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Why Mitt Romney should save the Republican Party and join the 2016 race
theweek.com ^ | Sep. 3, 2015 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

Posted on 09/05/2015 6:05:47 AM PDT by PROCON

"Mitt wants to run. He never stopped wanting to run," an anonymous senior adviser of Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign recently told New York magazine. Other members of Romneyworld have denied the former governor is interested in another campaign. But at this stage in the 2016 race, Mitt Romney should start preparing to get back in the arena.

Romney should be ready to enter the field to save his party from an awful reckoning between its leadership and its base, a reckoning that has been brought on by Donald Trump's campaign. Trump has proven that the "strongest GOP primary field in 30 years" is no such thing, creating an opening for the winner of the last primary. If Romney should win the primary, it would be an incredible political comeback. It would also be a gift to his party, forcing on the GOP the reality of a new and stable settlement between its factions.

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Romney, if he can secure the nomination, has a much better shot in 2016 than he did in 2012.

This ploy is nothing more than the GOPe trying to punish Republicans who are not supporting their favored Jeb!

No more Jeb!

No more Mitt!

No more GOPe candidates!

1 posted on 09/05/2015 6:05:47 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

VOMIT!!!!!!!


2 posted on 09/05/2015 6:06:47 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (The Federal Government is nothing but a welfare program with a dress code!)
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To: PROCON

Poor Ann Coulter will have a stroke.


3 posted on 09/05/2015 6:06:48 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: PROCON

Oh geez, they just haven’t got a clue, do they!!!!


4 posted on 09/05/2015 6:06:56 AM PDT by Thorliveshere (Minnesota Survivor)
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To: PROCON

Mutt should run..... away, and take !Yeb! with him!


5 posted on 09/05/2015 6:07:40 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: PROCON

Good Lord.


6 posted on 09/05/2015 6:07:55 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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I’m all in favor of it. Mitt will split the GPOPe vote with Heb. Each will get 1 and a half percent.


7 posted on 09/05/2015 6:08:56 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: PROCON

Not a single person wants Romney to run again— I think he would poll less than Lindsey Graham—


8 posted on 09/05/2015 6:09:09 AM PDT by freespirit2012
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Don’t look back. Romney had his opportunity and punked out at the finish line. The same would happen again. He doesn’t have the killer instinct.


9 posted on 09/05/2015 6:09:19 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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I don’t know what this guy has been drinking.

I do know I don’t want any of it.


10 posted on 09/05/2015 6:10:31 AM PDT by dforest
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Right, he sure saved us from Obama even after he nationalized Healthcare.

Why not recruit MeCain too, Losers for President!

11 posted on 09/05/2015 6:11:54 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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12 posted on 09/05/2015 6:12:10 AM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: Redleg Duke

Agreed. Please God...no.


13 posted on 09/05/2015 6:12:36 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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Yeah, right. That is exactly what the GOP needs —

the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama in 2008 —

the guy who lost to Obama in 2012.

Romney couldn’t rally the base against Obama in 2012; he certainly won’t rally the base against anyone in 2016 — even though his son did give a speech in Spanish at the 2012 GOP convention.


14 posted on 09/05/2015 6:13:31 AM PDT by TomGuy
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If Mittwit jumps in he’ll help split 5% jeb’s squish vote. .


15 posted on 09/05/2015 6:15:17 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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"Romney should be ready to enter the field to save his party from an awful reckoning between its leadership and its base..."

Romney is the very embodiment of the differences between the "leadership" and the base.

16 posted on 09/05/2015 6:15:18 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: Redleg Duke

I am going to predict that Michael Brendan Dougherty is a flamer and a liberal that’s just tring to split the vote up to ensure a Democrat president wins. I mean who in the hell uses their complete middle name in their articles except for flamers?


17 posted on 09/05/2015 6:19:12 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: PROCON

Notice the guys that ‘save’ the party are the ones that lose. Every time.


18 posted on 09/05/2015 6:19:16 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: PROCON

What is The Week? The author is clueless.


19 posted on 09/05/2015 6:20:07 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: PROCON

Oh great let’s run a retread never was!


20 posted on 09/05/2015 6:20:58 AM PDT by erod (Chicago Conservative | Cruz or Lose!)
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