Posted on 06/13/2015 7:59:12 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Mitt Romney is working with an unlikely collaborator — Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul who bankrolled Newt Gingrich’s 2012 campaign — in the hopes of ensuring that the GOP primary produces a mainstream conservative without any of the mayhem that marked his own race.
The two, who speak monthly, aim to convince the wealthy contributors bankrolling various candidates to work together to avoid the kind of primary election chaos that Romney believes laid the seeds for his defeat in 2012. The former Massachusetts governor is also considering endorsing a candidate to achieve his goal.
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Romney, the classic Massachusetts liberal, is tasked with picking a conservative candidate?
This is not going to end well for the American people.
....I have a better idea, lets find out all we can about the candidates and then let US the VOTERS decide who should be in the primary...
...lets stop the ‘rich’ people decide who WE want....
....I have a better idea, lets find out all we can about the candidates and then let US the VOTERS decide who should be in the primary...
...lets stop the ‘rich’ people deciding who WE want....
“produces a mainstream conservative”
For them, that would be Jeb Bush, or a Jeb Bush type.
No. That is not what the article stated: “...considering endorsing a candidate to achieve his goal”. He will endorse a candidate, most likely, like himself.
So “mainstream” conservative means conservative in name only.
“mainstream conservative”
No such thing any more.
Any true conservative will be labeled “fringe”.
Everything that is wrong with the Republican Nomination Process is laid bare, right here.
The former Massachusetts governor is also considering endorsing a candidate to achieve his goal.
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I’m going to go way, way, way out on the old limb and speculate on just who that might be. I will spin my Fairy Godmother dial and see where it lands.
Spin. Spin. Spin. And it it stops on ...
JEB BUSH.
Had it just went a few more or or a few less stops it would have landed on ...
JEB BUSH.
Hmmm. I’ve just noticed that all the stops say
JEB BUSH
Because Mitt is severely conservative. :-)
Nooooooooooooo
The two guys who screwed up the last election were Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, who stayed in the race just long enough to edge out the other conservatives, and then dropped out of the primaries and gave it to Romney. Who effectively dropped out of the election and gave it to the gay Muslim illegal alien Communist.
What they define as mainstream conservatism is identified by most of us as liberalism and/or code talk to stop a real conservative.
Well, now that the critics say Cruz is finished...I guess this will make them happy.
People forget, or never figured out, that Mitt thought that he was building a national power base in California.
Being totally incompetent in politics, as he has demonstrated for decades of running for office, and his leaving the GOP because of Reagan in 1979, and becoming a supporter of democrats, and a democrat fundraiser and voter, his plans for his California base didn’t succeed.
Romney bought a home in California, intending to move there after placing Meg Whitman in the governor’s office.
As usual the man was an idiot, she spent a vast fortune going nowhere, and now Mitt is trying to sell the California house, and move, not back to Massachusetts, but to Utah.
2013 “Mitt Romney Buys Massive Park City, Utah Mansion”
2015 “A broker is now showing the La Jolla home to potential buyers, a Romney aide told the Globe.”
2014 “It turns out Romney, who is moving to Utah as a full-time resident, strolled into a driver license office in late August to obtain his Utah license and filled out paperwork to register to vote at his under-construction home in Holladay, a suburb of Salt Lake City.”
Adelson was always for Mitt. Hell he even admitted that he kept Gingrich in the race to prevent Santorum’s “extreme” views on abortion out of the white house.
But....Nobody wanted to know it then and I’ve got a hunch they don’t want to hear it now.
I choose Cruz.
“mainstream conservative” ??? LOL
so which of the six “mainstream conservatives” that Willard invited to his fancy doin’s in Utah is he going to endorse ???
Rubio for his participation in the Gang of Eight ???
Lindsey for his homosexuality ???
Christie for his photo ops with Obama ???
Kasich for his love of ObamaCare/RomneyCare ???
Walker for his obsession with ObamaTrade ???
Carly Fiorina for her lack of opposition to same sex marriage ???
mainstream conservative would be like mainstream Protestant...
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