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Mitt Romney Should Run for President Again Because He's Like Richard Nixon

Paul Constant
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Please sir, may I have another?
Jaymz on July 3, 2014 at 12:45 PM Report this
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The media also gave Romney a pass on his income taxes. The first candidate to fail to disclose a full record since his own father started the tradition in the 1960s, this should have raised a storm of speculation about what he was hiding.
Was he caught with a secret Swiss account and fined for illegal tax dodging?
auntie jim on July 3, 2014 at 12:45 PM Report this
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I seriously doubt the TP contingent of the GOP would touch Romney with a 10-foot muzzle extension if he runs in '16, and without the far right crazies in their pocket the GOP doesn't stand a snowball's chance of taking the White House.
COMTE on July 3, 2014 at 12:50 PM Report this
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@3
They might if he's Palin's VP choice.
seatackled on July 3, 2014 at 12:52 PM Report this
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Go for it GOP, nominate a cult member for the 2nd time in a row.
Max Solomon on July 3, 2014 at 12:55 PM Report this
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@2 It was worse than that. The media almost actively supported Romney - the four TV networks, Politico, for starters, even NPR! - and hindered Obama. They glossed over Romney's faults and made an epic news story out of anything they could find for Obama. When Obama was stiff and boring in the first debate, "Oh, my God, it's over! It's the biggest asswhoopin' ever seen in American politics!" Then, when Biden showed what that actually looks like in the second debate, the talk was whether Biden laughed too much. "Do you think Biden was too disrespectful? Do you think that will turn people off?" Fuck all of them.

And then Gallup rigging their results as badly as Rasmussen. Since then, since they've showed what partisan hacks they are, as opposed to an objective, neutral organization reflecting reality, I've been officially done with Gallup. Fuck 'em. I don't give a shit about Gallup anymore. Whenever I start reading an article about a poll and it mentions that it was done by Gallup, I immediately stop reading, because I know what that's worth.

So yeah. They gave Romney beaucoup preferential treatment. They wanted to make it a close election, to get the new Republican establishment business guy in there. And it still didn't work.
on July 3, 2014 at 1:11 PM Report this
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@4:

I'm not even sure they'd be on-board with that scenario - as far-fetched as it is. It seems to me her star has most definitely waned in the GOP cosmos in favor of up-and-comers like Cruz, Rubio, et al. And it's pretty clear from her recent track-record that she hasn't been much of a boon to those candidates she did endorse, so it appears she's lost not only influence inside the party, but also squandered whatever "brand cache" she might once have had with voters.

GOP losers these days don't often seem to get a second chance, at least not at the national level.
COMTE on July 3, 2014 at 1:23 PM Report this
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Needs me some more American Middle Class h8ing Romney 47% vids please!

Also we have his late "tax avoiding" fines on record now.

When would you like those released?
Will in Seattle on July 3, 2014 at 1:39 PM Report this
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I think a Romney-Santorum ticket is ready to run.
Clayton on July 3, 2014 at 1:42 PM Report this
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Münchhausen alert @8.
on July 3, 2014 at 1:56 PM Report this
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@6 I agree 100%. That was irritating me at the time as well. It's clear so much (all?) of our media establishment is in self-dealing corporate pockets and journalistic integrity/independence is in short supply.

Nate Silver highlighted Gallup's problems a couple cycles ago. I was surprised, given the reputation they built over the years, but he was absolutely correct. Their work isn't completely useless, but he has to apply a bias-correction factor to it.

Nice post. If you're planning to post again, please register so others will see it. Most of us have "unregistered - off" selected to screen out the worst trolls.
Brooklyn Reader on July 3, 2014 at 2:00 PM Report this
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@9 - Eww/LOL. I see what you did there.
this guy I know in Spokane on July 3, 2014 at 2:01 PM Report this
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@6 - I second what #11 said.
this guy I know in Spokane on July 3, 2014 at 2:03 PM Report this
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Fuck it. The GOP should just nominate Ann Romney in '16 and dispense entirely with this we-care-about-the-peasants shit.
Dr. Z on July 3, 2014 at 2:20 PM Report this
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@2,

I believe Harry Reid, that Romney didnt want to release his tax returns because he'd been paying an effective 0 percent tax rate, and I think Romney had also been using the LDS church as a tax shelter in the guise of fulfilling his tithe.

I don't normally just take the word of a politician but I think one Mormon calling out another Mormon is a big fucking deal, and I don't see Reid doing that unless he had good reason to.
keshmeshi on July 3, 2014 at 2:30 PM Report this
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But! As many conservatives like to point out, Mitt actually won the popular vote*!

*according to early numbers before California's results came in
venomlash on July 3, 2014 at 3:38 PM Report this
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But - the Mormon theology and Jon Hunstman aside - at least Romney was the sane Rep candidate in 2012 and perhaps 2016.
Low bar, I know, but at least he wouldn't be drooling on the desk in the Oval Office.

/sarcasm off/
Jared Bascomb on July 3, 2014 at 5:57 PM Report this
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Sure, emulate a president whose henchmen broke into the competition's headquarters.
Weekilter on July 3, 2014 at 6:45 PM Report this
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GOP Thinking: Well, compared to Bush, Nixon was a national hero and you can't compare anyone to Reagan, except maybe Jesus.
Spike1382 on July 3, 2014 at 6:57 PM Report this
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@7: I think the problem with Palin is that she only has cachet with people who already vote for whoever she would endorse. She has NO moderate pull at all, and that's BEFORE she starts talking. The moderates who might have admired her stopped when she quit the governorship and then did NOTHING.
Hanoumatoi on July 3, 2014 at 8:21 PM Report this
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@4: Romney would have a better chance than Palin.
@6: The "four networks" actively supported Romney. Let's say Fox News is one, can you name the other three?
raindrop on July 3, 2014 at 9:15 PM Report this
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"When they debated their cool and telegenic opponents, they sometimes appeared square and old-fashioned in comparison."

Romney didn't need a stage and a lectern to appear square, old-fashioned, and lacking in the "natural ease" exhibited by superior politicians. "How does that lemonade taste?" was sufficient opportunity for him to prove it.
Knat on July 3, 2014 at 11:17 PM Report this
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Now now don't count Retroactive Man out. It might seem unlikely that he'll run again today, but at some point in the future we may learn that tomorrow he decided he announced his run yesterday.
Machiavelli was framed on July 4, 2014 at 1:11 AM Report this

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