Trump Aide: Mitt Romney Still Considering Another Presidential Run

[big_dog]

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune Aug 24 2015 8:43 pm gmt

Colorful former Trump adviser Roger Stone thinks 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney is thinking about getting back in the presidential race. Stone tweeted his suspicion, and told CNN he had heard that Romney was considering a run from his sources.

The move could indicate Romney sees an opportunity to better confront and challenge front-runner Donald Trump. Some see current establishment standard bearer former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as flailing. Trump has mocked Bush for being "just flat" on the campaign trail and Sunday called him a "low energy" candidate. Romney publicly considered a third run as recently as January, but decided against it, after he lost most of his valuable donor base to Bush, and the massive prospective Republican field proved too unpredictable.

Romney ran for president in 2012, and lost the nomination to Sen. John McCain in 2008. Romney supporters point to Ronald Reagan's three attempts at the White House — 1968, 1976, before his successful win in 1980, as evidence that Romney has a chance. The man who floated this rumor, Trump's former adviser Stone, has a history almost as colorful as that of his former boss. Stone was an aide to President Richard Nixon, and remains one of Rchard Nixon's staunchest defenders. He is known for his penchant for expensive but elaborate dress clothes, which are often a departure from the more understated nature of most political menswear.

He has been described as a "self-admitted hit man for the GOP" by the Daily Beast, is a popular presence on Twitter, and allegedly, has a tattoo of his former boss — Nixon— on his back.

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[JoeOtterbein]

1. Ha!

The mittens will be back to "save" the GOP!

[big_dog]

2. this is one CRAAAZY wingnut mental hospital!

Bill Murray in Tootsie

[still_one]

3. I hear Biden and rummy are going to run together. Yup, LBN, right?

[big_dog]

4. this actually is plausible. Trump goes way off the reservation once & Ted Cruz is wingnut frontunner

then Mittens steps in at the convention or sooner. most super delegates are not pledged

[still_one]

5. I don't buy it. First Romney came out and said he definitely would not run a few weeks ago. The

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big money is going to bush, Scott, and Rubio, and no way is Cruz going to be the front rinner. He doesn't have the money or connections.

Also, Romney is well aware that he isn't particularly popular among republicans

Isn't going to happen

[big_dog]

7. all of Grump's support goes to Cruz if he's taken out by scandal

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Carville said it himself 'that 30% aint going to Jeb Bush, Ricky Perry or Christie'

[still_one]

10. Christie is out, Bush has has money, and Carville's time has come and gone

He should just retire with Mary mataline (sic) can't stand either one of them

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Just who the hell is a "former Trump advisor" to be making these claims and why should we listen?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

24. It's Roger Stone, that creepy, crazy, corrupt fucker with Nixon's face tattooed on his back

always good for a laugh, if nothing else, but I still wouldn't put it past Mitt.

[ericson00]

8. how many non-candidates is the media gonna float this time?

Biden, Gore, Romney, betcha Dole is next. Bush Sr. is still constitutionally eligible. How about John McCain?

The media needs to know how to be bored and accept that their job is to report, not facilitate.

[LiberalElite]

26. I told people they'd need a clown bus convoy

but they didn't believe me.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

9. ROMNEY ?

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Hello folks
Donald here : )

I am quite sure they are all on to him , everybody knows Romney is nothing more than a white collar pick pocket.
Did you know that Romney actually borrowed some cash from a volunteer to pay for those cases of water he was seemingly loading up for the hurricane sandy disaster ? And did you know he never paid that volunteer one red cent back ?
That's his way, you know ?
It's how they do it with a smile that gets me. For them,that is a school of thought. It is something they just must do.
That is the base and those are the gop party loyalist.Predators.

[big_dog]

13. remember that poor dog on Willard's family vacation trip

Trump wouldnt have forgetten that he was on the hood

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

14. Yes I recall

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Donald here:

He might have stood half a chance if he had tied Rove up there for display !
Both of them ,disgusting pick pockets, beggars.

Donald on the hood ?????

Oh you must mean a golden hood ornament resembling the Trump empire ,who else could it be !

[big_dog]

15. at least Mittens heard the dog howling by the time he got up to the east coast

better late than never!

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

16. Donald here

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The best picture I've seen of Romney is the one of him at the pumps self serving. That defines him. The bishop,the pawn.

[big_dog]

17. at your service, Mr Trump...

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

18. Donald here

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Through the lunacy there is a crown point.If the republican party in panic mode puts everything they got on the table for all to see, all will see they got nothing. That's what I know and that's why I am in.
I am very rich and I can afford to stop their clocks. ! Romney ,Bloomberg and anything else that comes out from under those rocks. Newtey too !

[big_dog]

19. i'm hoping for Cheney, Bob Dole, Bush Sr. and James Baker will get in on this party!

they are all tanned, rested and ready When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Hunter S. Thompson

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

20. That would be a real hard days night !

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Those are some old tunes , didn't Chaney once say, I have no further political aspirations ?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

23. I still have my fingers crossed for Alan Keyes

There's something hilarious about a guy who looks like he should be hunting witches being on stage at a debate

[hibbing]

11. Does his car elevator have room for the clown car?

Or the clown bus?

Peace

[RandySF]

12. Please please please let it be true!!!!!

[pampango]

21. Mitt must hope that 'self-deportation' now seems like a moderate immigration policy.

And his promise to act on China seems moderate now, too:

In 2012, eventual losing Republican party presidential candidate Mitt Romney vowed to declare China a currency manipulator on his first day in office.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11813076/Global-currency-wars-why-Chinas-devaluation-is-a-peace-offering-misunderstood-by-the-world.html

Maybe Mitt is on to something here.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

22. I've been saying for a while Mitt has to be kicking himself

He wanted so bad to run again, but opted out at the last minute, thinking Jeb! was unstoppable and had it locked up.

The man's ego and delusions (after all, he was prophecized to be our White Horse Mormon king or some such shit), combined with his wife's mad desire to be an aristocrat, may very well drive him back into the fray now that Bush has fizzled.

A guy doesn't spend his entire adult life, well into his senior years, preparing to be president, only to give it up so easily.

[LiberalElite]

27. Well, Mittens has it all for a Repug - ego and delusions -

Oh, and boatloads of moolah in offshore accounts.

None of which helped him, oddly, the last two times.

[NCjack]

25. If Romney (anchor baby) will just step on the bus, he will quickly move to 3rd place,

demoting those below. It would be exciting to watch the billionaires Trump and Romney compete in showing us what the rich have in mind for 99%.

[tanyev]

28. Oh yes! Your country needs you, Mitt.

[alcibiades_mystery]

29. Has the Donald been a stalking horse for Romney all along?

[Hoppy]

30. Please proceed, Governor.

[sofa king]

31. One of the worst candidates ever.

Years ago I said he'd be THE WORST if he were convicted for tax evasion in 2014, but Romney either got away with it or kept it out of the papers and therefore he did not affect the course of the mid-term elections.

But you know he was still a pretty bad candidate when an even worse one shakes the Romney voodoo doll at voters: "like me or Romney will come back, woooooooooo."

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

32. !

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How can it possibly get anymore disgusting than that ? !
Christie getting up on the scales before those little town hall meets across the country as the nation watches Christie become Jared ! Sure it would be like Jim Carrey's movie The Truman Show ,starring Chris Christie.

Than on to become Romney's choice for a vice ! The unfortunate losers.