Mitt Romney all but announces he is running in 2016.

Courtesy of Politico: 

Mitt Romney, in a campaign-style speech Friday night to Republican Party brass, confirmed his interest in a third White House run, outlining a three-plank platform and pointedly attacking presumed Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. 

Introduced by his wife, Ann, Romney took to the deck of the U.S.S. Midway and was greeted with a standing ovation from members of the Republican National Committee gathered here for a party conference. “Me, I’m giving some serious consideration to the future,” he told them. 

In the 15-minute speech, he sounded very much like a potential contender, laying out a vision of where he said the Republican Party should go as it looks to toward the 2016 election. In 2012 his detractors dismissed Romney as the candidate of the “1 percent”; on Friday, he said the GOP needs to focus on closing the income gap between rich and poor Americans and lifting people out of poverty.  

“Under President Obama, the rich have gotten richer, income inequality has gotten worse and there are more people in poverty than ever before,” Romney said. 

Wait, Mitt Romney is now for income equality? 

Is anybody buying that?

Well President Obama's former campaign press secretary certainly isn't.:

“Romney is 47 percent concerned about inequality,” the president’s 2012 campaign press secretary, Ben LaBolt, said in an email. “The other 53 percent of him would rather polish his car elevators.” 

And seriously that should be the response from everybody. The idea that Romney is planning to run again alone is pretty preposterous, but the idea that he is running on the idea of income equality is laugh out loud funny.

I swear that Mitt Romney must secretly be a huge masochist.

Which actually does much to explain this outfit of Ann Romney's.

Kinky.