Posted on 07/04/2016 5:43:37 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Last year, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was serious about making one last bid for the White House. Only after realizing that Jeb Bush had already secured pledges from most of the top Republican donors did he decide to sit out the 2016 election. Of course, as it turned out, Bush – even with a reported $100 million war chest – could barely make a blip on the electoral radar. In the year of Donald Trump, the former Florida governor was just another victim.
Since then, Romney has become one of Trump’s biggest and most outspoken detractors. When the primary field had winnowed to three, Romney delivered a scathing speech attacking Trump, encouraging voters to support whichever alternative candidate had the best chance of winning in their state. Asked at the time if he might consider throwing his hat into the ring, though, he insisted that it was out of the question.
Romney hasn’t quite gone back on that assertion, but a new interview has many thinking that he’s leaving the door slightly cracked.
“My wife and kids wanted me to run again this time,” he said at the Aspen Ideas Festival last week. “I got an email from one of my sons yesterday saying, ‘You gotta get in, Dad – you gotta get it.'”
Would he? “The door is closed,” he maintained, “unless both candidates come to me and ask me to please save them. I think that’s unlikely. I can’t imagine the circumstances that would lead me to be in the race.”
Romney, of course, knows as well as anyone that he stands no chance of winning the presidency this year. As an independent, he probably wouldn’t even be able to get on enough state ballots to make a serious bid for the White House. And if the delegates revolt in Cleveland and nominate someone other than Trump, that someone will get trounced by Hillary Clinton.
In the meantime, he’s just another bitter Republican making it more difficult for the party to unite around the presumptive nominee. It was apparently not enough for him to personally cost the GOP an election; he wants to see to it that they lose in 2016 as well.
No doubt, Romney’s problems with Trump are heartfelt. No one’s suggesting that he put his concerns aside and endorse the New York billionaire.
But for God’s sake, put a lid on it. The voters have chosen. Deal with it.
And the foreign exchange student’s first four years can be attributed to the unpatriotic Juan McCain’s candidacy.
>Yup. McCain and Romney. Partners In Treason.
Never trust a Mormon. They’re Mormons first and America can burn for all they care.
Romney: My Family Wants Me to Jump In the Race
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I would like him to jump into “reality” and face the fact that Donald Trump is our candidate. The maniac is delusional....at best.
Can he not take a hint from the beating he got in 2012? Hope the nutcase is on the no-fly-list. HA!
F.U. Romneykins, and your idiot family, too!
What an asinine ego trip — no one but idiot losers could want you getting into the 2016 race, not that you ever had any chance anyway.
Who the hell cares that your mentally challenged son says “you gotta get in dad, you gotta get in!” This is one of the stupidest tales I have ever seen.
So, Mitt, your family is apparently as mentally defective and as socially maladjusted as you are. Big surprise, huh?
Well Mitt your family are the only ones that want you. So strap the dog on the roof of the Coupe de Ville and go to your vacation house for the summer.
Well, my family wants me to jump in too. So what?
Do it Mittens. It will be so much fun seeing you humiliated laughed at and shown the door.
Who? Flake and Hatch?
Never mind that Lee has backstabbed the nominee for potus in this party.
No force on this planet strong enough to make millions of us vote for Romney for anything... he's king of the Cheap Labor Express and he's disgusting.
Romney’s delusional...
An exceedingly bad idea. He ought to throw his millions behind Trump.
What state of delusion are these guys under?
It would have been something like "Loser Mittens" or "Wimp Romney". Every time I hear from this loser, I picture Mr. T pushing him away saying "Get this Has-Been outta my corner!"
These neo-conservative Republicrats want to accelerate our decline to fulfill Hussein’s promise of fundamental change.
They’re as patriotic as he is. President Trump will have a memory like an ELEPHANT!
I forgot about Flake.
Hatch and Hairy.
I can't imagine he'd get more than 20% if they somehow keep Trump out.
Ofcourse, they don't care. They purposely tried to lose in 2012 and sat back and watched the fraud when it looked they could win.
‘They’ like the one party system.
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