Mitt Romney is no Richard Nixon — and that’s actually bad news for the small group of people hoping to make a Romney presidential run in 2016 happen.

Over at Politico, a former member of Romney’s team, Emil Henry, tried to make the case for another Romney presidential run. But his piece reflects the same sort of delusional thinking that lead many in the Romney camp to argue he would beat President Obama in 2012, despite a flood of polls in key swing states that suggested otherwise.