Mitt Romney: In Your Heart, You Know He’s a Loser Romney supporters are churning the political waters, hoping to create the illusion of a boomlet. Is the Republican presidential field for 2016 so bad that some GOPers have to trot out Mitt Romney as a “savior” to rescue the party and America from disaster? Never mind that the disaster is already upon us and the next president is going to have the thankless job of pulling America’s — and the world’s — Apple Brown Betty out of the fire. No doubt Romney has the competence to pull off a miracle. But can he beat Hillary Clinton? That should be the only question of concern as former Romney supporters and donors line up to pressure the 2012 nominee to go for the brass ring one more time. The speculation about a potential Romney candidacy yo-yos between “maybe” and “not in a million years.” That right there should tell us a lot about this campaign without a candidate. Romney staffers are convinced he’s not going to run. Friends point to opposition from his family. So why did Romney go on his old friend Hugh Hewitt’s nationally syndicated radio show and say this about his potential 2016 candidacy: “you know, circumstances can change, but I’m just not going to let my head go there”? That’s all it took. Hewitt, whose geniality sometimes masks a first class mind, and his law partner Robert C. O’Brien, who worked on the Romney campaign in 2012, penned an op-ed for Politico in which they describe the reaction: politico/magazine/story/2014/09/mitt-romney-2016-110870.html#.VBd6xRYeEyg
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 03:26:03 +0000
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