I don’t know which I find more interesting: that Mitt Romney is filling the Herbert Hoover role of “old hand” in the Republican Party or that the Bush Crime Family wants no part of this and shuns him at every opportunity.
Mitt Romney, who earlier this year decided against a third presidential bid after briefly flirting with a run, will jump back into the national political scene next month when he hosts GOP presidential hopefuls and some of the party’s biggest donors in Utah.
Romney’s 2015 E2 Summit will take place June 11-13 in Deer Valley, a ski resort east of Salt Lake City, according to an invitation obtained Thursday by The Washington Post.
Confirmed speakers from the likely 2016 Republican field include Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.).
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, long seen as a Romney rival due to tensions between their camps, was invited but will not attend, per a Romney ally.
This must be just personal animosity and, perhaps, a bit of a family feud, because Romney and Bush are ostensibly from the same business-friendly not-conservative-enough wing of the GOP.
It seems to me that Romney has a lot to offer Jeb and there will be a cost to letting all Romney’s connections and efforts go towards servicing Jeb’s rivals.