Romney considers 2016 bid. Legit Shook.
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apparently common sense is lost upon the unwashed masses
Technically it was more about taxation without representation. We put a bunch of other stuff in the press release to plump it out.
Oh man, remember when Mitt Romney went on Univision to sway the hispanic vote, and got a ridiculous tan to make himself look hispanic (in his mind)?
LOL, Romney. He was such a doofus during the 2012 campaign, like a bad caricature of a pandering politician.
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This is where Romney comes in. The outsider.
I thought that was more the reason the colonies declared independence.
Anyway, just observing from Australia. My American history is limited. Not a huge deal, just find it a bit curious.
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The original impetus was the taxation without representation. We felt we were being denied our natural rights as Englishmen.
Monarchy wasn't really an issue until Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" was published and widely circulated for its pro-revolution sentiment. He was the first to really advocate for the abolition of monarchy. And given that the English monarch was also head of the English church, that sat well with the significant number of Quakers, Puritans, and other Christian minority sects that had emigrated for religious freedom. It was a "right place, right time" deal.
We also had familial presidencies pretty early, our second and sixth Presidents were father and son. But beyond that, it's pretty great to know what kind of leader to expect.
On a somewhat unrelated note, Thomas Paine was also an advocate of the welfare state, but don't tell Glenn Beck, he'll have a stroke.
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Palin/Bachmann 2016. Within 15 minutes of their inauguration the U.S. would launch a full scale military invasion of Luxembourg with round the clock coverage by the likes of The Wolf and Don Black Holes are Some Shit Lemon.
Think about it guys...
Think about it guys...
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I can see him running in the primaries.
Oh man, remember when Mitt Romney went on Univision to sway the hispanic vote, and got a ridiculous tan to make himself look hispanic (in his mind)?
God yes. This was so weird when he was suddenly 4 shades darker. Who thought that was a good idea?
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Why is Hillary turning into Madeline Albright?we could have this
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Hey man, he knows the poors aren't smart enough to remember that!
Fenderputty
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Fuck all y'all haters because this shit is fire
R Money is back!
Those pants look ... Uncomfortable.
Also. The amount of laughs I will have if he wins a primary only to be smoked by Hilary.
If he doesn't win, the American Dream isn't real.
He's so hesitant about letting them touch him.
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this guy reminded me of ron paul ( i know random out of no where)
What does your historical model say about the odds of a female candidate winning?
The Mexican makeup artist who worked for the show, IIRC.
OrangeGrayBlue
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I clicked this and then got so nervous about the upcoming cringes that I watched it on mute instead.
Edit- just noticed that someone declines to shake his hand at 00:25.
Syph Medwes
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She said "never say never". I am surprised too though. In that documentary ("Mitt"?) it shows a flashback of him losing the 2008 primary and saying he'd never run again...although the date isn't revealed until a minute later. In other words, he really had to be convinced to run again in 2012. So a 2016 run seems puzzling. Besides, who would be VP, Ryan again? He kind of lost momentum since the election. And I don't think the Republicans would be dumb enough to waste a Rubio run as a VP, especially not on someone who has already ran before.
I think it's gonna be Bush v. Clinton when all is said and done.
To be far that picture likely allowed many to see him "As one of the good ones."
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Also Bush is awesome at everything but his job.
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That's kind of true and not true, once polygamy was outlawed in United States many hardcore mormons moved to northern Mexico where polygamy was still legal. While George Romney was natively born in Mexico, his heritage is mainly European/Caucasion as far as I know. George Romney's parents were supposedly part of a mormon branch that still practiced polygamy, but it's unclear if it was George's parents or grandparents that originally fled the U.S to escape persecution.
There was an interesting segment in Vice news two years ago about the Mormon ranches in northern Mexico that touches briefly on Mitt Romney's ancestry. Supposedly Mitt Romney has pretty much disavowed himself from that side of the family though.
Vice news documentary on mormon ranches in Mexico.
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NobleXenon
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How pathetic. They might as well give all the Electoral Votes to Hillary or whatever in 2016.
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Just read Romney said his wife fully backs his 2016 aspirations, interesting.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...d-d0b93ff613d5_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop
Ultimately money is going to neutralize itself in this race, given there will be 3-4 candidates with a lot of cash. If you don't have a grassroots organization you're not going to magically win those early states, especially the southern ones.
I expect at least one big money candidate to bomb out early, and the rest will split the vote enough to allow a compromise candidate to emerge. Scott Walker or maybe even Ohio's governor.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...d-d0b93ff613d5_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop
Ultimately money is going to neutralize itself in this race, given there will be 3-4 candidates with a lot of cash. If you don't have a grassroots organization you're not going to magically win those early states, especially the southern ones.
I expect at least one big money candidate to bomb out early, and the rest will split the vote enough to allow a compromise candidate to emerge. Scott Walker or maybe even Ohio's governor.
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If he couldn't win in 2012 how's he gonna win in 2016 when this country will (barring some catastrophe) be in a better place in almost every way.
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Some fancy athletic socks W has on.
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So you're saying republicans can't ride bikes and have to carry them instead.
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I would really like to get some shrimp and grits now.
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And yet a pretzel almost took him out.
Yeah, no Republican right now has any good ideas. They won't win based on policy. They will win if people are complacent and don't vote. There are a lot of things like Net Neutrality and other shit that people should be worried about if the right gets the office (as they have shown their stance on it).
lol the "Romney Recovery" and the dumbass public wouldn't know a lot of it was due to Obama's policies
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Everyone lost against Barack Hussein Obama, haha. Man, I remember looking back on that and thinking "someone with that middle name hasn't a chance at becoming president".
What a cringe-worthy attempt to be a person.
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The more quasi-likely Republican candidates there are, the easier it will be to split Republican opinions
Go ahead
Go ahead
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I've wanted him to be president ever since he went up to that crowd of urban voters and yelled "alright who let the dawgs out....hoof! hoof!"
That and his one big foreign policy item was Russia being our greatest geopolitical foe, to quote Rick Perry "Oops".
He would be a strong candidate, if he didn't have to run in race to the bottom Republican primaries.
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