Posted on 06/26/2019 5:37:32 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
I am not a Romney fan, but it is hypocritical for the Establishment to call Trump weak on Iran when they attacked Romney for his comments after the Obama Administration blamed Benghazi on a video.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/romney-repeats-sharp-criticism-of-obama-on-libya-egypt-attacks/2012/09/12/31074af4-fcdf-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b44b8136e5d8
“It almost feels like Sarah Palin is his foreign policy adviser,” Matthew Dowd, who was a top strategist for president George W. Bush, said in an interview. “It’s just a huge mistake on the Romney campaign’s part — huge mistake.”
"running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.) — appeared to undercut him with noticeably more conciliatory and somber responses. “This is a time for healing. It’s a time for resolve,” Ryan said Wednesday during a campaign stop in De Pere, Wis."
Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said Romney was “right on the larger point,” but “I probably would have waited a day or half a day.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/us/politics/behind-romneys-decision-to-criticize-obama-on-libya.html
"Mr. Romney’s initial statement looked clumsy and badly timed to many, and Republicans like Peggy Noonan, the Wall Street Journal columnist, and John E. Sununu, the former New Hampshire senator, publicly criticized it."
"Mr. McCain’s longtime adviser Mark Salter chastised Mr. Romney for “unfair and hyperbolic sound bites.”
“I would probably have waited 12 or 24 hours and put out a more comprehensive statement,” said Representative Peter T. King, a New York Republican"
John Ullyot, a Republican strategist, said it was a self-inflicted wound: “It’s developed into another distraction that has put foreign policy — not a strong suit for the G.O.P. ticket this time — front and center in an uncomfortable way in a campaign that is becoming less and less about the administration’s job record.”
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/12844-republicans-troubled-by-romney-remarks-on-embassy-attacks
"I don't think President Obama sympathizes with those who attacked us. I don't think any American does," said former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge
Peggy Noonan "I always think discretion is the better way to go," Noonan said. "When you step forward in the midst of a political environment and start giving statements on something dramatic and violent that has happened, you're always leaving yourself open to accusations that you are trying to exploit things politically."
Romney is an Ass!
Pretty much a given leftists are hypocrites. Everyone knows.
For that matter everyone is a hypocrite. You, me and that guy over there.. hypocrites.. It’s the human condition and an impotent accusation.
These are Republicans.
There’re quite a lot McCainocrats and Obamacans in GOP.
You can find some in FR. two faced neocon, fake Christian, Europhile troll, Russophobia gay disguised as conservative......
GOP has been rotten to the core.
Republican Es are more dangerous than democrats.
All of the people quoted are Bush League Republicans.
They were helping him lose graciously.
Leftists.
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