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“2nd TIME MAY BE CHARM FOR MITT ROMNEY”

Wednesday, 1 October 2014, 11:45 BFH Home 0

Big Hollywood

Robert Davi

Mitt Romney can win in 2016.

Are you shaking your head, smirking and thinking, “yeah, right? Romney already had his shot. We need someone new, fresh, exciting … someone that can galvanize the nation!”

Well, you’re not alone. This is the conventional wisdom of most people and pundits. But I feel differently. For some strange reason, I have a very strong gut feeling that Romney could win in 2016.

As I think back and analyze the 2012 presidential election there are three major moments combined with a few philosophical adjustments that I believe could have turned the election around.

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37 Comments on “2nd TIME MAY BE CHARM FOR MITT ROMNEY”

  4. Yea maybe Romney could win in 2016 but are we voting just to win or voting for a better stronger America?
    I may feel like a dem in 2008 – just can’t stand the current president enough to vote for anybody who could beat him though!

  7. Geezuz, how about starting a movement to draft Governor Walker from Wisconsin? He’s got the street cred, the experience, is a pretty fine debater and public speaker, the great record in office and could bring together the grassroots, Tea Party and much of the establishment. If Romney wants to get involved and show he’s a true team player then let him bring his checkbook, rich buddies and himself to the party to work to get Walker nominated then elected.

  9. “Yea maybe Romney could win in 2016 but are we voting just to win or voting for a better stronger America?” – ronterf

    Bingo. Everyone that tried in 2012 should be exempt from putting their hat in the ring this time.

  13. Just left this note:

    “This brings me to the final reasons for a possible Romney renaissance. There are certain pop culture issues that capture the imagination of our youth and media and, while embraced by the left, the GOP seems out of touch. Let’s take global warming, the environment and alternative energy. Not embracing these issues makes the GOP and their candidates seem stuck in the Scope trials.”

    GO AHEAD: *embrace* the Left’s SHINY PENNIES.

    YOU *I*D*I*O*T*
    That’s the nicest (non-R or X rated answer I can give).

    DEATH TO THE RINO-GOP
    TO H3LL WITH THEIR SYCOPHANTS AND ENABLERS

  15. As I run down the list of people I would hate to vote for he is not close to the top of the list. If he where in office now I would be a lot happier then I am now. I think sometimes we’ve lost our perspective as to how far this country has fallen. I mean shit just having a classy first lady would make me smile.

  17. If Hillary or anybody from the left gets in we will continue on the same path we are on now.

    Currently Ted Cruz would be my first choice but I’ve felt that way about a lot of them including Rubio. Look how he turned out.

  18. Romney makes me gag, but gagging is better than the next commie who will finish us off.
    That is, if the little fuckhead doesn’t declare Marshal law. Its too obvious that he is trying to create an excuse to do so.

  19. The whole insanity around Comrade Husseinovich taught us that Americanism, which includes mistrust of centralized power, is over, done, finis. We ARE in many respects, a plurality, even majority Third Worldists. Thus the rise of trend-following, PC-cowed, surrender monkey neocon pseudo conservatives that would engage Romney for another lose-athon.

    He’s nails in the Republic’s coffin.

  28. I was a Gingrich die hard until the end and had to vote for Romney because the alternative was unthinkable.

    If the GOP thinks they can get away with another Romney nomination they are not crazy, they are ‘Rat lite.

    Elbert Guillory’s most recent anti-Landrieu ad could just as easily be leveled at the GOP. To (the GOP) you are just a vote….(the GOP) has only two things they are worried about — getting elected and staying elected.

  29. and…it would be way too easy at this point to galvanize the country behind a real conservative. And conservatives of all stripes will line up behind someone like Cruz before they’ll vote for a ‘Rat. How hard is that for the GOP to understand?

  30. I knew where you were going. He crashed his Moped on the way to the fabric store. Damn funny.
    But he would make a lousy secretary. Can’t type. No shorthand. Doesn’t like being chased around a desk. And makes terrible coffee.

  31. The primary system will give us the person in 016. As much as I piss and moan about Governor Doughnuts (and his short lived Bromance with Obama 2 years ago) or Huckabillie or the endless parade of certified idiots that manage to make a run for the nomination (McCain) I will, in the final analysis, vote for the Republican. And that means Romney- if Romney actually were to run and win in the primary.

    The worst Republican we can field is better than the best Democrat they can field for the well being of the Nation. I would love to see some egghead clone Ronald Reagan so I could vote for him and I have hope that another Reagan will rise but until then we work with the broken tools we have.

  32. Here’s why they’re running this squishy moderate POS candidate again, as outlined by Carrol Quigley in 1965:

    “In American politics we have several parties included under the blanket words “Democratic” and “Republican.” In oversimplified terms, as I have said, were the party of the middle class, and the Democrats were the party of the fringes. Both of these were subdivided, each with a Congressional and a National Party wing.

    The Republican Congressional Party (representing localism) was much further to the right than the National Republican Party, and as such was closer to the petty-bourgeois than to the upper-middle class outlook. The Democratic Congressional party was much more clearly of the fringes and minorities (and thus often further to the Left) than the Democrat National Party.

    The party machinery in each case was in Congressional party control during the intervals between the quadrennial presidential elections, but, in order to win these elections, each had to call into existence, in presidential election years, its shadowy National Party. This meant that the Republicans had to appear to move to the Left, closer to the Center, usually moving to the Right.

    As a result, the National parties and their presidential candidates, with the Eastern Establishment assiduously fostering the process being the scenes, moved closer together and nearly met in the center with almost identical candidates and platforms, although the process was concealed, as much as possible, by the revival of obsolescent or meaningless war cries and slogans (often going back to the Civil War).

    As soon as the presidential election was over, the two National parties vanished, and party controls fell back into the hands of the two Congressional parties, leaving the President in a precarious position between the two Congressional parties, neither of which was very close to the brief National coalition that had elected him.

    The chief problem of American political life for a long time had been to make the two Congressional parties more national and international.

    The argument of two parties should represent opposed ideas and policies, one perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinate and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. The policies that are vital and necessary for America are no longer subjects of significant disagreement, but are disputable only in details of procedure, priority, or method.”

    Carroll Quigely – “Tragedy and Hope” pp. 1247-1248

  36. Mitt’s son that managed his campaign stated after the election that his father didn’t really want to win the election

    No, he just wanted to beat the other GOP candidates in the primary, say “Neener! Neener! Neener!” and go home.

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