The possibility of Mitt Romney running for President in 2016 is not dead yet
Despite Mitt Romney’s claim to the contrary, and as I have written about several times in the recent past, rumors persist that he might still be considering a run at the Presidency in 2016.
According to this article those rumors are being stoked yet again, and it appears as if the possibility is not dead yet, here is more:
Officially, Mitt Romney returned to Iowa, the quadrennial presidential proving ground, to give a boost to Joni Ernst. But at a closed-door breakfast fundraiser here Monday, the first question from a donor had nothing to do with Ernst’s Senate campaign.
“When you get elected to the Senate, your job should be to convince Mitt Romney to run for president again,” a donor told Ernst, according to several attendees. The Republican candidate said she would, while Romney laughed.
When Romney and Ernst gathered in a West Des Moines boardroom with about 40 agriculture executives Sunday night, one businessman after another pleaded with Romney to give the White House another shot.
He has insisted that he is not interested in running for president a third time. But his friends said a flurry of behind-the-scenes activity is nudging him to more seriously consider it.
Further juicing the speculation was a Des Moines Register-Bloomberg News poll released over the weekend showing that Romney is the only potential 2016 candidate who would beat Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) among likely Iowa voters, 44 percent to 43 percent.
If that is not enough to convince you that the reports of Mitt Romney’s political death have been greatly exaggerated here is more:
“There is a feeling that the country missed out on an exceptional president,” Pawlenty said. “If he runs, I believe he could win the nomination and the general election. It’d be the right person at the right time, and I would encourage him to do it.”
Pawlenty noted that Ronald Reagan ran unsuccessfully for president twice before being elected in his third attempt “and was stronger for it.” In contrast with Romney, Pawlenty said, “the emerging class of Republican candidates is untested and unproven.”
It appears as if there is quite a bit of chatter about a possible Mitt Romney run for the Presidency in 2016 and if you have read my previous posts on this issue you know how I feel. While I believe Mitt Romney is a flawed candidate I still believe the nation would have been better off if he had beaten Barack Obama in 2012. Having said that, he had his chance to become President against an incumbent who was beatable and he lost, his time has come and gone.
When will the Republicans learn they cannot keep trotting out the same tired candidates and expect a different result? Those who do not learn from history…
It is time for some new blood, and while there may be a place for Mitt Romney in a potential Republican cabinet, it is time to move forward. If the Republicans look backwards once again they will lose and will be left wondering why when the answer was in front of them all along.
Americans are sick and tired of the political elite and their chosen candidates, Barack Obama was supposed to be different but he is not, and until the Republicans realize this they will be relegated to the minority.
Mitt Romney is not dead yet, politically speaking, and it reminds me of the following scene from Monty Python’s ‘The Holy Grail.’
America's Watchtower 
From the linked article “Romney told Murdoch that he felt uneasy about the party’s non-interventionist drift on foreign policy and the base’s embrace of ideological hard-liners.” So, if he runs, all we can say is he would be better than Hillary, but not by much. He doesn’t like the “hard-line” base, does he?
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He does not! In fact most of the establishment in Washington does not like the base.
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‘Insanity is doing the same thing, and hoping for a different result’ or words to that effect. So the question is whether there would be a different result. As a person, Romney is as fine a person as you could hope for. And it should go without saying that he is light years better than Hill-a-beans. But could we get a different result? I think everyone who voted for Romney before would vote for him again, 48%. Would he get any of the 47% he rightly identified as never voting for him? No. But I don’t see any of the talked about Republicans breaking that 47% either. So who can get that 5% gap? I don’t think Hill-a-beans will get the worship Oblamthem got, so some of the 47% will stay home, so maybe you only need 2.5% more than before. Who else can raise Clinton type money? They say Jeb can, but his name is Mudd. And if the R’s take the Senate next month, the right will have 2 years to shoot themselves in the foot, and the left will have a new boogieman to blame.
As we say in church, Lord have mercy.
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Interesting analysis Bruce. With the bases locked in place it is going to be the candidate who can persuade that final few percent and I do not see Romney being that guy unless there are many out there that regret voting for Obama, but even then I don’t think that would sway them away from Hillary. Jeb will be DOA if the Republicans nominate him for his last name alone, and if the GOP goes in that direction is will show they really have not learned a damn thing.
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OK, I’ll vote for Romney over ANY Democrat.
BUT
I’ve got one big problem with him though. When there was solid evidence of voter fraud, enough to change the outcome, he folded his tent and went home quietly
He wouldn’t fight when a fight was needed. We’re sitting here trying to figure out how we’re going to survive two more years of Obama because Romney had no stomach for a fight.
That alone should disqualify him.
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Good point, if he wouldn’t fight then how do we know he will fight when it is needed most?!
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Ah! And in that lies the problem with them all, No? They sure can talk a good game to get themselves in the WH (or any office) but then what? I hate to use him as an example, gag, but look at Obama. He has not only folded in a crisis, he is adding fuel to the fires with almost every turn. My point is, they say what they need to say and promise what they need to promise. Words…just words. Is it just me or am I becoming syndical…
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You are becoming cynical but so am I and it is justified. How many times can we fall for promises we know are going to be broken and still expect anything to change?!
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You’re so right Dr. Not only did he fold on the fraud issue you talked about, he folded on Candy Crawley, he folded on the last two debates, he folded during hurricane Sandy, and pretty much folded in the last month of the campaign.
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He sure did!
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Some people have stated that there won’t be another President, but if the ‘powers that be’ put Romney in you know they’ve worked on him for years to fine-tune him for the job – as all the others and rest.
Here’s an article and vid that probably won’t go over too well, but it does have some info that might be beneficial. The question that comes to my mind is, when the foxes are in charge of the hen house why would they allow the farm dog to be elected by the hens – they wouldn’t – the guard dog would have to force them all out and those left alive would be badly wounded. I don’t think Romney is our guard dog (nor anyone who’s elected by the foxes – Dem or Rep).
‘Romney Candidacy Takes Major Blow as Bain Exposed as Cartel Cash Laundry’ (Oct ’12)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/15/breaking-romneys-bain-capitol-drug-front-for-bush-cartel-video/
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The candidates for both sides are chosen for us and it really does not matter which one wins because the beat goes on from the ones above pulling the strings.
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That’s a tough pill to swallow, like real medicine (a tbsp of cod-liver oil!) or raw truth. Our hope is not place in the wicked or liars, but place ‘in Truth’ – and rallying together with those who support & uphold it. ‘Truth On’ Steve!
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We are only under the illusion of having a choice…
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This is a joke; right?
“The possibility of Mitt Romney running for President in 2016 is not dead yet”
Oh please; YES. Let it be OMitt Rmoney. Please. Rmoney/ Palin for President/Vice President. Ya. Or OMoney/Bachmann. Or maybe Cruz, Rubio for Vice President …
Really? Really?! _Really_ …
Think what a second OMitt national presidential campaign says about the Republican’T Party. Look OMitt could not beat the ‘Mooslim’, ‘Keynan’, ‘Socialist’, ‘Usurper’, ‘Furnener’, (etc.) the first time around. What makes you’all think it will be any different? Really.
But please keep flying the Republican’T Party trial balloons. USA needs the laughs.
Ema Nymton
~@:o?
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Flying the Republican flag? I guess you did not read the content of the post…
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The thoughts of Jeb ….. Truthfully, there is no one yet that I see can turn the Nation around.
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UGH!
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