Posted on 01/13/2015 2:28:49 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"....While he ended 2012 a scorned member of the Republican family, he has spent the past year a virtual kingmaker. His endorsement carried weight in the 2014-midterm primaries and he was a sought-after surrogate on the campaign stump. This “failed” nominee was so important to the GOP that his “ideas” summit,held last summer in Utah, drew the whole field of party luminaries and presidential contenders, from former running mate Rep. Paul Ryan to Sen. Rand Paul, Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Rob Portman, and former Gov. Mike Huckabee.
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With all of that said, however, I’m not sure if Romney is actually running for president, or if he’s playing a different game. In a story for BuzzFeed, McKay Coppins talks to Romney advisers who give this take on the former nominee’s thinking:
“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.”
Romney thinks Bush can win a general election, but he’s much more skeptical about the primary and worries that Bush could lose, elevating a candidate who might fail in a fight against Hillary Clinton or Sen. Elizabeth Warren. But instead of criticizing Bush and bringing these questions into the open, he is making a more subtle move. By announcing interest in the Republican nomination, Romney is freezing his donors in place and blocking a rush to the Bush camp. In essence, he’s asking the moneymen of the GOP to wait and see before they join the Bush bandwagon.
And if Team Bush isn’t as strong as it looks? Then,maybe,Romney will give the game one more try.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Mormonism loses to CHRISTIANITY every time!
If the man can NOT discern his religion choice, how could we expect him to discern the crap that the world would shove his direction?
I know turning away from his families history, being steeped in false doctrine as it is, would be hard to do - NOTHING else he could do would endear him to more voters.
The albatross of the 47% would be slung back around his neck in a heartbeat!
I'll use the old broken down line to respond to this one:
"PLEASE.. don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining."
Romney is delusional if he thinks he has a chance for the nomination, much less the presidency.
Judging by his performance in 2012, Mitt was more interested in playing candidate than being president.
Why would anyone expect 2016 to be any different?
Those same words were spoken 4 years ago, many times, right here at F.R. I fear the worthless p.o.s.
No Jeb, No Mike, No Chris, No Mitt, No Paul, No vote (added one)
Gosh, and here I was hoping McCain would run again.
The one weird trick Romney could do to most benefit the country: kill himself.
“Aw, Jeez. Not this crap again.”
Myth might be a decent candidate; provided he runs for a suitable office based upon his experience, in the political party where his political philosophy belongs. As a democRat:
Romney for Dogcatcher!
“He was a strong candidate in 2012! Till he flopped over like a dead horse!”
I’ll never forget that third and last debate. I kept watching the clock, wondering when he would come alive; he was praising and agreeing with Obama. He NEVER came alive and I will NEVER vote for him.
If a non-democrat is going to have even a miniscule chance of winning in 2016 (which is highly doubtful anyway), Mitt must NOT be at the top of the GOP ticket. I came around to supporting him last time around out of my abject hatred for Obama.
But damn... it’s time to at least act like we’d like to win.. not nominate a graceful loser.
Maybe they could be running mates. The Losing-end Unity Ticket.
Paul isn’t in. Of that list, Christie is the best. It’s a low bar to hurdle. (Go ahead with the fat jokes.)
I agree - the only thing Romney did not do in the debate was to go over and kiss Obama. All he did was say what a great job Obama was doing. This WAS actually a debate and I guess nobody told him. On the first debate he was so good, but failed on the other two. That’s what lost his chance of running. When he gave compliments to his opponent, let Obama get so many insults in, I knew it was over for him and predicted it then. We need somebody that will take the bull by the horns and man-up. That would be Cruz!
I meant winning instead of running........
Taking the writer’s and the party establishment’s good faith at face value (I know, I know, but hear me out,) support for Bush or Romney candidacies just shows such a colossal lack of imagination.
Romney didn’t lose to a Christian; he lost to a Muslim. Even more reason why he shouldn’t even be considered as a candidate.
The media really flexed its muscle electing & re-electing Obama, and people should have been terrified by it.
I was quite surprised to see Laura Ingraham on O’Reilly last night, as, when OR asked her who she liked, between Bush, Romney and Walker, she chose Romney.
I thought she was rather conservative. I was sure she would have said, given those 3 choices, that Walker would be best.
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