the memory hole: George Romney and Saul Alinksy
(THAT Saul Alinksy) were very good friends:
Posted on 07/01/2016 5:08:29 AM PDT by blam
Neil W. McCabe
June 30, 2016
Former Massachusetts governor W. Mitt Romney told “Face The Nation” host John Dickerson Wednesday that his conscience would not allow him to vote for his party’s presumptive nominee Donald Trump, reports Atlantic.com. “It’s a matter of personal conscience,” he said. “I can’t vote for either of those two people,” he said at the Aspen Ideas forum, co-sponsored by Atlantic and the Aspen Institute.
Romney also allowed that his wife Ann would be an ideal president and he could write in her name, or failing that, he would write in the name of a third-party candidate.
It is interesting, though, that Romney stressed his conscience. Not so much as his own conscience, which has tacked left and right more times than a yacht off Nantucket, but rather, the 50-years-back dig at Barry Goldwater, the senator from Arizona and the author of the 1960 book Conscience of a Conservative.
In the 1964 race for the Republican nomination, Mitt’s father George Romney was the governor of Michigan and was well-respected as the successful CEO of American Motors. That’s when Romney-père ran what would now be called the #NeverGoldwater movement.
Goldwater was not backed by what Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) called the “kingmakers” of the Republican party. But Goldwater was a popular force speaking up for the New West and what was developing as a more robust conservative movement out of the shadows of Dwight Eisenhower.
The heir to Eisenhower Republicanism was supposed to be New York’s Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, but he had the unwanted blessing of his mistress’ baby born being right before the California primary. The event cost him the primary and the nomination, spawning the joke: Only Rockefeller could make motherhood a liability.
After the Rockefeller collapse, Romney-père’s first overt move was in 1964,
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Once, I thought he was a decent guy....no more!
Back stabbing runs in the family.
Romney has a world class (to match his globalism) twist in his magic knickers.
F@ck Mitt Romney’s conscience. The ‘conscience’ of a man who refused to pursue the fight in the battle of Obama deserves no more consideration than what I left in my toilet this morning after my daily dump.
He just needs to go on off and enjoy the fruits of his filthy lucre and shut the hell up.
So much for “Party Unity” from those who always demand it for themselves. Their time has passed.
Trump and Goldwater have plenty in common, but, Hillary is no LBJ. Once Trump wins all these traitorous weenies in GOPe can go into exile. I understand Bill Clinton has a buddy with an island with a pleasant tropical climate and all kinds of amenities
What YOU said.
Really disappointing. Maybe the establishment told him he'd better play with them if he ever wanted to have another shot at the WH -
Not many people left with personal integrity
So good old Dad was a political coward just like sonny boy.
Who would ever think I’d come to the point where I think better of the McCains than the Romneys.
The “conscience” of the man who helped to re-elect that anti-American leftist POS Barack Obama, yeah such a tender conscience. The man who couldn’t take apart Obama because someone might call him bad names is able to back-stab the R. nominee in an effort to help Shrillary be elected.
F. U. Mitt Romneykins, stay in your luxury mountain home and let the country get on without you.
Romney is not a RINO. He is a DNC employee, disguised as a RINO.
Mormons are odd gods.
Knifings from little girls like the Mittens family don’t hurt men like Trump.
Backstabbing and treachery is a Romney family tradition.
Along with never serving in the military and having a fondness for Mexico.
Yeah his Mormon gods don’t want him to vote for a Christian...
Romney doesn’t have any principles. Even GWB had principles, although he wasn’t a conservative.
It should be remembered that the old man Romney made the Nash automobile. Like him, the car was a failure. Nobody wanted them
At the convention Goldwater got 800+ votes and George Romney got 41...
Romney stomped out of the convention with teenager Willard at his heels...
And let’s not forget that Romney practically begged Trump for his endorsement and got it, and when he made the announcement speech he made Trump sound like the greatest thing since peanut butter...
Now he wants to make the same person sound like something he wiped off his shoe when he got home...stay home Mitt...
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