Former Rep. Vin Weber (R-MN), the former Mitt Romney for President campaign chairman, suggested that Romney’s decision to possibly run a third time isn’t such a great idea.
Weber’s comments come as some Republicans, even ones who supported Romney in the past, voice some skepticism about the former Massachuetts governor running for president a third time.
“I’m not decided yet but I’m not happy frankly with the way he’s chosen to re-enter presidential politics and I think his friends need to be honest with him about that,” Weber said in an interview with Bloomberg Politics on Thursday. “He’s a great man, he would be a great president but there’s not a lot of good precedent for somebody losing the election and coming back four years later and becoming the nominee. Thomas Dewey is the best nominee in our party, it didn’t work out too well. And unfortunately this last —I think Governor Romney had two increasingly good years after losing the presidency and now he’s had one pretty bad week.”
Earlier in the week, The Wall Street Journal published a scathing editorial arguing that Romney should not run for president again.
“Republicans are likely to have a far better field in 2016, so voters won’t lack for plausible presidents,” the editorial said. “It’s hard to see what advantages Mr. Romney brings that the many potential first-time candidates who have succeeded as governors do not.”
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Interesting to see how everybody is stomping Mitt, Looks like a food fight.
He got them scared alright.
Sometimes you just have to be honest with your friends…but I think Romney is too arrogant to listen.
The Republican presidential field is broad and deep–not unlike a septic field.
Let’s see, so far Romney has lost his former campaign chair and the guy who had his logo tattooed on his forehead. Who’s next to bail? Ann Romney?
Possibly a Vin diagram from ex-Rep Weber is what helped him to make up his mind.
Romney sucks is the conclusion no matter how hard Romnerd tries to convince himself that it ain’t so.