Posted on 09/02/2015 7:26:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican presidential race, frustration and panic have become high enough to make some inside the party Establishment pine for a candidate they roundly rejected as recently as January: Mitt Romney. Romney himself has become one of Trump’s most vocal detractors inside the party. “He’s someone to whom civility means a lot. The whole Trump thing really bothers him,” a close Romney adviser told me — and some Romney-ites are only too happy to talk up the prospect of their man jumping into the race if the Establishment fails to stop Trump, whose support in Iowa and New Hampshire is currently greater than Jeb Bush's, Scott Walker's, Marco Rubio's, Chris Christie's, and John Kasich's combined.
“Mitt wants to run. He never stopped wanting to run,” a senior member of his 2012 team told me. Other Romney-ites, watching this cycle’s candidates falling short, feel a sense of vindication after all the attacks they endured after Romney's failed 2012 bid. "These guys like Walker and Perry, they were big deals in their states, but you get them onto the national stage and it's a different story," a former Romney adviser told me. "It's like they were in middle school, and now they're freshmen in high school and they're getting their faces slammed in the toilets." Another former Romney adviser complained about Bush's decision not to go all-in on New Hampshire, a state a moderate must win. "Romney did 100 town halls in New Hampshire from announcement to the primary. It's madness. Bush has done only 23."
In reality, the prospect of Romney jumping back into the race at this late date remains exceedingly slim — he’s made no visible signs of reassembling his political operation. But he may be able to influence the race more indirectly
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Not then, not now
Why should he be done though? He got 70 million people to flush their integrity. He will probably get 60 million this time in his loss.
If Romney is force-fed to the Republican Party by the elite, it's going to be a tipping point. To what, does anyone know?
America is horrified by the direction RINOS and liberals are driving it into.
Not worried myself.
This is simply talk and no more.
Wanna bet your country on that?
Mitt is the only candidate that can make Bush look good.
I’m horrified by Mitt.
He’s someone to whom civility means a lot.
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And that’s why he got his butt handed to him in 2012. You have to fight the demon ‘Rats like a street thug or you’ll get your ass kicked.
The whole Romney whiffing on a cookiemdown the middle means a lot to a lot of us.
Means he had his chance, muffed it.
No Soup for Romney.
I am willing.
Why is he a worry to begin with? Because so called conservatives arent trustworthy to stand for jack squat. they proved it.
““In reality, the prospect of Romney jumping back into the race at this late date remains exceedingly slim — he’s made no visible signs of reassembling his political operation.”
Keep an eye on this sentence.
It was in 2012.
Ping me when Mitt officially enters the race. We;ll discuss where I can move the furniture.
What's the 1st word to come to mind when you hear Mitt Romney.
-LOSER-
So much for civility.
Now get lost.
Often a good measure of a man is his enemies.
The GOPe has terminal Beserk Trump Derangement Syndrome!
They know that 8 years of Trump/Cruz and 8 years of Cruz/?, will make the GOPe and the Dems irrelevant.
Yes, he loses well, before the results are even in.
Keep an eye on the last part
“But he may be able to influence the race more indirectly””
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