Even a dedicated lib like Cilizza can see this.
Only the stupid desperate GOPe can’t.
I agree. Mitt’s diss energized Trump’s base and raises sympathy from others.
Except in this case, the GOPe sent many so-called conservatives to Congress, then they folded like a cheap tent and/or incumbent Republicans did not support them - or even attacked them. Leadership caved (Boehner, McConnell, and recently Ryan) to Obama, Reid, and Pelosi. The people revolted and attacked the GOPe via the TEA Party and the Trump Tidalwave.
But, the GOPe refuse to answer the issue of “Hey, what did WE do to trigger this?”. The GOPe needs some introspection - a concept which they absolutely cannot grasp. They are genetically incapable of understanding the anger of "the great unwashed" whom they failed.
Trump is a symptom, not the illness.
Romney was - and still is - a dismal failure, not a just-in-time GOPe Super Hero.
If Romney had attacked Obama then like he is attacking Trump now, things may have been different.
If only the GOPe would fight Obama as hard as they fight Trump and Cruz.
Perhaps Trump asked him to do this.
(Trump, you magnificent b@st@rd !)
Yep.
By design?
The net result of Romney stepping-in to this election cycle will be a 5 to 7 point average increase in polling results for Trump.
They left off "too bought and paid for by the global establishment money interests." (The main problem with all of them. I believe Romney could be plenty aggressive and "tough" but I also know he wouldn't be doing it fighting for us. He who pays the band gets to call the tune.)
“Donald Trump has shown an extraordinary ability to understand how our economy works and to create jobs, he has done it in Nevada and across the country. He is one of the few people who stood up and said China has taken jobs from Americans. We believe in free trade but we have to have a President to stand up and not allow people to cheat day in and day out.”
Mitt Romney in 2012 - just 4 short years ago
Watch for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlD4hwzGhdY
Romney may as well pour gasoline on his credibility and drop a match on it if he now attempts one of his classic flip-flops.
Romney, PUT DOWN THAT COFFEE! Coffee is for winners and you didn’t even get that set of steak knives.
I wonder if we will ever find out what was promised and by whom to entice Romney to jump into the primary brouhaha and make an utter ass of himself on national TV.....
He just flushed down the toilet what little personal honor and stature remaining after his dismal effort against Barack Obama.
Yep, we’ve been hearing for months that Trump is not a real conservative. And now the real conservative from Massachusetts will come to lecture us all.
Romney is the bookend to Geo. HW Bush, bracketing the period in which the GOP squandered the Reagan Revolution in favor of playing along with the progressive project to fundamentally change America from a Republic of free citizens to an agricultural combine where the people are kept as docile stock to be harvested for votes.
Really, why is Romney getting involved? Can he/they not see that he was a big part of why the republicans lost in 2012?
They just don’t get it, do they. It’s the establishment that’s the problem. The go along to get along RINOs. The great promisors that don’t deliver. The compromisers. The spineless. The GOPe, of which Romney is a member.
Even Chrizz Sizzlean gets it.
Romney unleashes scolding blast at Trump, who begs, “Oh, beat me, beat me, Mitt!”
I had forgotten about Romney’s aristocratic tone deafness. And that of the GOPe in general. Did Prince Rebus request this favor of His Mittness?
The GOPe and Romney still do not get it.
Maybe they will read this post and it will finally sink in:
WE ARE MAD AS HELL AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!