Mitt Romney opens up on his doubts about Jeb Bush

Washington Post Daily 202 ^ | 1/4/16 | James Hohmann

[jimbo123]

-Mitt Romney says concern about Jeb Bush's electability was a major reason he seriously considered running for president a year ago.

"A Bush-versus-Clinton head-to-head would be too easy for the Democrats," he told my colleagues Dan Balz and Philip Rucker during an interview last week in Boston for a broader story about the political events of 2015.

The 2012 GOP nominee recalled thinking, "I like Jeb a lot, I think he'd be a great president, but felt he was unfairly but severely burdened by the W. years - and when I say the W. years, it's not only what happened to the economy, but the tragedy in Iraq."

Mitt says he expressed this point to Bush's face during a private sit-down in Utah last Jan. 22nd.

"Jeb, to be very honest, I think it's very hard for you to post up against Hillary Clinton and to separate yourself from the difficulty of the W. years and compare them with the Clinton years," Romney recalls telling the former Florida governor when they met at his house in a Salt Lake City suburb. Romney says Bush responded by saying "he was going to make his campaign about the future, not about the past."

[Pollster1]

Just in case some charitable person thought Romney might have learned from his loss to the worst occupant of our White House in history, here’s proof that Mitt is unteachable. Mitt likes Jeb. I hope they will both go away. Soon, but not too soon. We need Jeb to split the big government, pro-amnesty RINO vote with Christie and Rubio, just until the last primary is over.

[GOPJ]

Jeb’s wrong on the issues for our time... that’s true. People are sick of the Cheap Labor Express and anyone who rationalizes it.

[Twinkie]

I have hauled my lardbutt down to the polls every election
since Heck was a pup and voted GOP-elite. Wasted vote.
I’m ready for something different that is NOT Hussein “O”!