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Can’t quit Mitt: Friends say Romney feels nudge to consider a 2016 presidential run
Washington Post ^ | October 13, 2014 | hilip Rucker and Robert Costa

Posted on 10/13/2014 3:55:50 PM PDT by greyfoxx39

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Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and now the tacit head of the Republican Party, visited Iowa as part of a feverish nationwide tour designed to help the GOP take control of the Senate.

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Romney is grappling with this question: If drafted, would he answer the party’s call?

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Former aides and senior Republicans say Romney appreciates the GOP masses crowing that he was right about issues such as Russia and health care. But what really intrigues him, they said, are the vulnerabilities among top-tier candidates in the Republican field. If Romney moves toward a race, it would be because he sees a path to victory.

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“It’s the market pulling him,” said Kent Lucken, a longtime friend and adviser who accompanied Romney to Iowa. “People look at Hillary as the likely Democratic nominee, and the party needs a strong leader who can stand up to her and who’s been through the process.”

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Many Romney boosters believe that his window of opportunity will be in mid- to late 2015, should Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) or Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) ascend and party establishment types turn to Romney as a savior.

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“He’s the only qualified person to run this time,” Chidester said. “Mitt is a business genius. That’s why I’ve listened to this tape three times. He had it all down — he had Russia down, he had the debt down — and all the other Republicans are novices by comparison.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaign; loserromney; mutt2016; rino2016; romney; romney2016; romney4loss; romneycare; romneycare4ever
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The WaPo sure is eager to push Mitt into making another disastrous run.
1 posted on 10/13/2014 3:55:50 PM PDT by greyfoxx39
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To: greyfoxx39

He would have been a million times better than Obozo.


2 posted on 10/13/2014 3:56:37 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (Mitt Romney is our last chance to save America - VOTE!!!!!)
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To: greyfoxx39
"He’s the only qualified person to run this time,” Chidester said. I think not.
3 posted on 10/13/2014 3:57:13 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: greyfoxx39

There are people intent on pushing him on us again.


4 posted on 10/13/2014 3:57:20 PM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; Kakaze; Tammy8; metmom; Cap Huff; svcw; leapfrog0202; Concho; delacoert; ...

Mitt ping


5 posted on 10/13/2014 3:57:33 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Valerie Jarrett warned us they would "get even with those who opposed them"..)
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To: WestCoastGal
He would have been a millionth times better than Obozo.

Fixed.

6 posted on 10/13/2014 3:57:59 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: WestCoastGal

Um, maybe fifty times better.


7 posted on 10/13/2014 3:58:29 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: greyfoxx39

Here are the real leaders.

8 posted on 10/13/2014 3:58:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: greyfoxx39

If it looks like a conservative might win, he will run interference.

But we are supposed to support the anti-conservative Republicans without criticism.


9 posted on 10/13/2014 3:58:44 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: fwdude

lol


10 posted on 10/13/2014 3:59:23 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: greyfoxx39

Rat Romney will backstab EVERY conservative
like the last three (3) elections.

Romney is the scum that created Obama,
ObamaCARE, and the rest.

And he defines the GOP - the GIVE.Obama.POWER. party


11 posted on 10/13/2014 3:59:27 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: WestCoastGal

1.00000002 times better, possibly


12 posted on 10/13/2014 3:59:45 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: WestCoastGal

Yeah, homosexual marriage, gun bans, higher taxes, liberal judges that he appointed, romneycare/Obamacare, illegal immigration/amnesty, yeah, so much better.
How was he any different?
Only difference: republican and white.


13 posted on 10/13/2014 4:00:08 PM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: WestCoastGal

So would I or someone randomly chosen out of the Des Moines phone book.


14 posted on 10/13/2014 4:00:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: greyfoxx39
Mitt, have mercy...

Cruz!


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15 posted on 10/13/2014 4:00:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: greyfoxx39

Will everybody please stop “nudging” Mitt!


16 posted on 10/13/2014 4:01:06 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ebola and Enterovirus-D68. Proud members of Viruses Without Borders.)
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To: greyfoxx39

Willard serves a single purpose: to make sure no Conservative gets the GOP nomination. So did McQueeg.


17 posted on 10/13/2014 4:02:03 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: WestCoastGal

Still would have sailed amnesty right by. I’ll bet you’d be surprised what else he would have done that Obama did. National RomneyCare. That was a given.

Neither of these men deserved to be president of our republic.


18 posted on 10/13/2014 4:02:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: greyfoxx39

QUIT MITT

for godsake QUIT
You are a proven LOOSER


19 posted on 10/13/2014 4:02:21 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Nudge him off a cliff.


20 posted on 10/13/2014 4:02:32 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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