Monday, August 27, 2012

‘The Grizz’ eyes possible 2016 presidential run — if Romney loses

If President Barack Obama wins a second term, tire mogul and 1996 presidential contender Morry “the Grizz” Taylor says he will enter the 2016 presidential race.
“If Obama wins then you guys get ready, because somebody is going to have to fix this mess and it is going to be a real bad mess in four more years if he’s running it,” the Titan International CEO told The Daily Caller in a phone interview last week, after first suggesting the news day must be slow for this writer to catch up with the”wild man from the Midwest.”
“And then I’m going to run. Because if you had now with the TV and the debates, I would have a blast.”
Is the Grizz, whose quixotic and colorful Republican presidential run in 1996 was brilliantly chronicled by Michael Lewis in the campaign classic “Losers,” serious?
“If Mitt don’t win it, in four years, I’m going to run. … You watch me change the debate.”
And while he concedes he “might not win,” the Grizz, who turns 68 this week, says “at least the American people will have a real choice.”
“Let’s face it: You know as well as I do that I’m not a politician. I’m a fixer.”

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