The Narcissistic fantasy of Mitt Romney 2016

[LiberalElite]

http://theweek.com/articles/534651/narcissistic-fantasy-mitt-romney-2016

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The prospect of a third Mitt Romney run for the White House is really getting me down. I don’t just mean that I think it’s ridiculous. Jonathan Chait has written that (very funny) column already. I mean that the thought of Romney throwing his hat into the ring yet again is actually making me sullen.

For the better part of a year, I’ve been telling friends and family members that there’s no way Romney would run again. (Here I am saying as much last summer.) And now it looks like I might have been wrong. But the issue isn’t that I may have made a bum call as a columnist. I now realize it’s not so much that I didn’t think he would run as that I didn’t and still don’t want him to run — and not because I’m a Democrat and think he’d be such a formidable opponent.

Quite the opposite.
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[Sherman A1]

1. I think a run by Mitt would be wonderful

it was so enjoyable last time and in this coming season, pitting money vs the money of the possible Bush campaign would be a great show to watch.

[The_Commonist]

2. Reagan ran in '68, 76, and his third run was in '80.

You saw how THAT turned out!

I don't think this should be taken TOO lightly...

[Sherman A1]

3. Didn't say I was taking it lightly

said I would enjoy the show, and I remember when Ronald Reagan was elected.

[HeiressofBickworth]

4. Romney = the new Harold Stassen

Per Wikipedia: Stassen was later best known for being a perennial candidate for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States, seeking it 10 times between 1940 and 2000 (1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1964, 1968, 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992).

Stassen was a joke; Romney could well become the new jokester candidate.