Mitt Romney is going down ...
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 ...
I do not dispute your account, and the odds are that your larger assessment is also correct. I fear though that we may get stuck with and lose with Jeb in 2016. With the possible exception of Cruz and Walker, none of the strongly conservative candidates seem to be quite ready yet for major league hardball.
Other than Romney, they have NOBODY in the wings at this time that can beat the Democratic nominee in 2016
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Yeah just like he did in 2012...
oh Willard didn’t win in 2012 did he ???
;)
I want to see somebody more conservative than Romney win the nomination in 2016 so instead of being snarky, why don't you throw out a name of somebody who you think can do it? Not somebody you personally like but somebody who can actually win the nomination and then the national election.
I was commenting on the fact you said “other than Romney”
I felt you were implying Romney could beat any Democrat opponent...
If Romney couldn’t beat Obama he cant beat anyone...
Everything was handed to Willard for a win in 2012..
he wont find 2016 as set up for him as 2012 was...
It was Willard who lost 2012 for himself and the GOP..Willard alone...
people keep claiming that the Conservatives stayed home and their non-vote cost Willard...
OK then..that means Obama was beatable..
Given someone to vote for those millions of Conservatives would have voted and Obama would have lost..
Try that in 2016...
Give us someone to vote for..
Is it more important to run a liberal who might just win the nomination and then just might go on to win the national election than to get behind a good man or woman who is a Conservative and loves this country and the military and will lead us ???
They said Reagan couldn’t win...because he was a Conservative and not the GOP pick...
But he did...
Millions of us gathered at satellite hookups all over the country and prayed with Congressmen who stood on the steps of the Capitol building for our country and the upcoming elections and God answered and gave us Ronald Reagan ...
He wasn’t the GOP pick.. he was God’s and ours...
My first election for president and I helped vote in the best...
meanwhile we know that regardless of the money he spent Willard is not a winner...
Let’s see who wants to run..
There are a lot of Conservatives to choose from...
Nixon and Reagan both had histories as effective, winning politicians, Mitt has only won a single race in his 20 years of running, and he left that office a disgrace, with 34% approval, having had to give up his hopes of running for reelection, and turning the seat over to the democrats.
To this day Mitt Romney is a mystery politically, no one knows what he believes in, or what he cares about, or why he is in politics.
Didn't you see post 36?
Mitt Romney was born liberal, into a liberal family, and is still liberal, weren't you just a little surprised when after he won the primary, he came out against the GOP's pro-life platform and ran pro-choice ads in Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin?
See my earlier replies on that point.
No, tell me which post you mean.
You keep pushing a man that you are totally ignorant of, yet you keep making up a fake person in his place, and pushing it.
That is some kind of blind devotion, but to what?
See my posts at 50 and 61.
At post no. 60, I stated directly: “I like Cruz and would love to see him as President.”
50 and 61 are pretty tame compared to your praise and hopes for Romney, who is an absolute disaster of a man and a candidate.
Posts 24 and 36 mention the horror that is Mitt.
My concern is that the GOP will go into 2016 with some notable disadvantages. A President Romney, pledged to a reformist conservative program, and with a conservative Republican Congress, would be preferable to President Hillary Clinton with Republicans in Congress dispirited and perhaps in the minority.
Therein lies the problem. Romney had his "turn". McCain had his "turn". Dole had his "turn". GHWB had his "turn". GWB had his "turn", and miraculously squeeked out improbable wins twice.
None of the above could articulate conservative principles, nor could they demonstrate a history of living and governing by conservative principles. Soundbites are not a sufficient substitute.
Reagan could; and Reagan won twice by very large landslides.
So this is going to continue, this, “well Romney will be better than xyz”?
Here it is February of 2014 and you want to promote Mitt Romney for his THIRD presidential run in a row?
The man who has only won a single election in his 20 year career, and who was booted out of that office with 34% approval?
The man who left the GOP because of Reagan, who didn’t vote for Reagan, and who eventually became a supporter of democrat candidates, a democrat fundraiser, and a democrat voter, until after Reagan’s veep lost in 1992, and then Mitt re registered GOP.
The anti-gun, pro-gay, pro-abortion, Romneycare, gay marriage guy who supported homosexualizing the military and Boy Scout leaders, is your “conservative” hope, that you want to start pushing early and hard?
I don’t think that all this Rommney promotion that we see, and will be seeing more of, is about Romney actually running again, but about making him the elder statesman of the GOP so that his influence is strong and can be used to help shape who the actual GOPe candidate will be, and as a counter to the Palin/Cruz wing of the party.
What a coincidence that it’s 2014, he’s NOT running, and there is a documentary movie all about him, and he’s on Meet teh Press and in the LA Times.
I love the way you guys do this, here you are promoting and arguing for Romney while ignoring the facts about him, showing true devotion to him and getting him in the race for his and the GOP’s THIRD loss in a row, and you say “I do not advocate for Romney”, while advocating for Romney and pushing him like crazy.
The romneybots are out out early this time, and they sound the same as they have since 2006.
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