Republican elites retreat to a Trump-safe space: Mitt Romney's place

CNN ^ | 6/8/2016 | Theodore Schleifer

[lodi90]

(CNN)One year ago the question hovering over Park City, Utah, was which presidential candidate could capture the hearts of Mitt Romney's friends.

Less than a week later, Donald Trump said he was running for president and made them his enemy. And he beat them.

Now, with Trump as the GOP nominee, those same Republican fundraisers, business titans and longtime friends of Romney are back to huddle far from Trump Tower. Attendees caution that Romney's annual summit -- The Experts and Enthusiasts, or E2, retreat -- is not an exclusive conclave for the #NeverTrump movement. Yet it is the closest thing to a safe space for conservatives who agree that Trump is not a Republican in the mold of their 2012 Republican nominee, who remains revered by associates.

Romney, who has criticized Trump at every turn, will brief his allies in a highly-anticipated, even if brief, set of remarks Thursday evening.

Two Republicans who have been the most uneasy with Trump's ascension: House Speaker Paul Ryan, who just endorsed Trump last week, and Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, who has refused to, will speak, their offices confirmed.

[combat_boots]

Looks like the GOPe may go all “Vendetta” on us before giving up their cushy insider trades. “DC has fallen.”

[combat_boots]

Of course, we do. Everyone hates Nero in “Gladiator.” Except Nero and his Praetorians.

These GOPe vermin are Willard’s praetorians.

[combat_boots]

“conservative”

Anymore, the way the GOPe, Romney, Ryan, etc. types use the word, it may as well mean 100-year old eggs. 1YOE. Or cumquats.

I hate cumquats. I got sick on them as a kid. Orange, roundish little miseries of fruit.

[sergeantdave]

“Please elucidate. About ventilated seditionists, that is.”

Here you go...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Joseph_Smith

[sheana]

He has won one campaign for office. Just one. I can’t figure out why he’s all that to them anyway.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

‘Republican elites retreat to a Trump-safe space: Mitt Romney’s place’

Target rich environment? /S

[mkjessup]

I don’t understand the hate that Mitt has for Donald. It seems to go pretty deep. Wonder what it is.

I think it's two things, first - Trump called Romney what he was, a miserable candidate and a 'choker'. Second? I think that Trump somehow managed to give Mitt-Witt a wedgie in that magic underwear of his. Mitt Witt is just like his liberal-progressive Daddy George Romney, a LOSER! (And George Romney was a good buddy of Saul Alinsky)

[OKSooner]

Gracias. I’d like to say something about ventilation in our time, but, you know...

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Here’s my amateur psychoanalysis of Romney’s hate for Trump.... Romney ‘failed” not only in the Presidential race, but also “in his father’s eyes”...and here comes Trump who is so popular and everything that Romney could never do...
Its the old sibling rivalry...Cain and Abel.

[Bryanw92]

>>Why does loser Mittens have such pull on them?

He doesn’t have a pull on them. He is one of them. We are not. We are dirty little people who are content to live small lives and are, in their mind, overpaid. The GOPe wants us competing with the third world for wages and that means a third world lifestyle. They are as much our enemy as the Democrats who want us to stand in endless lines for our government handouts.

[Bryanw92]

The only safe space is a coffin. Let’s make sure that the GOPe dies as a political force on Romney Hill.

[Kit cat]

I will also say another thing about W he has NOT opened his mouth not a peep!!! He is not attending the convention but that is fine!!! W HAS CLASS all the way!!!!

[xjcsa]

The main objection to Trump remains his pledge to uphold the laws and borders.

Yes, let's pretend that's the problem.

[Kit cat]

They can’t endure 4 years of Trump because in 4 years the WALL will be up!!!!!

[pieceofthepuzzle]

The GOP establishment are somewhat like the noblemen depicted in the movie Braveheart. Committed to a ‘cause’ only as an abstraction, but more self-interested than anything else.

[Lurkinanloomin]

It is for the Cheap Labor Express stooges who make up the majority of the #NeverTrumpers

[Psalm 144]

I actually despise and detest these smarmy, duplicitous traitors MORE than I do even the most smugly unendurable liberal... and I never, ever thought I'd one day be able to say that. ################### “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Pic7]

[Personal Responsibility]

Because he LOOKS like a President and has the HAIR of a President.

[Boardwalk]

Mittens was neutered. Nothing!