Posted on 01/09/2015 4:07:09 PM PST by presidio9
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney , the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, told a meeting of donors Friday that he is considering another White House bid in 2016, people present said.
The possibility of a third Romney bid could upend the emerging GOP field, coming as top Republican donors are starting to rally behind former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Mr. Romney made the remarks during a session Friday afternoon -SNIP-
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You mean this?
"This account has been banned or suspended."
Yeah, I guess I was too hard on him. That was a really thoughtful gesture on his part .. LOL
Yep,a half dozen of these guys or more, are serious, experienced campaigners and hardcore politicians, and they know who Romney is, he would have his hands full trying to play at their level.
I think I get your point that the term “ideological purity” is a red flag for you. Is there a different one that you prefer?
It’s like will o wisps!
Nope, first I'm hearing of it.
Do you disagree that the Republican political climate was quite different in 1980 than it is today?
“hard on him”
Yes... he was that. A raging one.
Sucks that the GOP-e pays these frauds to kill off real conservative candidates like that. It's why we conservatives have to band together behind ONE candidate early on, and resist all efforts to divide us.
I'm confused. I thought that's just what I've been saying all along. Either I haven't made myself clear enough, or you saw the term "ideological purity" and convinced yourself that I was saying something else.
If all you can do is "empathize", then you're part of the reason the GOP has continuously slid leftward since Nixon's time. You enable them every time you give your precious vote to one of their hand picked quislings.
And don't start with, 'Well, that's better than electing a Democrat!"
That's demonstrably untrue, given the performance record of so many GOP-e office holders. As has been said thousands of times on this forum, there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two wings of the Uniparty. They're liberal statists, one and all.
I'll say it again: You Get More Of What You Vote For.
Vote RINO, and be assured that the GOP will give you more RINOs to vote for. If you want conservatives in office, then dammit, vote CONSERVATIVE ONLY.
Third time around should be easy; he already has the concession speech.
You do insist on continuing the personal insults inside of your rambling posts, which seem to be barrels of tar as you drag in other threads and make lengthy bizarre personal attacks.
Reagan would do great today, and would be supported by FR, and we still support him, that was more likely what you saw in post 190.
To quote my post 173 “”The imaginary Reagan candidate today, would be the 1980 Reagan, updated to today’s situation, and with assets like Palin and Cruz, and layers of conservatives that he didn’t have then.
Reagan would be the same brilliant and conservative candidate today, that he was in his own time.””
presidio, at some point you need to realize that many people on this thread have been confused by your posts, and especially since your pal flaglady left.
Well, let me know what you think.
Do you disagree that the Republican political climate was quite different in 1980 than it is today?
I wouldn't personally know; in the `80s I was just a kid and didn't care about politics.
I'd like to think they were different, but in all honesty it looks to me like Reagan was an aberration — in any case, it's clear to me that the Republican party is all talk running off of past glory, and having no intention of standing up for anything.
That, is the true face of the Republican party right now.
(IOW, McCain, Romney, Boehner, et al — they are the true Republicans. It is conservatives, constitutionalists, and libertarians that are the RINOs.)
Here’s the irony of the Reagan years. Reagan had some serious issues with the GOP congress. Thats true.
But Tip O’Neill’s DEMOCRATS were further right than Bhoner’s GOP.
It’s all perspective.
That I can believe.
The Crop that just left was utterly useless, I don't expect much from this Crop either.
(The Speakership vote proves that they weren't listening and think that their business as usual kabuki-theater bullshit-games are going to fly — I think they are wrong.)
Wins what? The Republican nomination? Heh....gimme a drink of that ;-)
I also believe that nutjobs like Bill De Blasio, as distasteful as they may be, are in some ways doing this city a service by helping it hit rock bottom.
No, I don't believe that it likely that New York will become a red state any time soon.
But I also believe in herd mentality. I think that it will ultimately help some New Yorkers to make the break from liberal insanity if they believe that they are not alone.
So I cast my vote for whatever "R" is on the ticket. That candidate virtually always loses, but I am comforted by the fact that I am helping to document that a few of us do exist behind the lines. So, while my vote for president will probably never count in my lifetime, it is entirely possible that it will one day contribute to NY electing another RINO senator. People in my position have to be satisfied with small victories, but perhaps that RINO president (they are never truly principled) will be instrumental in getting a Supreme Court nominee approved.
That's about the best someone in my position can ever hope for with his vote.
In the mean time, I put all of my energy trying to get conservatives I meet in places like this (I go days at a time without talking to a conservative in real life) to rally around the best conservative primary candidate who can knock off the Mitt Romneys and John McCains of this world.
Perhaps I need to do a better job of explaining my motivations. Because if you react to that by saying that I support RINO candidates, then I'm definitely not making myself clear. I wasted a lot of time working on the Rob Astorino campaign this fall. Never thought he had a snowball's chance in help, but I did it anyway, because it was the right thing to do. These are the types of concessions you have to make when you are a conservative in a place that elects people like Bill De Blasio for its leaders.
I haven't spent much time on FR in a while, but this is the best line that I've heard in moths.
Tips Dems were no Jessie Helms clones, but many were pro gun, all were pro marriage and not gay marriage, only the fringe was radical green and AlGore was a devout “conservative Democrat”. All or at least MOST were Pro America.
Tipper, not so much...See PMRC...A Dem creation blamed on the Right.
Well bud, I'm not nearly as cynical as you. I firmly believe that the American people would stand up and push back before the pogroms and the cattle car rides ever began.
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