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Romney says he might not have run in 2012 if Jeb Bush entered race
DailyCaller.com ^ | Jamie Weinstein

Posted on 07/29/2013 8:01:57 AM PDT by TexasCajun

Had someone like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush entered the 2012 Republican primary, Mitt Romney says he might not have entered the presidential race.

In an interview with Dan Balz for the Washington Post reporter’s soon-to-be released “Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America,” Romney said that he would have seriously considered staying out of the presidential race if someone of Bush’s caliber declared his candidacy.

“I knew how grueling the process was, and I felt that there may be others who could be more effective in actually winning and then getting America on course,” Romney told Balz.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: backstabberrino; jeb; loserromney; losers; rino; romney; romneycare4ever; whinerrino
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To: TexasCajun

The die is cast. Introducing the Republican Ticker for 2016: Bush/Rubio. You heard it here first!


61 posted on 07/29/2013 9:05:19 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Audentis Fortuna Iuvat)
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To: TexasCajun

Then Obama would’ve won by an even wider margin.


62 posted on 07/29/2013 9:09:05 AM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: dfwgator

Damn...I wanted to be the first in with the WDDIM.


63 posted on 07/29/2013 9:12:14 AM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: TexasCajun

“The RNC gave us a real loser, we never had a chance.”

This is the same RNC who stuck us with Dole and McCain and Bush 41 — the good ol’ boys who paid their dues but were pathetic candidates. And Bush 43, an elitist doofus. And Romney, a borderline democrat.

We’re like the classic battered wife. We keep being abused by the RNC but stay in the relationship anyhow. At some point, enough is enough.


64 posted on 07/29/2013 9:14:19 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I feel much better since I gave up hope.)
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To: TexasCajun
Who cares what Romney has to say?

I couldn't give a flip what he says..............

65 posted on 07/29/2013 9:16:35 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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To: TexasCajun

I think we’re beginning to see the problem...


66 posted on 07/29/2013 9:17:39 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: TexasCajun

F-U Romney!!! the sad thing is you (Romney) would’ve made a very good president...


67 posted on 07/29/2013 9:23:41 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: sickoflibs
In the primaries, there were just too many conservatives competing for the same voter pool: Santorum, Gingrich, Bachmann, Cain, Perry (and I'm sure I'm forgetting others). Ditto for 2008. That is why we got McCain and Romney and two losses in a row.

Watch out, South Carolina voters. If there are two or more conservative contenders in the race against Lindsay Graham, the incumbent will win the GOP primary.

68 posted on 07/29/2013 9:34:47 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: duckworth

The last time Republicans won the presidency without a Bush on the ticket was 1972!


69 posted on 07/29/2013 9:50:26 AM PDT by GeorgeTex (Obama-Four M President (Mendacious Manchurian Muslim Marxist))
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To: ilgipper

FUBU

FU BUsh

and FUBO too


70 posted on 07/29/2013 9:53:09 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: cdcdawg

I hate to be negative, but history doesn’t give me a lot of hope for a good candidate.

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Does not really matter much, IMO, who the GOP candidate is; the Rats own the electoral process now. Election fraud will ensure that the next president will be whoever Soros wants it to be.


71 posted on 07/29/2013 9:56:58 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

The RNC gave us a real loser, we never had a chance.

We had a slim chance after the first debate, but Ronmey chickened the hell out and went weak and that is when the Jackals attacked....


72 posted on 07/29/2013 9:58:17 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: McGavin999
"...no difference between Romney and Bush..."

Agreed, but either would have been light-years ahead of the imbecile that we got. He11, Hillary would have been better.

Fact is, I think just about anybody with half a brain could, in less than an hour, come up with a better president than the POS we have in there now.

73 posted on 07/29/2013 9:59:53 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: TexasCajun

look, this is just romney’s sneaky (and mendacious)endorsement of the next bush for republican president. this just tells me he’s going to continue his players role in the GOPe. it also confirms that jeb will be the next nominee. he’s just doing his job for the party, that’s all.


74 posted on 07/29/2013 10:06:01 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: TexasCajun

“The RNC gave us a real loser, we never had a chance.”

Forget the RNC. They will do what they do.
It was our job to come up with a winner and we didn’t. :/


75 posted on 07/29/2013 10:13:20 AM PDT by ari-freedom (I need to change my tagline.)
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To: sickoflibs

“Romney was left with the Rush-ism :”When rich guys like us get tax cuts they you all are better off””

Well, at least that means he’s not that liberal. Not helpful but not exactly the sort of thing you’d expect from a committed Marxist.


76 posted on 07/29/2013 10:16:27 AM PDT by ari-freedom (I need to change my tagline.)
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To: Dogbert41

“Gingrich wasn’t a dud, but the way it worked with a crowded field, Romney got the majority. Just like Morsi in Egypt. While Obama didn’t even have a primary.”

Come on..Newt was a dud along with Santorum and Perry. Oh and don’t forget Herman Cain.


77 posted on 07/29/2013 10:20:38 AM PDT by ari-freedom (I need to change my tagline.)
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To: GraceG

“We had a slim chance after the first debate, but Ronmey chickened the hell out and went weak and that is when the Jackals attacked....”

Sandy/Christie didn’t exactly help


78 posted on 07/29/2013 10:26:49 AM PDT by ari-freedom (I need to change my tagline.)
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To: TexasCajun
Romney was a true leftist and truly incompetent, he was radically pro-abortion, pro-gay, anti-gun nut case, with 20 years of obsessive campaigning and he had a single term in office to show for it, a term where he gave America gay marriage, gun laws, Romneycare, liberal judges, and more.

Romney had to give up his plan for reelection as Governor, and he crawled out of office with 34% approval, a failure, yet obsessively spent many years and many millions of his own money to control the presidential nomination process for two cycles, against the GOP and conservatism that he hated so much.

People don't know that Romney despised the right so much that he left the GOP when Reagan came to power in 1979, Romney in time came to support democrats, do democrat candidate and Planned Parenthood fund raising, and even voted democrat.

79 posted on 07/29/2013 10:44:05 AM PDT by ansel12 ( Santorum appeared on CBS and pronounced George Zimmerman guilty of murder, first degree. March-2012)
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To: ari-freedom

Gingrich was no dud, what killed him and signaled that Romney was to be the one, was the infamous “Bloody Thursday” in Florida, when the entire republican media machine was activated to stop him.


80 posted on 07/29/2013 10:48:37 AM PDT by ansel12 ( Santorum appeared on CBS and pronounced George Zimmerman guilty of murder, first degree. March-2012)
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