Posted on 02/16/2014 8:11:17 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Ask Mitt Romney if he would run for president a third time, and he will deny it every which way.
“I’ve had my turn,” he told CNN.
“We’re so ready to watch the next person step up and take that nomination,” his wife told Fox News. “Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no,” Romney told The New York Times.
But in recent weeks, a strange thing has happened: Some supporters and donors, pollsters and pundits are starting to suggest — without irony — that the former Massachusetts governor run for president in 2016.
“Once a month, someone would e-mail or call and say he should run again,” said Ron Kaufman, a longtime Romney adviser. “Now I get it every day — from the grass roots, and from donors. I get it every day.”
Kaufman made clear that there was no behind-the-scenes maneuvering to persuade Romney to run again. A second Romney adviser said he was also approached frequently by former supporters and donors, asking him to persuade Romney to run again in 2016.
Those close to Romney say he is giving the talk little thought, and party operatives in key states and some of his former advisers say they cannot imagine a scenario in which he would run.
“He’s made it pretty clear he will strongly support whoever the 2016 nominee is,” Romney’s oldest son, Tagg, said in an e-mail to the Globe. “This isn’t something we are spending any time thinking about. Chatter is just chatter.”
And yet the former candidate who rarely gave interviews during the 2012 campaign and laid low for the year following his defeat is now suddenly everywhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
He said he’s not running. The left needs to give it up.
He may be disliked, but almost everything he said was going to happen if Obama was elected has. Right now he looks like ****ing Nostradamus.
The guy has been running for office for 20 years and has a single victory to show for it.
He won that election with under 50% and had to give up running for reelection and left office with 34% approval, he ruined the 2008 election cycle, and then lost to Jimmy Carter the second when we were in a near depression.
He doesn’t even belong in republican politics.
Quite true. I was surprised in 2012 that Romney did not raise the tax simplification and reform issue, even if only as a way of pivoting off the attacks on his personal finances.
You really need to be educated about the guy.
for a guy who is supposedly not going to run again Willard sure does leave home and visit the national media to protest a lot...
seems like OCRA II is well under way...
“Once a month, someone would e-mail or call and say he should run again,” said Ron Kaufman,
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yeah well even a liberal like Willard can learn to send EMail and use a phone...
Hell, maybe that’s what the magic underwear is for.
From the article:
The answers Romney has given more recently are more definitive than the ones he gave last year. He told CNN in June that he would “love” to run.
“I would do it again, but it’s not my time,” he said. “Ann might not . . . but I would love to do it again, are you kidding? I’d love to do it and win...”
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so in June 2013 Willard was yelling “Pick me !!! Pick me !!!”
I have no illusions about Romney, but he would be substantially better than any Democratic nominee. Moreover, Romney could be quite good if he were committed to a conservative reform agenda and had a Republican Congress with conservative fire eaters in charge. Romney’s genial manner and mild personality would do much to diminish and deflect opposition to reforms.
It is silly to list people who would be better than a democrat nominee, and Romney can’t do anything conservative, Romney despises conservative and conservatism and has his entire life, that is what brought him into elective politics.
Romney is the most radical leftist in GOP history to be nominated, and after 20 years, doesn’t someone have to point out that the guy is a lousy political candidate?
What the heck is he doing all over the Sunday shows?
Romney is a liberal, have you not figured that out by now?
(I know—I worked on his one successful campaign for office.)
He’s also older than Hillary.
Exactly. The only thing Romney is not liberal about is keeping his own money.
People don’t realize what his biography reveals about how anti-conservative his life has been, even to leaving the GOP and fund raising as a democrat because of Reagan and the 80s.
This is being pushed by the leftist media. If nominated as the repub nominee, it would assure that Hillary would be elected pre__sent the second.
The repub voters that would not pull the lever for Mitt in 2012 will not pull the lever for him in 2016.
As for age, nature is unkind to women in that they visibly suffer its effects more than men. Romney looks distinguished while Hillary increasingly looks old.
They’re not dragging him into their studios against his will.
Women, however, live longer than men.
Romney is more liberal than many Democrats from less blue states than MA.
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