Posted on 09/29/2014 8:38:47 AM PDT by cotton1706
Two-time presidential loser Mitt Romney's sprawling network of consultants and aides is sitting tight, waiting for the former Massachusetts governor to decide whether he wants to run for president a third time. Romney, who until recently had long denied any true interest in another bid, is reportedly talking the idea over with his family.
Ann Romney isn't exactly denying it. Former running mate Paul Ryan, thought to be a possible presidential contender himself, is almost encouraging it. And Romney himself declined to close the door on the possibility in an interview with Romneyphile Hugh Hewitt.
As I write this, an email signed by Romney sits in my inbox. It's a fundraising appeal for the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. This kind of aggressive campaigning follows the path of Richard Nixon in 1966, as Pat Buchanan reminds us in The Greatest Comeback.
But why would Romney run again? The answer is simple: Republican establishment donors fear Chris Christie can't win and Jeb Bush won't run.
Romney is the candidate of last resort for Republican big wigs and rolodex men trying to keep the conservative hordes at bay. The fact that we are talking with a straight face about another Romney campaign is a sign of the GOP establishment's weakness in 2016. That may seem hard to believe given how the establishment dominated the Tea Party in this year's Senate primaries. But then, consider how the Republican establishment regained and maintained its stranglehold on the presidential nomination after Ronald Reagan.
Conservatives have pushed the establishment to the right — Jon Huntsman, the anti-abortion gun control opponent who supported the Ryan budget plan, was considered the liberal in the 2012 GOP primaries. Still, the nominees' surnames since Reagan almost speak for themselves: two Bushes, a Dole, McCain, and Romney.
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How about a Cruz/Walker ticket?
Haven’t thought about it.
Waiting to see what happens in November.
I think you are giving Romney to much private sector credit, he has a political record.
I believe, at this moment anyways. that either Cruz or Walker will be the nominee.
Whoever wins it needs to play for the long haul. That means looking 16 years out and bringing in a good Conservative as VP, someone who can pick up the standard and run with it down the road.
Right now I’d lean towards a Walker/Cruz ticket. On the basis of Walker having more exec experience, and on Senators generally not running all that great at the top of tickets.
I think Hillary would be a disaster for Dems who need young people to vote and Hillary is not appealing to that group.
She is going to run. Expect John F’n Kerry to be the best man.
If he wins, he will need to (and want to) unite the party. I am looking forward to the head explosions that will occur on FR if he wins.
If anybody can bring everyone together it will be Cruz.
The trolls will be working overtime if he tries it.
Among other things, he's really smart, will want to win, and I guarantee a fun show around here when he goes about actually winning as Reagan did.
Hillary won’t run.
The fake Indian will, as it meets the Dems requirement that their next candidate can’t be criticized, and if they are, the critics can be called racists.
It has worked wonders for Obama.
Liawatha is no Obama.
Yes, Romney has actually won an election and was a failed one term governor.
He was a dismal failure and had to give up running for reelection and left with 34% approval, hardly the record that means we should make him the governor of the nation.
There are two maybe three people in this world Clinton appeals to.
Her very new granddaughter, her daughter (amazing how close a new mom becomes to her mom) and even Bill, now that they are grandparents together and don’t have to be husband and wife.
Politics aside, I was thinking of his experience in the business world.
Hmmmmm......... not so sure about that. I think Hillary still wants to be the first female POTUS.
Let’s talk about choosing a president, “politics aside”?
Mormon rich kid gets richer with Mormon teamwork, big deal, but my interest is in his ability to lead and govern in an executive political office, he was a dismal failure.
No more voting for RINOs ever, under any circumstances. Period.
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But...but....but.... a lot of folks on this website, our FReeper family members, demand that we still vote for McConnell, Cochran, Graham......... Oh my! What to do? If I don’t vote for the RINOs I’ll be called a traitor, a troll and...... nasty, nasty, names. Now I’m confused.
It's the incumbency, stupid.
As a woman, I am telling you everything changes when you have your first granddaughter
Children change much, grandchildren change things on steroids PLUS she has serious health issues
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman, 106 BC-43 BC)
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