Round 2: Mitt Romney, PARTY ELDER & STATESMAN

[Segami]

Where are the clowns?....send in the clowns..........la, la, laaaa, la, la, laaaa, la, la, laaaa.......




This article is sort of hilarious, not so much for the content of the article itself...

After retreating from public view following his crushing loss to President Obama in the 2012 election, [Mitt] Romney has returned to the political stage, emerging as one of the Republican Party’s most coveted stars, especially on the fundraising circuit, in the run-up to November’s midterm elections.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-returns-to-political-stage-as-republicans-prepare-for-midterms/2014/04/18/551c4b22-c634-11e3-bf7a-be01a9b69cf1_story.html

...but because the first comment pretty much sums things up:

A commentary on the current state of the Republican Party that a guy who has lost every election he's ever been in, except one, is considered a star and elder statesman. He served as a one-term governor and didn't run again because he was so unpopular. This is who is revered in the GOP? Sad.

Sad for the GOP, I guess. Comedy for the rest of us. I'm sure it feels good for Romney to be wanted by certain segments of his party (for example, fellow Massachusetts politician Scott Brown has asked him to campaign on his behalf), but at the end of the day, he's still a guy who doesn't appeal to his party's base and doesn't appeal outside his party's base.


That being said, what other options do the GOP have when it comes to party elders? John McCain? George W. Bush? Dick Cheney? Sarah Palin? Hell, Romney is probably the best they've got. And even though he says he's not running in 2016—and would surely lose if he did—he'd certainly be one of the GOP's best candidates and arguably even the best. And that really is a pathetic commentary on the current state of the GOP.





http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/18/1292945/-Mitt-Romney-party-elder-and-statesman

[tazkcmo]

1. Reminds me of the 49ers

way back when OJ in his twilight was their brightest "star". What a sad team that was...

[pscot]

2. Loser in Chief

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. Some people say that he now has some new "Super-Duper Magic Underwear", and they have

mind controlling capabilities! I'd keep an eye on him.... just to be safe... we can't afford a stolen election via Divine Intervention by Magic Underwear!

[Blue Owl]

4. Oh isn't it rich...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Good. Put him in charge. He'll load the party up with debt then break up and sell off the parts.