What if Mitt is planning on dropping out?

[ProSense]

Seriously, think about it.

Mitt refuses to release his tax returns.

He waves the white flag on Bain criticism, and then picks Ryan as his VP.

He accidentally announces him as the next President.

The wingnuts are lamenting that Ryan isn't at the top of the ticket.

The Romney campaign and media are harping on the fact that Ryan will release two years tax returns.

The Romney campaign stabs Mitt in the back on picking Ryan.

Republicans/RW (Bush 2, Kristol, Murdoch, WSJ, head freepers) are rallying behind Ryan is being completely overshadowed by Ryan.

Hmmmm?

Just throwing that out there.




http://mariopiperni.com/republican-politics/the-romneyan-candidacy.php

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I would be terribly surprised if the mittiot dropped out now. He Wants To Be President.

He thinks it's his turn. I really don't think he'll drop out now.

I could be wrong, though...

[ProSense]

3. I don't

think so either, just throwing it out there.

I mean, who knows what the RW is up to? Mitt's campaign appears to be drowning in a sea of RW demands and missteps.

[MADem]

18. Last time around he tossed twenty million of his own Cayman dough trying to

buy it...and maybe more, still.

He really thinks it is something he's bought and paid for.

[CrispyQ]

2. Won't happen.

But he better hire extra security if he wins.

[proud patriot]

4. +1

I've had a jeepers creepers feeling for Romney the last few days

[eShirl]

5. Would he drop out before or after accepting the nomination?

[Siwsan]

6. Even though I wasn't surprised, I think Ryan is a really strange choice

Why would Willard, who (as I've said before) has all of the personality and appeal of non-flavored gelatin, pick someone with stage presence and a surplus of energy. It's like a same sex replay of 2 years ago. I can easily see Ryan going rogue, especially if Willard continues on his flim flammy current course. He might even play Brutus to Willard's Ceasar.

[cleduc]

7. The Romney campaign & GOP have their own

polling people. They'd know before us that the campaign was going south.

I think Mitt panicked and grabbed Ryan to shore up his internal party support and stop the bleeding. Because if the bleeding continued to the convention, he might not have survived the convention. These people like Rove, Norquist, Boehner, the Kochs, etc are pretty ruthless and they're making close to a billion dollar bet to win back the white house. They'd have no hesitation to snip the puppet strings and dangle some other puppet to get their way and Romney probably knows that now better than most in the US. There's enormous money (both in campaign dough and future taxes) and power at stake. This is the Citizens United election and if they can cash in, they can keep buying the power for several terms to come with a stacked Supreme Court. The stakes couldn't be higher.

[ProSense]

8. I can agree

"I think Mitt panicked and grabbed Ryan to shore up his internal party support and stop the bleeding. "

...with that. What's baffling is that his panic showed when he immediately distanced himself from Ryan's budget.

It's a comedy of errors.

[cleduc]

15. His staff probably came to him as said

"did you realize how badly Ryan's plan polls in the battleground states like Florida?"

Mitt "No problem. Like always, I'll just flip-flop. At least this way, I'll survive the convention."

[Motown_Johnny]

9. Egotists just don't do that kinda thing. Plus, some world event could damage Pres. Obama

and help Rmoney win.


I think his dropping out is extremely unlikely.

[ProSense]

10. You're right, and

"Egotists just don't do that kinda thing."

...it also appears that they don't think things through either. I mean, the tax returns seems to have caught him off guard. It's amateur hour.

[Doctor Jack]

11. Unless he has a brain tumor we don't know about, it won't happen

His ego is too big and he is too delusional to think he will lose. He probably expects a landslide come election day.

[RKP5637]

12. No, no, no ... Ryan/David Koch n/t

[Terra Alta]

13. Willard has his heart set on being President of the United States.

It's his dream job. He isn't going to drop out now. His pick of Ryan, though, assures me that his dreams will be dashed(yet again) come November.

[WI_DEM]

14. he's not.

[rurallib]

16. Craig's List ad maybe - "Wanted to lead free world: White male over 60

some experience in management desired. Must be able to write name legibly.
Send resume to PDR, D&CK Wisconsin"

[Major Hogwash]

17. Romney spent $20 million before he dropped out in 2008.

He wants to get that money back.
And more.
About 26 times more, his average return when he was working dismantling companies while he was the head of Bain.

So, the only way they could possibly talk Romney into quitting is by cutting Rafalca's head off and putting it in his bed when him and his wife are totally sound asleep.

Romney might come around to seeing it "their way" then.

Hoo-haw!!