Romney Advisor: ‘There Wouldn’t Be An ISIS At All’ If Mitt Was Prez

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2014 file photo, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks in Augusta, Ga. Outside of a grade-school classroom, there may be no one paying as much attention to matters of gra... FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2014 file photo, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks in Augusta, Ga. Outside of a grade-school classroom, there may be no one paying as much attention to matters of grammar than those trying to predict who is going to run for president. Well, not by the standard set this past week by Mitt Romney. Asked by a New York Times reporter in January 2014 whether he would seek the Republican nomination for a third time, Romney seemed to offer a definitive answer. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) MORE LESS
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An anonymous advisor to Mitt Romney told the Boston Globe in an article published on Tuesday that if the former Republican nominee had been elected President, there would be no Islamic State terror group in Syria and Iraq, and Russian leader Vladimir Putin would never have invaded Ukraine.

“There wouldn’t be an ISIS at all, and Putin would know his place in life,” an anonymous longtime advisor told the Globe. “Domestically, things would be in better shape.”

It was the latest in a series of talking points offered by Team Romney since the 2012 defeat about what his presidency could have looked like.

Last year, former Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) insisted that Romney would have stopped the Ebola virus: “I guarantee you we would not be worrying about Ebola right now,” he told Fox News Radio.

Romney’s wife, Ann, told “Fox and Friends” that if her husband had been elected, there would never have been a government shutdown in winter of 2013. That same year, both Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly said that there would be no sequester if Romney had won.

Finally, a year after the election, Romney himself told NBC’s “Meet The Press” that if he were President, he would run Obamacare better than Obama ever could have.

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  1. “There wouldn’t be an ISIS at all, and Putin would know his place in life,” an anonymous longtime advisor told the Globe."

    There wouldn’t be a US, either.

  2. An anonymous advisor to Mitt Romney told the Boston Globe…

    A man of his convictions, to be sure.

    Good grief.

  3. Avatar for Dwig3d Dwig3d says:

    Here come the stupid…of course ISIS existed before Mittens failed run in 2012…but according to RWDBs, there would be none, of course we’d be in WW III and IV if Mittens were (gag) President

  4. Avatar for xyxox xyxox says:

    Sounds to me like Mitt Romney is trying to hold the presidency hostage. Almost like he created ISIS to get back at the US for not electing him.

  5. You tell em’! . It would have been just like Mitten’s tax returns! And Putin would’ve been just like the ni(CLANG!)

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