National Review’s editor, Rich Lowry, argued that if Mitt Romney does decide to run for president again in 2016, it will be “awkward.”
Lowry, in blogpost on National Review’s website, added his voice to the chorus of conservatives who think Romney may want to rethink his recent suggestions that he would run for president a third time.
“After all the energy expended selling him as the Mr. Fix-It from the private sector for years and years now, this time around he will be the quasi-career politician who just can’t give up the game and whose pitch is inevitably based, in part, on all the experience he has gained running for president for so long. This will be awkward, to say the least,” Lowry wrote.
On Friday, Romney spoke at a Republican National Committee meeting in San Diego. His speech was laced with hints that he did indeed plan to run for president again.
“First we have to make the world safer. Second, we have to make sure and provide opportunity for all Americans regardless of the neighborhood they live in. And finally, we have to lift people out of poverty,” Romney said.
Here’s Lowry’s full post:
I never thought Mitt Romney would get this far in flirting with a run. It doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense, but it’s a free country and if you really want to be president, it requires a certain shamelessness and imperviousness to criticism. Romney is certainly justified in thinking he has some unique attributes in having won the nomination once and having run a credible general election campaign. But, as has been pointed out over the last week, he won that nomination almost by default against a couple of guys who were so desperately under-funded and under-organized that they hardly had campaigns as traditionally understood. Presumably — at least one hopes! — the landscape will be different this time. Also, Romney’s narrative will have to be different. He has really done nothing except run for president since about 2006 (and he has held or run for office continuously since 2002). After all the energy expended selling him as the Mr. Fix-It from the private sector for years and years now, this time around he will be the quasi-career politician who just can’t give up the game and whose pitch is inevitably based, in part, on all the experience he has gained running for president for so long. This will be awkward, to say the least.
If by awkward he means “hilariously easy joke-target prancing around like a megalomaniacal media whore with brand new clown shoes” then yeah, “awkward.”
there is plenty of room for mittens in the clown car. please please please run mitt.
You know, I was thinking the other day when I saw what his “platform” is going to be that he’s not going to even place in the top 3 contenders. No way. Part of his scam is to be some kind of champion against poverty. Here’s the thing: NO ONE believes that and the GOP base doesn’t want to hear it. They think that’s the problem of “those others.” Income inequality speaks well to the Dem base; the arrogance of job creators speaks well to the GOP base.
He’s gonna find out what Huntsman found out: if you’re not reaching your base, you get to go home. in Round 1. If he was disappointed before, he’s got a whole 'nother round of hurt to deal with.
Romney 2016 Run ‘Will Be Awkward’
yes, and the sun will set in the west …
Oh, oh, oh…don’t forget the new clown CAR too…I’m excited to see the make and model roll out.