Related: Romney Still Running Republican Party
We haven't even had the 2014 midterms yet and the Globe is already going on about 2016?
Talk about filler fluff and distraction....
"Romney has often embraced the image of the reluctant candidate, as someone willing to be drafted for the good of the country.... Former Romney advisers say he would have to be persuaded to run again."
(Blog editor shakes his head at the massive ego and arrogance)
"No, no, not again, Mitt Romney says; But supporters and pundits keep chatter of a 2016 run alive" by Matt Viser | Globe Staff, February 15, 2014
WASHINGTON – There’s the new “MITT” documentary on Netflix....
See: Sundance Film Festival Feature
I did not see it, and will not. I'm not going to waste more of my time, readers.
He did a “slow jam” of the news with late-night comedian Jimmy Fallon, displaying a looseness and a wry humor he rarely let show in public.
I wonder what is in his wallet, and will he have Mace Windu on?
He showed up at the Super Bowl (“It’s great to . . . come in here and celebrate a great sport,” he said). He was recently on CNN discussing the Olympics, and on Fox News talking about health care.
Quite a party from what I read.
As for the Olympics and health care.... wrong on one, right on the other.
And on Sunday he’ll be on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” his second appearance on the show in the past three months.
I'm so glad I no longer watch those shows, and embarrassed that I once thought they were a Super Bowl every Sunday (like a decade ago, folks).
Romney’s public relations makeover and higher profile have come at a time when mainstream Republicans are searching for a strong party patriarch.
He is now the father of the Repuglican party.
Some party activists blanch at the prospect of a presidential field dominated by Tea Party movement favorites like Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky.
I'm not a big fan of either of them, especially after the father was so disrespected.
Related: Ron Paul Candidacy Was CIA-$upported Controlled Opposition
Oh, yeah, there is that, too.
And you wonder why I am completely $our about politics?
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a favorite among mainstream Republicans, has been knocked off kilter by a controversy over a traffic jam at a George Washington Bridge toll plaza caused by lane closures ordered up by Christie’s administration....
So who left for us to nominate, because I will vote in the Republican primary.
Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, has also not said whether he would run, and Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin seems focused on accumulating power in Congress.
Bush is a bad name for a president.
Romney is planning to host another policy retreat this June, where he invites top business and political leaders to spend several days with him in Park City, Utah. Former Romney advisers expect his potential candidacy could be a major topic if a more mainstream presidential candidate has not emerged.
This is all about corporations and the e$tabli$hed order keeping the "game" rigged and getting the "right" candidates nominated and in office, and commenting on it has really gotten old.
But Romney would face major hurdles. He struggled with the Tea Party, a movement that remains a potent force in Republican politics.
You know, the "bad guys," according to my bastion of corporate liberali$m, the Boston Globe.
And while he has appeared far more comfortable in recent public appearances, it has come at a time when he has not felt the pressure of running for office and making a gaffe that can dominate several news cycles.
One of the biggest hurdles would be convincing party officials and donors that he deserves yet another chance.
“He could not win the nomination. There’s no way,” said Henry Barbour, a Republican National Committee member from Mississippi. “Look, he had his shot. But the party has to move on. I can’t imagine that we would renominate Governor Romney when he lost in the general election last time.”
I'm not di$mi$$ing him that quickly.
The last candidate to win his party’s nomination a second time was Richard M. Nixon, who after losing the 1960 election to John F. Kennedy was nominated again in 1968 and defeated Hubert Humphrey to win the White House.
See: Renting a Room at the Watergate
Stay a while, readers, and do some reading.
Romney supporters have pointed to another historical example: Ronald Reagan ran three times (though he was not the party’s nominee until his third try).
That is where I must offer a mea culpa. Yesterday, I made a mistake saying Mitt would be a three-time loser. He's only won the nomination once. I forgot McCain won it in 2008, and that is the whole point. Does it really matter which corporate suit and servant wins anymore?
Supporters also note that Romney, who is now 66, would be 69 years old in 2016 — the same age as Reagan when he was sworn into his first term.
The day after Romney lost in 2012, a Facebook page was started called “Mitt Romney for President 2016.”
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Still, the page has only 1,469 likes — not even enough to win some Iowa counties.
The buzz around Romney running was sufficient enough that Purple Strategies, a Virginia-based firm, included Romney in a poll of New Hampshire voters three weeks ago. He came out on top, with 25 percent, among Republican primary voters.
Uh-oh.
Yet Republican activists in early primary states say they have a hard time imagining a Romney run. “I don’t think anyone is taking the prospect of him running again seriously at all,” said Fergus Cullen, a former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party.
“There’s not a lot of animosity toward Romney,” Cullen said. “There’s a lot of respect and fondness for him. There’s a lot of gratitude for the investment he made in trying to become president. But, you know, it didn’t work out. It’s pretty rare in politics that someone takes three shots at something.”
All the better for another run.
Until recently, Romney had kept a fairly low profile since losing the November 2012 election. He still has a condominium in Belmont, but also owns homes in Utah, California, and New Hampshire.
They are all mansions. Quite a contrast to the massive surge in homelessness in America, tied to the fraudulent foreclosure scandal.
He mostly spent his time with his extended family, weighing in only occasionally on current events and quietly trying to rebuild his reputation as an elder statesman in his own party....
Romney has often embraced the image of the reluctant candidate, as someone willing to be drafted for the good of the country....
Former Romney advisers say he would have to be persuaded to run again.
He wants us to grovel and beg, please, please, please be our savior!
F*** that!
And unlike four years ago, he has not done anything to prepare for a presidential run and seems to recognize how hard it would be to mount another bid.
In a scene from the recent documentary, Romney tells donors that nominees who lose the general election “become a loser for life . . . it’s over.” He then makes an “L” shape with his fingers, and holds it in front of his forehead.
“Mike Dukakis, you know, he can’t get a job mowing lawns,” Romney said. “We just brutalize whoever loses.”
At least they name a street after him, and he is not an illegal like the ones who cut yours when you were governor!
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