Posted on 12/12/2014 6:44:40 AM PST by C19fan
For most of the past year, Mitt Romney supporters have publicly said he should consider running again. And for most of the past year, Romney has seemed uninterested. Until recently. While some people close to Romney insist he hasn’t moved from saying he has no plans to run, the 2012 Republican nominee has sounded at least open to the idea in recent conversations, according to more than a dozen people who’ve spoken with him in the past month. In his private musings, Romney has sounded less than upbeat about most of the potential candidates in the 2016 Republican field, according to the people who’ve spoken with him, all of whom asked for anonymity in order to speak freely.
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I don’t trust him, particularly on judicial nominations.
We needs Scalias - not Souters, not Robertses.
Romney gave the election to Obama
After he took it away from all republicans
Many less will vote for him this time, knowing that he would not have done things much differently from the way Bo has done
Imagine Obama with no pretend pushback from rhino congress
That’s Romney
Forget it
He’s as liberal as all the other est GOP
Unlike most of you on here, I always liked Romney. However, his recent pro amnesty statements have caused me to lose any support I would have had for him.
Unfortunately it is a fantasy because the Conservatives will duke it out among Cruz, Perry, Paul, Santorum, Carson, and possibly half a dozen more. I think the GOPe will rally behind a Bush or a Romney very quickly. That will allow them to build momentum while the Conservative vote is still fractured.
True. There is going to be a lot of "Gee if only Romney had won" feelings out there that might translate to support in 2016.
I’ll be voting for my cat.
That would be Harold Stassen, which Romney would become if he were to run again.
Or Guss Hall AKA Arvo Kustaa Halberg.
(I never understood why all Communists changed their names.
Joseph Stalin = Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jugashvili.
Vladimir Lenin = Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
Pol Pot = Saloth Sar.)
Romney is not very conservative, if at all, he is more like Liberal Lite. Romney probably thinks the TEA Party is a group of republicans who want bigger government in the form of more tea subsidies to tea farmers.
There is little difference, in my eyes, between McCain and Romney. Both are mushy and spieneless career politicians who cannot articulate the conservative viewpoint.
I do not disagree that Cruz is the premier choice in the pack. And I agree all but he will drop out at one point or another. But before then they’ll win primaries, as Gingrich and Santorum and Cain did. My fear is that as with 2012, the establishment will rally behind one candidate while the Conservatives split the vote in the primaries. At the end of the day you’ll have half a dozen conservatives who won primaries but none of which won enough delegates to get the nomination. In the mean time you’ll have Bush or Romney who won their share of primaries and did well enough in the rest to sew up the election.
Cromnibus was noteworthy as those backing Obama lined up with Warren. Had Obama wished, he could have quietly let it play out and Boehner would have caved, but the President chose to take a stand. Maybe Kabuki, maybe not. Looks to me like the Dems have chosen to walk away from the O post election and the O with Jarrett are peeved enough to hold the fort even beyond 1/20/17. I know, I know.
By which I mean it certainly appears as if Mitt Romney is running.
How can I tell? Attacks on rivals.
Remember all that crap about Romney wishing to defer to Jeb Bush, and not run if Jeb Bush is running?
Yeah that's no longer operative.
In his private musings, Romney has sounded less than upbeat about most of the potential candidates in the 2016 Republican field, according to the people who've spoken with him, all of whom asked for anonymity in order to speak freely.He has assessed various people's strengths and weaknesses dispassionately, wearing what one ally called his "consultant cap" to measure the field. He has said, among other things, that Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, would run into problems because of his business dealings, his work with the investment banks Lehman Brothers and Barclays, and his private equity investments.
"You saw what they did to me with Bain [Capital],"he has said, referring to the devastating attacks that his Republican rivals and President Obama's team launched against him for his time in private equity, according to three sources familiar with the line. "What do you think they'll do to [Bush] over Barclays?"
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"I came away from the conversation with the distinct impression that he was running and that he did not think anyone in the field right now was particularly strong," said one top [Wall Street] executive who met with Romney and requested not to be identified while speaking about a private conversation.
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Romney and his people are apparently talking up a storm about this Bloomberg report, headlined Jeb Bush has a Mitt Romney problem, except of course Mitt & the Boys say Jeb's problem is worse.
The article claims that Jeb is very vulnerable on stuff like having his money invested in China, or having some money overseas in tax shelters. It is further claimed:
Until now, many people have assumed that Bush's greatest challenge would be dispelling the perception among Republican primary voters that he's a moderate in a party dominated by right-wing conservatives. In the wake of Romney's bruising 2012 loss, however, Bush's overseas funds, mysterious investors, and foreign entanglements could prove harder to overcome. As a budding private equity mogul, he's begun to resemble a Mini-Mitt. Bush declined to be interviewed for this article."Running as the second coming of Mitt Romney is not a credential that's going to play anywhere, with Republicans or Democrats," says John Brabender, a Republican consultant and veteran of presidential campaigns. "Not only would this be problematic on the campaign trail, I think it also signals someone who isn't seriously looking at the presidency or he wouldn't have gone down this path."
Back to the Politico article on Mitt. Jeb's defenders snap back at such comparisons:
"Jeb's wealth and investments are nothing on the scale of Romney's. He is not building car elevators in Malibu mansions," this person said, offering a hint of the bitterness that could ensue if both Romney and Bush run.
We won't have to wait that long to see that bitterness:
There will be "no fetal position" from Bush, said the source, a reference to Romney's decision to wait until he had been defined by Democrats to start hitting back and defining himself.
See? Romney and Bush throwing rabbit-punches into each other's kidneys.
Early Christmas.
Romney is a Church Elder. The Mormon church has had huge growth in Central American countries, with missionaries preaching conversion there. And now you know why he loves Amnesty.
Don’t forget, Bill DeBlazio and Van Jones.
Mitt didn’t have the fire in the belly—he was snookered by the Obama/Media Machine. He would have cancled Obamacare the first day— He’s not a social conservative but a decent capitalist who could have fixed things. Would I rather have Ted Cruz or Sarah Palin—heck yeah—but I know Tina Fey and others have rendered them Toxic to many of the unthinking American voters who believe what they are told to believe. This time—if he runs (and that’s a big if) Mitt needs to clearly tell us what he’s going to do and get a Tea Party Person as VP. He needs to show how he will stand up to the Liberals and Progressive race baiting Democrats.
Romney didn't appoint conservative judges, and exactly 75% of his appointments were not even republicans.
That is quite an incredible record.
It doesn’t bother you that Romney says he campaigned as a proabortion candidate and ran pro-choice ads after he won the nomination?
People don't know that he failed in that office, he wanted to be reelected, but instead left office with 34% approval and turned the seat over to the democrats, after he himself had been the 4th GOP Governor in a row.
Ted Cruz for President!
How will his credibility be affected by him coming out again for abortion, after winning the nomination?
After being passionately proabortion since 1963, and then having to fake an epiphany in 2005 to become prolife, how does he explain claiming to have campaigned openly as a prochoice candidate in August of 2012 after he won the nomination?
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