A Romney Pipe Dream

Anyone who wants to see Mitt Romney fail now should hope he follows the advice given by Lisa Schiffren and Peter Roff and runs for the now open Senate seat in Massachussetts; anyone looking forward to kicking Multiple Choice Mitt in a couple of years time should hope his political instincts haven’t yet deteriorated beyond the point of no return and that, consequently, he’ll decline this exciting invivation to failure.

As James Joyner suggests, this idea makes no sense at all, not least from Romney’s perspective. The fact that it’s being offered in a friendly spirit is quite astonishing. Here’s Roff explaining why Rmney should run:

Such an announcement would likely be embraced immediately by the Republicans, who would like almost nothing more than to deny Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada his new, hard-won, 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority. As a self-funding candidate who has already been elected once statewide, Romney has nearly 100 percent name ID.