Posted on 09/02/2015 7:26:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican presidential race, frustration and panic have become high enough to make some inside the party Establishment pine for a candidate they roundly rejected as recently as January: Mitt Romney. Romney himself has become one of Trump’s most vocal detractors inside the party. “He’s someone to whom civility means a lot. The whole Trump thing really bothers him,” a close Romney adviser told me — and some Romney-ites are only too happy to talk up the prospect of their man jumping into the race if the Establishment fails to stop Trump, whose support in Iowa and New Hampshire is currently greater than Jeb Bush's, Scott Walker's, Marco Rubio's, Chris Christie's, and John Kasich's combined.
“Mitt wants to run. He never stopped wanting to run,” a senior member of his 2012 team told me. Other Romney-ites, watching this cycle’s candidates falling short, feel a sense of vindication after all the attacks they endured after Romney's failed 2012 bid. "These guys like Walker and Perry, they were big deals in their states, but you get them onto the national stage and it's a different story," a former Romney adviser told me. "It's like they were in middle school, and now they're freshmen in high school and they're getting their faces slammed in the toilets." Another former Romney adviser complained about Bush's decision not to go all-in on New Hampshire, a state a moderate must win. "Romney did 100 town halls in New Hampshire from announcement to the primary. It's madness. Bush has done only 23."
In reality, the prospect of Romney jumping back into the race at this late date remains exceedingly slim — he’s made no visible signs of reassembling his political operation. But he may be able to influence the race more indirectly
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Mitt = JEB
No Sale!
Romney the loser! Get lost!
Gads the GOPe really does have a death wish.
Ann Coulter is getting excited.
Not going to happen, count on it.
Note to FR readers:
Told ya he wasn’t done.
I voted for that guy last time. This time? Fuggem, and I am not a trump-bot either.
I think they said “horrified” when they meant “terrified”.
Time to flood the RNC with letters. Nominate one of these RINOS and we all stay home.
The stake was obviously not driven far enough in to his chest...
Oh, for the love of....
In before the “not this shit again” guy.
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Every asshat politician is “horrified” by a citizen standing up to them.
This is a JOKE???
Chances are very, very slim as the above article pointed out.
Most conservatives are horrified that a loser like Mitt would think of dragging the Republican party back into cesspit it is trying to climb out of.
“In reality, the prospect of Romney jumping back into the race at this late date remains exceedingly slim — he’s made no visible signs of reassembling his political operation. But he may be able to influence the race more indirectly”
The money line.
“Gosh darnit, we’ve got to find someone who will lose to Hillary!”
Me too. And he’ll be a tough out. Whether you support Trump, Cruz, Carson or Walker, this Romeny talk is dangerous. I worry we took Bush out too early.
The Cheap Labor Express is who is horrified by Trump.
He would shut them down.
That is what is driving this insane Romney talk.
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