Panic ? Republican anxious Carson or Trump might win

But, he said, “they have to be made to self-destruct…Nothing has happened at this point to dislodge Trump or Carson”. Better still would be if after a win in Iowa by Carson, Romney could get significant write in support in New Hampshire, a state where Romney is well known from his days as Governor of neighboring MA.

Jowers said Romney may be ready to throw his weight behind a candidate even before the holidays “just because he’s realizing the impact he could have, and might need to have”.

“Fresh off a new Washington Post report that GOP establishment leaders are calling on Romney, who has run and lost twice before, to reconsider his decision to stay out of the 2016 race, associates of the 2012 Republican presidential nominee tell CNN there are a lot of inbound calls but that there are no signs he’s changed his mind”. Friends have mapped out a strategy for a late entry to pick up delegates and vie for the nomination in a convention fight, according to the Republicans, who were briefed on the talks, though Romney has shown no indication of reviving his interest. Maybe, if the Iowa caucus race and the New Hampshire primary were to come out with different winners, especially a split between Carson and Trump.

The party establishment is paralyzed. Probably not, but that apparently hasn’t stopped a few unnamed party insiders from drawing up plans to break open his glass box and use him to put out the raging hairspray-fire that is Donald Trump if necessary.

SC Gov. Nikki Haley, herself an outsider who rode the tea party wave into office five years ago, explained the phenomenon. “They’re saying, ‘Look, what you said would happen didn’t happen, so we’re going to go with anyone who hasn’t been elected'”.

The Washington Post reported that, due to “growing anxiety” about either Donald Trump or Ben Carson taking the GOP nomination, a few Republicans say certain members of the GOP “party establishment” are looking to pull Romney into the race. “They’ve been damaging to the image of the party”, Jowers said, citing their “shallowness and lack of readiness to lead”. Chris Christie hasn’t caught on. I think reporters also understand that it is the Democrats, not the Republicans, who are desperate-so desperate that they are trying to avoid holding debates, for fear that voters will realize what a awful candidate Hillary Clinton is, or notice that Bernie Sanders is an elderly socialist. Jeb Bush is going nowhere fast.

Romney said earlier this year he wouldn’t back a presidential candidate until the GOP had chosen its nominee. Neither has the long time Congressman and current governor of OH, John Kasich.