Mitt Romney

ELECTION 2016

PANICKY GOP CHIEFTAINS PLOTTING TO DRAFT ROMNEY

Establishment worried Carson or Trump might snag nomination

Republican strategists and insiders, nervous at poll numbers that just won’t quit favoring Donald Trump and Ben Carson, have resorted to backdoor wheeling, dealing and whispering to bring out the candidate they think is best for the White House job, come 2016: former Massachusetts governor and failed 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

“We’re potentially careening down this road of nominating somebody who frankly isn’t fit to be president in terms of the basic ability and temperament to do the job,” GOP strategist told the Washington Post. “It’s not just that it could be somebody Hillary could destroy electorally, but what if Hillary hits a banana peel and this person becomes president?”

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The largest share of the insider, establishment-driven angst goes toward Trump, the consummate political outsider and the candidate who seems to anger both Democrats and middle-of-the-road Republicans alike. Outrage against the billionaire businessman reached a new level just this week after he went on the campaign trail and told audiences minimum “wages are too high” and that it’s not a bad idea to create a “deportation force” dedicated solely to removing “the more than 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally,” he said, the Washington Post reported.

The notion has left some in the party with sour tastes in their mouths.

“To have a leading candidate propose a new federal police force that is going to flush out illegal immigrants across the nation? That’s very disturbing and concerning to me about where that leads Republicans,” said Dick Wadhams, a former Republican chairman in Colorado, the newspaper reported.

And another political operative whose now advising on Jeb Bush’s campaign, Austin Barbour, had this to say: “If we don’t have the right [nominee], we could lose the Senate and we could face losses in the House. Those are very, very real concerns. If we’re not careful and we nominate Trump, we’re looking at a race like Barry Goldwater in 1964 or George McGovern in 1972, getting beat up across the board because of our nominee.”

Yet one more political insider, George Voinovich, who’s supporting Ohio Gov. John Kasich: “This business has turned into show business. We can’t afford to have somebody sitting in the White House who doesn’t have governing experience and the gravitas to move this country ahead,” the Washington Post reported.

Voters would seem to disagree. Polls in both swing states and on a national scale over the past few weeks have consistently placed Trump in the lead, or at the worst, in a very close second place to Carson. Various other polls, meanwhile, show numbers shift quite a bit when Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s name is tossed into the competition. And one recent survey from McClatchy just gave socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders a clear win when matched with certain Republican candidates, as reported by WND.

Republican strategists are feeling antsy at the unknown, and fretting somewhat at the inability to control the direction of a candidate like Trump who so far has dismissed any need for big donor backing. And the whispers among the establishment base Republicans are to bring back Romney.

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The Washington Post puts it this way: “Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them. Party leaders and donors fear that nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the GOP ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a … Clinton presidency.”

And the big reveal: “According to other Republicans, some in the party establishment are so desperate to change the dynamic that they are talking anew about drafting Romney – despite his insistence that he will not run again. Friends have mapped out a strategy for a late entry to pick up delegates and vie for the nomination in a convention fight, according to the Republicans who were briefed on the talks.”

The effort appears to have zero legs, however. As the Washington Post even pointed: “Romney has shown no indication of reviving his interest.”

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