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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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To: PROCON

WHERE IS THE BARF ALERT?

I’m gonna hurlllllllllllllll!


41 posted on 09/05/2015 6:47:48 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: alloysteel

“Lead, follow, or get the hell of the way.”

Unintentional typo, but maybe “the hell of the way” is even more descriptive than “get the hell OUT of the way”.

The “hell of the way” would be something like getting a rope around the ankles and being dragged along the ground until extreme abrasion set in.


42 posted on 09/05/2015 6:50:24 AM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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To: Vaquero

Tommie Lee Jones don’t NEED no facepalm! :-)


43 posted on 09/05/2015 6:55:37 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: KeyLargo
WHERE IS THE BARF ALERT?

This voter agrees...



44 posted on 09/05/2015 6:58:10 AM PDT by PROCON (GOD will NOT be mocked!)
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To: PROCON

Will it cost the GOPe a lot of money and split Bush’s whopping 8% in half?
If so.. am for it!


45 posted on 09/05/2015 7:00:06 AM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: PROCON

Yeah! Mitt wanted to run alright, there were just too problems, he didn’t want to actually win and he’s a RINO.


46 posted on 09/05/2015 7:03:51 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: PROCON

O.K., who opened the keg of Romulan ale?


47 posted on 09/05/2015 7:06:39 AM PDT by Mobilemitter (We must learn to fin >-)> for ourselves.........)
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To: PROCON

I gave $$$ to Romney and drove 150 miles to see him.
Never Again!


48 posted on 09/05/2015 7:10:46 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: PROCON

Ohh emmm jeee.


49 posted on 09/05/2015 7:12:06 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (the left has redefined the word 'racism' to mean any disagreement with any liberal about any topic)
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To: KeyLargo
"WHERE IS THE BARF ALERT?

I’m gonna hurlllllllllllllll!"

I know right? Romney! Uggh too late ~cough~ ...


50 posted on 09/05/2015 7:13:22 AM PDT by Democratic-Republican
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To: PROCON
Trump has proven that the “strongest GOP primary field in 30 years” is no such thing, <<<

LMAO...and how is that proven?...by winning all the polls?...Now that's what I call “pretzel logic”......Do they want to poll the whole field and pick the weakest of the "strongest GOP primary field in 30 years"

51 posted on 09/05/2015 7:14:01 AM PDT by M-cubed ( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
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To: PROCON

The democrats are desperate to maintain control of the Republican Party, they can see their plans slipping...away... : )


52 posted on 09/05/2015 7:14:24 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Zathras
Yeah, many of us supported him and voted GOP in 2012 just because we knew who 0bama was.

Still, the GOPe just doesn't identify with it's conservative base.

53 posted on 09/05/2015 7:15:32 AM PDT by PROCON (GOD will NOT be mocked!)
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To: Arthur McGowan

the liberal groups have gotten so bad about setting up faux consevative groups, faux tea parties facebook pages, or writing under faux conservative pen names. You have to listen to what they are really saying once they start using the double and triple negatives to know whhose side they’re really on. Usually a full name complete (with full middle name) is as much one of their identifers as a name like Veronice Ashley Renee Engel is to a transvestite. Gotta watch the liars close these day since Alinsky distributed his Lucifer dedicated manual of deception


54 posted on 09/05/2015 7:16:28 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: RoosterRedux

Like Trump said, “Romney choked! He choked like a dog!”


55 posted on 09/05/2015 7:17:24 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: PROCON
OMG!! Is anyone but me seeing this as a knife in Trump's poll numbers?

They talk about Ross Perot and Trump in the same breath, and Mitt is Ross Perot!!!

The GOPee is the total reasoning of insanity....

“Keep doing the same things over and over again and try to get the same results”

If this wasn't so funny and ridiculous, it would be terribly terribly sad...

56 posted on 09/05/2015 7:19:00 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("It's the hard working, tax paying citizens of the United States that are suffering..."Go TRUMP 2016)
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To: PROCON
Mitt's time to run is out of gas....


57 posted on 09/05/2015 7:19:04 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long

LOL. “Choked like a dog.”


58 posted on 09/05/2015 7:19:58 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi)
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To: norwaypinesavage

I’m all in favor of it. Mitt will split the GPOPe vote with Heb. Each will get 1 and a half percent.


Exactly right. We should welcome this half-wit RINO into the race with open arms.


59 posted on 09/05/2015 7:20:14 AM PDT by samtheman (2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
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To: Thorliveshere

Apparently there were no raised hands when the question was asked for a show of “Who thinks we should REALLY act like conservatives this (s)election cycle?” at gopE secret underground lair. So, even with it being SOOOOOO friggin’ obvious that the fly over folks are sick of the pablum spewing pc wusses, they refuse to accept it. Idiots? They make idiots look like einstein.


60 posted on 09/05/2015 7:20:20 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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