# Mitt Romney, presidential bid as a democrat? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 14, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-presidential-bid-as-a-democrat/990129 "2023-09-14T23:17:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 98
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-presidential-bid-as-a-democrat/990129/98 "2023-09-14T23:32:56Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > No. He’s a very conservative Republican that doesn’t happen to be batshit crazy. This. The fact that he’s an anti-Trump Republican may give him a modest level of respect among some Democrats, but compared to any actual Democratic candidate, his views and policies are going to be far too conservative. He may be marginally not as unpalatable to liberal voters as Trump or his MAGA allies, but that doesn’t mean he’s actually palatable to them. See a not-dissimilar discussion here, from last year, about Liz Cheney: [Liz Cheney for president. Who would vote for her?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liz-cheney-for-president-who-would-vote-for-her/969830/) Also, memories aren’t _that_ short, and liberal voters will remember his comments from his 2012 presidential run, like: > [@](#): > > “There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what … who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. … These are people who pay no income tax. … and so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” > [@](#): > > “I had the chance to pull together a cabinet, and all the applicants seemed to be men. […] I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks?’ And they brought us whole binders full of women.” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-presidential-bid-as-a-democrat/990129)._