Mitt 2012 In Full Swing
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2012 Election, Romney
As if this were any surprise, but does Mitt really want to be known as the perennial presidential candidate? And especially in 2012, when it’s extremely likely that the economy will have picked back up, more jobs will be created and the GOP’s message will still be out of touch.
Wouldn’t he rather let Huckabee and Palin drive that car off the cliff?
Republican Mitt Romney is laying the groundwork for a possible White House campaign in 2012, hiring a team of staff members and consultants with money from a fund-raising committee he established with the ostensible purpose of supporting other GOP candidates.The former Massachusetts governor has raised $2.1 million for his Free and Strong America political action committee. But only 12 percent of the money has been spent distributing checks to Romney’s fellow Republicans around the country.
Instead, the largest chunk of the money has gone to support Romney’s political ambitions, paying for salaries and consulting fees to over a half-dozen of Romney’s longtime political aides, according to a Globe review of expenditures.
Everybody wants to be Reagan, but Reagan had a powerful message and a national mood behind him. What will the GOP have?
More as it develops…
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December 8th, 2008 at 10:50 am
I’d be careful assuming that the Republicans can’t win in 2012. I remember in 1991 everyone was saying that whatever Dem ran against Bush would be a sacrificial lamb.
Conditions change quickly in politics. Romney, if he really wants to be president, would be foolish not to lay the groundwork for a run in 2012.
December 8th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Don’t forget Rudy 2012.
December 8th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
“What will the GOP have” in 2012? Four years of mounting disenchantment with the President, to begin with. I agree with Alan – things change. There’s very little that has been said since the election about the GOP’s supposedly gloomy future prospects that wasn’t said after Carter won.
December 9th, 2008 at 1:36 am
>Alan Stewart Carl
Thinking with the example of H.W. Bush’s lost,
I think that the only possibility which Obama loses in 2012 I can come up with is by some chance in the cards if two following conditions are met.
Two conditions are
? It shows few signs of a economic recovery until just
before the presidential election in November of 2012.
?Democratic Leftists who hold a grievance against unpopular incumbent Obama maintaining a democratic and middle-of-the-road stance cast an avalanche of ballot for Green Party.
As a result, GOP will play both ends against the middle.
I can hardly image that situation.
December 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
It would be nice if the Republican Party decided it was time to stand by it’s values and fight for them as loud and strongly as the Democrats fight for theirs. I am a big Romney Supporter…he was the only true conservative running for office in 2008. If our party actually rallied behind him and stood up loud and proud for the truths of our party and realized the strength and security he would bring to our country we would win in 2012. It’s the indecisive bystanders claiming to be Republican that are hindering our process. Either stand up and shout or get off the wagon!!!