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Romney is scheduled to give a statement Thursday morning about the 2016 race. Can he enter the race at this point? Doesn't he have to have a bunch of signatures to get on state ballots? Would he announce that he is going to run as an independent? Is he going to endorse someone? Inquiring minds want to know.
 
I have no clue what Romney could say that has any importance. Except maybe "I do you so" when his possible candidacy was crushed in favor of Jeb.
 
Moderate Right said:
Romney is scheduled to give a statement Thursday morning about the 2016 race. Can he enter the race at this point? Doesn't he have to have a bunch of signatures to get on state ballots? Would he announce that he is going to run as an independent? Is he going to endorse someone? Inquiring minds want to know.
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no....

maybe a few RINO's want to know

the rest of us could give a **** less what that man says

he wasnt the savior four years ago, and he sure in the hell isnt one now
 
Moderate Right said:
Romney is scheduled to give a statement Thursday morning about the 2016 race. Can he enter the race at this point? Doesn't he have to have a bunch of signatures to get on state ballots? Would he announce that he is going to run as an independent? Is he going to endorse someone? Inquiring minds want to know.
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He wants to act as a kingmaker and is trying to regain relevance by being the leadership's pointman against Trump. **** you Romney.
 
I think there are a LOT of Republicans that are missing Romney, looking at the sorry lot they have in this election. For many....Romney came 4 years too early.
 
clownboy said:
He wants to act as a kingmaker and is trying to regain relevance by being the leadership's pointman against Trump. **** you Romney.
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It was almost "twilight zone-ish" that he was criticizing Trump for not releasing his taxes. Is Romney's memory that short or is his hypocrisy simply that strong.
 
That the establishment is resorting to trotting out Romney and supposed gotchas in tax returns is a clear indication as to just how desperate they are. It won't work and falls well into the who cares category.
 
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It was almost "twilight zone-ish" that he was criticizing Trump for not releasing his taxes. Is Romney's memory that short or is his hypocrisy simply that strong.
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Probably both.
 
I think we will get the lecture " We know people are pissed but TRump can not be allowed to be President under any circumstances" and he will offer himself up as savior.

That is to say that the little people who support Trump will get a finger in the eye from this guy that most of them think is a part of the problem not part of the solution.
 
Moderate Right said:
Romney is scheduled to give a statement Thursday morning about the 2016 race. Can he enter the race at this point? Doesn't he have to have a bunch of signatures to get on state ballots? Would he announce that he is going to run as an independent? Is he going to endorse someone? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Bloomberg would have a better chance.
 
Moderate Right said:
Romney is scheduled to give a statement Thursday morning about the 2016 race. Can he enter the race at this point? Doesn't he have to have a bunch of signatures to get on state ballots? Would he announce that he is going to run as an independent? Is he going to endorse someone? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Unsure why Romney would make a statement post Super Tuesday. Entering the race seems very unlikely, and in a way give even more ammunition to the debate on how much of a mess Establishment Republicans have made of the party. In a similar take, it would be tough for Romney to appeal to Independents to make that a worthwhile venture.

Best I can guess the statement will boil down to a warning about how this race is developing, and may even come off like an angry father at a bunch of out of control kids arguing about this or that. A warning to unify behind someone perhaps? A warning to not give so much to Democrats to use against them? I really am unsure.

My concern is whatever he says making matters worse, perhaps backfiring, and causing the rift between Establishment Republicans and the anti-Establishment crowd to get worse.
 
I don't see Romney entering the race at this time. It would be almost impossible for him to get enough delegates to defeat Trump. What I do see is him keeping in the spotlight so that he can be presented during a contested convention.

I think he's going to talk about how bad it would be to make Trump the nominee...which should tell everyone what a hypocrite the loser is.

 
Mycroft said:
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Cuts both ways:

2012: Trump endorses Romney - CNNPolitics.com

"It's my honor, real honor, to endorse Mitt Romney," Trump said, with Romney and his wife standing nearby. Calling Romney "tough" and "smart," Trump said, "he's not going to continue to allow bad things to happen to this country."

Romney responded by praising Trump for "an extraordinary ability to understand how our economy works and to create jobs" and for being "one of the few who has stood up to say China is cheating" in international trade.
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2016: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/702833969537142788

Clearly they've soured on each other. Don't see anything wrong with that.
 
tres borrachos said:
Romney won't get in the race now.
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He cant get into the R primaries, but he can offer himself up as a candidate to screw trump out of the nomination at the convention if he can be prevented from getting 50% +1. It will be interesting to see how he goes about trying to hide the fact that he is now acting as a stooge for the donor class. THe speech should be interesting.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
He cant get into the R primaries, but he can offer himself up as a candidate to screw trump out of the nomination at the convention if he can be prevented from getting 50% +1. It will be interesting to see how he goes about trying to hide the fact that he is now acting as a stooge for the donor class. THe speech should be interesting.
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I voted for Romney in 2012 after my primary pick (Huntsman) left the race. I didn't think twice. I'd vote for Romney 1000 times before I would ever vote for Donald Trump once. You people who are sworn to Trump won't listen to what Romney has to say anyway, but you're also not his target audience. It's those of us who aren't swept up in Trumpmania who are.
 
Anagram said:
Cuts both ways:

2012: Trump endorses Romney - CNNPolitics.com



2016: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/702833969537142788

Clearly they've soured on each other. Don't see anything wrong with that.
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shrug...

Trump said nothing bad about Romney until Romney bad-mouthed Trump and Trump's endorsement back in 2012 happened before Romney blew his election bid...so there is nothing hypocritical about Trumps offensive defense against Romney's current attacks. The same cannot be said about Romney.
 
tres borrachos said:
I voted for Romney in 2012 after my primary pick (Huntsman) left the race. I didn't think twice. I'd vote for Romney 1000 times before I would ever vote for Donald Trump once. You people who are sworn to Trump won't listen to what Romney has to say anyway, but you're also not his target audience. It's those of us who aren't swept up in Trumpmania who are.
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Here is the Rush take on that:

There's another part of that strategy, and that is Romney, if it looks like that might happen, Romney enter the race at the end, like before the California primary, and go in there and actually having contested as a candidate and then the party unites and coalesces around Romney.

I kid you not. This is an establishment dream. There are some in the Republican Party to whom that is the solution. It boggles the mind. They're gonna send Romney out there to ring the warning bell? These guys are saying, "We're all in danger of losing the Republican Party, Rush. Do you realize what's happening here? The party gonna be blown up if we don't stop Trump, the party's over, we gotta stop Trump."

I watch this, I say, "Well, you guys are the ones that tell your base that they're not wanted, not needed or whatever. But of all people to send out this warning?" You know, they make this job tough. To describe what they're doing, you can't avoid sounding mean, unbelieving, whatever. It's really hard. Why don't they send McCain out? Why don't they send Dole out? Why don't they send Christine Todd Whitman? Who else have they got? I'm joking. I'm trying to make a point here. It doesn't matter who they send out. If they send somebody out from the establishment warning we're about to lose the party everybody's gonna shout, "No, no, 'you' are losing the party, and you may have already lost it. Don't blame us."
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Three GOP Strategeries to Stop Trump - The Rush Limbaugh Show

Romney is a bit a interesting choice to be working as a stooge for the establishment here, because what has he even done for the Washington R's besides lose a POTUS election that he should have won? This is the guy they want leading the battle?
 
Mycroft said:
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Trump said nothing bad about Romney until Romney bad-mouthed Trump and Trump's endorsement back in 2012 happened before Romney blew his election bid...so there is nothing hypocritical about Trumps offensive defense against Romney's current attacks. The same cannot be said about Romney.
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Romney said those nice things about Trump before Trump released a lot of his platform which Romney disagrees with. I really don't think there's anything all that hypocritical either way.
 
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Romney said those nice things about Trump before Trump released a lot of his platform which Romney disagrees with. I really don't think there's anything all that hypocritical either way.
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I said some nice things about Trump too, before I started seeing what he was really hawking. Five months ago I found his open mouth policy refreshing. That passed.
 
Anagram said:
Romney said those nice things about Trump before Trump released a lot of his platform which Romney disagrees with. I really don't think there's anything all that hypocritical either way.
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That is not the ROmney take, he says that Trump must be stopped because Trump will destroy the party and the nation if he wins the chair because he does not represent the values of either the party nor America.

News Flash: the values of the party and the nation are what ever the people of the nation decide they are, and this includes the little people in the flyover states that both parties have long ignored except at election time.

This is a battle between the people of America and the coastal elite who have long run things, and a loser member of the coastal elite coming out to tell us how evil Trump is supposed to be is not going to move the needle much if at all.
 
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I find it interesting that Trump has not employed Twitter today to go after Romney. Is he trying to decide on a tact because he does not know what ROmney is going to say? That would be unusual, Trump is very very good at sizing people up. I wonder if the plan is to ignore the elites at this stage, to act like he believes the little people will get him enough delegates that the elite cant screw him, so he is going to transition to the general election now. Trump has from the start been telling us that we are a team, that he believes in us and that we can count on him....ignoring Romney and the elite as they make a last gasp attempt to stop him might be putting his money where his mouth is on this so to speak.

EDIT: last debate Trump experienced how much answering all the charges from the elite throws him off his message, the one that he has been crafting for years, the one that he expects to beat Hillary with. I think it is likely that Trump is making an effort to not get diverted by stuff that does not matter.
 
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Look like my state of Virginia turned into Trump-eters last night.

The wife voted for Cruz........I stayed home.
 
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