The "Who is running?" tea leaves thread

[Maxwell]

Romney is apparently reconsidering.

Hillary v. Romney would be the most disgusting election in history.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Romney is apparently reconsidering.

Hillary v. Romney would be the most disgusting election in history.

Ugh, that would awful.

[Vega]

Romney is apparently reconsidering.

Hillary v. Romney would be the most disgusting election in history.

Ugh, that would awful.

Not as awful as Clinton v. Bush, though.

[tmthforu94]

Romney is apparently reconsidering.

Mittmentum!

[RogueBeaver]

Jeb could announce within a month.

[Vega]

Jeb could announce within a month.

I foresee his announcement kicking off a chain reaction.

[RogueBeaver]

Jeb is writing a book about his governorship and will release 250k gubernatorial emails.

[Türkisblau]

I want to see Jeb vs. Romney so bad.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

If Romney knows what's good for him, and I believe he does, he will stay out of the race. Enough said.


Anthony Weiner praises Rand Paul's 2016 strategy

[Lief 🗽]

A Jeb vs. Mitt primary would be epic. And it would increase the chances of a crazy winning over a fractured field!

[IceSpear]

Maybe Jeb stopped playing coy since he wants to end the Romney chatter.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Bachmann isn't going to run, but wants to be otherwise involved in the race:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/12/politics/bachmann-ready-to-take-the-handcuffs-off/index.html?hpt=po_c2

""I'm the only woman on the Republican side who's ever been in a presidential debate. I've been in 15 of them," Bachmann said. "I have no plans to put together a committee and run again, but I do intend to be involved.""

""I intend to go around the country and speak nationally on a variety of issues. I'll be writing. I'll be affiliating with groups," she said."

[Türkisblau]

Oh God please no more Bachmann. I will actually pray this time I swear.

[Maistre]

This GOP primary is shaping up to be 2012 reversed imo.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Say hello to the next attempt to get Romney to run:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/15/politics/ready-for-romney-group-launches-site/index.html?hpt=po_c2

Also, Warren says no yet again:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/15/politics/warren-denies-president/index.html?hpt=po_c1

[Mr. Morden]

Bush visits South Carolina for a commencement address.  Also:

http://www.ibtimes.com/jeb-bush-president-2016-likely-candidate-visits-south-carolina-says-he-would-be-good-1758943

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Trump reiterates that he's "very seriously" looking at a presidential run:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-strongly-2016-presidential-bid/story?id=27622611

[RogueBeaver]

Rubio holding a 2-day strategy session next month with donors.

[RogueBeaver]

WSJ on Jeb.

[RogueBeaver]

Jeb says he's "actively exploring" but forming a leadership PAC, not an exploratory committee.

[Consciously Unconscious]

Things should start to speed up, now that one of the top tier candidates is (basically) in.

[Mr. Morden]

Jeb says he's "actively exploring" but forming a leadership PAC, not an exploratory committee.

Politico says:

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/jeb-bush-exploring-2016-run-113599.html?hp=t1_r

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[Mr. Morden]

Things should start to speed up, now that one of the top tier candidates is (basically) in.

To be clear, most of the other GOP candidates already have PACs, so Bush is actually late to the party on this.

[Consciously Unconscious]

Things should start to speed up, now that one of the top tier candidates is (basically) in.

To be clear, most of the other GOP candidates already have PACs, so Bush is actually late to the party on this.

True, but none of the other top tier candidates have been this explicit about running.  Maybe Paul, but we don't even know if he'll be able to run for President and Senate at the same time yet. 

[Mr. Morden]

Things should start to speed up, now that one of the top tier candidates is (basically) in.

To be clear, most of the other GOP candidates already have PACs, so Bush is actually late to the party on this.

True, but none of the other top tier candidates have been this explicit about running.  Maybe Paul, but we don't even know if he'll be able to run for President and Senate at the same time yet. 

I'm not sure in what sense Bush is being more explicit about running than the others are.  The news here is that Bush, who has made virtually no visits to the early primary states and has not had a PAC, is suddenly doing some of the laying of groundwork that Cruz, Santorum, Rubio, etc. have already been doing for the last two years.  He wasn't doing it before and now he is.  But that just means that he's catching up to where other candidates already are in their preparation.

Of course, you could argue that his supposed "frontrunner" status means that he doesn't need to do as much laying of groundwork as others do, but that's a separate issue.

[Mister Mets]

Things should start to speed up, now that one of the top tier candidates is (basically) in.

To be clear, most of the other GOP candidates already have PACs, so Bush is actually late to the party on this.

The big thing is that he said he's actively exploring the possibility of running for President.

None of the other Republicans have had a press release like that.