Posted on 01/30/2014 11:31:11 AM PST by RKBA Democrat
Mitt Romney leads the Republican field among New Hampshire primary voters for 2016. Yes, you read that right.
Why not make it a third run for president? That's something that the former Republican nominee is definitely not thinking about right now. To put it in his own recent words: "Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no."
But that didn't stop the Virginia-based bipartisan policy firm Purple Strategies from adding his name to a recent survey for Granite State voters, which shows Romney in the lead with 25 percent support. Libertarian firebrand Rand Paul (who has strong infrastructure in New Hampshire) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are behind with 18 percent and 17 percent support, respectively.
We might be experiencing Mittmentum 3.0. The Netflix documentary about his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns was recently released to the excitement of political insiders everywhere. GOP insiders want him to come back: "You know what a lot of them say to me?" an anonymous "operative" told BuzzFeed. "I think we need Mitt back." Romney was even on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to slow jam the news.
So are we sure he's not running again? "People are always gracious and say, 'Oh, you should run again,' " he said in an interview earlier this month. "I'm not running again."
He's done this kind of race before. He's got the staff. He's got the loyalty. He has the money. Time has passed.
Is there a chance? "I think that Chris Christie and Paul Ryan and Jeb Bush and Scott Walker, and the list goes on, have a much better chance of doing that," he said in the same interview, "and so I will support one of them as they become the nominee."
Maybe, maybe not.
Could get interesting.
Romney wants a repeat.
McCain has hinted at a repeat.
JBush is thinking seriously about jumping in.
Christie still wants to try.
Huckabee thinks he has a shot and he can claim to be the conservative.
Ryan thinks he has a shot, but like Rubio, their amnesty push killed any hopes they have.
Santorum is hinting.
Perry, too.
Trump would take it if all the others would just let him have the nomination without all that primary and debate stuff.
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Not a one of the above would be what you might call a quality candidate.
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Then there is fear and trembling in the MSM board rooms, the DNC board room and the GOPelite board room that Cruz might jump in.
If the conservatives can coalesce behind one GOOD candidate, they might be able to triangulate against the GOPelites this time. But they need a GOOD candidate early, and not one of those semi/pseudo-conservatives that are conservative only when it is convenient or necessary to win an election.
No w F ay.
(No F in "way")
We’ll get exactly the candidates that the uniparty wants us to get.
Comedy gold was MacDonald playing dole in a “real world” sketch, yelling “who ate Bob Dole’s peanut butter?!”
Who knows, it’s been months, for all we know Romney has an entirely new set of political beliefs to sell.
“Christie is out, so the Dem-polls are desperately trying to anoint a new loser.”
I halfway expect them to drag out the ghost of Gerald Ford.
They tried that in the last election. How did that work out for them??
Just put an 'm' in front of the Canadian 'eh'.
I’m not going to bash Mitt, Lord knows he (or a ham sandwich) would be a helluva lot better that what we have now. But it would be foolish to run a retread of any kind. Nor, sweet merciful Jesus, do we need to run a Bush. Any Bush.
The thing is, I’m not sure who we can run that is any better, and frankly I dont think it matters. The leeches are simply too many.
I remember... romney is a dirty politician like kennedy and clinton. He plays for keeps against his own... and lays down and surrenders against obama.
preibus and the gop/e have done something... they have changed the rules so that if anyone tries to change the rules as you and I think thatthey should be changed... their states votes will not be counted.
We didn’t need Mitt the first time, or the second and certainly not a third.
Sadly the liberals in the GOPe will put up Krispy for the nom.
Nope don’t miss him in the least. My state when for Romney (always goes Pub). I voted and didn’t vote for niether of them, I voted my conscience and voted for Virgil Goode who was on my state’s ballot.
Maybe you should brush up on Electoral college before spouting such nonsense. Other than 3 or 4 states, popular vote didn’t matter.
All “politically blue areas” of the U.S. and U.S. territories continue to be “stuck on RINO Republicanism” and anti-conservative, when it comes to “GOP only” polls.
You meant a third time. Mitt ran for POTUS twice, already.
Boy, every day I feel more and more glad I didn’t vote for that moron. I still maintain that he could have easily ended up more damaging than Obama.
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