{"id":6342,"date":"2014-08-28T19:24:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=6342"},"modified":"2014-08-28T19:24:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:24:17","slug":"hillary-vs-mitt-in-2016-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6342","title":{"rendered":"Hillary vs. Mitt in 2016 &#8230; seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This just in: A new Iowa poll says Mitt Romney is miles ahead in a poll of 2016 Republican caucus participants.<\/p>\n<p>Run, Mitt, run.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/08\/mitt-romney-2016-election-iowa-poll-110392.html?hp=r2<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 Republican presidential nominee\u00a0has dropped a hint or two that might be thinking about a third run for the presidency in 2016. He lost the GOP nomination to John McCain in 2008, then got thumped &#8212; surprisingly, in the eyes of many &#8212; two years ago when President Obama thumped with a decisive Electoral College victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Circumstances could change,&#8221; Mitt said recently when asked about a possible run once again for the White House.<\/p>\n<p>What might those circumstances be? Only he and, I presume, his wife Ann, know the answer. OK, throw in his five sons; they&#8217;ll know when something is up.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I&#8217;d like to see Mitt go again. I am curious to see if the Olympic organizer\/business mogul\/former Massachusetts governor has learned from the mistakes that might have cost him the White House in 2012. Will he steer clear of &#8220;47 percent&#8221; comments? Will he refrain from saying that &#8220;corporations are people, too, my friend&#8221;? Will he forgo making $10,000 wager offers on a debate stage with other Republican rivals?<\/p>\n<p>He might also be a bit more specific than he&#8217;s been about how he&#8217;d handle these international crises differently than the man who beat him in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>For my money, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton remains the candidate to beat in 2016, even though she&#8217;s looking less inevitable than she was looking about six months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Mitt, though, could give her a tussle.<\/p>\n<p>You go, Mitt.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in: A new Iowa poll says Mitt Romney is miles ahead in a poll of 2016 Republican caucus participants. Run, Mitt, run. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/08\/mitt-romney-2016-election-iowa-poll-110392.html?hp=r2 The 2012 Republican presidential nominee\u00a0has dropped a hint or two that might be thinking about a third run for the presidency in 2016. He lost the GOP nomination to John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6342\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hillary vs. Mitt in 2016 &#8230; seriously?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[540,2140,2546,3101],"class_list":["post-6342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-hillary-rodham-clinton","tag-john-mccain","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}