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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Mitt Romney, party elder and statesman"
Mitt Romney, party elder and statesmanby Jed Lewison at the Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/18/1292945/-Mitt-Romney-party-elder-and-statesman
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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 Partys most coveted stars, especially on the fundraising circuit, in the run-up to Novembers midterm elections.
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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 2016and would surely lose if he didhe'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.
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"Mitt Romney, party elder and statesman" (Original Post)
applegrove
Apr 2014
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what I hate is the way that Romney does not object when people tell him he won the election.
hollysmom
Apr 2014
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stage left
(2,962 posts)1. And yet.
Pathetic as most of them are, they still seem to be getting elected. I don't understand.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)2. what I hate is the way that Romney does not object when people tell him he won the election.
oh yeah, he thinks he won and was robbed, when we know dems have to win overwhelmingly to over come the cheating.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)3. He is a "pathetic commentary on the current state of the GOP" Their hero, Mitt Scissorhands.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)4. Statesman.....How he get that title? Real estate!!!!
He lives in one and votes in another.