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With Christie hobbled, Jeb Bush’s lukewarm reception, Establishment GOP floats another Romney run?
againstcronycapitalism.org ^ | 8/11/14 | Nick Sorrentino

Posted on 08/12/2014 9:09:04 AM PDT by cotton1706

Yes, this is the genius masterstroke the DC GOP has been waiting for.

You have to hand it to the establishment. They keep trying. So what if Romney is another big government Republican which a large part of the GOP vote couldn’t really support in 2012. The consultants which got paid big time during the 2012 Romney run could get paid again! And if Romney could somehow get the nomination it would be another blow to the libertarian/conservative coalition in the Tea Party. Win/win. Well not for the American people, and probably not for Mitt Romney. But certainly a win for the folks who work in Downtown DC.

Check out what Pat Caddell, legendary pollster and political operative had to say about what happened in 2012. And now the establishment GOP wants to do it all over again?

Romney I am almost sure is a nice guy. He’s probably a capable manager. But he is not anything resembling what this country needs right now. A Romney/Clinton contest would basically pit 2 people with similar views on nearly everything against one another. Both Romney and Clinton are for generally larger government. Both are for a generally activist foreign policy. Both are intimately tied to the banks.

And that is why another Romney candidacy is being floated right now. Very powerful interests want to sew up the presidential race as early as possible. That is why they’ve been pushing Christie (originally) and Jeb, and now Romney.

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To: cotton1706

With Christie hobbled, Jeb Bush’s lukewarm reception, Establishment GOP floats another Romney run?


Why Romney? Isn’t Bob Dole still alive?


21 posted on 08/12/2014 9:25:05 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cotton1706

Calling Harold Stassen!


22 posted on 08/12/2014 9:25:11 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: cotton1706

People need to emphatically reject a Romney nominee


23 posted on 08/12/2014 9:26:21 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: cotton1706

This is like saying that since the guillotine is passe and the electric chair doesn’t work, the GOP is considering the firing squad.


24 posted on 08/12/2014 9:26:40 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: cotton1706

I sometimes think the GOP are cowardly masterminds plotting and scheming to prop up big donors, to shore up their power and their friends’. But I don’t think mastermind is the right word. Tone deaf is more like it. They’re completely out of touch. If you put them in a room with 100 people, they’d most likely be the stupidest.


25 posted on 08/12/2014 9:27:12 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Verginius Rufus; a fool in paradise; MeshugeMikey

Dole-McCain 2012

“Rested & Ready”


26 posted on 08/12/2014 9:27:49 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: cotton1706
Palin, Cruz, Paul or maybe Perry.
27 posted on 08/12/2014 9:29:38 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Vigilanteman
The big question is who will they use as a ringer to divide the conservative vote. Is Newtie still available?

Good question. It'll have to be another faux Conservative like Ryan. Of course, he's damaged goods, now that his sheen has worn off with all of the amnesty work. Paul Jr.?

28 posted on 08/12/2014 9:29:53 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: headsonpikes

Nixon Now!


29 posted on 08/12/2014 9:30:51 AM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: cuban leaf

He is, I heard his slurred speech every day on the radio endorsing an establishment candidate in the recent primary.


30 posted on 08/12/2014 9:31:04 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Vigilanteman

You mean the guy that FR supported is the bad guy? Why not Romney’s actual ringer, Rick Santorum?


31 posted on 08/12/2014 9:31:33 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: drypowder

Paul is too liberal and very much like Mitt Romney is his dishonesty and shape shifting.


32 posted on 08/12/2014 9:32:32 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: drypowder

All four, without a question. Jeb Bush will be the nominee. Elizabeth Warren will be president. CWII will be brutal.


33 posted on 08/12/2014 9:32:59 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: cotton1706

Nothing changes if nothing changes.


34 posted on 08/12/2014 9:33:53 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: ansel12

Let’s face it, Sanatorium and Newt were only running so Mitt would be the one to lose to Obama.


35 posted on 08/12/2014 9:34:16 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: DoodleDawg

People don’t realize that Ann was the first politician, she held elective office before Mitt.


36 posted on 08/12/2014 9:34:18 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: DoodleDawg

The reports I read said he bribed her into letting him run by tearing down their mansion in La Jolla and letting her build a bigger mansion.


37 posted on 08/12/2014 9:34:52 AM PDT by DManA
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To: cotton1706

Have we considered a conservative?


38 posted on 08/12/2014 9:34:59 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: GeronL

Dole McCain

A Pineapple..and a Road Apple!


39 posted on 08/12/2014 9:35:09 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: cotton1706

Absolutely.

Let’s support Bishop Romney.

Marriage to Animals, this time, Mitt?


40 posted on 08/12/2014 9:36:01 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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