Posted on 01/18/2015 9:46:33 AM PST by bestintxas
Mitt Romney's election plan is a little bizarre; he plans to run as a Democrat.
Well, not really. He will still have an "R" after his name. But read this report from the Washington Post about Romney's agenda and you'd be excused if you did a double take about just what party Mitt wants to win the nomination.
Mitt Romney laid down a marker for a prospective presidential campaign in 2016, telling a Republican audience here Friday night that the party can win the White House with a conservative message that stresses security and safety for the American people, opportunity for all regardless of background and a plan to lift people out of poverty.
In his first public appearance since his surprise announcement that he will seriously consider a third campaign for the White House, Romney offered an economic message that represented a dramatic departure from the themes he sounded in losing the 2012 campaign to President Obama.
“Under President Obama, the rich have gotten richer, income inequality has gotten worse and there are more people in poverty than ever before,” Romney said. “Under this president, his policies have not worked. Their liberal policies are good every four years for a campaign, but they don’t get the job done.”
In his last campaign, Romney was hampered by an image, pushed by the Democrats, that he was a wealthy business executive who was out of touch with ordinary Americans. On Friday, he seemed determined to send a signal that he would try to deal with that problem from the start, should he run.
“It’s a tragedy -- a human tragedy – that the middle class in this country by and large doesn’t believe the
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America can do much better and if some insane reason he is the GOP nominee, he will guarantee the Republican party will become a party of the whigs.
Worked for Arlen “turncoat” Spector didn’t it?
Mittens will run for Obama’s third term.
That won’t get him the GOP nomination.
Maybe El Jefe Jeb can out-liberal him for the centrist vote.
His niece is on the RNC now.
This is great news. Let him, Christie and Jeb fight for the left and moderate vote. Then let Walker and Cruz fight for the conservative vote.
This is exactly what we need more liberals running for the nomination to water down their vote.
It’s called Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum, performed so terribly, that they pretty much let Romney win by default. Scott Walker and Ted Cruz are a different story. Why do we care about a dead horse so much?
“Mitt Romney’s election plan is a little bizarre; he plans to run as a Democrat.”
Pardon me, but isn’t this virtually true for all the so called Republicans that have announced to this point?
Since Fauxcahontas Warren and Slick Willie’s wife are going to follow in the Kenyan’s footsteps and run as communists, this may work for Romney.
His argument is correct and very conservative, and moreover easily supported by the daily experience of most Republican voters.
The middle class has indeed suffered as a result of the corporatist, crony capitalist, big government regulatory, immigration, and financial policies of the last 30 years.
Not that he should run; he is a poor politician and not the most credible guy to make this argument work.
Better candidates should have a look at this rhetorical approach however.
He’s still the front-runner after Paul Ryan announced he would not run for President in 2016.
His biggest threat is El Jefe Jeb.
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+1 to that.
He faced a bunch of guys on the GOP side that turned out to be pretty pathetic and despicable. He won because one opponent after another stumbled miserably. Scott Walker isn’t a lightweight who resigned like Gingrich, he will grill Romney as a weak, floppy governor who didn’t bother facing up to a recall attempt and a re-election. And that is just the start.
Romney is a classic Massachusetts liberal.
“a plan to lift people out of poverty”
As in far more larger government to hand out more free sh**.
Because if hillary runs uncontested in the primaries, dems and liberal-leaning independents can "vote for the worst" in Republican primaries. And Romney might be more interested in saving the Republican Party for the elite than in having a conservative take the lead and win.
I don’t mind the rich getting richer, but there needs to be more of the middle class getting richer, and the poor getting jobs. Three things that are not going to make that happen are amnesty, Obamacare and bigger government.
what is this, Ground Hog Day??
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