Top Romney Donor on 2016 bid: "You think I am kidding but you heard it here first."

[ChangeUp106]

The man will just not give up (perhaps)

RT @nickconfessore: Top Romney donor on a '16 bid: "You think I am kidding. But remember you heard it here first."

Nick is a political reporter for NYT

[monmouth3]

1. About what? Heard what first?..n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

2. +1

I'm confused

[monmouth3]

3. Context. It's the other white meat...LOL...n/t

[ChangeUp106]

6. That he will run in 2016

[monmouth3]

7. I bet he thinks he could surely beat Hillary. After all, she's a woman and all. Obama was tough

and smart and Hillary...Well, she's a woman after all....Bwahahahaha. I would bet that is his thinking...

[Gothmog]

4. Romney may be the best nominee in 2016

The GOP field is so weak that the GOP may be forced to turn to Romney

[meadowlark5]

5. But it's so haaaardd! How can they do it again? nt

[joeybee12]

8. Is there any historical comparisons? I mean, the nominee of the party

that loses usually never runs again...am I correct?

Anyway, I hope he does...what a train wreck that will be!

[Brother Buzz]

11. Nixon?

[joeybee12]

15. That's right...the obvious one...

Shit, because it worked for him.

Although he waited two cycles, so maybe Mittens should too so people don't remember what a dipshit he is!

[Drunken Irishman]

12. Nixon...

Losing in '60 and returning eight years later. Stevenson ran consecutive elections for the Democrats, losing both times to Eisenhower.

The difference, of course, is that Romney is now a two-time loser - losing both in the primary and then the general in 2012. I don't know if there has ever been a three-time presidential loser in major party politics...

[Aristus]

14. William Jennings Bryan.

n/t

[geek tragedy]

16. Bob Dole lost as VP candidate in 1976, lost the primary to Reagan in 1980 and Bush in 1988, and then

lost to Clinton in 1996.

[Drunken Irishman]

17. I wouldn't count '76 since that was a Ford loss...

Dole was on the ticket, to be sure, but he wasn't the one who lost. The other three fit the bill, of course, Romney would be the first presidential candidate since Stevenson to face the prospects of losing back-to-back presidential elections.

[geek tragedy]

18. Hey, just like the backup QB gets a super bowl ring, so Bob "Democratic wars" Dole

gets his name on the plaque for 1976.

[HughBeaumont]

9. Awesome. I'm not kidding.

It'll be great to see this giftastic crapitalist vampire go down in flames again.

Like it was said above, the GOP field is so terrible, I don't really see what option they have.

[geek tragedy]

10. when asked on the odds, he replied "47% chance he runs" nt

[kwolf68]

13. I am ready for full on crazy

The Repukes need to dump these 'moderate' North easterners ... and give us the gold. Run a Bachmann/Palin ticket. Go for the women vote. Or put that jackass from Texas (too many to list) on the ticket. The crazier, the better.

I want a full on Republican Platform that states they want theocracy and world domination. Finish what the crusades started.

[tanyev]

19. Oh, please proceed, Governor.