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How Romney Can Come Back …
Daily Caller ^ | Mickey Kaus

Posted on 01/21/2015 3:49:00 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal

… Using This One Weird Trick! It seems as if everybody’s down on the idea of Mitt Romney running for president again. Even establishment Republicans who aren’t part of the vast Bush claque seem to be hostile. President Obama’s aides mocked Romney’s interest in income inequality, per Politico:

(SNIP)

“It’s simply never going to be believable to go from car elevators, off-shore accounts and his famous 47 percent comment to the populist income equality warrior.”…

(SNIP)

After all, there’s one obvious, simple move Romney could make to turn the mockery around, jujutsu style, in a way that would give him a decent outsider’s chance.

Romney could live like an average person.

(SNIP)

He could pick one (a smaller, low-maintenance one) and stay away from the others.

It would be painful — but that, of course, is the point. Romney might have to shop at Trader Joe’s. Great press! He could work on his small talk, maybe even learn something. It wouldn’t be like a movie star living on food stamps for a week. It’s not a diet. He’d have to make it until November, 2016.

(SNIP)

It would all be a pretty good story, if you think about it: Former high-rolling hotshot forced to humble himself and claw his way back against a new self-anointed prince (Jeb). Redemption! I’m sure there is a Hollywood movie or two with this plot, probably starring Sean Connery. (Help me out here.) The more Romney’s party’s establishment turned on him, the more delicious the dramatic tension. In the final scene he could destroy Jeb in debate with a furious volley of zingers! Any Romney traction would drive Bush’s royal court crazy, which would alone be worth it.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 47; car; elevator; mitt2016; romney; romney4dnc; romneycare; romneydictatorship; romneymarriage
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1 posted on 01/21/2015 3:49:00 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Stupid and so is Romney...


2 posted on 01/21/2015 3:50:09 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Recycled Romney...ugh....like warmed over broccoli...


3 posted on 01/21/2015 3:50:56 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

NOoooooo. Willard, just go home!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjJ27P4mXWM


4 posted on 01/21/2015 3:51:03 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Willard the RomneyCARE-imposing RAT (laughing): "We have Grubered them all, Ted!!!"

5 posted on 01/21/2015 3:54:30 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Don’t come back, stay gone, please.


6 posted on 01/21/2015 3:57:49 PM PST by Fungi (There is apparent age and absolute age. Think about it.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal
This time we have a pretty good bench to choose from. Thanks, but no thanks.

Not to waste too much time with the many flaws in Willard's campaign, the thing that surprised me the most was this uber-successful guy who made so much money and saved the Olympics, ran a really sucky campaign.

7 posted on 01/21/2015 3:58:32 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

Romney? Come back? Come back where?


8 posted on 01/21/2015 4:01:47 PM PST by Sasparilla (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: colorado tanker
He ran like a whimp, afraid to take on Obama because of skin color. It was almost as if Obama was destined to win from the start; first McLame, then Whimpy Romney. They all were scared of one thing—skin color.
9 posted on 01/21/2015 4:06:32 PM PST by Fungi (There is apparent age and absolute age. Think about it.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

He’ll come back twice as limp and flaccid as he was before and won’t be able to figure out why everyone still hates him.


10 posted on 01/21/2015 4:08:56 PM PST by ponygirl (Cacao to the GOPe.)
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To: Vendome

Mittens would have to have a forkectomy to remove the fork that Obama stuck in his butt during the last election...


11 posted on 01/21/2015 4:09:13 PM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Why can’t Willard just GO AWAY!


12 posted on 01/21/2015 4:12:18 PM PST by ri4dc (I used to care, but I just take a pill for that now.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal
Poor Willard. Had his chance, but only found the cahones
to attack Gov. Palin and her little children, like
the true coward RomneyCARE is.
13 posted on 01/21/2015 4:15:07 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: nascarnation
Recycled Romney...ugh....like warmed over broccoli...

Romney-supporters in the GOP leadership probably try to feed the same soggy broccoli to their kids three days in a row, and they are just as surprised when the kids reject it the third time as they were the first two times.

14 posted on 01/21/2015 4:21:32 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal
He could win as a Democrat.

Seriously.

15 posted on 01/21/2015 4:22:43 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for you. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to kill you.)
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To: Pollster1

Is there any hope that Romney, Jeb, and NJFatboy will cancel each other out?


16 posted on 01/21/2015 4:23:31 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: nascarnation

It all comes down to ego. If the three get in and stay in, it helps America. Fortunately, the three lead RINOs have lots of ego. If Cruz is the only conservative, that helps us even more.


17 posted on 01/21/2015 4:38:53 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

I don’t think Ted will choose him for his running mate.


18 posted on 01/21/2015 4:39:15 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (When the hell do I get MY white privilege? I'm tired of busting my @$$ for a living.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Oh please - he can’t get rid of the big “L” tatooed on his forehead.


19 posted on 01/21/2015 4:53:31 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Romney wil be asked about Gruber by the media repeatedly and Romney’s response will be lame. Suddenly all obamacares problems will be hung on Romney by the media.


20 posted on 01/21/2015 5:13:55 PM PST by RginTN
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