in EVERY SINGLE ELECTION in order to appeal. He is on version 30.0, not 3.0.

Mitty, do us all a favor and shut it down!



10 posted on 01/13/2015 7:25:53 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: DoodleDawg

LOL!

Muck Fitt Romney.


11 posted on 01/13/2015 7:26:36 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: DoodleDawg

Romney has more money than Davey Crockett, a wife with a terminal disease, and a scad of grandchildren.

Hint: Hey Mitt, retire and the enjoy life from here on out.


12 posted on 01/13/2015 7:28:56 AM PST by twister881
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To: Darksheare
Actually, I think he’s up to revision 350.15.0.1.13

Yep. I greatly underestimated it in post #10.

13 posted on 01/13/2015 7:29:36 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Maybe even higher considering.
What revision number are the Nvidia drivers up to now?
We’ll go with that.


14 posted on 01/13/2015 7:30:45 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Nixon ran for a 3rd time after swearing he was done after losing to JFK. Then came LBJ and the tumultuous times of Vietnam and the Great Society with all it’s riots and bombings.

IMHO saying Romney can’t win is whistling past the graveyard. He can most certainly win and he has the bragging rights of being able to say “I told you so” in 2012.

Will he win though, I don’t know. If the GOPe keeps trying to bulldoze and run roughshod over the conservative end of the party they just might split off and run a 3rd party spoiler. (somebody please tell me what that means .. I know it’s another name for Rino but seem to have missed the memo on GOPe)


15 posted on 01/13/2015 7:36:51 AM PST by Usagi_yo (Coming events caste their shadow beforehand.)
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To: Usagi_yo

Mitt IS the spoiler.


16 posted on 01/13/2015 7:39:35 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Usagi_yo
The major problem is that he was supposed to be the placeholder for the Bush Dynasty. They won't like it if he doesn't step aside.
17 posted on 01/13/2015 7:47:01 AM 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: DoodleDawg

“Tanned, Rested and Ready.”


18 posted on 01/13/2015 7:48:02 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: DoodleDawg

Romney might think he gets to just waltz in at the point he left in his last go-around, but he has a little obstacle to climb over first.

Mitt is going to get HAMMERED in the primaries!!

That should be a wake-up call, if ever there was one.


19 posted on 01/13/2015 7:59:32 AM PST by DNME (Quietly carry concealed, at all times and places.)
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To: DoodleDawg

I ain’t voting for Romney.
He’s just Obama-lite.


20 posted on 01/13/2015 9:40:50 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Muslim Creeping Conquest of America and Canada)
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