Agreed. And Romney will be pushing it in age by then anyway. With the new youth movement in politics, including the GOP with the likes of Palin and Jindal, Romney’s days as a presidential prospect are over.
“Agreed. And Romney will be pushing it in age by then anyway. With the new youth movement in politics, including the GOP with the likes of Palin and Jindal, Romney’s days as a presidential prospect are over.”
Romney is in the same situation Hillary is this election. If their party wins, their chance at the White House ends.
This critisicm of Palin by Romney staffers makes sense when you think of the big picture. Who has been the most prominent Republicans critical of Palin? The “Wall Street/Northeast” wing of the party. Who were Romneys biggest supporters? Same people.
I think the not so subtle suggestion by Romney that Jindal will run in 2012 (nice of him to assume McCain will lose) is to set up a Palin/Jindal split among social conservatives (thus preventing either from getting a majority of votes) and allow Romney to pull in the economic conservatives.