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Top Romney strategist: Trump will be out by Iowa
cnn ^ | 10/5/15 | Theodore Schliefer

Posted on 10/05/2015 5:41:02 PM PDT by VinL

The top strategist to 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney doesn't think 2016 front-runner Donald Trump will even be in the race when the first votes are cast.

Stuart Stevens, an unaligned strategist who spearheaded Romney's successful bid for the GOP nomination, said Monday that Trump is likely scared of losing.

"I don't think he's going to be on the ballot by February 1," Stevens told CNN's Jake Tapper..."The greatest sin in his value system is to be a loser, and most people who run for president lose. I don't think he'll risk it."

Trump enjoys a solid, but shrinking, lead nationally and in early voting states. But he said last week, "If I fell behind badly, I would certainly get out."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2012election; 2016; 2016election; donaldtrump; election2012; election2016; massachusetts; mittromney; newyork; stuartstevens; trump; twitter
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To: VinL

Isn’t quitting because you’re not winning the same thing as losing?


21 posted on 10/05/2015 5:54:34 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: VinL

we hardly thing being a ‘Romney strategist” lends any credibility or luster to this commentator


22 posted on 10/05/2015 5:54:43 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Brilliant, funny, and incisive Tagline coming to this space soon.....)
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To: hoosiermama

I will. Usually, The Right Scoop gets it so we will see! It is very important he clarifies the lies and confusion about single payer.


23 posted on 10/05/2015 5:54:46 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: djstex

And Furthmore,The top strategist Stuart Stevens
to 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney doesn’t think 2016 front-runner Donald Trump will even be in the race when the first votes are cast.

I fail to see how a so-called former top strategist for Romney can be still called a ‘top strategist’ they lost! Lost Big AND HOW! I UNFORTUNATELY supported him and he failed. BIG Time!


24 posted on 10/05/2015 5:55:14 PM PDT by djstex
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To: VinL

If Romney gets in before Trump leaves, and I doubt that Trump will leave... So let me start again, if Romney gets in with Trump, it will give all kinds of fodder for Trump. It will make Trump even stronger.

I believe Romney wants to get in, badly. Because Romney sees an alpha male possibly larger and stronger than Romney. The alpha male in Romney can’t allow this to happen (this is the Mormon thought process.) The problem, is that Trump will show that Romney lost to a effeminate loser Obama, and so therefore Romney is NOT an alpha male; and because of the lost to such a loser like Obama, Romney is even weaker that Obama.

Alpha male Trump WINS against effeminate wimp loser mormon Romney.


25 posted on 10/05/2015 5:55:17 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: JoSixChip

this probably the same dope who told Romney to sit on his lead and never attack..loser


26 posted on 10/05/2015 5:55:33 PM PDT by ground_fog
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To: hoosiermama

Check this out! LOL!

TRUMP PRANKS RUBIO

http://therightscoop.com/trump-pranks-rubio/


27 posted on 10/05/2015 5:58:19 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: VinL

We can probably take this to the bank. Those Romney staffer are a sharp bunch.

/s


28 posted on 10/05/2015 5:58:53 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Like a sack of wet leather.


29 posted on 10/05/2015 6:00:01 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: VinL

What kind of person is sitting at home and thinking “man I really wish Mitt was running again”


30 posted on 10/05/2015 6:00:44 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: VinL

Typical establishment crap.


31 posted on 10/05/2015 6:01:58 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Chgogal

Romney got exposed as the creep he is, and to which his “unaligned” hatchet man, here attests. Perhaps Carson voters will freak out if Romney should get in, and would move mostly to Trump.

Romney hopefuls can not even dream that Romney would win the nomination, after the en masse sit-out of last time.

Can’t imagine that the RNC would ever entertain even the idea of the Romney pos getting in the race.


32 posted on 10/05/2015 6:03:56 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Diogenesis

When you want an educated guess, ask an advisor to a failed RINO loser. Makes sense, right?


33 posted on 10/05/2015 6:03:59 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If youce, prepare for war.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Every other GOP candidate wishes they were shrinking in the polls like Trump. This is just the latest ploy by the MSM to try to kill Trump. Pathetic.


34 posted on 10/05/2015 6:04:37 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: VinL

This one of those “Washington experts” who engineered Romney’s failed presidential campaign against an absolute imbecile?


35 posted on 10/05/2015 6:05:44 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Diogenesis

> eagerly awaits his surrogates’ knives to enter the back of Mr. Trump.

Bingo!


36 posted on 10/05/2015 6:06:21 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: ForYourChildren

I think his wife wants her male to be more alpha.

I think Mitt would be happy to leave politics behind.


37 posted on 10/05/2015 6:09:43 PM PDT by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: Mastador1

>>Because a “Top Romney Strategist” has so much of a proven skill set.<<

Up there with moochele’s fashion, obozo’s foreign policy, and diblasio’s economic growth advisers.


38 posted on 10/05/2015 6:09:53 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The 17th Amendment was the beginning of the end. The end was the 19th ;) Thank God for the 21st!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Oh no, he’s still first.
But we can’t report that.
What can we say that somehow makes first look like last, and blue look like red?


39 posted on 10/05/2015 6:11:04 PM PDT by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: VinL

Some other info:

Donald Trump to Chris Christie: Don’t hire Stuart Stevens. 08/21/13:

http://www.politico.com/video/2013/08/donald-trump-to-chris-christie-dont-hire-stuart-stevens-006609

The top strategist for Mitt Romney’s campaign told CNN that he doesn’t think the media is “in the tank” for President Obama.:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/25/stuart-stevens-media-obama-mitt-romney_n_2758266.html

The point of the articles is in the headline, so you don’t have to click. Stevens is a tool of the left.


40 posted on 10/05/2015 6:11:56 PM PDT by Duke of Milan
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