Story highlights S.E. Cupp: Democrats were very eager for Romney to run

She says they will have to discard the "47 percent" and "car elevator" attack lines

S.E. Cupp is the author of "Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity," co-author of "Why You're Wrong About the Right," a columnist at the New York Daily News and a political commentator for Glenn Beck's The Blaze. The opinions expressed in this commentary are hers.

(CNN) Here we won't go again.

No Mitt Romney 3.0. No "third time's a charm." No invoking Ronald Reagan's two failed presidential campaigns.

No 47%, car elevators or dog on the roof. No Bain Capital. No Olympics.

S.E. Cupp

The media can say goodbye to a plethora of story lines as it prepares to cover the 2016 presidential race.

But other than mourning the (substantial) loss of some well-tread fodder, the announcement that Mitt Romney will not be running for president a third time does little to change the 2016 outlook for Republicans. There's still an establishment candidate in Jeb Bush, if he runs. And the rest of the very deep Republican bench -- with the possible exceptions of Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Chris Christie -- would have run whether Romney was in it or not.

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