This will kill the GOP in ’16: Romney buzz and GOP’s immigration meltdown

[DonViejo]

Talk of (another) Romney presidential run highlights how badly the GOP will struggle with immigration in 2016

SIMON MALOY

The piping hot news out coming out of the mercifully still distant 2016 presidential campaign is that a third stab at the White House by one Willard Mitt “Mitt” Romney is a “real possibility.” That’s the word from the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, who talked with a number of people plugged into Romney’s inner circle of advisers, sycophants, and former campaign personnel who “developed an extraordinary loyalty to Romney.” Those people are apparently urging Mitt to dust off the old awkward charm and ask some more confused Americans whether they’re French Canadian.

My initial reaction to this news was “Hah. Terrific!” But after getting over that burst of ironic enthusiasm, my thoughts turned, as they so often do, to immigration reform. The big lesson of Mitt’s 2012 loss, for Republicans anyway, was that lurching to the right on immigration issues was no longer an option at the national level. Romney took up “self-deportation” as his immigration policy to ingratiate himself to skeptical conservatives, and he paid for it with drubbings in the Spanish-speaking press and an absurdly low share of the Latino vote.

Gaming out what a third Romney candidacy might look like, Hot Air’s Allahpundit wrote: “His donor-class supporters were willing to tolerate ‘self-deportation’ in 2012 because they thought he needed to pander to righties more than he did to Latinos, but that equation has now reversed. As someone said last night on Twitter, you’ll know Romney’s seriously thinking of getting in when he starts calling for comprehensive immigration reform.” But here’s the thing: Romney’s already done that. Sort of.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/09/26/this_will_kill_the_gop_in_16_romney_buzz_and_gops_immigration_meltdown/

[Scuba]

1. Are you kidding? Minorities love Mitt. Look at how they embraced him at his 2012 NAACP appearance...

[monmouth3]

3. The expressions on their faces said it all for me. Gawd, I hope he does run again..LOL..n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Come on Willard bring it on.

Your brand of Stupid just won't quit,will it. BTW,were are those TAX RETURNS? Forgot,you use your Charitable Remainder Trust through your church. Zero in billions out.

[TlalocW]

4. Well, this tells you how bad their field is

I mean, if you can't - in four years - get some people that are going to energize you more than the loser of the last race, then you've got a problem with your candidates.

I think Mitt has already forgotten how hard running for president is - being absurdly rich, living in obscene comfort can do that to you - if he's actually considering it. What the absurd richness and obscene comfort can't take away though is the stinging feeling knowing that you "should have" won, and you were cheated out of your birthright as well as the prophecies of your wackjob church.

TlalocW

[tanyev]

5. Hey, that White Horse prophecy isn't going to fulfill itself.

[Rozlee]

6. Gawd, Mr. Excitement himself.

On the titillation scale, he's slightly above watching milk curdle but below watching a cow chew its cud.