Romney advisor: If Mitt loses FL, the smoke-filled room needs to be reinvented

[Lief 🗽]

No article, but Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC just said as much.

Ben Smith also tweeted it:

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[Sam Spade]

lol

[RI]

I'm sure Mitt could help them with that.

[Politico]

Mitt is not going to lose Florida, but if it does happen then the Republicans have pretty much decided they want to give Obama a bigger mandate than the one he had four years ago. Things are not going to end well with Gingrich, who resigned in disgrace Nixton-style the last time he was the party's leader. The last time he was the party's leader, it ended in disgrace and embarrassment. Why should this time be any different?

Quite frankly, you have to wonder if Gingrich supporters know anything about politics. Do they really want to beat Obama in November, or do they secretly want four more years of Obama? Because supporting Gingrich is a sure-fire road to the latter. Obama and his team/supporters are laughing their heads off at the surge for Gingrich. At least Romney and Santorum can actually beat Obama.

Let's not be short-sighted, folks.

[Sam Spade]

Mitt is not going to lose Florida, but if it does happen then the Republicans have pretty much decided they want to give Obama a bigger mandate than the one he had four years ago. Things are not going to end well with Gingrich, who resigned in disgrace Nixton-style the last time he was the party's leader.

Quite frankly, you have to wonder if Gingrich supporters know anything about politics. Do they really want to beat Obama in November, or do they secretly want four more years of Obama? Because supporting Gingrich is a sure-fire road to the later. At least Romney and Santorum can actually beat Obama.

You say as much nothing on this forum as Mitt Romney does during debates.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Things are not going to end well with Gingrich, who resigned in disgrace Nixton-style the last time he was the party's leader. The last time he was the party's leader, it ended in disgrace and embarrassment. Why should this time be any different?

i thought he resigned because the GOP underpreformed in the 1998 mid terms?

[Peeperkorn]

Mitt is not going to lose Florida, but if it does happen then the Republicans have pretty much decided they want to give Obama a bigger mandate than the one he had four years ago. Things are not going to end well with Gingrich, who resigned in disgrace Nixton-style the last time he was the party's leader. The last time he was the party's leader, it ended in disgrace and embarrassment. Why should this time be any different?

Would you consider voting for Paul third party in that case?

[Politico]

Things are not going to end well with Gingrich, who resigned in disgrace Nixton-style the last time he was the party's leader. The last time he was the party's leader, it ended in disgrace and embarrassment. Why should this time be any different?

i thought he resigned because the GOP underpreformed in the 1998 mid terms?

No, it was the book deal, remember? He used the pathetic midterms to try to save face. But the book deal is what actually led to his lack of support for regaining the Speakership. He chose to resign instead of facing a lost vote.

[Politico]

Mitt is not going to lose Florida, but if it does happen then the Republicans have pretty much decided they want to give Obama a bigger mandate than the one he had four years ago. Things are not going to end well with Gingrich, who resigned in disgrace Nixton-style the last time he was the party's leader. The last time he was the party's leader, it ended in disgrace and embarrassment. Why should this time be any different?

Would you consider voting for Paul third party in that case?

Yes. If Gingrich is the Republican nominee and Ron Paul runs as a third party candidate, Ron Paul probably has my support despite my disagreements with him on monetary policy and foreign policy. Despite their faults, Ron Paul and Barack Obama are men of morals. Gingrich is a moral degenerate who embodies all that is wrong with Washington, DC. Gingrich is so bad he makes Al Sharpton look good.

[Yelnoc]

Might as well just go back to the pre-primary days, eh?

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

No article, but Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC just said as much.

Ben Smith also tweeted it:

You must be logged in to read this quote.

they'll have to ask the jmfcsts kindly

[Erc]

In all seriousness, would it be possible for Romney to bow out in favor of someone else and basically give him his ballot line?  People would be voting for Romney on the ballot, but they'd know they'd really be voting for Candidate X?  (a la "Punch Foley for Joe!" a few years back)

If the biggest obstacle to a late entry is ballot access, that's one possible solution (though laughably implausible, as Romney isn't going to step aside).

Of course, the delegates in question won't actually be pledged for Candidate X, and won't have to follow whatever instructions Romney gives.  If there is, as rumored, a large entryist faction of Paulites among the Romney delegates, there could be a lot of hilarity.

[Lincoln Republican]

I've been looking forward to the return of the smoke filled room for years now. 

Think of all the money that could be saved.  All this money could be put to a better use.

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Mitt is not going to lose Florida, but if it does happen then the Republicans have pretty much decided they want to give Obama a bigger mandate than the one he had four years ago. Things are not going to end well with Gingrich, who resigned in disgrace Nixton-style the last time he was the party's leader. The last time he was the party's leader, it ended in disgrace and embarrassment. Why should this time be any different?

Quite frankly, you have to wonder if Gingrich supporters know anything about politics. Do they really want to beat Obama in November, or do they secretly want four more years of Obama? Because supporting Gingrich is a sure-fire road to the latter. Obama and his team/supporters are laughing their heads off at the surge for Gingrich. At least Romney and Santorum can actually beat Obama.

Let's not be short-sighted, folks.

Romney has his own share of liabilities and Obama has the same 50-48 lead over both in the latest Gallup poll.