Is Mitt running for president again?

"Meanwhile, I'll be sitting at home for the next year and a half, waiting for that deadlocked convention to turn its lonely eyes to me."

 

He likes to fire people, not get fired by people.

 

Yeah, people said the same thing in 2012. Never going to happen.

 

I'm sure it won't. But I'm also sure - from the way he phrased his exit - at least part of Mitt (and His Sense of Destiny) is expecting to come riding in on a white charger once everybody else in the party screws up the nomination.

 

People who can't figure out the difference between legal immigration and illegal immigration are morons.

 

Mitt's a good soldier. The popular perception is that in 2008, he stepped back despite running a relatively close second to McCain because someone in the party told him he'd be better off in running 2012. I could see someone coming to him now and saying, "If you want the republicans to have a good shot at winning in 2016, they'd be better off without having Jeb and Mitt split the vote and the fundraising.

 

Count me in too.

 

There are a lot of writeups that Mitt was specifically casting his lot with someone other than Jeb today, given that he talked about the "next generation" of GOP leaders and someone who might not be well-known to the public. Jeb is 62 and has the highest name recognition of any candidate.

 

It makes me sad he's not running. I was looking forward to the entertainment.

 

Maybe he will wind up as VP and can fire people from there.

 

No word on if he ever held anyone down to shave their head:


In the fall of 1967, when a 14-year-old Texan named John Ellis Bush arrived on the bucolic campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, great expectations preceded him.

Jeb, as he was known, should have been an easy fit in that elite and ivied world. His much-accomplished father and his older brother had both gone to Andover; no one was surprised that Jeb had followed suit.

But this Bush almost ran aground in those first, formative prep school days. He bore little resemblance to his father, a star on many fronts at Andover, and might have been an even worse student than brother George. Classmates said he smoked a notable amount of pot — as many did — and sometimes bullied smaller students.

Resolutely apolitical despite his lineage, he refused to join the Progressive Andover Republicans club and often declined even to participate in informal bull sessions with classmates. In a tumultuous season in American life, he seemed to his peers strangely detached and indifferent.

“He was just in a bit of a different world,” said Phil Sylvester, who said he was a Bush roommate. While other students “were constantly arguing about politics and particularly Vietnam, he just wasn’t interested, he didn’t participate, he didn’t care.”

Meanwhile, his grades were so poor that he was in danger of being expelled, which would have been a huge embarrassment to his father, a member of Congress and of the school’s board of trustees.

Bush, in an interview for this story, recalled it as one of the most difficult times of his life, while acknowledging that he made it harder by initially breaking a series of rules.

“I drank alcohol and I smoked marijuana when I was at Andover,” Bush said, both of which could have led to expulsion. “It was pretty common.” He said he had no recollection of bullying and said he was surprised to be perceived that way by some.

Tumultuous four years at Phillips Academy helped shape Jeb Bush - Politics - The Boston Globe

 

There will be no shortage of entertainment. What's Sarah Palin doing these days?