… UNFORTUNATELY (OR PERHAPS FORTUNATELY)
|| By FITSNEWS || Earlier this week we weighed in on the news that fiscally liberal former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was seriously considering another run for the White House.
Our conclusion?
“A Romney reboot in 2016 would only exacerbate the existing fractures within the GOP … which is coming apart at the seams due to the fiscal betrayals of its ‘establishment’ leaders,” we wrote.
(Read our whole report HERE).
We’d hoped Romney 3.0 was going to be quickly dismissed … but no such luck. Romney, it appears, is deadly serious about a 2016 bid … which would be his third campaign for president. In fact like former Florida governor Jeb Bush – the establishment favorite and current frontrunner for the GOP nomination – Romney is already plotting strategy with his advisors.
“Romney, who made a fortune in the financial sector and was cast by Democrats in 2012 as a heartless businessman, wants to make tackling poverty … one of the three pillars of his campaign,” reporters Maggie Haberman and James Hohmann of Politico report.
You know … because government “wars on poverty” are so successful …
Oddly enough, a separate story in The Washington Post notes Romney has been making calls to “Republican” politicians, telling them he is “intent on running to the right of Bush.”
Romney also reportedly “tried to assure conservatives that he shares their views on immigration and tax policy — and that should he enter the race, he will not forsake party orthodoxy.”
Party orthodoxy?
Republicans have no orthodoxy, only a doctrine of appeasement.
In fact it’s every bit as laughable as Romney’s views on immigration. Or tax policy.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Aside from marginal distinctions on social issues, “Republicans” are no different than Democrats. And to presume that there is a hair’s breadth worth of difference between establishment GOP candidates like Romney and Bush and their would-be Democratic rivals – well, that’s just silly.
It’s the same thing every four years … heads they win, tails you lose.
Which is why voters are abandoning both parties in droves …
Overtly political shape-shifters like Romney are contributing to this voter attrition, although in a way that’s a good thing. After all, a(nother) Romney candidacy would provide us with ample opportunity to once again expose the inherent dishonesty and rank hypocrisy of the “Republican” brand, which we gave up on years ago.
And the more that brand is exposed as a fraud, the sooner the rising tide of independents in America will have a voice consistent with their beliefs and best interests …
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Mitt Romney is serious…
Unfortunately for him…..So are the voters….LMAO…
Hahahahahaha
The Tango theme song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfPg-Ip4NCc
You know, I’m thinking more and more Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) (Did I spell that right?) is the man for 2016. He’s far enough out on the right as well as left wing to appeal to all of us who are fed up with the status quo. Imagine how much more interesting politics would be if we had an executive and even a legislative branch of government that swung to and fro with the whims of the populace! Not in my lifetime, I’m sure, but a guy can dream!
Ralph Nader wrote a book recently about the far left and far right coming together to reform the establishment. I keep meaning to read it because it sounds possible.
“You know, I’m thinking”
How’s that going for you? Don’t worry, it’ll get easier over time.
Wow! The same Republican Clown Car has arrived.
They’ll probably squeeze more clowns in. Lots of ’em coming thinking they can beat Hillary, basically.
They should run one of the animals over at Breitbart. It would be a landslide!
Luckily, they aren’t stupid enough to believe their “base” could win.
my mother m.kes $69 every hour on the laptop . She has been laid off for 8 months but last month her payment was $18817 just working on the laptop for a few hours. look these up;.Also…
We really don’t need to see your mother giving a lap dance.
Have you seen the Democrat field. ….Dumb@$$….LMAO….
Ha! Here’s the chauffeur!
Not what the article is about, but thanks for playing. How about you talk about the Democratic field in your, ahem, “blog.”
Mitt’s ego knows no bounds.
Psst….it’s the underwear…
It’s a lifetime of believing in Sasquatch.
Mormon doctrine is really trippy. Kolob sounds like something Aldous Huxley would dream up after ingesting a 1000 mg of LSD. It doesn’t make sense that most Mormons are disappointingly square.
Also, DNA testing has conclusively disproved the Mormon belief that American Indians are the Lost Tribes of Israel because Indians and people from the Middle East share no common genetic heritage. But don’t ask Mormons to stop believing something just because it’s been scientifically proved false.
You’d better watch your mouth, or a rabid believer might avenge Joseph Smith.
Also, American… Indians and people from the Middle East share no common genetic heritage.
*coughs*
The presidency is training for when he gets his own planet.
Mitt’s plan for fighting poverty ought to be good for a few laughs.
He’ll probably run on being an example for the poor…. “just be rich!”
Mitt and John Boehner love tanning beds.
You better hope Hillary gets one, along with some plastic surgery and a F*#king brain…
And it would not hurt if she figured out how to cure that amnesia that idiot is always suffering with…LMAO….
Mitt Romney is now a stalker. Someone get a restraining order.
Go away and take Sanford with you
What a joke.Political campaigns begin as soon as the last one ended,if not before;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8jca8ZATfA
Bwaahaahaa. I look forward to voting against him.
MITT ROMNEY IS SERIOUS “DELUSIONAL”
There, fixed it for you.
“LY DELUSIONAL”
Remind me not to let you fix the aquifer. :)
Maybe so,but, if he wins the nomination,you, as well as the other Republicans moaning and groaning about his prospective candidacy,will be voting for him in Nov 2016.
I don’t think it’s at all unhealthy to welcome all voices to the GOP nominating process. Let it be as open as possible..The Republican Party must repent and get back to its platform, or it will cease to exist….That change is championed by freedom-based Americans.
What will REALLY tear a party apart, is to allow on one NOMINEE to be selected…like the Democrat Party is doing w/ Hillary….
I cannot wait for Warren or Biden to go up against Hillary, and the media being forced to choose sides…What if Obama decides to put Michelle up to continue they dictatorship…(see Fidel and Raul)
While FITS, and idiots on that level, drone on and on about fissures in the GOP, the REAL Fun is watching the Democrat tear each other up…
Get the popcorn, because that is the REAL entertainment…
Hillary has the Hillary 2008 and Obama 2008 voters in her corner. No one in the party can beat her by themselves, she can only beat herself.
Black multi-voters will not come out for Hilliary….she’ll lose…
I would listen to ‘vicupstate’. He is a real pro at predicting political winners.
Last November he lost senate seats in Colorado,NorthCarolina,Iowa,Georgia,Kansas ,Louisiana and Alaska- in governor’s race’s-Wisconsin,Florida, Kansas and even had Kasich in Ohio losing early.
LMAO…About like FITS’ track record….
I’m afraid they don’t realize that liberalism is like Communism…when you put it into practice…you can no longer lie about how GREAT is for the people, and get away w/ it…..LMAO…
LMAO! …. Hahahaha.
Will you support Mitt this time, or will your religious bigotry stand in your way again?
The first full-sized bobble head.
Maybe if Jeb, Romney and Christie ALL run, it will be the establishment that is split six ways, and the Tea Party candidate (Cruz) will win by plurality. Usually it is the other way around.
Serious as magical underwear.
Good grief, go home Mitt! We need someone who can handle the Terrorism in this World, not Religion.
Typical Republican. Say whatever comes to mind even if no facts support you. Republicans hate facts.
“Mitt Romney is now telling former supporters “that he came very close in the last election against an incumbent president with a good economy. He wouldn’t face an opponent with those kinds of advantages again,” according to Slate.
Romney ran against Obama arguing that the economy was terrible; now its health in 2012 is part of the case why he should run again.”
—- “GOP … which is coming apart at the seams”
Most Republican office holders elected since 1928.
—-“voters are abandoning both parties in droves …”
Not where it counts. The only polls that count.
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At the ballot box on Nov. 4, Americans cast fewer votes for independent or third-party candidates for senator and governor than in any other midterm election since 1998. In senatorial and gubernatorial races this year, just over 4% of votes cast went to independent or third-party candidates, down from 5.5% in 2010, 4.6% in 2006 and 4.9% in 2002, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/11/25/independents-third-parties-voting-decline/70062940/
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While 43% of voters self identity as independent, only 4% of the entire electorate voted for an independent candidate. Who did they vote for? Republicans and Democrats.
If ol’ Mitt can’t buy one election then he’ll just move on to the next huh? I think we’re officially dealing with a rich fanatic now. He’s harnessing the power of his Magic Mormon Underwear right now in preparation at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/05/mitt-romneys-magic-mormon-underwear.html