Pulp Fiction: ‘Mitt Romney Should Save the Republican Party and Join the 2016 Race’
Posted: September 3, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: 2016: Obama's America, Appeal, Barack Obama, Bart to the Future, Bobby Jindal, Donald Trump, Gateway Pundit, Iowa, John Kasich, Latino vote, Mitt Romney, Newsmax Media, Paul Mirengoff, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Republican Party (United States), Self-deportation | 3 CommentsMichael Brenden Dougherty writes: “Mitt wants to run. He never stopped wanting to run,” an anonymous senior adviser of Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign recently told New York magazine. Other members of Romneyworld have denied the former governor is interested in another campaign. But at this stage in the 2016 race, Mitt Romney should start preparing to get back in the arena.
Romney should be ready to enter the field to save his party from an awful reckoning between its leadership and its base, a reckoning that has been brought on by Donald Trump’s campaign. Trump has proven that the “strongest GOP primary field in 30 years” is no such thing, creating an opening for the winner of the last primary. If Romney should win the primary, it would be an incredible political comeback. It would also be a gift to his party, forcing on the GOP the reality of a new and stable settlement between its factions.
Romney, if he can secure the nomination, has a much better shot in 2016 than he did in 2012. He would be running against Obama’s third term, with the torch passed to a much less talented and more scandal-plagued Hillary Clinton. Read the rest of this entry »