Mitt Romney has said time and time again that he has no interest in running for president a third time. But, on Sunday morning, CBS' Bob Schieffer said not to write off the idea of a 2016 campaign by Romney so quickly.
"I have a source that told me that if Jeb Bush decides not to run, that Mitt Romney may actually try it again," Schieffer said.
During a political panel discussion, the "Face the Nation" host said that he has been told that Romney will consider seeking the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2016 if former Florida governor Jeb Bush chooses to sit the race out.---------------
For the record, I'm far from convinced of this, even though I would like to see it happen. But I believe Romney feels his place now is to help Republicans get elected, and to speak out on issues when he feels it is necessary.
Here are Schieffer's comments below:
Fast forward to 9:10 Minute Mark:
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God no please!
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Lets do this!!!
ReplyDeleteThis time, I would hope the bigots like Craig for huck and Romneyman (who seem to be the same chap) will actually get off their arse and vote for the candidate.
ReplyDeleteRomney is so much better than Jeb, it's not even close. Same for the other guys--it's not even close. Romney is the best man for the job! How do we get there, though? Seems like a tricky proposition. Fate will have to be on his side.
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Yeah, let's make it even easier for Hillary and run Willard. Stupid party, indeed.
ReplyDeleteStupid, 'anon' is running someone so far right, they squeek. That would be Palin, Lee, Paul, Cruzie. Any of those supported by the pissed off for profit gang. They only know how to scream and yell. Leave the governing to others, they've got a paycheck to cash.
ReplyDeleteBush, Pence, Huck, Christie would all be much stronger than Romney and the Tea Baggers.
ReplyDeleteEveryone looks okay . . . until they actually get in the ring and we see them for who they really are--flaws and all.
ReplyDeleteJindal, Walker, Bush, Christie, Huck, Kasich, Pence, Paul, Rubio may all fall victim to being less, much less, than the hype about them. We already know Christie isn't what he was cracked up to be, Huck has a truck load of problems, and Pence is an unknown. Jindal and Walker and others may be fine govs, but unable to rise to what is required in a national primary. I suspect this is true for most of them.
Romney is a known quantity, is ready, prepared, 100% vetted. If anything, he's even better now than in 2012. The polls show that Romney would have won, and a lot of people are coming around to severe Obama regret.
-Martha
Why are people even still talking about Romney? I will tell you.
ReplyDeleteBecause whoever runs is going to have to go over, under, or through Romney to get there. In other words, they will have to prove beyond a doubt they are a better choice than Romney. That is going to be very hard to do. That is why people dare to even talk about such an absurdity.
I get that he had his shot. But the fact remains that he is still THE best person to choose.
-Martha
" But the fact remains that he is still THE best person to choose."
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Of course, strictly in your own opinion.
RM aka Craig for Huck/Bigot brigade patrol,
ReplyDeleteYes, it is my opinion, but it's based on what is obvious to most of us.
-Martha
" but it's based on what is obvious to most of us."
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Yeah, right.
Romney fangirl and fellow cultist Martha is insane.
ReplyDeleteInsanely smart. Tell me, who would YOU pick, if not Romney, Craig?
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It is obvious the individual here who keeps referring to a specific religion as a cult hasn't got a clue what he/she is talking about, otherwise they wouldn't keep posting these ridiculous statement over and over again. It not only demonstrates a complete lack of understanding, it is also reveals the posters obvious contempt towards others. I think it's time for this individual to crawl out from under the rock they live under and get a reality check.
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Mitt Romney • Being Successful in America
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Gov. Mitt Romney: In this country
we want someone who can
help other people become successful.
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“The economy is what I do, it’s what I know, it’s what I’ve done,”
Romney said. I’ve actually done it –
started businesses, run businesses. I know how to do it.”
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I’ve been extraordinarily successful and
I want to use that success and
that know-how to help the American people.
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Romney's private-sector success is also
critical to his appeal. He understands
how businesses and investors make decisions.
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Two of Mitt Romney's MENTORS:
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I must plan things to a standard of excellence
if I want to succeed.
The greater the challenge, the higher the standard must be.
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TO REACH MY POTENTIAL
will require work and displine.
It will require
a deliberate and determined effort at self-improvement.
It will require
the setting of high goals and
a consistent effert to achieve them.
And underlying all these, it will require
Purity, Clarity, and Precision in Thought.
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Ascendant Mitt Romney
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Today America need leadership attuned to
the revitalization of USA companies and opportunities.
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Back in the 1980s, Bain Capital under Mitt Romney was
a spearhead of a massive national movement of
corporate restructuring. The high tax rates of the
inflationary 1970s had forced a deadening siege of
conglomeration and corporate bloat and resulted in a
catastrophic 60 percent decline in the real value of corporate equity.
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This was the era of palatial new Corporate headquarters, jet fleets,
and lavish entertainment budgets all serving incoherent jumbles of
unrelated companies that had equity worth less than the sum of their parts.
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Corporations often had either to splurge or merge
to avoid a suffocating confiscation of profits through
the interplay of inflation with exalted tax gouges, which
could rise to effective rates above 100 percent of real returns.
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Conglomerates artfully combined companies nursing losses
with companies harvesting profits,
thereby muting the impact of the deadly tax regime.
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But Ronald Reagan’s counter-inflationary supply-side tax policies,
coupled with Paul Volcker’s monetary contraction,
made these morbid combines dysfunctional.
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They had to be dismantled and reorganized for a low-tax,
low-inflation regime, kicking and screaming all the way,
and Mitt Romney was a key leader on the case.
This restructuring campaign radically increased the value of
the assets of USA business.
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The economic effects of a general restructuring that
releases capital for better uses, more jobs, and
higher valuations all across the economy.
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Bain Capital successfully invest in entire companies,
which resulted in sharp increases in capital expenditures,
R & D, employment, and share value.
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The American Spectator
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ReplyDeleteBain Capital Saved America
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In the 1980s, the resilient USA economy
saved itself from becoming Europe.
Bain was part of the rescue.
Bain Capital may stand as the best of
Mr. Romney's lifetime contributions
to the nation's economic well-being.
We are of course putting forth "Bain Capital"
as not merely the Romney private-equity house
but as the stand-in for the period of American
economic history that ran from 1980 to 1989.
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Because of the modernizing change that Bain
and others like it forced on USA corporations
in the 1980s, we are not fading. Not yet.
... downgrades of nine European countries —
a blunt recognition of Europe's moribund "fundamentals," ...
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If not for Bain Capital and the other,
bigger players who commenced a decade of
leveraged buyouts and hostile takeovers
in the 1980s, the odds are that the USA's
"fundamentals" would be similarly weak.
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Instead, the USA corporate sector
remade itself during the Bain years.
Thousands of Mitt Romneys ...,
to force corporate America to reboot.
This was a historic and necessary
cleansing of the American economy.
It caused a positive revolution in USA
management, financial analysis, incentives,
governance and market-based discipline.
It led directly to the 1990s boom years.
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Wall Street Journal
Thank you to our new poster here at RS. Breath of Fresh Air for sure.
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...YAWN...
ReplyDeleteTo the poster who fell asleep while reading the list of Romney accomplishments, I invite you to post the accomplishments of all the other so-called top-tier candidates that are expected to run and 2016, then let's compare notes. It won't take long to figure out who is heads and shoulders above the rest. It's not likely he'll run again but does not diminish he is well qualified for the office unlike the current amateur in office today.
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