Posted on 01/08/2019 10:42:29 AM PST by Kaslin
The first public thing Mitt Romney did in the year 2019 -- on Jan. 1 -- was publish an attack on President Trump in the Washington Post, which, as we know, has not lacked for attacks on Trump.
He did not even wait until being sworn in, two days later.
I campaigned for Sen. Mitt Romney when he ran for president, including a closed-door meeting with him to raise funds among wealthy Los Angeles Republicans. As it turns out, I worked to elect a somewhat foolish man with few identifiable convictions. (For the record, I would do so again, since just about any Republican president will do less damage to the country than any leftist -- and Democratic politicians are now all leftists.) Life is filled with disappointments, and I will survive this one. But I should explain why this Romney column is so disappointing.
First the foolish part. What did Romney seek to achieve by publishing an attack on his own party's president? Did he think he would persuade one supporter of the president to stop supporting him? If he did, he failed, not because none of us can be persuaded to change our minds but because the piece was so intellectually and morally shallow.
So, why did he write it? And why did he publish it in the Washington Post, a Trump-hating newspaper? Does he share the Washington Post's political, social and moral values? Did he think he would enlighten Washington Post readers, the vast majority of whom already loathe the president, the Republican Party and the half of the country that voted for Donald Trump?
Of course not.
Does he believe attacking Trump is more important than addressing whether the United States has borders secure enough to prevent millions of people from coming into America illegally?
Does he believe attacking Trump is more important than the left's suppression of free speech at virtually every American university and the left's suppression of free speech on the internet?
Does he believe attacking Trump is more important than the left's ongoing attempt to abolish male and female identities among children?
Does he believe attacking Trump is more important than attacking the left's goal of weakening the American military?
Does he believe attacking Trump is more important than attacking the gargantuan size of the federal government, which undermines the unique American ideal of limited government?
Does he believe attacking Trump is more important than attacking the left for essentially destroying the Boy Scouts, from which his own LDS church has now withdrawn support?
Does he believe attacking Trump is more important than the dramatic decline of religion in American life? He is, after all, a religious man.
Does he believe attacking Trump is more important than preventing the left from dominating the country's federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court?
If he does, he may be more than a fool. And that something more may involve character defects. I try to avoid directing comments at the character of those I differ with, but since Mitt Romney deems it of national significance to publicly attack the character of the president of the United States, and given that he considers character more important than policies that affect the nation and the world, he has invited consideration of his character.
Given his attack on the president, rather than on the nation- and civilization-destroying policies of the left and the Democratic Party, character issues may explain his Washington Post column. While we have every reason to assume Mitt Romney is personally honest and faithful in marriage, a public figure's character is far more than his or her personal honesty and marital fidelity. Plenty of honest men and women and plenty of faithful husbands and wives have helped ruin societies. And in those more important areas of character, Mitt Romney is apparently quite lacking.
One character issue is lack of courage. In today's environment, it takes no courage to attack Donald Trump, especially in the Washington Post. Sen. Romney is now the darling of the elites of this country. He will be showered with praise by the elite newspapers and all the news networks (except Fox). He will be invited to give talks at universities throughout the country. He will be feted in Europe. And no one will scream obscenities at him when he dines in Washington, D.C., restaurants.
Another character issue is pettiness. It now seems very hard to deny that Romney resents Trump for doing what he failed to do: win the presidency.
A third character problem is a lack of conviction. Does anyone reading this column know what Mitt Romney stands for aside from winning elections? Can one reader name one strong conviction Mitt Romney holds? I can't. He appears to be essentially conviction- and ideology-free. The New Republic wrote in 2012, the year Romney ran for president, "In his various incarnations as a candidate, he has campaigned as a progressive, a conservative, a technocrat, and a populist, suggesting his deepest attachment is to winning."
When Donald Trump sought the Republican presidential nomination, I was convinced he had no ideology. And I could not identify any convictions. I therefore opposed his nomination. But I vigorously supported his campaign for president and hoped my original assessment was wrong. Lo and behold, Trump turns out to have the most solid conservative convictions of almost any Republican politician since Ronald Reagan -- and an almost preternatural amount of courage to put them into practice.
In 2012, the Wall Street Journal wrote of Romney's campaign director, Matt Rhoades, "People who know him say he isn't inspired by ideology ..." And Fox News host Chris Wallace described Romney's chief campaign strategist, Stuart Stevens, as "not big on ideology."
Just like their boss.
Dennis Prager along with the other “conservative” lite hosts on the Salem broadcastic network, are all in for the GOP-e and do not support Trump. Yes I am talking to you Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved. Might as well include never Trumper Michael Savage too.
One week into this, and he’s still getting hit hard on it. Shows what that he was really a very weak candidate. He should have won the election hands down. Worst candidate for our side, made worse by Paul Ryan on the ticket.
But, good news, we got 4 more years of Obama that beget Trump.
.....Mitt Romney Fails Again...
And Again!
And Again!!!!
Romney’s principal character defect is that he is Judas personified. He stabs his voters in the back. He is great to his family and personal acquaintances, but has no problem betraying the complete strangers, the rubes who voted for him. From a GOP voter’s standpoint, I think that’s a greater character defect than any number of Trump’s marital infidelities or questionable business deals.
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Trump stumped for him in his election run
And then this assh.le sh.it on Trump
The lack of simple Gratitude is a
terrible testament on who he is
Maybe you should have read the column before posting. And maybe you should listen to his show once in a while.
Romney will have to be content with taking cheap shots at Trump from the senate because he will never, ever get elected to higher office. He would have zero support from conservatives. Politically, he’s frozen in place.
Romney. Born on third base. Scored on a wild pitch.
Thinks he’s a home run hitter.
Loser.
romney rose above the level of his incompetence.
Prayer a rare individual his,wisdom increases,with age
Mitt Romney derides,again.
Mitt Romney Fails Again.
Now that this jerk has been elected to the senate, he will quickly prove himself to be the asshole we all knew he was before. Pitiful putz crying “lookatme, lookatme, lookatme”. MORON.
I think the author is wrong to work for Romney again should he be (God forbid) the candidate. Romney is so evil, it would be very bad not only for our country but our party. Had Romney won, he would have been no better than Obama, and Hillary would now be our president.
RINOmney is always about himself.
He believed there was now a McVacuum to position himself as the establishment RINO favorite.
I despise Willard, his cult, and his petty, self-centered, arrogance.
I will never waste a vote on this person. I don’t care who he runs against.
He is a traitor within the camp.
When I read @Blue Highway's remark I had the same initial thought. I read the entire article and came away with the bottom line fact that Mr. Prager is now a staunch Trump supporter and a newly converted anti-McRomney type of guy.
The article was an excellent expose' on the vapid Willard Mittens McRomney.
And doesn’t it speak to Romney’s character working for Bain Capital? Bain Capital who buy other companies and then would liquidate them.
I don't completely understand the ecclesiastical politics of the Mormon Church but I have always thought that Mitt the Bishop is hoping to become the Prophet. Then he can condemn his political enemies with more than just his assumed moral superiority and can claim it to be the "Word" of God, at least for those who hold that the church based SLC is really the church of God.
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