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| 2015-01-30 |
| Thank goodness. Walker/Cruz 2016 Always liked Mitt. Agree that his chance has come and gone. After a three-week flirtation with another run for president, Mitt Romney said definitively on Friday that he will not seek the White House in 2016. The Republican Party's 2012 nominee plans to tell supporters about his plans to pass on another national campaign during a conference call. He first let his staff know in a separate call that he was out of the race. "After putting considerable thought into making another run for president, I've decided it is best to give other leaders in the party the opportunity to become our next nominee," Romney said in a statement, which he planned to read to supporters on the call. The former governor of Massachusetts had jumped back into the presidential discussion on Jan. 10, when he surprised a small group of former donors at a meeting in New York by telling them he was eyeing a third run for the White House. It was a monumental change for Romney, who since losing the 2012 election to President Barack Obama had repeatedly told all who asked that his career in politics was over and that he would not again run for president. In the days since that meeting in New York, which caught several in attendance off-guard, Romney made calls to former fundraisers, staff and supporters, and gave three public speeches in which he outlined his potential vision for another campaign. "I'm thinking about how I can help the country," he told hundreds of students Wednesday night at Mississippi State University. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #10 Walker is a good start. Open your minds to Jindal too if you want fully operating system. The peacocks and incumbent regimes may fight but so what? Pick the right people. Yes, Rubio has a shot, but right now, new faces and new ideas. Let's lay the legacy parties out |
| Posted by: newc 2015-01-30 22:16 |
| #9 FREEREPUBLIC Artic specualtes it may be part of a secret deal for 2016 = post-Bammer Presidential Admin on the part of Romney + seeming GOP #1 POTUS contender Jeb Bush??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-01-30 20:44 |
| #8 Ditto on Walker/Cruz/Rubio. Bush, Rand, and Christy are absolute non-starts. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-30 17:23 |
| #7 RJS, Ditto. I Think Walker/Cruz might be real good. Rand & Rubio have a lot of questions to answer. Don't know enough about Perry. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-01-30 17:19 |
| #6 I'd like to see Romney, Jeb and Christy walk away. I like what I've heard about Walker and Cruz. Wouldn't mind hearing more from Rand Paul and Rubio. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-01-30 14:34 |
| #5 This is mostly what I said in the other Romney thread. Waiting for a deadlocked convention? I don't think that strategy will work today given the loathing of the MSM for all things 'pub. And the high cost and number of primaries. The pool will be drained pretty early. IMHO, Romney isn't that underhanded anyway. He really is a good person. He just has that old Bush noblesse oblige, compassionate conservatism gene that makes him think that gov't should solve all problems. With all that said, I wish it was Bush or Christie saying no go. but I'll keep my fingers crossed. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-01-30 13:36 |
| #4 ...Taking bets now that Mitt - a good man, a decent guy, but an iffy Republican - is now keeping the team on short notice, in the event he's needed to break a deadlock at the convention... Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2015-01-30 12:38 |
| #3 Walker works for me. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2015-01-30 12:19 |
| #2 He was never in (2016). |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2015-01-30 12:08 |
| #1 Good. Now if Jeb would go away I'll be happy. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-01-30 12:07 |