Rs got a foot in the door, changed many laws, 'own' many states/local govs. I don't think there is any way to get rid of them except to vote their asses out.

Republicans know the D vote would crush them. That's why they gerrymander districts, cheat if they can get away with it and suppress the vote, any way they can.

Shame. if Ds turned out to vote in the first place we wouldn't have todays infestation.

By the 2016 election Ginsberg will be 83, Scalia 80, Kennedy 79 and Breyer 77.

We need their replacement(s) appointed by a Democratic president.

With several GOP aligned justices getting up there in ages including Anthony Kennedy (77) and Antonin Scalia (78) the balance of the Supreme Court could switch from GOP favored to Dem favored. Kennedy is in decent health but Scalia is not in good health but neither would retire while a democrat is in the White House.

Plus the GOP like the idea that Ginsberg (81) and Breyer (75) are getting up there in age. If either of those 2 were to leave Scotus (retirement or death) with the GOP in the White House then you could see a serious change from leaning GOP to hardcore GOP.

What's worse - the new thing for appointing judges to the Supreme Court is the idea to pick them young so they can serve for decades. Bush was smart to replace Head Justice William Reinquist with newly appointed (and only 50 years old at the time) John Roberts. Roberts could be controlling that white house for DECADES.

So don't think the GOP are going to write off this presidential election. I think they did in 2012 since they knew Obama was a tough battle and there wasn't too much risk to losing the Supreme Court.

and he wants to go at again... Insanity, the act of doing something over and over again and expecting different results.

to reject him before he realizes most of us are not Mormon.

since the last time Mittens ran the poor thing into the ground.

After Christie's collapse, I have been expecting Romney to look at running again. Jeb has a great deal of baggage including his brother. Jeb is not that strong with the base and the GOP donor class would have a hard time fixing the race for Jeb. After Jeb, one of the more likely candidates would be Scott Walker which is why I really hope that Walker is not re-elected in 2014. After Walker, the GOP has no one who would be acceptable to the GOP donor class or the tea party base. I doubt that Rand Paul will be the nominee and that leaves Romney.

Remember, Rs have to work hard to keep their voter base engaged until they get that vote done.

Adlai actually came pretty close at least once.

Doesn't match the headline, either. Romney's greatest strength is that he has no sense of shame. That still won't protect him if he decides to run.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]If you don't give yourself the same benefit of a doubt you'd give anyone else, you're cheating someone.[/center][/font][hr]

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wonder if this time Romney will scam a republican vote out of another bunch of son of ron paul followers.

...uuugggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(apply this to any potential R candidate. I keep trying to think of even ONE I might be ablt to tolerate, and I can't.)

He is rich enough to afford to run again, no one can stop him from running, and he LOVES the attention. The only thing that might stop him is the thought of being Jebs VP. Romney is probably a good VP choice for whoever gets the Republican nomination. He's safe, battle tested, and once again brings lots of $$ with him.

Some people think the BFEE (with its spook connections) did that to Christie.

Could be interesting.

and who will suggest that becoming a grandfather will either make him less likely to run or prove that he is having a grandfather just to get people to vote for him?

No chance will the GOPNRAteahadist base resort to Captain Moneybags again.

by making Romney look "prophetic" about Russia and ACA and giving him a platform to attack his former opponent. Doubtful, however, that most people will forget that he explicitly wrote off nearly half the population in the country as not mattering because they are "takers". Plus, just, why would we want him as POTUS? Why would we want another Republican POTUS for that matter?

No that is a public imposed STFU

He's too old. People do NOT like him. He hasn't gotten any warmer of a patina with the passage of time. People dislike his wife, too.

When he can't generate any enthusiasm in the state where he played at governor, he needs to take a reality pill and hang it the hell up.

And does he seriously think that Harry Reid is gonna sit on all the dirt he has on him, this time around? Or Jon Huntsman's daddy, for that matter, either?

Of course, the source for this story is the MOONBEAM TIMES, a conservative paper run by a bunch of nutjobs, and a source that is generally regarded as discredited by DU, by way of NEWSMAX another kooky wingnut source, also discredited by DU, that never met an unsourced rumor or spurious claim it didn't like...so we have to consider the sources. This could be just a lotta chaff. I didn't watch Schieffer's show, so I have no idea what kind of "tone" he used when he was speaking those words. For all we know, it could be the same "tone" that people use when they say things like "I have it on solid authority that the invisible man is sitting over there in the corner (nyuck, nyuck)."