“More than half a year after his election loss, Mitt Romney is putting a tentative foot back onto the public stage,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Romney said that he plans to re-emerge in ways that will “help shape national priorities.”

“As a first step, the former Republican presidential nominee plans to welcome 200 friends and supporters to a three-day summit next week that he will host at a Utah mountain resort. He is considering writing a book and a series of opinion pieces, and has plans to campaign for 2014 candidates. But he is wary of overdoing it.”

Said Romney: “I’m not going to be bothering the airwaves with a constant series of speeches.”

Former Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum (R), who lost the gubernatorial primary to Rick Scott (R) in 2010, thinks the governor could face a primary himself, the Tampa Bay Times reports.

Said McCollum: “I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody looks at it. I’m not planning to do it.”

“After 20 years, the congresswoman whose name became shorthand for losing your seat over a single vote is looking to return to Capitol Hill,” the Washington Post reports.

“Marjorie Margolies is planning to run for Pennsylvania’s 13th House District seat… As a freshman in 1993, Margolies (then Margolies-Mezvinsky) was convinced by Democrats to switch her vote and save President Bill Clinton’s budget. On the night of the vote, Republicans taunted her from the aisles, predicting that she would lose her conservative district. They were right.”

Politico: “The new Anthony Weiner bears an uncanny resemblance to the pugnacious, hard-charging Anthony Weiner of old. The fallen congressman’s comeback attempt prompted a natural question: Was this a bid for personal and professional redemption — or an expression of the narcissism that got him in trouble in the first place? There may never be a clear answer.”

Said Weiner: “I will leave it to you to analyze the old versus the new, but to me my views on these things haven’t changed… I would think a much worse critique would be if somebody appeared, if I appeared, to be a different person than the one I was. This is who I am.”

Ann Romney told CBS News that she and her husband back Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) in the 2016 presidential race.

Said Romney: “Mitt and I are always very, very partial to Paul Ryan,” while adding that “we don’t even know if he’s going to run.”

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said “he’s undecided about running for president but didn’t appear to agree with his mother that enough members of their family have occupied the White House,” the AP reports.

Said Bush: “What can I tell you? All I can say is we all have mothers, right? She is totally liberated, and God bless her.”

Bush said he needs another year before making his decision.

Sen. John Thune (R-SD) told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader that GOP infighting “could hurt Republicans at the ballot box, as well as impeding their legislative agendas once elected.”

Said Thune: “When Republicans end up going to war with Republicans, it often leads to Democrats getting elected.”

Nonetheless, Thune said he’s not going to discourage Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD) from challenging former South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds (R) in the 2014 U.S. Senate race.