Mitt Romney for President?

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[IChing]

I was in a spiritually-oriented meeting a week ago, and there were about fifty people in the room.  Halfway through, a guy in the center of the room chimed in and announced that he was going to open his speaking time by sharing with us his personal, painful example of the worst kind of betrayal.  We all leaned a bit closer to listen as he described, with tongue secretly hidden in cheek, a time when he bit into what he’d thought was a chocolate chip cookie–only to realize with shock and dismay that it was actually a raisin cookie.

He was making a wry point, of course; about expectations, and about accepting and appreciating reality.  Later in the meeting, another speaker picked up on the thread, and proceeded to wax allegorically on the relative merits of raisin cookies.

Some of my friends are going to skin me alive for writing this.

As much as I’d like to see someone as fierce and as fundamentally righteous as Texas Senator Ted Cruz, or South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, to be the Republican nominee for president in 2016 and subsequently the winner of the general election, I have to accept the reality that (for various reasons understood by those who understand these things) nobody of their bright, bold stripe is likely to be the one.  Of course, I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but I think we’d better adjust ourselves to seeing someone like Cruz as the elusive chocolate chip conservative cookie.

Enter the humble raisin cookie, familiar to all, and perfectly palatable in its own right.  Not exactly what you were dreaming of, but still very good with a few gulps of cold milk.

Mitt Romney’s star has suddenly reappeared in recent weeks, and it is rising again.  Barack Obama has shown himself, to the overwhelming majority of people in our country, to be a total disaster as president, and the buyer’s remorse is palpable.  A CNN/ORC poll from late last month had Romney beating Obama in the popular vote 53% to 44%, if the 2012 election were held again today.

Romney’s foreign policy proscriptions and prognostications during the 2012 presidential campaign, once widely mocked and ridiculed by Obama supporters (and most of all by Obama himself, in the debate in which Romney made them), are now looking like pure prophecy, in light of the horrific developments in the Middle East and Ukraine.

The world is hurtling violently into the flaming, bloody abyss on Obama’s non-watch, and American families are hurting from year after year of the democrat neo-socialist Keynesian quagmire and the far-left police state his heavy handed regime has enacted. We are sick and tired of this crap.

Mitt Romney, by comparison, can realistically be seen by the larger body politic as not only a relative breath of fresh air, but the guy we should have listened to all along–someone to whom we, as a country (not necessarily as only us conservatives, mind you), perhaps now owe at least a term in the driver’s seat.

Sure, we’ve seen the prequels, but this would be a whole new movie, with a different villain and, we pray, a better ending.

Romney’s flaws are well-known–all the more reason to get over them already.  They are certainly nowhere near as deal-breaking as those of Hillary, or of Wampum Warren.

Most of all, Mitt’s widespread recognition and public familiarity make for an easier time with the endlessly sought-after swing voters, I think.  Plus, it sure doesn’t hurt that he has been so thoroughly vindicated in so much of what he laid out, both very forcefully and sometimes rather ineffectively, in the 2012 debates against Obama.

It just occurred to me, after typing all the above–the guy I mentioned in the meeting from last week, the one who was talking metaphorically about personal betrayal and biting into a raisin cookie–maybe his example would actually be closer to an Obama voter who realizes that what he got after the election was not what he thought it was….?  Oh, cripes.

Too late, I’ve already baked the batch, and I’m not about to throw them out.  Don’t forget what I said earlier about cold milk (go ahead and draw all the Sarah Palin analogies you like; she was right on the money about foreign policy, too, by the way!).

[ansel12]

Here you are calling for Romney to ruin a THIRD presidential cycle, and you admit that you are a retread.

What was your old name here?

[Manic_Episode]

GOPe is trying to destroy conservatism. They want to triangulate buyer remorse democrats with moderate whigs and screw conservatives with a flaming liberal rino.

It's so crazy it just might work.

Not.

[IChing]

They do nothing, then? Sit out elections and hurl poop at the imperfect mortals who dare enter the arena? Great. Surrender certainly allows one to claim they didn’t “compromise.”. Take a lesson from a former democrat, Ronald Wilson Reagan. Reality involves change.

[Sans-Culotte]

Hey, geniuses, Obama’s not running in 2016. That was my point. Yeah, Mitt might win a do-over, but there’s not gonna be a do-over. Calm down and go put on some dry underwear.

[Diogenesis]

If Romney is the candidate, conservatives will work
extra hard against him.

Romney cannot be trusted. Agreed?

[ansel12]

Since you think this author is making such a good case for Romney, why not answer the obvious question?

How would Romney get through a republican primary?

After reversing himself again on abortion in 2012 and coming out against the GOP’s pro-life platform and declaring himself pro-choice again and running pro-choice ads in Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin and losing those states as a result, how does he reinvent himself yet again?

[Sans-Culotte]

I guess i need to break this down so that you can understand. Yes, Mitt is a weenie RINO loser. I was trying to make the point that the author was making a pointless case that Mitt could now beat Obama because Obama is not running for a third term. The author is a fool.

[IChing]

You disagree that another democrat in the WH is less desirable than any given republican???

[IChing]

Where did I call for it? I ask questions, and vet various factors. Fantasies get us nowhere.

[IChing]

Try reading again, slowly.

[ansel12]

What was your banned name?

To: IChing
Here you are calling for Romney to ruin a THIRD presidential cycle, and you admit that you are a retread.
What was your old name here?
321 posted on 8/10/2014 5:29:56 PM by ansel12

[IChing]

The article says nothing of the sort. It merely describes Romney’s reappearance as a popular figure juxtaposed in light of his vindication on key campaign debate points in 2012, and his foot-in-the-door with the general public, positioned against whoever the donkey nominee is in 2016. It also points out that fringe fantasy candidates don’t do well against reality. Speculation is justified.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

I’d hold my nose and support the republican nominee even if it was Jeb barf Bush, because the alternative is political Ebola.

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What if Hillary ran as a Republican? I bet you’d vote for Hillary!

[COBOL2Java]

They do nothing, then? Sit out elections and hurl poop at the imperfect mortals who dare enter the arena? Great. Surrender certainly allows one to claim they didn’t “compromise.”. Take a lesson from a former democrat, Ronald Wilson Reagan. Reality involves change.

Try to pay attention. We conservatives don't "do nothing". We're in the slow, steady process of trying to get the RINOs and the backstabbers like McConnell fired. How? By refusing to reward their treasonous behaviour by re-electing them. If it means allowing a Democrat take their place, so be it. Will it mean a Democrat takes his place? Yeah, but it will also mean tightening the sphincters of the remaining RINOs, and maybe get them mend their ways; otherwise, lather, rinse, repeat in 2016.

We vote for Conservatives, not Republicans. If they happen to have an "R" after their name, great!

Since you believe this is the equivalent of Armageddon, I'm sure I won't convince you. But the alternative is rewarding the statists and backstabbers in the GOP and continuing the nation's decline. If you want to keep on supporting the GOP as they go hand-in-hand with the DemocRATs and destroy this nation, be my guest. We conservatives will not join you.

[Diogenesis]

Don’t compare the Rat Romney, backstabber extraordinary,
to common Ebola.

[COBOL2Java]

You disagree that another democrat in the WH is less desirable than any given republican???

That question is so inane as to not even warrant an answer.

[Diogenesis]

How vicious, backstabbing and stupid is Mitt Romney?

Romney, working FOR Obama in 2008

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

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"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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Romney: "Obama was born in the United States"

Romney: "Obama Doesn’t Need a Birth Certificate"

Romney: "The citizenship test has been passed"

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Mitt Romney Sends Leftover Pizza to Obama Chicago HQ
After spending the day in Chicago fundraising, Mitt Romney
sat down with small business owners at Gino's East,
a pizza joint famous for their deep-dish pizza.
In fact, Romney himself tweeted a photo of a
delivery boy heading out with the loot, writing,
"Great deep dish at @ginoseast.
Sending the extra slices to @barackobama and his Chicago HQ team."

Romney sends leftover pizza to Obama team

[Linda Frances]

“”If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.”

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Back then 75 or 80% didn’t involve thought crimes/homosexual marriage, teaching kindergardeners about two dads, forcing homosexual Boy Scout leaders, romneycare/obamacare, .... You are today comparing apples to decades ago oranges. Reagan would be outraged.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Crispy Crème does connect with the base at a visceral level. They viscerally despise him.

[Diogenesis]

And although the Rat Romney Loves Obama
he hates radio amateurs.

MITT ROMNEY – HATER OF RADIO AMATEURS

Mr. Romney "Disses" Amateur Radio In Televised Town Meeting

Gov. Sarah Palin, Governor of the state of Alaska, proclaimed the week of July 28 through August 3, 2008 as: Amateur Radio Week