<p>As more and more Republicans become concerned with leading GOP candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson, a call has gone out to recruit Mitt Romney &#8211; the Republican favorite who lost the 2012 election to Barrack Obama. Many suspect, however, that this rumor is none other than a liberal scheme to undermine GOP candidates. Considering the fact that the story originated with the <em>Washington Post</em>, I&rsquo;m inclined to agree.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Party leaders and donors fear that nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the GOP ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency and increasing the odds that the Senate falls into Democratic hands,&rdquo; reads the <em>Washington Post</em> ;article. ;</p>
<p>Despite talk of panic and rumors of a late entry into the race, Mitt Romney has shown zero interest in launching a last-minute presidential campaign.</p>
<p>The <em>Post</em> suggests there is a growing &ldquo;anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>With less than 3 months until the Iowa caucuses, the chances of someone dislodging Carson or Trump is slim. Consider the most recent GOP debate, in which no candidate was successful in landing a blow against either frontrunner. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;The rest of the field is still wishing upon a star that Trump and Carson are going to self-destruct,&rdquo; says Eric Fehrnstrom, former Romney advisor. &ldquo;They have to be made to self-destruct&hellip;Nothing has happened at this point to dislodge Trump or Carson. ;</p>
<p>Fehrnstrom warns that we are about to step into &ldquo;the holiday time accelerator. You have Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year&rsquo;s, then Iowa and a week later, New Hampshire, and it&rsquo;s going to be over in the blink of an eye.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Thomas Kean, former Governor of New Jersey, doesn&rsquo;t know what to think. &ldquo;People usually start off in the same way&hellip;They assure me that Trump and Carson will eventually fade. Then we&rsquo;ll talk some more, and I give them a reality check. I&rsquo;ll say, &lsquo;The guy in the grocery store likes Trump. So does the guy who cuts my hair. They&rsquo;re probably going to stick with him. Who knows if this ends?'&#8221;</p>
<p>Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina, explains that the public is frustrated with Congress for not accomplishing much during recent years. They now look to an outsider candidate, someone &ldquo;who hasn&#8217;t been elected.&rdquo; ;However, according to longtime presidential candidate advisor Charlie Black, the election &ldquo;will eventually fall into the normal pattern of one outsider and one insider, and historically the insider always wins.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Big investors continue to withhold their money, fearful of choosing the wrong candidate in this volatile race. &ldquo;Some of them are in, but too many are still saying, &lsquo;I&rsquo;ll wait to see how this all breaks,&rsquo;&rdquo; says mega-donor Kenneth Langone, a supporter of Chris Christie and one of the founders of Home Depot. &ldquo;People don&rsquo;t want to write checks unless they think the candidate has a chance of winning.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Florida doctor Peter Wish has so far remained out of the race. Wish, who was a member of Romney&rsquo;s National Finance Committee in 2012, says, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m very worried that the Republican-base voter is more motivated by anger, distrust of DC, and politicians and will throw away the opportunity to nominate a candidate with proven experience that can win.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re potentially careening down this road of nominating somebody who frankly isn&rsquo;t fit to be president in terms of the basic ability and temperament to do the job,&rdquo; says a Republican strategist quoted in the <em>Post</em>. ;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not just that it could be somebody Hillary could destroy electorally, but what if Hillary hits a banana peel and this person becomes president?&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Trump&rsquo;s popularity took a blow last week after he explained his opposition to raising the minimum wage. He has also received criticism for the statement that he would create a &ldquo;deportation force&rdquo; to find and remove all illegal immigrants from the country.  ;</p>
<p>Jeb Bush advisor Austin Barbour worries that without the right nominee, the Republican party could lose the Senate and &ldquo;face losses in the House.&rdquo; He does have a point, but anyone paying attention to the candidates shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that Trump and Carson are still in the lead. So despite the concerns of a few establishment Republicans, it&#8217;s obvious that the ;idea of drafting Mitt Romney is not a serious effort by anyone in the Republican Party. ;</p>
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