Posted on 05/21/2015 2:04:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Shortly after 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney withdrew from the presidential campaign of 2016, I suggested that he was probably pursuing a brilliant strategy intended to let the other Republican candidates wear each other down while the media investigated them all, paving the way for Romney to step in as the savior of the party. My Machiavellian theory early this year is starting to look pretty good today!
In my column this week about the magic of Bill Clinton, I suggested that because of the great success of the Bill Clinton presidency, the vast experience of Hillary Clinton and huge popularity of Bill Clinton tower above any of the GOP candidates. Looking at the comparison of Hillary Clinton with her would-be Republican opponents, I recall the title of a movie about Snow White — except there are more than seven Republicans running. We have seen the soap opera of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and his various positions on the Iraq War; the incoherence of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) trying to explain his position on the Iraq War; the comic opera of Carly Fiorina (R) trying to explain why she is qualified for anything after being unceremoniously removed as CEO of Hewlett-Packard for a failed performance (after laying off thousands of workers). We have seen Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) trying to explain his statement about enrolling in ObamaCare. We have observed Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) taking a crash course to study about military affairs and foreign policy while his fans propose his lack of a college degree may be an asset with GOP primary voters. Excuse me? If Walker did not have a high-school degree, would that be an even greater asset with Republican voters? Where do they find these guys?
Honest Abe would not be inspired by this cattle car of Republicans today.
For another way to look at this, check out the excellent column by my colleague A.B. Stoddard on the GOP debate problem — there are so many candidates that it will be hard to conduct serious presidential debates. Either excluded candidates and their supporters will be outraged, or included candidates will be so numerous that they will have little time to speak about the great issues and they will need to sound even more radical right and extremist to get any attention in the jam-packed cattle car debates.
Compared to this crowd, playing by these rules, voters will be ready to put Hillary Clinton on Mount Rushmore and start singing "Hail to the Chief" to "Madam President" by Election Day.
On the other hand — if my early prediction of a revived Romney for president campaign is correct — Romney is tanned, rested, ready, prepared, well-financed if necessary and eminently qualified to be president. When you take out the popcorn to watch the Republican debates, remember the gentleman from Massachusetts who will not be there, ready to answer the call when the time is right.
Phtttttt
Did this require a “hurl alert”? Might as well say huckleberry looks strong for 2016. Or was it supposed to read “...Looks WRONG for 2016.”
Put the bong down, Brent.
Dream on. LOL. Wishful thinking for the left.
How’s Bob Dole looking?
Sorry Romney, but you had your chance and choose to only use your skills to attack conservatives in the primary then folded like a wet blanket against the zero.
Sorry Mr. Budowsky, but you can put your lefty desires of putting a two time loser against Hillary into the trash where they belong. Mittens blew his chance to be president and even the RINOS, who you’re trying to get to fall for your ploy, don’t want him either.
Considering that he still has a band of defenders on FR who still cling bitterly to their support for him as being the lesser evil (although Barrys record was the more conservative of the two), Mitt may well be competition for Cruz.
Think I’ kidding? Look how easily and willingly much of FR abandoned conservative principles last time...to WIN!
And then lost both.
A. The writer is a moron.
B. Has Mitt lost his mind?
Willard was strong in 1994 too...
Just as strongly liberal as he is now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elx3UWmyAY4&feature=related
Willard was strong in 2002 also..
Just as strongly pro-abortion as he is now..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4
Willard was strong in 2008 too..
Just as strongly a rude aggressive verbally abusive and out of control jerk as he is now..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NLo7nnHgfs&feature=related
It turns out Brent Budowsky is a very old pin head. The rest still applies, though.
2016 would be Romney’s 23rd year of running for office, and his 23rd year since becoming a republican again, after leaving the party because Ronald Reagan was winning the 1979 primary.
In those 23 years, the guy won a single election, by less than 50%, and governed so badly that he left that office with no chance of reelection, and with 34% approval.
In 2008 he had all of the money and people and resources, and McCain and Huckabee beat him with no money, and then in 2012, he lost an election that republicans couldn’t lose, against Jimmy Carter’s second term.
Who is this guy, and who keeps thinking that he is good at politics, or governing?
NO THANKS!!!
and some more of the ungentlemanly behavior of Willard ...
but strong..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZS2ga1dSSU
The GOPe runs this guy again...you can say President Clinton again.
IF...the GOPe had run a Conservative last time around..we would have had a Conservative POTUS.
“Brent J. Budowsky (born February 19, 1952)[1] is a liberal / progressive[2] American political opinion writer and blogger for publications including The Hill,[3] the LA Progressive,[4] and The Huffington Post.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Budowsky
Yep.
If the GOP runs him again, I wonder if the self deluded here will admit what some of us have said all along. That the GOP is in fact an arm of the DNC.
I am going to get called names for this but here goes anyway:
I have read the “Book of Mormon”, “Doctrines and Covenants” and the “Pearl of Great Price”
I’d have a hard time voting for a Mormon simply because of the idiocy contained with their scriptures. You have to either a fool or evil to believe them
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