Can’t quit Mitt

[Bob Of Burleson]

Friends say Romney feels nudge
to consider a 2016 presidential run

By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa
The Washington Post

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Officially, Mitt Romney returned to Iowa, the quadrennial presidential proving ground, to give a boost to Joni Ernst. But at a closed-door breakfast fundraiser here Monday, the first question from a donor had nothing to do with Ernst’s Senate campaign.

“When you get elected to the Senate, your job should be to convince Mitt Romney to run for president again,” a donor told Ernst, according to several attendees. The Republican candidate said she would, while Romney laughed.

When Romney and Ernst gathered in a West Des Moines boardroom with about 40 agriculture executives Sunday night, one businessman after another pleaded with Romney to give the White House another shot.

And at a rally for Ernst in Cedar Rapids on Monday, the state legislator who introduced Romney said, “If his address was 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I would sleep a lot better.” After Romney and Ernst finished speaking, some activists chanted, “Run, Mitt, run!”

Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and now the tacit head of the Republican Party, visited Iowa as part of a feverish nationwide tour designed to help the GOP take control of the Senate. He has insisted that he is not interested in running for president a third time. But his friends said a flurry of behind-the-scenes activity is nudging him to more seriously consider it.

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[LibraryLady]

He'd be foolish to go through the process again.

[ann jusko]

IF he had won (and if you look at the election map, the urban areas elected Obama or falsified enough ballots) can you imagine where our country would be now? I can only dream that a business man, used to reviving companies, would have our country truly on the way to being the USA again. I'll take Mitt over a community organizer any time! Voting for Obama was a vote against a prosperous homeland.

[planosteve]

There's a BIG difference between a "business man" and a vulture capitalist like Romney.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/30/private-inequity

[ann jusko]

Actually the foolish ones are those who voted (or helped with the voter fraud) for someone who really doesn't like America. We can only dream of where our country would be if Mitt had been elected. It sure wouldn't be in the position we are now.

[ann jusko]

Oh please! Is there no one you can't disparage, Planosteve? Just think about the difference between what we have now and what we could have. Oops, I forgot Ron Paul is the second coming in your eyes.

[planosteve]

Oh please! Is there no one you can't disparage, Planosteve? Just think about the difference between what we have now and what we could have. Oops, I forgot Ron Paul is the second coming in your eyes.

I remember when everybody on DD thought that electing a reformed falling down drunk who couldn't string words together that made an intelligible sentence was a great idea. Even though his father, read my lips, was voted out of office for lying and his pick for VP was a serial draft dodger and coward of the country during the Viet Nam war.