Sorry mitt. The party doesn't want a "severely conservative" candidate. They want a democrat that supports Russia in Syria, calls other republicans names, and wants to spend 12$ trillion cutting taxes for everyone. Yay.
Mitt Romney long ago ruled out a presidential run in 2016, but he is hardly retired from politics.
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Romney had sharp words for Trump, a billionaire businessman and reality television star who endorsed Romney in 2012 and donated to his campaign. Explaining the Trump phenomenon, Romney said, “Frankly, when you light your hair on fire, you make the evening news, and some people have a lot of hair lit on fire.”
“The attention that Mr. Trump has brought to the process is welcome,” Romney said. “We like the fact that people are watching the debates. That’s the positive side. The negative side is that he’s said some things that he described the other day as being ‘childish.’ . . . I’m afraid he brought attention to in a way that was not productive and not appropriate in saying the things he did about Mexican American immigrants.”
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Romney was definitive in predicting the front-runner’s fate: “Donald Trump will not be the nominee. Ultimately our nominee will come from the mainstream conservative bracket. I don’t know who that will be.”
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