C'mon Mitt, put your money where your mouth is, why don't you

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Well, he did bash Trump, right? Called him a phony and all that. So this should hardly be a surprise:

Mitt Romney won’t rule out accepting GOP nomination at contested convention

Let's see if he'll repeat his 2012 mistake where he bashed Gingrich so hard, lots of devout GOP supporters eventually chose to stay home on election day - and did not bother to support Mittens in the most decisive moments of the election. Really... has America run out of abled politicians that we've got to become witnesses of a political corpse being dragged out of the closet for the sake of stopping the bad kid on the block? Have things really got that desperate?

Whatever you say about The Donald, he has at least reinvigorated the GOP base, made them interested in elections again. Romney? He's like potassium bromide to the current Republican hard-on. If you truly want to see that party being rendered inert and dead like a stump, be my guest, do bring Mitt the Twit.

Comments

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Ha! Your chemical reference reminds me of my time in the military. There were all sorts of urban legends about that substance... :-)

[luzribeiro.livejournal.com]

I like it how Mitt essentially ordered the hordes of GOPians to vote for Cruz... and for Rubio... and for Kasich... and whoever else but not Trump.

Better yet: the way they flipped the bird back at him. ;)

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

I hope he will not put his dog on the roof this time.

[oportet.livejournal.com]

Republicans desperately need a face, an unofficial official spokesman, a town elder - whatever you want to call it; someone respected at every end of the party, who can settle disputes, rally the base, rally the fringe, calm the base, calm the fringe, etc.

Suggestions?

(All hands go up)

One more thing, they need to be alive.

(All hands go down)

It's good that Mitt realizes that, but unfortunate that he thinks it should be him (and even more unfortunate that there isn't an obvious answer that jumps out).

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

If Mitt was trying to settle disputes and calm the party by essentially ordering the base to block the party's front-runner, he got something very wrong in his whole premise.

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

So after a long season of primaries, a lot of money being spent on campaigns, etc, someone comes to the final party convention and announces they are entering the race - and there is a chance that the anointed delegates would pick them up instead of the one who has done to tremendous lengths to win primaries?

How does that work? How is this democracy?

[oportet.livejournal.com]

Each party has a fail-safe - a backup plan incase its voters make the wrong choice. Republicans call theirs a 'brokered convention', Dems call theirs 'superdelegates'.

They still respect the choice of the people - this is just incase the people make the wrong choice. They don't really want to do it, they're doing it for us - they do it because they love us.

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

I call that rigging an election.

[mikeyxw.livejournal.com]

It's not really the election though, it's simply how the party determines it's candidate. Some of the smaller parties don't even have primaries, their party leadership simply picks the candidate. I believe some European parties do the same, for example, Mr. Trump would never even have made it this far if he were in the UK's conservative party where the 200 or so party leaders will determine which two candidates the party's membership will be able to vote on.

At least the democrats and republicans ask their members what they think of anyone who is willing to throw their hat into the ring, even if they are willing to hedge if they get an answer they don't like. If Mr. Trump doesn't like the results, he's free to start his own party, no doubt bearing his own name, and pick himself as the candidate without even going through a primary.

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

At least the democrats and republicans ask their members what they think of anyone who is willing to throw their hat into the ring, even if they are willing to hedge if they get an answer they don't like

Yeah, ain't that so generous of them!

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Very convenient. Here, we have a two-party system, but if you don't like how things are, you're welcome to try starting a new party. Never mind that everything is designed to perpetuate said two-party system and protect it from challengers. Sorry about that!

Is it a two-party system, really? Come to think of it, all those guys don't look that much different to me. Certainly hasn't reflected on America's domestic and especially foreign policy, which have both retained the same direction in recent decades, more or less.

So yeah, let's start a new party and see how that goes!

It's amazing that there are still many people who seem to genuinely believe this is pluralism, and a representative one at that.

You guys aren't even pretending that hard any more.