Can’t quit Mitt: Friends say Romney feels nudge to consider a 2016 presidential run

Washington Post ^ | October 13, 2014 | hilip Rucker and Robert Costa

[greyfoxx39]

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Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and now the tacit head of the Republican Party, visited Iowa as part of a feverish nationwide tour designed to help the GOP take control of the Senate.

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Romney is grappling with this question: If drafted, would he answer the party’s call?

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Former aides and senior Republicans say Romney appreciates the GOP masses crowing that he was right about issues such as Russia and health care. But what really intrigues him, they said, are the vulnerabilities among top-tier candidates in the Republican field. If Romney moves toward a race, it would be because he sees a path to victory.

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“It’s the market pulling him,” said Kent Lucken, a longtime friend and adviser who accompanied Romney to Iowa. “People look at Hillary as the likely Democratic nominee, and the party needs a strong leader who can stand up to her and who’s been through the process.”

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Many Romney boosters believe that his window of opportunity will be in mid- to late 2015, should Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) or Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) ascend and party establishment types turn to Romney as a savior.

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“He’s the only qualified person to run this time,” Chidester said. “Mitt is a business genius. That’s why I’ve listened to this tape three times. He had it all down — he had Russia down, he had the debt down — and all the other Republicans are novices by comparison.”

[Scoutmaster]

Starting at 2:30:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTHge8q0zwY

[Tennessee Nana]

Willard gave us a “whale” of a lose with his ORCA..

although the candidate himself was just the wrong bait for a GOP win...

[svcw]

No please no
Romney is NOT a conservative but a liberal

[svcw]

Bingo!

[svcw]

Like on abortion
Like on government run health care
Like homosexual so called marriage
Like lowering taxes
Like school choice
Like elimination of ridiculous government funded programs:a acorn, NPR, nea etc
Like not an annoying wife
Like liberal advisors

Better how?

[svcw]

Well said

[Delta Dawn]

According to the calculus that the WaPo used, if Mitt runs, it means that Hillary is a shoo-in.

I keep thinking that Mitt can’t be that stupid to think that people would support him after that debacle in 2012...I may be wrong...

[svcw]

What voters?
The one on FR who think he’s a conservative.

[svcw]

Oh BS
Romney campaigned very hard at destroying every conservative on the primary ticket
Tell me how Romney is different on major issues from obama

[svcw]

Cat as always brilliant

[svcw]

OK. cut the crap.
Only persons who lost the election were pho conservatives who were lap dogs for a liberal saying he was conservative.
Romney dosent have a conservative bone in his body, and people like you who pushed aside real conservatives for this fraud brought us obama.
Get over yourself

[svcw]

Have you actually meet a young person inamerec with HC

[greyfoxx39]

people like you who pushed aside real conservatives for this fraud brought us obama.

You nailed it, svcw!

[Norm Lenhart]

Two years out from the next election and the Cheshires are hard at work paving the way for another collapse of conservative principle.

In all likelihood Mitt will keep up the will he won’t he thing until Jeb gets his team assembled at minimum. By then, the constant barrage of BS from the Romneybots will have Freepers ...

A G A I N

...trembling in fear of the Dem and begging God for salvation via the RINO because ‘they can win.’ Forget the idiocy of praying for a gay/abortion supporting liar to win and pretending forever afterward that the person doing so is a ‘conservative’.

their whole purpose is to break down resistance to RINOs. It’s called incrementalism and it is the game the left has owned for years. People using leftist political tactics are leftists. Last go around the serious Mitt apologetics didn’t start until about a year out. This time it’s 2 years out.

so just imagine the level of panic stricken propaganda we are in for a year from now. They already call us unpatriotic, anti American, and every derogatory thing in the book, all while promoting acceptance of RINOs on the furthest right of all right wing sites.

Instead, they should hone their explanations for when people realize that the lesser evils they demanded are the same people that support Obama’s open borders and gave him the money to truck the new Polio into America. Kids are already dying thanks to the blessed RINOS. Their solution?

More RINOS.

Pathetic.

[faithhopecharity]

Sorry for any confusion. I meant Romney didn’t campaign against Obama. That’s all I meant. Thanks.

[Jarhead9297]

No actually I held my nose and pulled the trigger to ensure this communist illegal POS didn’t see another term. See I may be in the minority on this view point but purists looking for the next Reagan will continue contributing to the escalated downfall of this wonderful country. As much as I’d DREAM to have another Reagan most have not awaken to the realization the electorate may have shifted permanently. In addition the more LEGAL AND ILLEGAL immigration that continues expedites the permanent electorate shift. Sorry to say that not even Reagan himself in the flesh would be elected todatodi got over myself eons ago, this has nothing to do with that. Have you awaken from your slumber to admit a no vote is a gauruntee the escalation to the end?

[NorthMountain]

WaPo, ABCCBSNBCCNN, NYSlimes, etc. were sure eager to push R0mney down our throats in 2012, as well.

I wonder why they would do such a thing ...

[svcw]

Get over yourself
Romney would have done zip on illegals
Stop walking around feeling put upon
I never said Reagan.
He was brilliant in his time, it is a different time
I said I want a conservative
If you want to stick with liberal Rs be my guest, I will not go along with that destruction of the country

[CatherineofAragon]

Hey there, girl! *waving*

[Penny 4 Thoughts]

I agree with you on Romney. I did not vote for him. I was ashamed of myself voting for McCain and said that the only candidate I liked less was Romney. So the GOP gave me Romney the next time. That was the end of the line for me. No more will I support a candidate I find unacceptable. No more will I let the liberal states pick for me.