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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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.
No wonder the demwits laugh at the line up of GOP retread losers.
The GOPe and fellow RINOs know who they want as the next president....Joe Biden.
They can work with and live with Biden.
Mittens had his shot—he blew it—big time. Its Trump’s time.
Has Mitt ever talked to an actual conservative human?
A real bad act.
So what if he does enter. He won’t win.
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!
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.
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!
I thought he was going to “save us” from Ted Cruz. Now he wants to save us from Trump? Oh joy (/s).
He’s just jealous.
Romney hasn’t recovered from the beating he took boxing against Evander Holyfield.
ROTFLMAO! So true. It ain’t worth it!
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.
Romney’s sole job is to block a conservative from getting the nomination.
Horrified ? No. Laughing his ass off, yes.
Mitt - second place to Obama - AFTER people knew just how evil Obama was. Why would he bother trying after that abysmal failure?
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?
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