Romney to Enter 2012 Presidential Race: Report

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

Romney to enter 2012 presidential race: report

WASHINGTON | Thu May 26, 2011 8:16pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will formally announce his campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination next Thursday, Fox News reported on Thursday, citing a Romney aide.

Romney, hoping to challenge President Barack Obama, unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination in 2008.

Read more: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE74Q01L20110527?irpc=932

[Enrique]

1. i knew it! n/t

[RandySF]

2. A surprise entry!!

[brooklynite]

3. What if he flip flops and changes his mind?

[HopeHoops]

4. *Yawn* - another GOP dumbfuck. At least the late night comedians will have material.

[mysuzuki2]

5. I actually think he would be their strongest candidate in the

general election. I don't think he can get past the right wing crazy faction of the Republican party (98% of the whole) and get nominated.

[Botany]

6. I thought he was already running

[Major Hogwash]

7. Shhh, my kitty is asleep.

No need to disturb her, she's been up all day.

[Mz Pip]

8. Whatever

Who will be the GOP's sacrificial lamb? Perhaps it will be Mitwit who can finance his own campaign and not bankrupt the GOP on a losing election.

[PATRICK]

9. Exactly fits the bill

as the kind of sacrificial lamb they need to tone down the blow back of typical GOP extremism. The exact reason why he he might flub the primaries again and leave them with a real nut job loser this time. Many of the current candidates will have anti-coattails the small fry can't even run from(all politics is local refuge).

The real shame of this is that it is very apparent that the GOP is dead if not on DLC life supports and suspended in the rigid tentacles of plutocracy greed. The Dems could have total victory if they: stood for the popular will on sensible and critical issues, and/or reduced election fraud(if not the root cause of campaign financing), and/or went for the exposed GOP jugular, and/or fought for media fairness and journalistic standards. They seem more intent on clawing their way toward the bottom feeders of the GOP as if the club membership needs idiots and traitors burning the house down.

In the past dessicated parties dwindled like the weakened Siamese twin. A fervent new party for the new age had a chance to shove aside the corpse and its few moribund loyalists. Hence the highly caffeinated rage ranting of the GOP today that even so resembles dementia more than vigor. The enthusiasm of new reformers and progressives is still drowned out to a purpose thanks to modern media bullhorns. How long can these modern struggles stave off collapse and will it be more spectacular- or simply lost in the meltdown of America as the GOP slides kicking and screaming off the tilted right stage?

It often seems that if(no matter the media polling and trolling) the Dems were truly a)crafty professional pols or b)representatives of the common man, reason and justice etc. America could shake off these vile and lunatic opportunists
and possibly new parties would fill any vacuum that actually represented more than a PR created fringe.

In New York the game seems to love a one/two parity game of symbolic incrementalism and irresponsibility where the lobbyists and not the public have final say.