Top GOP Senator Says ‘If Romney Loses Michigan, We Need a New Candidate’

ABC News ^ | Feb 17, 2012 | Jonathan Karl

[M. Thatcher]

A prominent Republican senator just told me that if Romney can’t win in Michigan, the Republican Party needs to go back to the drawing board and convince somebody new to get into the race. “If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” said the senator, who has not endorsed anyone and requested anonymity. The senator believes Romney will ultimately win in Michigan but says he will publicly call for the party to find a new candidate if he does not. “We’d get killed,” the senator said if Romney manages to win the nomination after he failed to win the state in which he grew up. “He’d be too damaged,” he said. “If he can’t even win in Michigan, where his family is from, where he grew up.” What about Rick Santorum? “He’d lose 35 states,” the senator said, predicting the same fate for Newt Gingrich. It would have to be somebody else, the senator said. Who? “Jeb Bush,” the former Florida governor.

[M. Thatcher]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Castigar]

this guy is obviously a RINO of the first magnitude!

[NoGrayZone]

I vote for Newt!!!

[Paleo Conservative]

Who? “Jeb Bush,”

Stay outta da Bushes.

[Col Frank Slade]

I bet the “annonymous” Senator is Luger.

[Col Frank Slade]

I bet the “annonymous” Senator is Luger.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh he just can’t stand either Gingrich or Santorum, who would eat Mitt’s lunch, but also would eat many RINOs’ lunches too.

[Sopater]

“Jeb Bush,” the former Florida governor.

Haven't we had enough Bush's in the whitehouse for some of these establishment types?

[Lazlo in PA]

RINO’s in a meltdown. Awesome to see. I get the impression that no one thinks Mittens can hold MI anymore against Santorum. There has to be some internal polling that has a “Predominant Senator” saying this instead of just laughing off the notion of Milt losing like they usually do.

GO RICK!!!

[Harley]

Who could that top GOP Senator be that didn’t endorse anybody yet but still talks like Romney is his boy? It’s got to be some east coaster. They all love Mitt for Brains.

[EGPWS]

“If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” said the senator, who has not endorsed anyone and requested anonymity.

There are two perfectly capable replacements already running to take over that loser Romney's position.

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[Lazlo in PA]

Might not be an East Coaster. Jon Kyle has been odd about his unofficial support of Milt.

[Irenic]

Jeb Bush?! Are they stuck on stupid or what?

[Proud2BeRight]

So a RINO wants a RINO, any RINO. If it's not the flip-flopping liberal Massachusetts RINO, he wants another RINO. Obviously, some establishment GOP RINOs are just too stupid to get the message.

[NoGrayZone]

“Anonymous” is probably the entire GOP elite!

[Cheerio]

this guy is obviously a RINO of the first magnitude!

NO WONDER he does not want to be identified. FLUSH THE GOP OF RINOS.

[newfreep]

Clinton, Bush1, Bush2, Bush3 and Obama - quite the chummy little family circle!

[Tennessee Nana]

Stop already...