Yes, Mitt Romney WAS involved in a bruising exchange with the other Republican candidates in 2012. But it was Mitt who was doing the bruising, not the other way around.
If Romney had shown as much gumption and intensity in going after the Current Occupant in 2012 as he did against his Republican rivals earlier, and especially had he grabbed the Benghazi incident and ran with it, there would have been a much different outcome.
Because the Current Occupant and his entire regime were defecating bricks while they were watching the events unfold in live time that night, and they had not the least idea how to take charge.
The phone was ringing at 3 AM and nobody was answering.
Why do I remember that image so well from 2008?
Ummmmmmnnn no. I was here on FR at time. We had whole threads devoted to New Gingrich's nasty attacks on Romney using far left, anti capitalist talking points. A lot of Freepers were not too happy with Gingrich over that, even though they did not support Romney.
“If Romney had shown as much gumption and intensity in going after the Current Occupant in 2012 as he did against his Republican rivals earlier, and especially had he grabbed the Benghazi incident and ran with it, there would have been a much different outcome.”
He was paid to take a dive? Sure looked like it to me. Neither Trump nor Cruz are playing that game. Yeb is done, so are the rest of the 1%ers. The only one left to shoot down is Rubio.
My guess is that the fact that the 1%ers are staying in is just to try and derail the leaders. Probably with GOPe money at that.