Posted on 01/02/2019 6:34:56 PM PST by Eddie01
Meet the new Mittens, same as the old Mittens.
He’s either at your feet or at your throat, as Clemenceau once said of Germany.
Always willing to stab another Republican in the back, even more eager to genuflect in front of whatever loathsome hack Democrat will be only too ready to double-cross Willard when the moment arrives, as it invariably does.
Willard Mitt Romney — The Washington Post’s latest anti-Trump bloviator shares the same first name as the most famous rat in Hollywood history. Coincidence?
At age 71, about to be sworn in today as the junior senator from his latest home state of Utah, he’s already putting the blast on his leader of his party, Donald J. Trump.
That’s right, the same Trump whose endorsement for president Romney flew to Las Vegas to slobberingly accept in 2012, after which Mitt denounced him as a flim-flam man in early 2016 when Trump himself was seeking the job, and then only months later made a pilgrimage to Trump Tower after the election to beg President-elect Con Artist on bended knee for the job of Secretary of State … .
You might say he was for Trump before he was against Trump before he was for Trump before he was against Trump. You can’t get any more Willard than that. He’s flipped on the subject of Trump more often than he’s flipped on abortion, or illegal immigration.
And now, hours before assuming office, Willard attacks Trump in the most rabid of the Fake News print outlets, The Washington Post, for not having “risen to the mantle of the office.”
If you missed the sanctimonious screed, don’t feel bad. It was easy to overlook, in the Post’s daily torrent of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Mittens’ piece was competing for clicks against op-eds about, among many other things, “Trump’s nihilism” and “this sad, embarrassing wreck of a man,” not to mention “the cult of Trump’s personality” and “the frightful portrait of a man out of control” or – well, you get the picture.
In other words, Mitt is now merely another voice in the chorus, another brick in the wall. And he puts the blast on Trump in the same parlor-pink sheet that in 2012 basically accused him of driving a gay prep-school classmate to an early grave … by cutting his hair in a childish prank in the early 1960s.
Once again, Mitt proves himself a victim of political Stockholm Syndrome, identifying with his captors. He’s not a battered wife, he’s a battered RINO – Republican in Name Only.
But unlike most of the other never-Trumpers, Mittens doesn’t wear a bow tie. He wasn’t born in Moscow or Nicaragua or Toronto, like so many of the other neo-con Trump haters. He didn’t run a crappy little magazine that just folded.
He was the GOP candidate in 2012, for Pete’s sake, as he would put it. You’d think he’d be willing to give a guy who accomplished what he and his father George before him never could the benefit of the doubt. But no.
“A president,” the wannabee president wrote, “should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity.”
Honesty and integrity — you know, like Barack “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” Obama. Or George “Mission Accomplished” Bush. Or Bill “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky” Clinton. Or George H.W. “Read my lips, no new taxes” Bush.
That’s the kind of honesty and integrity that Mittens would like to see return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Mittens claims to be truly heartbroken to learn from a “Pew poll” that there is now less faith in the United States among people in “Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Sweden.”
Oh no!
By the way, given recent events, how much confidence do the sheep-like residents of those decaying, immigrant-overridden gerontocracies have in their own failed governments?
Don’t worry, though, Mittens vows to “speak out” against policies that are “divisive, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions.”
Virtue signaling, thy name is Willard. You know, for a guy who’s never taken a drink, Sen. Romney certainly seems to have an unhealthy craving to get invited to all the fashionable cocktail parties in Georgetown.
If only he had shown such backbone when, say, Ted Kennedy was drunkenly attacking him in 1994, or when Barack Obama slapped him down for speaking the truth about Benghazi and Russia in 2012. But no, when a pablum-puking leftist as much as glares at him, Mittens drops into the fetal position and begins whining, “May I have another, sir?”
But Mitt’s play now is pretty clear. As of today, Sens. Jeff Flake and Bob Corker are gone from politics. Ditto his old running mate, Speaker Paul Ryan. John Kasich is leaving office in Ohio. John McCain ain’t coming down for breakfast.
So there’s a vacuum to be filled in the prime time lineups of CNN and MSNBC and on the networks’ unwatchable Sunday chat shows. Those Democrats with press passes want a Republican on their panels along with the six Democrats, an elected Republican, preferably, who’s responsible, an adult, who wants to reach across the aisle … and then stumble into the fetal position for a good stomping in the general election.
Paging Willard Romney. I can see the editorials now in his new favorite newspapers, the Post and The New York Times about how he’s “grown” and “evolved” and … .
Mitt still wants these Democrats to love him. I guess you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but it’s a lesson Mittens should have learned decades ago.
If you’re a Republican putting the blast on other Republicans, you’re the toast of the town. At least until you’re running head-to-head against a Democrat. Then you’re just plain toast.
Don’t worry. It was going to be SOMEBODY.
Mittens has all of the charm of a used-car salesman. McCain without the “war hero” mantle.
His freaky Mormonism and slimy personality are the perfect face to have on the Cheap Labor Express faction of the GOPe that he represents. The GOP needs to be “woke” to his kind and the danger to America that they represent. What better spokesman for their cause could we ask for than a retard like Willard?
More than a few....many more. Just watch the upcoming election for Minority leader in the House.
Anyone have the best photo of Mr. Romney? Mitt went to Trump Tower to interview for the job of Sec of State. Trump released one photo of that meeting. The men were seated at Trump’s restaurant, and what was on Mitt’s plate? Frogs legs! I thought that was the funniest put-down ever.
Romney sure loved Trump when he wanted a job.
Howie rocks!
Howie ping!
I think that Trump ‘put-down’ for the Sec of State job....galvanized Romney from a four-star ‘slug’ to a five star ‘slug’.
My question to Romney after reading the op-ed piece....which Russian ‘collusion’ agent wrote it for you? The Russian agents which helped you lose in 2012....are they still working for you today?
Actually, Willard was the creepy guy who owned all the rats. The head rat was named Ben.
“I had a wonderful evening with President-elect Trump. We had another discussion about affairs throughout the world and these discussions I’ve had with him have been enlightening and interesting and engaging. I’ve enjoyed them very, very much. I was also very impressed by the remarks he made on his victory night.
By the way, it’s not easy winning. I know that myself. He did something I tried to do and was unsuccessful in accomplishing. He won the General Election, and he continues with a message of inclusion and bringing people together. And his vision is something which obviously connected with the American people in a very powerful way.
The last few weeks, he’s been carrying out a transition effort, and I have to tell you I’ve been impressed by what I’ve seen in the transition effort. The people he’s selected as members of his cabinet are solid, effective, capable people. Some of them I know very well.
Nikki Haley and I go way back. She’s an outspoken, strong, powerful leader. Tom Price is someone who actually came to my office before he’d run for Senate and we spent time talking about health care – what an expert and solid thinker in that arena and others. Jeff Sessions was someone who I knew through my campaigns, helped me very early on. He has a distinguished record in the Senate. And, of course, many others. Betsy DeVos and a long list of people. Very impressive individuals.
I happen to think that America’s best days are ahead of us. I think you’re gonna see America continuing to lead the world in this century. And what I’ve seen through these discussions I’ve had with President-elect Trump, as well as what we’ve seen in his speech on the night of his victory, as well as the people he’s selected as part of his transition – all of those things combined give me increasing hope that President-elect Trump is the very man who can lead us to that better future. Thank you.”
Exactly!
trump was stupid not to make him an ambassador someplace.
After Howie says it, there ain’t much left to say.
[Gov] Romney also kept giving mulligans to a city education superintendent (from PR) that couldn't pass the state-mandated English exam for education "professionals".
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