Balz book: Romney considered scrapping bid in spring of 2011

Washington Post ^ | July 13, 2013 | Sean Sullivan

[greyfoxx39]

Mitt Romney officially announced his candidacy for president in June 2011. But during the spring of that year, Romney considered scrapping his campaign altogether, as detailed in a soon-to-be-released book about the 2012 presidential campaign by The Washington Post’s Dan Balz.

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Romney confirmed after the election that he called his son one morning to tell him he thought he wasn’t going to run. “I recognized that by virtue of the realities of my circumstances, there were some drawbacks to my candidacy for a lot of Republican voters,” he told Balz in January. “One, because I had a health care plan in Massachusetts that had been copied in some respects by the president, that I would be tainted by that feature. I also realized that being a person of wealth, I would be pilloried by the president as someone who, if you use the term of the day, was in the 1 percent.”

During a Christmas holiday trip to Hawaii in 2010, the Romney family held a vote. Should Romney, who lost in the 2008 primary, run for president once again? Ten of 12 family members voted no — including the candidate. Only Tagg and Ann Romney voted yes.

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He also worried during the campaign about the surge of Newt Gingrich, even as his advisers tried to assure him Gingrich would not win./div

[greyfoxx39]

"I really didn't want to win"...Mitt keeps walking back on his lousy campaign when he could have quit and given someone else a chance.

What's he doing anyway...trying to gin up enthusiasm among his supporters for 2016?

[greyfoxx39]

Ping

[txrefugee]

Huh/ A 10-2 vote against running, including his vote against, and he ran? Wish he’d have listened to his gut.

[Timber Rattler]

Good grief...and to think that Team Romney backstabbed Sarah Palin for.....THIS weakling?

[svcw]

Just posted this....hahahahah!

[greyfoxx39]

Huh/ A 10-2 vote against running, including his vote against, and he ran? Wish he’d have listened to his gut.

Caved in to his wife.

[Norm Lenhart]

Yea but the good part is his strident defenders keep trashing the freepers that refused to vote for this fiasco. So there’s that...

[svcw]

EVERY conservative, not just Palin.

[greyfoxx39]

GMTA

[VAFreedom]

voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.

[Norm Lenhart]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3038356/posts?page=4

[Elsie]

But during the spring of that year, Romney considered scrapping his campaign altogether, as detailed in a soon-to-be-released book about the 2012 presidential campaign by The Washington Post’s Dan Balz.

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Office of First President & Living Prophet®:

November 8, 2012

Fellow MORMON Freeper Christians!!

 

I must apologize and ask for forgiveness from you all.

 

As you know, we at Headquarters NEVER tell you pew warmers how to vote. It says so right in our press releases. Anyway, we were ALL thrilled to the max when there were two – TWO! – MORMONs being touted in the primaries: Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman.

 

Talk in our upper chambers high above SLC was how our gods were favoring us with these men; who had prepared their entire lives for an opportunity to save this Nation; which so badly needs guidance: OUR guidance even! So naturally, I and the other twelve analyzed and discussed the situation.

 

Consensus was that the voters should listen to the inner urging and vote for the one they wanted; but that seemed to be leaving WAY too much to chance.

 

I decided, that since I am the ONLY man on earth that can hear GOD’s voice, that I would pray for wisdom and clarity in the matter.

 

I hadn’t used the fleece in a while, so I questioned GOD with a test. A paper, with Romney on one side and Huntsman on the other was to be placed by the air conditioning vent high above my desk in the sumptuous office the Full Tithers have provided.

When the air would kick in later in the evening, while I was home, the paper would be blown down and whomever GOD wanted would then be visible on the upper surface.

 

As you can probably guess, when I came in the next day, the paper had landed on my desk, with Mitt’s name on top.

Last night, I was staying late, praying to GOD about how it was even possible that Mitt lost, when the janitorial cleaning crew came in. Being surprised to find me here, they apologized for interrupting me. I said to them, “It mattereth not, as I was about to leave anyway.”

 

As I was going out the door, the foreman of the crew just happened to mention that my office is ALWAYS so neat and tiny, never anything out of place, that they barely have to do anything to tidy up. Then one of the sweepers said, “Except that time in the spring when we came in to clean and found a paper with Huntman’s name on the floor by your desk. We put it back on your desk and left.

 

 

Tommy M.

 

PS Keep praying that Huntsman will add an “H” to his name. Jon looks so dang effeminate!

 

Onward to 2016!!!

[svcw]

Yep!
Maybe they did not want conservatives either.

[Norm Lenhart]

Well that’s likely. Otherwise why continue to defend him. That or a guilty conscience. Or both. Or just idiots.

[VAFreedom]

you got that right, when will “they” ever learn?

[Theodore R.]

Right from the start, he should have pulled back because he was not competitive in either of his home states, MA or MI. Who was won without his home state? There must be someone, but I can’t think of one offhand. Even Nixon took CA all three times.

[svcw]

I am going with idiots.

[Norm Lenhart]

Me too. This thread should see a couple screaming about it before it ends.

[1rudeboy]

Romney was Mormon?

[RCFlyer]

cute story... I never knew that’s what went on behind the scenes. :)