Posted on 03/06/2016 6:04:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
New information is surfacing about Mitt Romney and his 2016 plans following the 2012 presidential candidate's nationally-covered speech on Thursday morning.
The former Mass. Governor and Republican nominee for President spoke out against Donald Trump, calling the Republican front-runner a "phony" and "fraud." He urged Republicans to unite behind another candidate, yet declined to indicate which candidate he would be supporting.
An in-depth look at Romney's campaign finance activity, however, shows that the former candidate may be gearing up to take another shot at the White House.
In late January and early February of 2016, Romney's campaign finance entities, which by law are subject to FEC regulations, were both reactivated with amended campaign statements.
FEC records indicate that Romney's former campaign committee, Romney for President, and Romney's affiliated PAC, Romney Victory Fund, were both reactivated earlier this year, making them legally able to solicit donations and organize for his presidential campaign.
The above FEC documents can be found on the FEC websites here and here.
The Christian Times Newspaper spoke with several campaign finance professionals and campaign finance attorneys to further understand this move.
One told us that Romney "would only be making these changes" if he in fact "was going to run for President in 2016."
Another, a former McCain finance staffer indicated that this evidence shows "without a doubt" that Romney has plans to run as a Republican this year.
In the days and weeks following Romney's Trump-bashing, it will be interesting to see whether or not the 2012 candidate makes any further moves to run in 2016.
This means WAR.
He couldn’t beat Obama, but he can beat Trump.
BINDERS FULL OF CUCKSERVATIVES!
Mother of God, please make this Mormon MORON go away!!!!!!!! AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone needs to ask Glenn Beck about this: because Cruz, or Mormon?
Treasurer: Crate and Barrel?
I sincerely hope Ted Cruz and Donald Trump put their focus on Mitt Romney and the GOPe and their underhanded moves!
At least in this regard, I would love to see Donald and Ted join forces and destroy the GOPe once and for all!
Go Trump! Go Cruz!
Here we go! Thanks cruz for being the GOPe stooge we all knew you were. It was a true GOPe act for you to follow suit and pull the race card and msm line of release off the record tapes.
Apparently Romney believes in making the rubble bounce.
i’m a conservative. the most conservative of the big 3 (Cruz/Rubio/Trump) is Cruz. so that’s who i support. if the nomination goes to Trump, i guess i’ll vote for him. what the GOPe doesn’t (or maybe does) understand is that Romney can only play a spoiler role. if he decides to run 3rd party like Anderson did in 1980, he’s just gonna ensure that Hillary gets the win in November. that will be the end of days if that happens. this republic will be officially, 100% dead once and for all.
the GOPe is really pissing me off right now.
So has been lying. Manipulate the other candidate. Create a broken convention and step right in.
Time for Trump and Cruz to form their PAC.
No offense, I know Cruz is your guy... But if we don’t unite now, somehow... this thing might go sideways and end up in the ditch.
Romney & the whole GOPe apparatus are irretrievably corrupt and detached from reality. United, we can send these worthless PARASITES to the outer reaches of Hell -— where they belong.
that is one POS we need never see again.
I knew I smelled a Rat!
Okay, unite behind Cruz then.
FUMR!! Corrupt bastard! Loser!
sick
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