Romney Redux

For John, BLUF:  Should Mitt Romney have to do it again?  No.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Going back a couple of days, we have this Scott Lehigh OpEd from The Boston Globe, "Will Mitt run again?".

Let us deal first with the question of if Governor Mitt Romney would have been a better President than the man who won the race in 2012, Barack Obama.  My judgment is that he would have been, for us, a better President.  Note that this is a sample of one and there are those who would differ, but the polls suggest that many feel we may have missed the boat in November of 2012.

The question before us is if Mr Romney should run again, in 2016.  The quick short answer is "Of course not".  He did his duty.  He shouldn't have to go through that wringer again.  I admit that some Republican candidates are imploding and others are being savaged by the media, but that is no reason to ask Mitt Romney to suit up and go back onto the field.  If there isn't some Republican City Counsellor out across the fruited plain who can beat Hillary or Elizabeth, then we Republicans should hang it up and go form a new party.

Regards  —  Cliff