Posted on 01/10/2015 11:42:11 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A tidbit buried at the end of a Romney adviser’s longish rationalization of why Mitt Romney may yet again run for the GOP’s nomination suggests Romney does not think Jeb Bush has what it takes to win the GOP nomination.
BuzzFeed reports:
According to one former adviser, the biggest political question Romney will be considering as he makes his decision is whether Bush will be able to make it to the general election.
“Look, Jeb’s a good guy. I think the governor likes Jeb,” the adviser said. “But Jeb is Common Core, Jeb is immigration, Jeb has been talking about raising taxes recently. Can you imagine Jeb trying to get through a Republican primary? Can you imagine what Ted Cruz is going to do to Jeb Bush? I mean, that’s going to be ugly.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
"He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life,” Tagg Romney told the Boston Globe. “If he could have found someone else to take his place . . . he would have been ecstatic to step aside.”
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“Mitt’s trying to get on Cruz’s good side now.”
Interesting perspective.
Try this on.
Mitt wants to run. But just as john McCain and all the previous rinos, he believes he needs a vp nominee that can pull in the conservative base, so he courting Cruz as a potential nominee.
At this point in Time (electorally), Cruz has one everyone of his races, knocking off Dewherst in the Texas primary was no small feat (Think Walker in Wisconsin).
Oh wait he did lose his Canadian Citizenship by renouncing it and I’m sure he filed the necessary paperwork involved also.
Hey, Milt...I don’t even want to see your sorry Red England *ss in a Cruz cabinet. Don’t your fellow sodomite enablers up ‘nawth’ need you for the Boston Olympics?
He could be ambassador to Utah or some such.
You assume he lost and that the presidency was his goal.
If you have $350 in your pocket right now, you’re driving to work and you decide you are REALLY thirsty, What to you do?
Stop at the quickstop and spend $1.50 on a Pepsi. Because you can.
If you have $350,000,000 in your bank account and decide to help your buds play power games with the planet, you spend a couple million to make it happen for entertainment.
Because you can.
” Can you imagine what Ted Cruz is going to do to Jeb Bush? I mean, that’s going to be ugly.”
No its going to be beautiful.
There you go...
How can we learn about him, if you keep refusing to talk about him to anyone?
Sarah gave us Ted, so she’s already accomplished enough for one lifetime.
I don't think the idea was that Mitt set out to lose. It was more that at some level he didn't have the fire in the belly -- the passion and drive to make his wish a reality. If you've got a lot of money you can throw it away on goals that you really don't have the energy or drive or focus to attain. That's pretty common among rich people whose heads get turned by so many opportunities that they don't concentrate their energies on just one.
This is to paint Romney as some kind of conservative firebrand.
New political strategy for Milt. Run to the right of Jeb Bush.
Can you imagine what Ted Cruz is going to do to Mittons?
Clinton/Romney 2016...it’s the ONLY way you’ll ever see the inside of the White House, Milt...
Romney did not say anything about Cruz and Bush. An adviser is the only one quoted in the article.
Which is how they write 75% of the stories these days.
All good points about Jeb. But Mittens is delusional if he thinks he doesn’t have his OWN personal albatross — called Obamacare, which of course his state paved the way for — around his neck.
I wonder if Mittens is thinking about running just to keep himself relevant. He’s actually a pretty smart man. I just don’t see how he can fool himself that he could actually win.
Cruz can speak, and debate, and would wipe the floor in a one to one televised event with ANY of those guys :D
Unless it’s a set up and not a fair debate.
CONSERVATIVE MODERATORS ONLY for R debates.
If future generations are to enjoy individual liberty, then the 2016 Republican Presidential candidate must be a man or woman who is able to explain the ideas essential to liberty, as well as the opposing idea of slavery, within a context which includes explanation of the real human consquences of the 21st Century "progressive" idea of coercive government-over-people--a concept which enslaves entire populations to the whims of petty tyrants and rulers.
America's founding generations understood the history of nations, and framed a government by a written "People's" Constitution to protect and allow freedom for individuals and "chain" (Jefferson) elected and appointed government officials.
Unlike today's crop of so-called "conservative" leaders, those generations could articulate the ideas underlying that Constitution's limits on Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary power. More importantly perhaps, they could explain it to "the People."
See the following for a few examples:
"The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. - Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom." It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." Samuel Adams - Essay in the Boston Gazette, October 14, 1771Why should freedom-loving Americans be cowered into refraining from using the word "slavery" to describe the condition which results as a consequence of coercive government power over the lives, rights, liberties, and pursuit of happiness of individual citizens in the society?"When designs are form'd to raze the very foundation of a free government, those few who are to erect their grandeur and fortunes upon the general ruin, will employ every art to sooth the devoted people into a state of indolence, inattention and security, which is forever the fore-runner of slavery." - Article signed "Candidus," in Boston Gazette, December 9, 1771
"If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them." Samuel Adams- As Candidus in the Boston Gazette, January 20, 1772
"The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave... These may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament." Samuel Adams - Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772
"It is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave." - The Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
"Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams
And:
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams
Perhaps a Cruz can and will be willing to articulate that idea, but will any others have such broad understanding and courage?
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