Posted on 08/03/2014 11:24:35 AM PDT by PoloSec
President Obama thumped Mitt Romney in the 2012 election, but now their political standings seem reversed. During a summer in which Democratic candidates are keeping their distance from an unpopular president, Romney is emerging as one of the Republican Party’s most in-demand campaign surrogates.
Over three days in mid-August, Romney will campaign for GOP Senate and gubernatorial candidates in West Virginia, North Carolina and Arkansas, aides said. In September, he is planning visits to the presidential swing states of Colorado and Virginia.
Romney is filling up his October schedule, as well. Senate hopefuls in Iowa and New Hampshire are eager for him to return before November’s midterms, while Romney is weighing trips to other Senate battlegrounds. At least one high-profile Senate campaign said it has produced a television advertisement featuring Romney ready to air in the fall.
“Democrats don’t want to be associated with Barack Obama right now, but Republicans are dying to be associated with Mitt Romney,” said Spencer Zwick, a longtime Romney confidant who chaired his national finance council. He added: “Candidates, campaigns and donors in competitive races are calling saying, ‘Can we get Mitt here?’ They say, ‘We’ve looked at the polling, and Mitt Romney moves the needle for us.’ That’s somewhat unexpected for someone who lost the election.”
For a party without a consensus leader — nor a popular elder statesman like Democratic former president Bill Clinton — Romney is stepping forward in both red and blue states to fill that role for the GOP.
“There’s a pretty big void in the party right now for national leaders, and Romney’s in a unique position, having been around the track, to help fill that void,” said Scott Reed, a veteran GOP strategist who oversees the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s political operation.
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Fk MR.....
Here we go. He stands ZERO chance at the nomination and less to be elected. One of the worst presidential candidates in modern history. Also, a horrible governor, etc. Quite the looser.
Bill Clinton a statesman? Mr. Costa and Mr. Rucker need a Webster dictionary.
LOL!
You capture my sentiments too!
(Please, keep this handy, as we are loaded up to our gills with FREEPERS for the ESTABLISHMENT everywhere, still lovin’ more of that RINO treachery against the Republic.)
He or someone like him will end up being the GOPe candidate again if the balkanized one or two issue “conservatives” out there don’t come to a consensus on a real candidate.
If they go for the possibly imperfect conservative and don’t “take their toys and go home” because the non-GOPe candidates aren’t perfect on every issue or their pet issues then we might have a chance this time.
Too many who are willing to say screw the nation and the Constitution if they don’t get exactly what they want on one or two issues special to them.
Are they going to stand up to try to reestablish the entire Constitution or walk away because there is not a perfect candidate to fit their issues. They are a gift to the GOPe and their democrat party buddies.
He’s baaaaack!
It’s his turn, yak know. /s
For the 2016 campaign, it's Cruz or bust.
The problem is that Romney is one of the shadiest most despicable men to ever represent the GOP, we don’t need a pathological liar, whose goal it is to defeat conservatism and get revenge against the people that he blames for opposing his families political ambitions for his entire life, being the face of the GOP.
What if they kept pulling the same ruse over and over again and the same people continued to fall for it?
Single issue conservatives and their “pet” issues?
You liberals never give up do you, were you happy that after winning the nomination, Mitt Romney switched back to being pro-abortion?
You liberals?
Are you kidding. I’m not talking about Romney here. Romney came from the GOPe because the pet issues, so called conservatives balkanized themselves over those issues and simply walked away without trying to come to a consensus and support any conservative candidate because they didn’t or seemingly didn’t meet some deal-breaking criteria. The same thing is happening now. Whether it is Dr. Ben Carson, or Palin, or someone else, these people will push them aside as a viable candidate because of one or two differences or when the MSM and the democrats start spreading their rumors and lies. Right now Cruz is looking pretty good but before long some rumor, lie or statement will cause them to be cast aside as a viable candidate. We’ve got some good possible candidates out there. Unless all of these voters who handed the decision over to the GOPe in the last two elections come to a consensus of support for the candidate who best (not necessarily perfectly) supports the Constitution and the values of the Republic, then the decision will just be handed over to a GOPe loser again.
If anyone is supporting liberals it single issue, so-called conservatives who will never agree on a candidate to get behind because nobody will be able to fulfill their view of perfection.
Go ahead, start trashing and abandoning good candidates early on and in the end you will see the nomination of a Mitt Romney or a Jeb Bush.
Yep, just a liberal that doesn’t like conservatives and wants to promote liberal candidates, while he slurs conservatives.
I see a pattern here dip-wad. If you criticize single-issue voters then you are a liberal; just like you are a racist if you criticize the Kenyan.
I’m not slurring real conservatives, those who take the time to consider all the conservative, non-GOPe candidates based on their support of the Constitution and I mean all of the Constitution. I’m calling out those who think they are conservative by waiting for their single perfect and ideal candidate to the detriment of reestablishing the Constitution the democrats have been tearing apart.
It’s about the whole Constitution and not just your favorite parts you wankers.
To: RJS1950
Single issue conservatives and their “pet” issues?
You liberals never give up do you, were you happy that after winning the nomination, Mitt Romney switched back to being pro-abortion?
31 posted on 8/3/2014 3:41:08 PM by ansel12
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