Ok perhaps you are right.
Carlos Danger-Delecto-Romney likes the middle in his
gay threesomes, and if Bloomberg is gay as you say,
who is on the other side, enjoying Delecto's
self-declared-delicious you know what.
Posted on 03/25/2020 6:18:34 AM PDT by knighthawk
If Romney is running an undercover campaign, then Romney might have his share of never-trump backers. If so, Trump is trolling them as much as he is trolling Romney. Trump undoubtedly has his own network of true believer backers who are keeping him informed about any feeler moves from any prospective “maverick” contenders. The deep state would still like to knock Trump off his pedestal by any means necessary or expedient. They need to line up someone who can be the anti-hero to Trump’s hero. It’s probably becoming obvious to them that Biden isn’t going to cut it as a credible contender to Trump.
I think Bloomberg/Romney is a possibility.
Ok perhaps you are right.
Carlos Danger-Delecto-Romney likes the middle in his
gay threesomes, and if Bloomberg is gay as you say,
who is on the other side, enjoying Delecto's
self-declared-delicious you know what.
i would just offer a WA guess that Romney is still some sort of second order threat to Trump. I have speculated in an earlier post that Romney is positioning himself to switch parties and become a draft (D) candidate for prez, to fill a prospective vacuum should Biden implode. A strategy that would allow Romney to do this would be to (a) snipe at Trump from sidelines; (b) go on record as favoring impeachment in some form; and (c) find ways to avoid voting on important (R) backed legislation before the Senate. Generally, Romney is finding ways to keep himself in the headlines as a contender for the title of “maverick” which could put him in a good position to run for president (especially if Trump makes a perceived political mis-step between now and the conventions). So by trolling Romney Trump is signaling both to Romney and Trump true believers that he (Trump) knows the score, and won’t let Romney get away with anything. Maybe.
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while I can see your point of the new “maverick” topping the dem ticket, I also believe mitturd is also posturing for his defense for his Ukraine corruption connections with his former chief of security, cofer black
remember this: running for political office is a crook’s best criminal defense.
(see: biden, hildabeast, bubba hisself, harry reid, mcturd)
“ at the very least because we must consider the possibility that he’ll jump to the Rat Party.“
An enemy outside the camp is better than a traitor inside the camp.
I’m amused. This president does things on a huge public scale that I only “Walter Mitty” daydream to myself.
Still. Hard to see an up-side to such a public thrashing.
Unless . . .
PDJT is sending a message about not betraying “the family.”
If Biden disqualifies himself beyond MSM redemption at some point (very possible IMHO) and leaves the (D) nomination open, who is available to fill the void credibly?
Not Sanders, permanently branded as a socialist.
Gabbard is too much of a real political maverick for the DS.
Romney (RINO) has widespread name recognition and credibility having come reasonably close to winning in 2012. He put himself on the comeback trail by running for and winning the utah senate seat as an R., so he has some momentum. He also seems to get perpetual sympathy from the MSM. He has the added advantage that he has a certain public perception of stabbing Trump repeatedly in the back. All of this spells out that Romney is at some level a political threat to Trump. If never Trumpers and DS types are not beating a path to Romney’s door right now to challenge Trump in 2020, as a draft (D), I would be somewhat mildly surprised.
The US political process pretty much locks out most quality candidates these days, and leaves us with the Romneys of the world. Romney is the classic epitomy of a tweedledum candidate— not a dime’s worth of difference.
1k per person was Mitts idea.
Romney is already a rat.
Interesting take on Romney going (D) and jumping in as a candidate. But. The idea that Dems would ever trust him or elevate a newly minted (D) to the highest office is something I cannot comprehend.
“Freepers commonly refer to a person committing a perceived non conservative act as a Rino even though the person is and always has been a staunch Republican.”
You seem to think party loyalty, being a “staunch Republican”, is what makes someone a “True Republican”, rather than conservatism.
The Republican Party platform IS supposed to be conservative - Republicans are supposed to protect individual liberties, advocate limited government, support the 2nd amendment, obey the Constitution.
So, in my book, a non-conservative Republican IS a RINO.
Put another way - I call Mitt Romney a RINO not because he voted with the Democrats on impeachment. For me it isn’t about the lack of party loyalty. For me it is because Romney is not a conservative. He votes like a Democrat on healthcare, gun control, border control, etc.. that’s why I call him a RINO.
Rand Paul and Mike Lee occasionally vote against the party, but I would never call them RINOs.
Don’t get me wrong, Mitt Romney’s impeachment vote against the President was wrong, and does make him a RINO - but not because of the lack of party loyalty - it was because it was anti conservative. President Trump is a conservative, and he was innocent. Voting to remove was an attack on conservatism, and therefore makes Romney not a true Republican in my book.
I think Trump, like many people don’t believe for one minute he was exposed by going to gym and pool at Congress that it was planned to not be able to vote to give the Dems in Senate the majority(him and Lee and few others to not be there for a vote). Not Rand- I believe him. But the others are suspect.
> Interesting take on Romney going (D) and jumping in as a candidate. But. The idea that Dems would ever trust him or elevate a newly minted (D) to the highest office is something I cannot comprehend.
(1) the Democrats do not have any credible candidates lined up at the moment;
(2) Romney is reliably corrupt from the point of view of the Deep State since he sabotaged his own 2012 campaign to let the Deep State choice win;
(3) Democrat and Republican voters rarely have a true choice before them to make in the first place. Most “candidates” (after ~1960 anyways) are Deep State stooges who are on the take with graft and/or pedophilia and were compromised long ago.
It’s not up to ordinary voters who runs for president. We all got lucky that Trump was around to rescue the USA in 2016, otherwise we would have had yet another tweedledum/tweedledee choice at the polls.
So my take is that the Democrat voting public would accept and vote for whoever Trump alternative that the MSM could find and stuff down their throats. Again, Romney is near-ideal with the exception of his party affiliation, which in any case imho is nominal at best, and something the MSM could easily paper over for (D) voter consumption in a few days’ time with relatively little effort. A couple of well placed editorials in the NYT and WaPo might be all it would take. (Democrat true believers don’t read much variety.)
It almost makes some political sense for the DS to set up Biden for Republicans to waste their advertising $$$$$$$ ammo on, and then substitute Romney at close to the last moment. “We heard you, and we listened, and so now we’re running a well known (R) as a (D)... and you can’t touch this.” The MSM headlines might read something like: “Dumb-@$$ Republicans spent all their cash attacking Biden when that brilliant maverick(TM) Romney was their real threat (hahaha)” After that, expect a series of articles exploring the inner soul searching that Romney performed, wandering in the Mormon desert, etc., etc.
Well you are wrong.
Conservatives do not stop to realize that they are in the minority. Although Conservatives are in fact a force, perhaps even a growing force, most Republicans are not dyed in the wool, purist conservatives.
I cite Tennessee as an example. Tennessee is Republican but not conservative. Conservatives tend to lose to Republicans.
Locally, we elected a purist conservative congressman, Rep davis. He won in a field of several Republicans. At the next election he lost to a more moderate, pure, Republican Rep Roe. The First Tennessee Congressional is the most conservative in the state
Senator Marsha Blackburn is an exception and perhaps points the way but is likely an anomaly. Senator Corker was a Republican but certainly not conservative. Freepers referred to him as a RINO when he was a pure Republican
another phrase for RINO is country club Republican, like Schwartzenegger who was substituted at nearly the last moment for McClintock for the California Governor nomination after McClintock and conservatives performed the heavy lifting by recalling Gray Davis.
No, Country Club Republicans are in fact real Republicans. They tend to be from the North East. They are the Rockefeller wing of the Republican party.
The Republican party is a big tent. It is a coalition of different views.
Mitt Romney a democrat wearing Republican clothes is a RINO
I am a bit lost in the semantics. Whenever in doubt, I would start from principles and actions, and dispense with labels altogether. That solves quibbling over labels.
In the old days. Most of them are now Democrats or dead. There are still a few around in the Northeast, but nowadays "country club Republicans" can be from everywhere else. Conservatives who used to complain about Northerners or Easterners now have to face the fact that the Republicans their own states elect may be country club types, or seen as country clubbers.
Don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, or in this case, don't attribute to evil designs that which is adequately explained by complacency, weakness and incompetence.
“...at the very least because we must consider the possibility that he’ll jump to the Rat Party.”
Any other state, YES.
NOT IN UTAH!
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