Prediction: Romney Will Be The Repug Nominee In 2024....

[global1]

His criticism of Trump over the weekend is actually posturing for the 2024 nomination.

As soon as I heard his comments I knew what he was after.

[Renew Deal]

1. I'm not convinced he can win a primary.

Where 90% support Trump and he voted for impeachment.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Exactly, Chris Christy also is gearing up for a run.

Yes they are so obvious.

[Greybnk48]

24. Christy was on MSNBC yesterday for at least a 15" segment.

Or maybe it just felt like 15".

Two of the messiah's they will send to try and save the poop pile that is now the GOP. I think their efforts are futile after the T**** fiasco.

[Irish_Dem]

26. It felt like a half hour. I turned off the TV sound and did some laundry.

I guess Christy is hoping to get some Dem votes?
I couldn't believe MSNBC gave this weasel so much air time.

[Greybnk48]

36. We turned off the sound. It pissed me off too that they allowed him to talk

for that long. He's T**** with a brain. A bullying, loud mouthed, misogynistic crook. I'm not sure if he's a racist, he's enough of everything else for me to dislike.

[Irish_Dem]

37. I was shocked at the length of time they gave him, like an Christie commercial.

I agree with your description of him. He needs to stay on Fox.

[MoonchildCA]

25. Yes. Christie is making sure to pepper all of his criticisms...

... with a generous amount of fawning and praise.

[marble falls]

3. Who else they got?

[Irish_Dem]

38. Rubio, Cruz

[sweetloukillbot]

41. Tom Cotton, Ron Johnson

Look at the ones posturing for the Trump wing

[Irish_Dem]

42. Going to be an interesting primary. nt

[madinmaryland]

51. Santorum. I know. That is a frothy option.

[bearsfootball516]

4. He's despised by the MAGA base.

And it's going to be a very uphill battle to win the nomination without their support.

[vlyons]

8. As a Mormon, Romney is probably despised by the evangelicals too

nt

[underpants]

5. I'd bet on Sen. Cotton is I were to bet

Mitt will never get the Trumpers. He voted to convict once during the impeachment.

[Ohiogal]

11. I agree

Rabid Trump base despises Mitt. They want someone more extreme. Cotton will definitely be on their radar.

[exboyfil]

20. If he can get anointed by the Messiah Trump

Cotton needs to figure out what to promise Trump to get this done.

Also he needs to do a few other things.

Make wardrobe choices to reduce the prominence of his neck. Maybe it is just me, but it is distracting.
Try to get some acting lessons and go on to some sort of reality show. Maybe something created by Trump.
Divorce his wife and marry Gina Carano.

[rusty fender]

54. Is Gina Carano

a rabid right-winger, or a former nude model?

I guess that a former professional wrestler might be the equivalent of a former nude model

[exboyfil]

55. She is conservative

and she will be leading a Star Wars Disney show. She made a crack about getting the vaccine in the mail since mail in voting is so reliable.

Not a very good actress, but the role is written for her.

[rusty fender]

57. I saw her in a movie

She would definitely be the dominant person in any relationship; she could snap Cotton’s neck with her bare hands, so he better be careful

[brooklynite]

6. It IS posturing for future campaigns...

...but why would he be appealing to the current Republican base voters?

[pfitz59]

7. he won't win over the base

his hypocrisy is blatant and overt. Mouth platitudes, but vote the McConnell line.

[tman]

9. Insane prediction. The Republican party is not the party of 2012.

Or anything close.

[Mike 03]

10. I sort of doubt it. I think they are going to continue on the trajectory

they are on and I'm more looking at Ted Cruz, Rubio, or another radical GOPer.

My big fear right now, today, is Cruz. But 4 years is a ways off.

EDIT: Ted Cruz was the favorite of the Christian Nationalists until an upset primary, whereafter they threw their support to Trump.

[Turin_C3PO]

12. He's gonna run but

unless something drastic happens in the next few years, the MAGA base will determine who the nominee is and that man won’t be Romney.

[jcgoldie]

13. no fucking way

The Magas despise Romney, they would vote for literally anyone else in the primary. Outspoken criticism of Trump is not going to win anything in the GOP thats why they are all trying to keep their heads down. Romney can afford to be sane in Utah where he has a unique constituency, but for the national GOP its poison.

[Amishman]

14. No chance, he's damaged goods from 2012 and reviled by the MAGA crowd

Cruz is probably one of the front-runners as it stands now. Well known, MAGAish but still acceptable by the rest of their party.

Also should ensure Texas stays red that cycle

[Autumn]

15. It will be Liz Cheney. Bank it.

[Ptah]

30. I agree.

[Autumn]

45. When the Lincoln Project welcomed Dick Cheney I knew immediately what was up

LP members believe she is the one to restore the Republican party.

Now, however, his 54-year-old daughter—whose devotion to an unapologetic ally muscular foreign policy is every bit as ardent as his own—has emerged as one of the Republican Party’s fastest-rising leaders.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/01/liz-cheney-moment-430972

She has also managed to do that while being one of the few Republicans to repeatedly reprimand Trump and his allies—on everything from abandoning the Kurds to criticizing former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch to sowing distrust of Dr. Anthony Fauci—without completely alienating them. Her sharp wit in swatting down GOP firebrand Jim Jordan, known for his frequent challenges to House leadership, when he and several members questioned her loyalty to Trump—“I look forward to hearing your comments about being a team player when we’re back in the majority”—became a hit among many of her Republican colleagues who long ago tired of Jordan’s tactics.

Behind her veneer of support for President Trump—she votes with him “something like 97 percent of the time,” she bragged on “Fox & Friends” in July—there’s a far harsher reality: Many of her and her father’s closest friends and ideological allies have become the most virulent Trump critics. The large group, which includes former national security adviser John Bolton, Steve Schmidt, Steve Hayes, Bill Kristol, and Jennifer Rubin, are rooting for Liz to restore their brand of conservatism after Trump.

"I've talked to a lot of people about the conversation we have to have in the Republican Party, about how to cut this albatross off from around our necks if he loses,” Bolton told POLITICO, referring to Trump. “And I think it's going to be very robust across the board."

Schmidt, the former counselor to Dick Cheney and adviser to John McCain who has become a prominent Trump critic, said, “If there’s a resurgence of conservatism as a functioning political philosophy in this country, Liz Cheney is as good a bet as anybody to be a leader in that. Liz Cheney is certainly not going to be a person over the next 20 years who’s fighting to advance nationalism and populism.”

Link to tweet

[Volaris]

60. Bullshit. Her connection to LP is exactly why she WONT be the nominee.

It will be

Trump
Trump Jr.
Cotton, or
Cruz.

[Autumn]

67. Nope.

[berni_mccoy]

16. He was the nominee once and failed. You don't get a second go

It’s the way things work.

[sweetloukillbot]

43. Like Nixon?

[JenniferJuniper]

17. Never.

The Republican belongs to the Trump worshipers and it will for a long time to come.

[malaise]

18. At least he had the balls to vote to remove this racist criminal

I hate them all - Christie looks ill but he's making himself heard as well.

[beachbumbob]

19. romney will not be, he has NO chance in primaries

[Turbineguy]

21. No way

he's totally over qualified.

It will be Eric Trump. Unless he learns something in the next 4 years.

[arlyellowdog]

22. Romney?

The guy who dissed Trump?

[inwiththenew]

23. He'll do worse than Jeb did in 2016

Romney is DOA in the primary.

It's hard saying this far out but if I had to pick an earlry front runner it would be Cruz. He did alright in 2016 and since he dropped out he's done nothing but cozy up with Trump and win over the maga fanatics.

[Happy Hoosier]

27. Not a chance.

The Trump-humpers HATE him.

[Irish_Dem]

28. What about Rubio and Cruz? nt

[doc03]

29. No way. It will either be Trump or one of his spawn, it is the Trumplican party now. nt

[dalton99a]

31. The cult will not accept Romney.

[MoonchildCA]

32. My bet is on Nikki Haley.

She has not been overly critical of Trump, and at the same time has managed to keep enough distance from him to not get her hands dirty.
She can appeal to both factions of the party.

[C_U_L8R]

33. They really don't have anyone with any likable characteristics

It's just a hot mess of nasty. Who could ever be their Ronnie or W ...or Trump for that matter? They all exuded a bit of populism. Most Republicans these days wear their disdain for humanity on their sleeves.

[greenjar_01]

34. Agreed

Romney played a long game on the impeachment vote. It was a gamble. I think he might win it. He's going to have the least Trump stink on him of everybody.

[Ace Rothstein]

47. The Trump stink is a feature, not a bug in the Republican Party.

No way Romney even makes it past the first handful of states.

[BainsBane]

35. Wow. Let's bet on that one

Easy money. No way in hell this party will nominate Romney. The deplorables still control the primaries.

[Livluvgrow]

39. My money is on

Josh Hawley.

[xmas74]

52. Don't overlook him

He wants it really bad. He's disgusting and needs to be investigated for dark money.

Working with Sanders for a stimulus might give him a point or two. The Dems can easily use him signing onto the lawsuit against the ACA, compare his time served as MO AG as a Palin style move and then constantly remind everyone that he was great friends with Eric Greitens-and then remind everyone about Greitens. Sales of grey duct tape will go up.

[d_b]

40. No chance

Nominee of the Lincoln Project, perhaps.

[Firestorm49]

46. I still don't trust him. He's been painting himself as the bipartisan hero. BS!

He’s revealed all too often who he is and what he stands for. Don’t be fooled by him.

[gulliver]

48. He's their anti-Biden

The Republican base would fall in line behind him if he defeats Trump (who will be out on bond for something I hope and assume).

[Buckeyeblue]

49. Depends on how the next two years go.

[Cicada]

50. Stick with the professionals, the bookies. Haley, Pence,Kasich, Trump.

They are a lot smarter than us squares, as they call us nonprofessional betters . Another word describing us is sucker. They Have Haley, Pence, Trump, Kasich. https://www.oddsshark.com/politics/2024-usa-presidential-odds-futures

[wishstar]

53. Repub base despises "losers" Romney, McCain and Bushes and will only go for a Trumper

One reason Trump is so desperately claiming he won is because he slammed them for being losers and his base fell right into line turning on those Repubs they previously supported.

[Cosmocat]

56. If he is alive and not in jail the current Whitehouse resident will be the nominee

Agree with the point the first response made that it is hard to see how the man who voted to impeach a sitting republican POTUS with 90+% party support can be the nominee for that party, particularly one as hateful as his is.

[moondust]

58. Don't forget the MyPillow guy.

Will the cult ever return to a professional swamp creature now that they've been spoiled by an incompetent, genocidal lunatic?

[BainsBane]

64. LOL

Though it's probably true he stands a chance.

[Mendocino]

59. Maybe some other senators

in the mix: Marsha Blackburn, Rob Portman or Mike Lee.

[David__77]

61. I find it more likely that Joe Lieberman will be the Democratic nominee in 2024.

...

[milestogo]

62. He put his dog in a cage on the roof of the car during a family vacation.

I still have a bumper sticker that says "I ride inside".

[JI7]

63. Romney's criticisms of Trump ended any chance at being the Nominee

[andym]

65. He's done, because Trumper's consider him a traitor and they are the GOP base

Romney has zero chance. Lost once as well, which will be used against him.

[BlueStater]

66. People here always OVERestimate Tom Cotton.

He has no charisma whatsoever and no national appeal. He got elected in a hick state like Arkansas. That far from makes him a viable presidential candidate.

No, I’m not completely writing him off because Trump has taught us that it’s foolish to write anyone totally off, but I don’t think his chances are all that great.

[PCIntern]

68. And Pat Toomey for VP for PA

[BlueNProud]

69. Paul Ryan will be their nominee

[Bucky]

70. That would be good news for the dude who got the face tattoo

But still unlikely

Romney would be a smart choice

[octoberlib]

71. He might run in the primary but he won't win it.

[anamnua]

72. I disagree. I think Romney has effectively scuttled his presidential ambitions

by antagonizing the MAGA base.