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No longer a candidate, Mitt Romney seeking ways to play kingmaker in GOP presidential contest
AP ^ | February 11, 2015 | Steve Peoples

Posted on 02/12/2015 10:16:53 AM PST by C19fan

A potential candidate no more, Mitt Romney is charting an aggressive course to help shape the Republican presidential field in 2016.

The GOP's 2012 presidential nominee will be a keynote speaker at the Republican Jewish Coalition's spring meeting in Las Vegas, one of several high-profile appearances he has scheduled to try and remain relevant in party affairs despite his recent decision not to launch a third presidential campaign.

"The thing that Mitt Romney has going for him is he has a microphone," said Spencer Zwick, who led the Romney campaign's massive fundraising operation and remains one of his closest advisers. "When he talks about an issue people are going to have to listen and they're going to have to respond."

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; potus; romney
Wonderful. A modern day version of the Earl of Warwick.
1 posted on 02/12/2015 10:16:53 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Romulan, go back to LaJolla, and STAY there!


2 posted on 02/12/2015 10:19:27 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: C19fan
to try and remain relevant in party affairs

Get a hobby, Mittens.

3 posted on 02/12/2015 10:22:47 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: C19fan; All
Go Home, Myth...
leave us alone!

4 posted on 02/12/2015 10:28:59 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." Hedy Lamarr)
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To: C19fan

Ain’t gonna happen, Mitt.


5 posted on 02/12/2015 10:29:13 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: C19fan

He does have a microphone. It also seems he is in a feud with Jebby/establishment. Perhaps he would want to be helpful (perverted, I know) to a Cruz/Walker in 2016.


6 posted on 02/12/2015 10:33:03 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

He is selling the house in California.

The man doesn’t have a connection to anywhere, he left Massachusetts when it no longer served him, and the California period might have been related to the idea that Meg Whitman would become Governor.


7 posted on 02/12/2015 10:36:57 AM PST by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: C19fan

Romney would be an effective kingmaker. I’m leaning strongly toward Cruz, but if Mitt endorsed Ted Cruz, I’d jump ship and support Governor Walker.


8 posted on 02/12/2015 10:38:15 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: ansel12

As long as he doesn’t settle down, I’m happy.


9 posted on 02/12/2015 10:42:41 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: C19fan

Go away Mitt...

We all know, deep down inside, you threw the election.

How much did they pay you?

Oh so were you promise the presidency in 2016?

Well Mittens you should have known the old saying that there is no honor among Thieves.

Turn back your Soul towards God through our real King..., Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.


10 posted on 02/12/2015 10:47:10 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I believe his latest is that he is back in Utah.

When he switched to the Republican party in 1993, he was trying to decide whether to run in Utah or Massachusetts.


11 posted on 02/12/2015 10:47:56 AM PST by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: C19fan

Mitt couldn’t play dog catcher...


12 posted on 02/12/2015 10:48:10 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: C19fan

Mitt, please go away. Take up synchronized dressage with Mrs. Romney or something to fill your day — but please just go away. You’ve done enough damage for one person for a lifetime.


13 posted on 02/12/2015 10:58:01 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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I can’t believe not that many people see him dropping out as an 80% chance that Bush will be our next nominee.

You have one moderate vs. scores of more conservative candidates. So all the Rhino has to do is to finish in the top five for the first several primaries and he has it in the bag.

This is how we got Dole, McLame, AND Romney.

I’ve heard a few people saying this but not that many.

But in any event, I think our best hope is to hope that Christie runs better than it looks like he will to divide the Rhino vote or that Romney does a bang up job for someone besides Bush.

I don’t need to remind you what happened the last several times the GOP ran Rhino’s.


14 posted on 02/12/2015 11:21:02 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Enlightened1; All
Go away Mitt...Turn back your Soul towards God through our real King..., Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Amen!

From the headline: ...Mitt Romney seeking ways to play kingmaker in GOP presidential contest

How many literally DOZENS of times from 2007-2012 on FR did I warn people that Romney has this obsession with not only being "King" of the Republicans; not only being "King" of the United States; but being an actual "god" of his own planet????

Here...allow me to review just a handful of those posts I placed on FR thru those years:

*Op-Ed: Mitt Romney's proposed career path — President, then God [White House-->Great White Throne]

From other threads:

* ...deeming that as a career step from the White House to the Great White Throne as future "god" of his own world...
* ...for Romney that means that the White House is just a career stopping point on his way to the Great White Throne...where he will be worshiped, glorified, prayed to, and the like.
* I wouldn't vote for someone who thinks the White House is just a career stop on their way to a great White Throne to be worshiped and glorified [and competing with the One True God for such honor and praise.]
* Mitt Romney, self-proclaimed candidate for the Great White Throne)
* ...if a temple Mormon (who is distinct from other Mormons) believes that the White House chair is but a "career stop" on his way to a Great White Throne as a future god, then that's pause for concern no matter what the party -- R or D. Obama's not a savior; and Romney & Reid are not gods-in-embryo and/or future gods -- no matter what they believe.
* I can see the headlines now were Mitt to be in a situation where he took an eventual second wife ... say numerous years into a Mitt POTUS...'Future Polygamist-god Romney sends first wife on ahead to Kolobian universe to ready a great white throne as a transition from his lesser White House role' Mitt is making the GOP into a laughing stock of shared gullibilities.

I reference "temple Mormon" in that 3rd-to-last citation.

Please note...that only around 15% of all Mormons are "temple Mormons"...so this comment doesn't apply to all Lds...especially since MOST of the women -- even the temple-Mormon women -- tend to be much more humble.

My experience, being a descendant of a Mormon bishop and having extended family members who are Lds...and from having had discussions with many Mormons...is that the male temple Mormons in particular are quite arrogant. (And again, keep in mind that this is probably no more than 7% of the entire Mormon population! But it does include Mitt Romney)

And, frankly, I don't see this as simply some character or personality deficiency: I think it's rooted in the notion that they've been told from day 1 of being a conscious Mormon that they, if they make it to the temple and adhere to ALL of the man-made Lds rules & regs, will ascend to godhood of their own planet.

Now that takes a TREMENDOUS amount of hubris to think with 100% sober-seriousness that you're going to tell THE God one day, "Hey, move over. Another god has just joined your universe."

15 posted on 02/12/2015 11:34:43 AM PST by Colofornian (When the Truth can hurt you, you do everything you can to keep the Truth from light of day...)
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To: C19fan

As if Romney was a freakin’ expert at running for President...


16 posted on 02/12/2015 11:42:05 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: C19fan

Show me anything touched by a Romney, and i will choose the first atheist that comes forth.


17 posted on 02/12/2015 2:41:54 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Mittster should go back to Kolob ...


18 posted on 02/12/2015 2:42:54 PM PST by NorthMountain
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