Posted on 01/07/2019 2:21:55 PM PST by Kaslin
It seems Republican Sen. Mitt Romney has short-term memory loss. This week he wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post in which he blasted President Trump for his leadership style. He opined that the president has not risen to the “mantle of the office.” Through the piece, Romney continually hit at Trump naming off each offense one-by-one. The article was a critique of Trump’s character, but a brief look at history shows that Romney’s has some flaws as well.
In 2012, Trump made a run for the presidential nomination but did not climb high enough in approval to continue, so he dropped out. After Trump stepped out of the race, Romney accepted Trump’s endorsement. In 2016, Romney tweeted that he would not have taken Trump’s support in 2012 based on some of the things Trump said on the 2016 campaign trail. It seems that Romney has forgotten his principles and tweets.
In February of 2018, Romney announced his senatorial run to replace now retired Republican Senator Orrin Hatch. Soon after his announcement, Trump tweeted his endorsement of Romney. After saying in 2016 he would not accept Trump’s endorsement, Romney took Trump’s endorsement a mere two years later. It was a strange acceptance for someone who prides himself on character and being so principled, especially against Trump.
For a man who claims to have so many values, he seemed to need the president. Romney felt his character, reputation, and public policy was strong, but he accepted the endorsement. If Romney was a man of his words, he would have declined it and ran on his principles, but he did not.
One is left wondering if Romney’s beliefs are real, or is his desire to be in politics more important. There seems to be a character issue here.
Romney’s article focused on Trump’s character. He blamed Trump for the division in the country, but America began to divide under former President Obama. Anti-Trumpers love to blame the last two years on Trump as if Obama never existed.
Has the anti-Trump army forgotten about Obama’s IRS's purposeful suppression of conservative groups, or how Obama denigrated Christians by calling them “bitter clingers," or maybe when he lectured the police days after five Dallas officers were gunned down while protecting Black Lives Matters protestors? Apparently, to Romney and his crew, those few examples were unifiers and brought “comity” to the nation.
Either Romney does not understand that “civility”- also known as bowing down, spinelessness, folding, weak-minded, and fecklessness in the GOP - was what Trump’s voters hated. Trump was elected because he was the exact opposite of the Republican Party leadership and the character that Romney touts. The Republican electorate was tired of “compromise,” which in truth meant that the Democrats get what they want and the GOP gets nothing.
GOP voters made a statement. Romney said that Trump’s conduct the last two years has been unbecoming to the Office of The President; however, nothing has changed. President Trump is the same as candidate Trump and still decisively beat Hillary Clinton. If anything, Trump has been consistent while Romney flip-flops for the sake of a political office.
Obama was not some great unifier, despite what the media, Democrats and establishment Republicans say. All of this supposed Trump-driven incivility should have his approval numbers in the tank. However, at this point in his presidency, Obama was at 47%, and Trump is at 46%. So who has the character flaw here? Trump or Obama?
Yes, character matters. However, before you point out one’s character flaws, make sure you delete the tweets that contradict your op-ed. Otherwise, you will be called out as a hypocrite.
flaws?
6 Jan: Park Record, Utah: Editorial: On climate change, Mitt Romney has an opportunity to lead
Despite the former GOP presidential nominee’s ties to the Park City area, voters here instead backed his Democratic opponent, Jenny Wilson, in November. But on at least one important topic, Romney’s views broadly align with those of Summit County residents and we’ll be looking to him for leadership.
In contrast to many in his party, Romney is a firm believer in climate change...
During last year’s campaign, he spoke repeatedly about the importance of combating climate change and the danger of failing to do so — including the potential for wildfires in the West to become even more severe and frequent in coming decades...
Already, Romney has shown he is unafraid to ruffle feathers on Capitol Hill. He spent the days before he took the oath of office Thursday in the national spotlight for authoring an opinion piece in the Washington Post taking President Trump to task for failing to rise “to the mantle of the office.”...
He’ll need to take that aggressive tone one step further on climate change and demand action. That would mean finding common ground with Democrats on climate legislation and, given the current state of the GOP, being one of the few from his party willing to do so...
https://www.parkrecord.com/opinion/record-editorial-on-climate-change-mitt-romney-has-an-opportunity-to-lead/
Mitt should fit right in!
Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Is a Winning Climate Strategy
The Atlantic - 5 Dec 2018
4 Jan: Axios: Ben Geman: Democrats debate how to face “the existential threat of our time”
•Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it the “the existential threat of our time” in the first speech of her second stint with the gavel.
•Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone said the panel’s first hearing would be on the topic...
•Some other potential candidates, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, make climate a priority...
https://www.axios.com/democrats-climate-change-2020-presidential-election-048b532d-4ded-4221-91ad-007500c17daf.html
5 Jan: Axios: Beto O’Rourke “supportive of the concept” of Green New Deal
by Shannon Vavra
Beto O’Rourke is “supportive of the concept” of a Green New Deal and “is looking forward to engaging more on the issue,” a spokesperson told HuffPost...
An aide for Sen. Elizabeth Warren told Axios earlier this week that she also supports the “idea” of a Green New Deal...
But Romney’s effort casting himself as the arbiter of character rings hollow for some who worked on, or were involved with, the Romney 2012 campaign for the presidency.
Over the years, our current Ambassador to Germany and former Fox News contributor, Richard Grenell, and I became friends. Everyone was very excited when Romney, having won the GOP nomination in 2012, chose Ric to be his national security spokesman for the campaign. As the New York Times put it at the time, “Mr. Grenell, a 45-year-old with a sharp wit, had joined the Romney campaign in April with sterling recommendations from Bush-era foreign policy figures, and an impressive résumé. He had served as a United States spokesman at the United Nations under four ambassadors during the Bush administration…”
Choosing Ric as his campaign national security spokesman was a natural and inspired choice. But when character mattered, Romney choked.
Willard McRomney is void of character!
should be even.
‘Republican Sen. Mitt Romney’ now that right there is a bold lie ...
Willard was in the race to make sure Zero had no actual opponent, same as McQueeg in 2008. He only attacks Conservatives, never left-wingers like himself. Treasonous scum.
Because treasonous ex-Gov. Willard is now a sitting Senator, and has actual power which he neither earned nor deserves.
As for your dream, I thought that’s what happened at those show debates.
Evidently you did not get to witness Mitt at his finest, when both Obama & Candy Crowley worked him over like he was a stuffed pig at the closing of a POTUS debate on national TV. Was disgusting to watch Mitt acting like a weak knee puppet, responding to each and every demand made by Obama & Crowley!!! What a loser this guy Romney really is!!!
A void. Yes. A big black hole.
As for Presidential aspirations, Mitt knows that PDJT rendered him an irrelevant jock-sniffer.
Like toenail fungus, Romney won’t go away. However, toenail fungus has the advantage of not talking.
Willard isn’t there to become President, just sabotage. He has attempted to destroy 3 elections in a row and is setting up for the 4th. Although McQueeg wasn’t running as anything other than a ringer in 2008, Willard worked on destroying Gov. Palin privately, the only shot McQueeg had at accidentally winning the Presidency. Then his full fledged shot in ‘12 at making sure Zero got a second term easily. In 2016, he personally recruited Egg McMuffin to funnel votes away from Trump to try to elect Hillary (his ultimate goal). He will be equally working hard to sabotage and upend President Trump for either a RINO ringer and/or for the Demonrat nominee.
P.S. If you got your repeal of the 17th Amendment, the UT legislature still would’ve elected this piece of $hit as Senator. These legislatures do love their corrupt establishment cretins.
Thanks for the link to the other article on Romney’s treatment of people behind the scenes. He’s even a bigger jerk than I thought.
So goes the story. It was a former McCain operative who started the "Romney trying to destroy Palin" story.
Maybe it was true and maybe it wasn't. I don't see the evidence that Romney was trying to destroy Palin during the campaign, and few have even made that claim.
After the election, McCain's people were working hard to vilify Palin and blame her for their loss, and that McCain operative chose to blame Romney for what McCain's people were doing even without any Romney involvement. And of course, Palin did enough herself to destroy her chances on her won.
If Romney or his people did badmouth Palin after the campaign, it isn't at all out of place for any potential candidate to promote his or her own candidacy at the expense of somebody else.
But the myth just grows and grows.
They are probably propping him up to believe he can win so they can try to slip Hillary in again because they owe her. Hillary will run with McCaulif. Tim Kaine was a mistake. She on’t ever be top of the ticket though.
I’ve made that claim openly and unapologetically since 2008. Willard wanted to be the “running mate” in 2008 to set him up nicely for 2012. When it went to Palin, he and “his people” were part of a number of individuals who sliced and diced her for the purposes of destroying her political career and prevent her from being a viable candidate in 2012 (and hence a threat to Zero).
You see, even if McQueeg hadn’t designated himself as ringer for Zero in 2008, Willard wasn’t just going to quietly sit back and let some “pissant” Governor from Alaska bury him for good that year. He’d been angling to screw the nation either way since he ran for Senator in 1994. He was going to set up the party and nation real good had he taken out Ted Kennedy and been the Presidential standard-bearer in 1996. The damage he’d have inflicted to the GOP and Conservatives would’ve been epic. He’s already done that in spades since 2008, and he’s not done, yet.
There was enough mess and recrimination in the McCain-Palin campaign that you don't have to postulate evil Mitt behind it all - they were already destroying each other.
And no, even if Romney had beaten Kennedy, there is no way Republicans would have nominated him for president in 1996.
In the extremely unlikely event Mitt Romney had been nominated in 1996, he would have been beaten as badly as Dole was, without real lasting damage to Republicans or conservatives.
But the myth just grows.
Especially not Mittens the RINO.
No Romney will ever occupy the White House I hope.
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