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Romney: If Obama Does A Good Job, I Might Not Want To Run
Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)
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Mitt Romney seems to be casting himself as a somewhat reluctant possible presidential candidate, and not the ambitious politician that people usually think of -- declaring he's not immediately running for president, but that his eventual decision will be influenced in part by the job that he thinks President Obama is doing.
"I'm doing what's necessary, if you will, to keep options open," Romney told Milwaukee-based TV host Mike Gousha. Romney said that family concerns come first, of course, but so does the overall national situation and Obama's performance.
"Clearly, if President Obama happened to be doing a great job, as I had hoped he would do when he got elected, why, that would influence my thoughts," Romney said. "But instead, he's taken the country in a very dangerous direction, and that makes it far more likely that folks are gonna think about getting in and removing him from office."
(Via WisPolitics.)
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mcc
October 19, 2009 5:09 PM
The reluctance may not just be an act. This has been expensive for him!
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Chris
October 19, 2009 11:15 PM in reply to mcc
Maybe Mitt can Grab A Mop and help out then.
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truthspeaker
October 20, 2009 2:25 AM in reply to Chris
Well said.
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Rob Davies
October 19, 2009 5:27 PM
Does Mitt ever tell the truth?
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Viva!America!
October 19, 2009 5:40 PM
Oh Please, Mittens! Not one of you guys will admit that he is doing a good job. Ever. In fact your brains aren't wired to think that a Democrat is doing a good job. You're just setting up your candidacy to make it look like you are coming to our rescue.
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theone718
October 19, 2009 6:06 PM
Mittens, you are fish food in 2012 if you run. Unless Obama passes a HC bill without a PO, then have at it Haas.
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Adrian Browne
October 19, 2009 6:14 PM
Why not flush another $60 million down the toilet?
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Hussein Stemper
October 19, 2009 6:33 PM in reply to Adrian Browne
And give the Romney boys yet another excuse not to serve in Iraq or Afghanistan!
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Dorn76
October 19, 2009 6:41 PM
A man of the people...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwwAaVmnf4
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Schmed
October 19, 2009 9:22 PM in reply to Dorn76
Still fires up the ol' vomit reflex!
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
October 19, 2009 7:14 PM
OMG! Congress is about to pass a health care plan that looks remarkably like the one you fulsomely supported when you governor of Massachusetts!
Idiot. Does he really think the loon platoon is just going to let that fact slide during the primary?
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GTFOOH
October 19, 2009 8:54 PM
he might not want to run because he knows he can't win the primary
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JohnMcCSF
October 19, 2009 9:03 PM
Feel the Mitmentum?
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Rader
October 19, 2009 11:45 PM
And if Brigham Young comes back from the dead and renounces polygamy, Mitt Romney might decide that women are actually human beings who are deserving of the same rights and privileges as men. But somehow I doubt the old Brig will be coming back anytime soon, and I suspect it more likely that Pretty Mitt is just babbling like the deceitful politician that he is and nothing more. Next question.
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Nancy Irving
October 20, 2009 12:06 AM
As always, GOPers blame everything bad that happens on the Democrats.
Obama made me run!
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Verified
October 20, 2009 2:05 AM
So Romney, patriot that he is, believes that President Obama has taken the country in "a very dangerous direction" yet he is unwilling to stand up and attempt to change this direction? So much for courage of conviction. He has just blithely and stupidly tossed some nonsense talking points. Sounds more like the comments of a dittohead than those of a serious man.
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jfields
October 20, 2009 2:56 AM
Did the person who wrote the headline for this article not read what Mitt actually said? Let me repeat the quote:
"Clearly, if President Obama happened to be doing a great job, as I had hoped he would do when he got elected, why, that would influence my thoughts," Romney said. "But instead, he's taken the country in a very dangerous direction, and that makes it far more likely that folks are gonna think about getting in and removing him from office."
And yet the headline reads, "If Obama Does A Good Job, I Might Not Want To Run"?
Sorry, guys, but this is a screw-up. Mitt's own words clearly tell us that he has already decided that Obama is not doing a good job, that he is leading in a dangerous way, and that therefore, "folks" (read: Mitt) are "gonna think" about running.
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