Posted on 03/06/2016 6:04:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
New information is surfacing about Mitt Romney and his 2016 plans following the 2012 presidential candidate's nationally-covered speech on Thursday morning.
The former Mass. Governor and Republican nominee for President spoke out against Donald Trump, calling the Republican front-runner a "phony" and "fraud." He urged Republicans to unite behind another candidate, yet declined to indicate which candidate he would be supporting.
An in-depth look at Romney's campaign finance activity, however, shows that the former candidate may be gearing up to take another shot at the White House.
In late January and early February of 2016, Romney's campaign finance entities, which by law are subject to FEC regulations, were both reactivated with amended campaign statements.
FEC records indicate that Romney's former campaign committee, Romney for President, and Romney's affiliated PAC, Romney Victory Fund, were both reactivated earlier this year, making them legally able to solicit donations and organize for his presidential campaign.
The above FEC documents can be found on the FEC websites here and here.
The Christian Times Newspaper spoke with several campaign finance professionals and campaign finance attorneys to further understand this move.
One told us that Romney "would only be making these changes" if he in fact "was going to run for President in 2016."
Another, a former McCain finance staffer indicated that this evidence shows "without a doubt" that Romney has plans to run as a Republican this year.
In the days and weeks following Romney's Trump-bashing, it will be interesting to see whether or not the 2012 candidate makes any further moves to run in 2016.
How does Romney/Cruz sound to everyone?
If Cruz is actually a stealth GOPe candidate, then that’s what we’ll see.
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Very interesting
They have also insinuated that GOP voters are unintelligent and need to be schooled in WHO to vote for. They are treating voters in a condescending manner. That is inexcusable.
The GOP has imploded because of it.
I wish I could trust Cruz like you obviously do. His ties to big money donors is a problem for me, and his closeness now with Graham, Ryan, and Mitt is VERY troubling. Now I am thinking that Cruz being the “bad guy” against the “Establishment GOP” was a great act.....with the goal to keep the Tea Party lovers of Cruz in with him so the status quo will remain. Reason I say this is it seems to me the ticket they want now is Cruz/Rubio or Cruz/Kasich.
Would it be too difficult to wait until that actually happens before condemning Cruz for it?
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Yes, of course, I was simply responding to another poster based on a hypothetical.
“Really sad,” Cruz wrote on Twitter.
Cruz further told Trump that “you’re better than this. We should all agree, racism is wrong, KKK is abhorrent.”
What’s sad is that untrusTED would even tweet, say anything or come within a mile of this shameful MSM/Romney/MS Gang of 14 false meme.
This is where it all began, at the debate, just after the behind the back handshake seen round the world.
#ReallySad #ReallyCooridinated
You are exactly right, Kitcat.
This whole thing is already sideways, we’re just not in the ditch yet.
The HONEST truth is the evangelicals KNOW how corrupt DC is they follow NOTHING more than the MONEY!!! It is a shame but they have asked for just ONE thing from these BASTARDS DEFUND ABORTION!!!! BUT did they oh hell no!!!!! Evangelicals are FAR more angry than the average voter they have been stripped of their freedom of beliefs, stripped of CHRISTMAS, Stripped Of traditional marriage and THIS IS UNDER GOP rule, they will take their chances with Trump!!!
Unless Trump wins, Trump’s the only one going down, no one else really will. Trump will disrupt everything if he wins and they know it. If Hillary wins, the rest will somehow continue to suck from the big teat or work on K Street.
I heard a talk show host recently explain the GOPe actions.
Theyve lost all the presidential elections in the past 20 years except Bush 2. They are used to losing and being the barely opposing party.
But they are terrified of losing control of the party and the base, which is why they are fighting Trumps likely takeover of it.
It is rather telling that they are resigned to second place and being just less left than the liberals, instead of fighting for and actively supporting the evangelicals, the working class whites and Tea Party that are their base, the people that they keep making promises to before dissing the people and calling them morons/racists/sexists/evil nationalists/stupid rednecks/flyover country.
They dont want to win nationally, just comfortably control their opposition corner, because for years the true conservative core had no where else to go. And now they can - to Trumps camp, to a guy who will truly fight. Cruz, likely, too.
You can see it when the Social Justice Warriors are kicked out of Trump rallies while Sanders gave Black Lives Matter the floor when they intruded. You see it in Milo Yianopolis tour videos in the past few weeks where the audience chants Trumps name to shout down the SJWs - and WINS. Hes become a rallying cry for the people tired of being demonized for their demographics, their religion, etc.
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Excellent analysis...I very much agree!
Trump is the only way out of this.
People who think Trump and Cruz will team up are deluding themselves. Cruz is establishment and making overtures to Romney.
The amazing thing is they/we do know. We all know about the billions of dollars pouring into Republican coffers and we know that cash comes from open-borders, pharmaceuticals, corporate, insurance, oil, etc. We know it but the cronyism is so embedded we don't know what to do about it, until now.
They're panicked over Trump because he won't keep that money flowing. The billionaires won't be able to buy influence. This is their bread and butter and Trump's threatening to take it away.
They know mittens running 3rd party would hand the presidency to hitlery.
THEYRE OK WITH IT!!!!!!!
They’re fine with hitlery and what she would do with this country because under her, they would retain their power.
These bastards are evil.
Did you watch the last GOP debate?
You mean the one where we witnessed the planned, Romneylike attacks on the GOP frontrunner?
Yes. It was a disgrace to see the two freshman Senator GOPee candidates follow out their Romney/Stuart Stevens ‘release the NYSlimes tape and Trump U’ marching ambush orders.
Trump needs to be all over this!
Link or just making it up again?
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