Kill me now
Posted on 01/30/2014 11:31:11 AM PST by RKBA Democrat
Mitt Romney leads the Republican field among New Hampshire primary voters for 2016. Yes, you read that right.
Why not make it a third run for president? That's something that the former Republican nominee is definitely not thinking about right now. To put it in his own recent words: "Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no."
But that didn't stop the Virginia-based bipartisan policy firm Purple Strategies from adding his name to a recent survey for Granite State voters, which shows Romney in the lead with 25 percent support. Libertarian firebrand Rand Paul (who has strong infrastructure in New Hampshire) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are behind with 18 percent and 17 percent support, respectively.
We might be experiencing Mittmentum 3.0. The Netflix documentary about his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns was recently released to the excitement of political insiders everywhere. GOP insiders want him to come back: "You know what a lot of them say to me?" an anonymous "operative" told BuzzFeed. "I think we need Mitt back." Romney was even on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to slow jam the news.
So are we sure he's not running again? "People are always gracious and say, 'Oh, you should run again,' " he said in an interview earlier this month. "I'm not running again."
He's done this kind of race before. He's got the staff. He's got the loyalty. He has the money. Time has passed.
Is there a chance? "I think that Chris Christie and Paul Ryan and Jeb Bush and Scott Walker, and the list goes on, have a much better chance of doing that," he said in the same interview, "and so I will support one of them as they become the nominee."
Maybe, maybe not.
Reading the liberals here on FR has convinced me that this republic is going to die from BLUE CANCER.
Perhaps that is so. In any event, it would be just as painful simply because the Dems will still be able to pull their perfected magician tricks with the gender and race cards - since they will be able to convince a significant number of Americans that Warren is a legit Native American. I just don’t see how any upper class Caucasian male in the GOP in 2016 has a snowball’s chance against Hillary or Fauxahontas.
romney and hillary are the perfect couple.
And the Second Amendment from what I have read.
Yes.
No.
Just .... No.
Wait ...
HELL NO!!!
The perfect archetype.
Quit trying to shove your urban New England leftist down our throats. Mitt Romney would make a wonderful democrat. As a Republican, he’s a disaster.
Santorum tied Romney here in Michigan so the rules committee got together and decided it for Romney in a 5/2 vote. Former attorney general and Romney supporter, Mike Cox said it was a dirty way to play.
A tie would have given both 14 delegates but likely ended Romney. However several thousand people voted for Bachmann, Cain, and Ron Paul. I suspect most of those votes would have gone to Santorum if people had accepted the fact that their candidates had effectively dropped out. Gingrich was still in the race but he did stand down in Michigan to avoid screwing things up.
By the time Texas votes in the primary, the democrats and the media often have selected our candidate for us.
WE need to do something to fix the primary so it doesn't happen that way. Something like all states primary voting on the same day, no reporting till California polls close.
Other suggestions are welcome.
Then it is time for them to take their place next to the Whigs in the history books.
Hopefully he won’t; he’s too establishment and the second time will be more internally divisive than last time, sending even more of the GOP to sit it out than the numbers that did in 2012.
Tennessee voted for Sanctorum in 2012...
“There are a bunch of idiot liberals in Missouri AND Kansas. Witness Claire McCaskill and Kathleen Sebelius.”
Missouri is also a state that has a GOP-controlled legislature and the majority of its US House members are Republicans. No state is perfect.
My point is that demographically (for both parties), Missouri is more representative of the US mainstream than perhaps Iowa or New Hampshire is.
Anything Mitt didn’t win was called a “beauty contest” that doesn’t mean anything.
“Statist Mitt Romney represents the death of the GOP.”
Take heart, Jim, Jeb Bush is rethinking about running. lol
The purpose of this is to keep moving the party left, to keep trying to strengthen any influence that Romney can have in attacking conservatives, shaping the party issues, and in his endorsement value.
Good. I look forward to the battle. As I most likely won’t be voting, it’ll be a lot more fun.
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