2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Boston Herald: "Cabinet role for Mitt Romney would be a shrewd move" - Do you agree? [View all]
karynnj
(60,765 posts)done for decades. Not to mention that I really do not see where he could fit in an Obama administration with his venture capital background. One thing I had thought of was that if he helped get Republicans on board - Kerry's infrastructure bank bill, that Obama backed, and which Kerry got Kay Baily Hutchinson to sign onto is using venture capital techniques to do good rebuilding the country. However, this type of spending was opposed by Romney in the campaign.
The fact is that, now that he has loss, the Republican party that never liked him, is unlikely to consider him one of their leaders. So, it likely would have almost no possible gain. Not to mention, in 2009, Obama did not give McCain a cabinet post and he seemed to respect him more. It should be noted that the BH never suggested that Bush put Kerry in his cabinet - though Kerry actually came closer to winning and people like Rice had respect for Kerry. ( Not to mention, I think it completely unlikely Kerry would have taken one - and if he did it would have silenced an important Democratic voice. )
Given that Obama likely has no personal respect for Romney and the Republicans will not be likely to follow Romney, what possible gain could be had putting him in the cabinet?
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