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wheniwasincongress

(1,307 posts)
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 07:31 PM Jan 2015

Romney and Jeb Bush to Meet in Utah

Source: NY Times

Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney are scheduled to meet privately this week in Utah, raising the possibility that the two former governors will find a way to avoid competing presidential campaigns that would split the Republican establishment next year, two prominent party members said Wednesday night.
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Mr. Bush proposed the meeting, according to one of the party members familiar with the planning, who did not want to be quoted by name in discussing a secret meeting.
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Mr. Bush, a former Florida governor, and Mr. Romney, who was governor of Massachusetts, are neither friends nor adversaries. But Mr. Bush offered little help to Mr. Romney in his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, and tensions have grown since Mr. Bush said that he was exploring a presidential bid.

Mr. Bush has been critical of the way Mr. Romney ran his 2012 campaign, and Mr. Romney has raised questions in private about whether Mr. Bush, who has worked in the finance industry in recent years, would be vulnerable to the attacks that so damaged his own campaign against President Obama.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/us/politics/romney-and-jeb-bush-to-meet-raising-speculation-on-presidential-race.html?_r=0

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rurallib

(62,386 posts)
1. One will no doubt make the other "an offer he can't refuse"
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 07:34 PM
Jan 2015

not sure which will be offerer and who will be the offeree.

global1

(25,225 posts)
2. Boy - To Be A Fly On The Wall At That Meeting.....
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 07:36 PM
Jan 2015

What kind of deal do you suppose they'll make.

Quite frankly - I can't see either one of them giving in. I wonder if either one of them has some damaging info on the other?

Dopers_Greed

(2,640 posts)
3. One of them is the brother of a war criminal who presided over genocide
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 08:07 PM
Jan 2015

Pretty sad that the American public doesn't consider that damaging info.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
8. I think since they like guns so much why not just let them have a duel
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 07:31 AM
Jan 2015

Maybe we'd get lucky and they'd shoot each other. A two fer.

 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
9. If I'm not mistaken, Romney once established his bona fides with the NRA by
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 08:56 AM
Jan 2015

bragging of his hunting prowess with a story about shooting vermin somewhere. I would think any of them qualify as vermin, so I say let them go at it.

 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
10. If Trump had the ability to fire Congress, I'd let him have a go. Other than that,
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 08:58 AM
Jan 2015

he really has no business near the levers of government. Come to think of it, with his track record of bankrupting businesses, he has no business near a business.

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