Romney 2020? Republicans speculate Romney's likely Senate run is start of something much more

[laserhaas]

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Source: Business Insider

It's no secret that Mitt Romney is, in all likelihood, going to run for a Senate seat in Utah.

What's less clear, however, is why the man who was the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and is now retired and occupying an elder-statesman role in a party torn into warring factions would want to serve as a junior senator.

As Herbert noted, first thing's first: Romney needs to announce. But he's dropped breadcrumbs pointing to an upcoming run. On the day Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch announced he would not seek reelection, Romney changed the location on his Twitter account from Massachusetts to Holladay, Utah. And as The New York Times reported earlier this month, Romney recently texted a close friend and said "I'm running."


Still, there are others who surmise that Romney's aspirations are grander even than becoming party leader.

Romney 2020?

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/will-romney-run-for-president-in-2020-2018-1?r=UK&IR=T

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I can't stop him in Utah.

But I've helped end his run for POTUS - thrice.

Could 24th time be the charm?

The end of Mitt - or me!

[StevieM]

1. I doubt Romney is running in 2020. People hate it when someone wins office and then turns around

the very next year and runs for president.

I think Romney wants to be the elder statesman of the U.S. Senate.

I expect Kasich to run for president in 2020.

[TomCADem]

2. He Won't Be Able To Dislodge Trump...

...but he must be betting that Trump will not run again for some reason or another.

[dalton99a]

3. Trump-worshipping evilgelicals outnumber Mormons

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Too darn old, for one thing.

[Mr.Bill]

5. Romney would make Trump and the Russian Mafia

look like amateurs when it comes to looting the country.

[laserhaas]

7. You have NO IDEA how true your insight - really is!

Link to tweet

[Liberalagogo]

6. The only thing that needs to be said:

[Cha]

14. That and strapping his dog on the top

of his car for the family vacay trip.

Lyin' Romney thought he was going to win in 2012.. President Obama beat his a$$.

[Turbineguy]

8. There are literally

many millions of Americans who desperately want their retirement stolen from them.

[laserhaas]

9. He's been doing it, for decades

And no one seems to care

[not fooled]

10. Running

because he thinks his god told him he'd be the first mormon president.

This way, it would just have been delayed by a few years.

[MarinCoUSA]

11. And who started the ahistorical meme: Run America like a businessman?

A: Romney.

Q: Who started the rePucklican practice of not releasing all relevant tax returns?
A: ditto.

Q: Who got doxed for being a smug unfeeling prick by a friggin' bar tender he pissed off?
A: ditto.

I bet he will run. To which I say: "Please proceed sir. Please proceed".

[Rollo]

12. Say what you will, but Trump actually makes Romney look half-human...

Which is damning by faint praise, but still. At least Romney has a sense of decorum. And he'd be slightly better than Pence. Again, faint praise.

Of course I'd never vote for him. My money would be on someone like Kamala Harris in 2020. Actually, any Democrat with a pulse, as long as they win the general.

[C Moon]

13. Romney just doesn't get it...

he lost because he's aloof; he's unable to make a connection between the two classes.
He's a watered down Trump.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Locking - the hosts feel this is analysis and opinion, rather than a breaking news story

and, indeed, speculation, as the title indicates. Please repost in GD. Thanks.