Soon he’ll be baaaaaaaaaaaaack. Former Republican Presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is planning to make his voice heard once again. Could it be because there is such a huge clamor to see him one again from the Republican Party’s Romney wing? Or because he made such shrewd and successful political decisions in his campaign that he can sweep the party to victory in 2014. We cut and paste..you decide:
While his own presidential ambitions fell flat in 2012, Mitt Romney is already looking ahead to how he can help in 2014.
In a Thursday interview with the Wall Street Journal, Romney unveiled how he plans to make a national impact during the upcoming midterm elections. Among the ideas on the table: a book, a summit in Utah and last but not least, stumping for congressional GOP candidates — with a level of moderation.
Uh, oh. If too many people use the word “moderation” in regards to Romney, he’ll be as welcome in conservative Republican circles as Joe Scarborough would be on Mark Levin’s radio show.
“I’m not going to be bothering the airwaves with a constant series of speeches,” Romney told the Journal, via TPM.
Three months after losing the general election to President Barack Obama, Romney leveled to Fox News about the rigors of the end of his campaign, calling the experience a “roller coaster” filled with “ups and downs.”
Romney will have lots of advice and perspective to give, to be sure. But if he wanted to he’d have a lot of something else to give his party: $$$$.
Will he?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.