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Romney Is Horrified by Trump — and That’s Restarting ‘Mitt 2016’ Talk
New York Magazine ^ | 09/02/2015 | Gabriel Sherman

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; backstabberromney; loser; loserromney; rinoromney; romney; romneycare; romneymarriage; romneypolygamy; spoilerromney; trump
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To: SeekAndFind
Please, Mitt, no.

I don't think I could stand to open up FR in my browser every morning and see reruns of those endless cut-and-pasted anti-Mormon rants from Elsie and Colofornian.

101 posted on 09/02/2015 9:50:47 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (Will Trump make the trains run on time??)
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To: SeekAndFind

No wonder the demwits laugh at the line up of GOP retread losers.


102 posted on 09/02/2015 9:51:26 AM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Ray76

The GOPe and fellow RINOs know who they want as the next president....Joe Biden.

They can work with and live with Biden.


103 posted on 09/02/2015 9:55:14 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

Mittens had his shot—he blew it—big time. Its Trump’s time.


104 posted on 09/02/2015 10:31:19 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Has Mitt ever talked to an actual conservative human?


105 posted on 09/02/2015 10:47:10 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: SeekAndFind

A real bad act.


106 posted on 09/02/2015 10:52:39 AM PDT by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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To: SeekAndFind

So what if he does enter. He won’t win.


107 posted on 09/02/2015 10:57:37 AM PDT by Boomer (Politically Incorrect and proud of it. "Live Free Or Die" is not just a slogan.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Perhaps if we are bringing back golden oldie LOSERS the Republican pea brain trust can run a McStain/Dole ticket in 16 and really turn Ann on!


108 posted on 09/02/2015 11:17:42 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: crz
They make the mob look good.

Romney's continued association with the boys from SLC reveals his lack of ability to truly examine values for what they are.

It also explains to a degree his sense of entitlement that he should have been president. Line him up with Gore, McCain, Humphrey and Kerry, all of which we might have been worse off had they won.

109 posted on 09/02/2015 12:16:16 PM PDT by Dustoff45 (A good woman brings out the best in a good man! A better woman might be just what this nation needs)
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To: Dustoff45

Tell you what. I’ve three cousins in that click. They never much said anything about it, or pushed it for that matter. But the past few years I have had to work with them and boy oh boy.
The worst lyin crooks I have ever!


110 posted on 09/02/2015 1:14:19 PM PDT by crz
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought he was going to “save us” from Ted Cruz. Now he wants to save us from Trump? Oh joy (/s).


111 posted on 09/02/2015 1:17:19 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s just jealous.


112 posted on 09/02/2015 1:21:43 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Please support efforts in your state for an Article 5 convention.)
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To: Pajamajan

Romney hasn’t recovered from the beating he took boxing against Evander Holyfield.


113 posted on 09/02/2015 1:39:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (What is the difference between Obama and government bonds? Government bonds will mature someday)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

ROTFLMAO! So true. It ain’t worth it!


114 posted on 09/02/2015 1:41:02 PM PDT by dforest
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought Mitty really didn’t want to be President anyway?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2971667/posts

Maybe he just likes to run for President. Who cares, let him run, he would just take some votes from Jeb!, Christy, Graham, etc.


115 posted on 09/02/2015 2:11:05 PM PDT by RedWhiteBlue (Mama tried)
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To: RedWhiteBlue

Romney’s sole job is to block a conservative from getting the nomination.


116 posted on 09/02/2015 2:15:34 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Horrified ? No. Laughing his ass off, yes.


117 posted on 09/02/2015 4:29:23 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: SeekAndFind

Mitt - second place to Obama - AFTER people knew just how evil Obama was. Why would he bother trying after that abysmal failure?


118 posted on 09/02/2015 5:22:45 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Romney not horrified by Obama, a Marxist Muslim who he treated with kit gloves. Romney horrified by Trump, a real American man who wants to defend America in foreign trade deals and protect our borders from foreign invasion
for a change.

Why are the elite in Europe and America, in what appears to be a coordinated and orchestrated fashion, raiding all the Western nations with more foreigners than we ever imagined possible? What is this? Overwhelm and defeat Europe and America year? Is Canada in on it, too?


119 posted on 09/03/2015 5:22:21 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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