Vote for me, or it'll be YOUR fault the other guy wins!
I mean, how could you LIVE with yourself???
Posted on 03/10/2014 7:01:15 PM PDT by xzins
The Washington Post reports that failed establishment Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is gathering his “political brain trust” at a swanky Park City, Utah ski chalet later this month.
If political brains were a prerequisite for an invitation it seems like Romney could have held the gathering in the broom closet of one of his mansions, but conservatives should not dismiss the threat to the prospects for a conservative victory in 2016 that Romney revanchists represent.
As The Post reports, and we hear from time to time with incredulity, there is chatter among some powerful GOP donors about another Romney presidential campaign in 2016.
The reunion is expected to include some senior campaign staff and debate prep advisers, including Beth Myers, Stuart Stevens, Russ Schriefer, Bob White, Peter Flaherty, Eric Fehrnstrom, Austin Barbour, Gail Gitcho and others of the so-called “brain trust” that managed to give away the 2012 presidential campaign.
According to The Washington Post article, Romney is also planning another get together this summer in Park City, where for the third straight year he will invite top political, business and policy leaders for an ideas summit. In 2012, during his campaign, the retreat included several possible vice presidential hopefuls, and in 2013, many of the GOP's leading 2016 presidential contenders attended, including Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
We’re inclined to believe Romney, who has been adamant in saying he will not run for president a third time, even though this this is the same Mitt Romney that said during the campaign "I've been as consistent as human beings can be" in response to challenges regarding his constant flip-flops and evolving principles of convenience on matters related to the conservative agenda.
It says a lot about the caliber of advice Mitt Romney received that that in the midst of the worst economy since the Great Depression of the 1930s he was soundly defeated in a 332 to 206 Electoral College blowout that saw him lose virtually every closely contested state, including the must-win states of Ohio, Virginia, and Florida.
In any logical universe Romney’s staff and consultants, such as Beth Myers, Stuart Stevens, Russ Schriefer, Bob White, Peter Flaherty, Eric Fehrnstrom, Austin Barbour, Gail Gitcho and pollster Neil Newhouse would never be hired to run or consult on a national Republican campaign again and no one would give a dime to any organization that would be so improvident as to take the kind advice that led Romney to lose in 2012 by almost 5 million votes.
The danger presented by the Romney pow-wow in Utah isn’t a nascent Romney presidential run, it is that Romney's “stand-for-nothing” style of politics will continue to exert its destructive influence on the Republican Party through the influence of his “brain trust” and the content-free campaigns they advise Republicans to run.
I agree. We had our chance to elect Romney last time. He won the primary. He was ready to go ... and what?
What?
He folded. We do not need someone who folds that way. We do not need someone all fired up to win the nomination, but then who doesn’t appear to give a flying frog whether they win the election.
Romney and Mitch McConnell are very much alike. Both ran/run slash and burn take-no-prisoner campaigns against their primary opponents, (Fellow Republicans), and then are pussy-cats wanting to be stroked and petted when running against the Democrats.
The lesson I take from that is simple. They really aren’t Republicans-in-name-only they are democrats-hiding-in-plain-sight, DHIPS.
The same candidate who has (along with Mitt's machine) been sending me e-mails and letters despite my cutting of all ties to the GOP. Their being a "Mitten" drops my enthusiasm for any candidates by at least 50% before they are even out of the gate.
I remember those threads. But even more odd, I remember the threads during the 2012 elections, when Mitt Romney was running. He gave some good speeches and many, if not most, on FR suddenly loved him.
Romney is the reason the diabolical community organizer is in the White House.
His strategy failed.
He bet his election that he could move to the left and pick up enough liberals to offset any conservatives he would lose thinking that most would have no other choice.
So we heard about gay boyscouts, the “health” of the mother, gay adoption, gun control that he liked, enhanced “revenues and fees”, RomneyCare, and compromise.
The result of that: the liberals said no anyway, and he’d already run off the conservatives.
His grand strategy failed. The failure lies at the doorstep of the general who approved that strategy.
Voter fraud didn’t help him either.
It is all his fault. He was the general.
He was supposed to cover every base.
If the enemy sneaks into the camp, it is not the enemy’s fault. That is what enemies do....what a good general plans for them to do. He institutes “force protection”.
Romney failed in so many areas that it is time to simply admit he was a failure. His plan failed, his personality failed, his lack of forcefulness failed, his protection of his own election failed.
A general is supposed to cover all those bases. He did not measure up.
GTFO.
STFU.
NOOOO!!!
Romney got a lot of votes, he’d be stupid not to use that to try to grasp some relevancy for as long as he can, but he ain’t running again, he’s priming the pump so he can pass the torch to his son who will be the next Governor of Utah.
Something I noticed about the pattern of comments on thos site about the Bruce Campbell impersonator. The big problem most people here had with romney wasn’t that he was a rino, its that he lost. Which kind of backs up the sports mentality of the american public, where everything has to be reduced to the level of some retarded football game.
We have some exciting candidates I think this time.
Cruz and Rand Paul.
I really think Romney will be old news and not a factor.
So many were holding their noses and voting that his inept campaign and loss just sticks in their minds as one big cluster freep.
When they say “loss” they mean everything about the entire situation: bad campaign, bad candidate, etc.
Thanks, I was waiting for this.
IMO he picked Palin because he thought that she would HELP him lose and then it wouldn't be his fault in public view. Watching him campaign there was little doubt in my mind that he planned to lose.
There is still a certain segment of people who don't want a woman. I was surprised at how many people I know (who aren't stupid) told me that a woman can't win. Of course, now we all know that Her Heiness is a shoo-in.
I think it took McCain and his advisors totally by surprise that Palin excited so many people and she almost dragged that rat (kicking and screaming) over the finish line.
And he didn't contest it and neither did the RNC despite the obviousness of the fraud. That should tell us something.
Maybe they're just going to discuss the latest fashion trends in magic underwear.
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I recall seing a recent poll on potential Republican Candidates and Romney had a two to one advantage over the nearest competitor. Does anybody out there remember which poll this was? It was quite recent.
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