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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 09:25 AM Sep 2014

REPORT: Mitt Romney Is Definitely Looking At 2016

Two-time presidential contender Mitt Romney is apparently looking seriously at making a third White House bid in 2016.

Romney, who has repeatedly insisted he will not run, has kept his inner circle intact and regularly discusses national politics with them, according to a Washington Examiner column by Byron York published Wednesday night.

The article stressed the possibility of Romney ultimately declining to run, but sources around him reportedly have the strong sense that Romney is keeping the door open. What's more, that same inner circle really wants him to run again.

"Virtually the entire advisory group that surrounded Mitt in 2012 are eager for him to run, almost to a man and a woman," one "plugged-in member of Romneyland" told the Examiner.

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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-mitt-romney-definitely-looking-111900964.html


Oh Please, Please, Please do so, mittens!

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REPORT: Mitt Romney Is Definitely Looking At 2016 (Original Post) n2doc Sep 2014 OP
Run Mitt, run! nt msanthrope Sep 2014 #1
Your wish will be granted, Moderate Mitt will run and be the candidate. CK_John Sep 2014 #12
Will Warm & Engaging Mitt also be attempting the run? hatrack Sep 2014 #13
We can't wait to keep asking him about his taxes and Bain Capital. DetlefK Sep 2014 #2
I don't understand why... Agschmid Sep 2014 #3
Harold Stassen ran for president several times./NT DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2014 #6
I think if you count primaries, there are more. antiquie Sep 2014 #8
Pat Paulsen was also a perennial candidater mulsh Sep 2014 #10
Henry Clay... 1822, 1834, 1844. Fearless Sep 2014 #18
Reagan ran three times: 68, 76 & 80 WI_DEM Sep 2014 #22
Looks like he is getting ready to give prostate exams, looking for stray nickels he might have djean111 Sep 2014 #4
Byron York...now of the Washington Examiner? MADem Sep 2014 #5
He needs to grow a beard first, so we don't recognize him. randome Sep 2014 #7
:D C Moon Sep 2014 #20
Is Queen Ann still trying to make that White Horse Prophecy a reality? Ha ha catbyte Sep 2014 #9
Run ,You idiot, Run....please Rhinodawg Sep 2014 #11
Just in case J.E.B. doesn't run Hari Seldon Sep 2014 #14
Even with Jeb, the current field is weak Gothmog Sep 2014 #15
Now THAT is a day brightener! Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2014 #16
DANG. NO ONE'S HAPPY. Brickbat Sep 2014 #17
Run with Sarah Palin?? Fearless Sep 2014 #19
They would have a serious chance of hiring hitmen to take the other out! randome Sep 2014 #24
Just in time for Halloween: The Trick or Treat Candidate LongTomH Sep 2014 #21
Hey Mitt, if you like the "Americano Steamer", I have a new drink from CLEVELAND for you. My treat.. Erose999 Sep 2014 #23
He's a habitual candidate. lpbk2713 Sep 2014 #25
He's a game show host. Major Hogwash Sep 2014 #26
"Vote for Taft now, you can vote for Bryan any time." DemocraticWing Sep 2014 #27

hatrack

(59,583 posts)
13. Will Warm & Engaging Mitt also be attempting the run?
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 09:52 AM
Sep 2014

Along with I'm Not A Scientist Mitt, Environmentalist Mitt and End Times Mitt?

Could get crowded in there . . . .

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
3. I don't understand why...
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 09:28 AM
Sep 2014

I'd have to do some googling but I wonder how many times in the past someone has run 3 times?

Clearly it happened see Roosevelt... But to run and loose 2 times and then run again I think is different.

Also would you really only count the times the candidate actually got the nomination? Because then 2008 doesn't really count...

 

antiquie

(4,299 posts)
8. I think if you count primaries, there are more.
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 09:41 AM
Sep 2014
Dewey, for one.

Dewey sought the 1940 Republican presidential nomination.
Dewey was the frontrunner for the 1944 Republican nomination.
Dewey was the Republican candidate in the 1948 presidential election.
 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
4. Looks like he is getting ready to give prostate exams, looking for stray nickels he might have
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 09:33 AM
Sep 2014

missed when shutting down a company, stealing pensions, and putting people out of work.
Would probably list it as a benefit and charge for it.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
5. Byron York...now of the Washington Examiner?
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 09:34 AM
Sep 2014

They should call him Limbo Man--as in "How low can you GO?"

It wouldn't surprise me if Mitt ASKED him to plant this story to see if the pot couldn't be stirred a bit. Perhaps Mitt wants to smoke old Jeb outta his hole. I think Jeb would be nuts to run--between his horrible children and his tax duty-dodging wife who spends more time in Mexico than she does in USA, he knows he'd be raked over the coals. He has NOT been vetted. Then again, I think no one likes Mitt either. And they like Queen Annie and Rafalca even less!

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
7. He needs to grow a beard first, so we don't recognize him.
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 09:38 AM
Sep 2014

[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

catbyte

(34,358 posts)
9. Is Queen Ann still trying to make that White Horse Prophecy a reality? Ha ha
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 09:42 AM
Sep 2014

Sorry, Oh So Entitled Ones, We the People DESPISE you guys, so please toddle on back to your La Jolla McMansion & ride up & down in your car elevator. Psssssssst, Queen Ann, dear, it will NEVER be "your turn." I still chuckle when I think of her in that Prom hair up-do on Election Night 2012--she was SO SURE that she was going to be the next FLOTUS. You could just tell by that party hair she was sporting. However, by the time The Mittster gave his concession speech, she looked pretty disheveled--sort of like my cat, Cranky Nigel, when he rolls around on the basement floor, LOL.

Gothmog

(145,046 posts)
15. Even with Jeb, the current field is weak
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 10:28 AM
Sep 2014

The GOP would never let Rand Paul or Carnival Cruz be the gop nominee and so I can see Romney running again

Fearless

(18,421 posts)
19. Run with Sarah Palin??
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 01:30 PM
Sep 2014

Together they would have a serious chance at winning. At least that's what my magic eight ball told me.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
24. They would have a serious chance of hiring hitmen to take the other out!
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 04:02 PM
Sep 2014

[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)
[/center][/font][hr]

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
21. Just in time for Halloween: The Trick or Treat Candidate
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 03:13 PM
Sep 2014

I'm having fun laughing at him with the rest of you; but, I do have to say: The possibility that he might actually run and win scares me shitless!!!!!

Erose999

(5,624 posts)
23. Hey Mitt, if you like the "Americano Steamer", I have a new drink from CLEVELAND for you. My treat..
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 03:21 PM
Sep 2014

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
26. He's a game show host.
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 11:54 PM
Sep 2014

Same type of personality, with the same level of ego.

Ooooh, the excitement is palpable.

DemocraticWing

(1,290 posts)
27. "Vote for Taft now, you can vote for Bryan any time."
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 12:33 AM
Sep 2014

Romney is shaping up to be a modern William Jennings Bryan, without the common touch.

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