Posted on 02/27/2018 3:46:24 PM PST by Enlightened1
No offense, but who didn’t know why Mittzerrs was running?
My own impression is that Ann and Mitt are Hillary Redux, inspired by power, money and grudges. Ann wears the pants certainly.
Exactly.
Could something give Kasich the other boot?
Hard to tell - Trump “endorses” Mitt and now Utah takes action to eliminate Mitt - the web is getting really tangled.
President Trump endorsing Mitt is the art of the deal move.
If Mitt turns on him, then Mitt looks really bad.
Thanks that link did explain it. They are trying to block candidates from getting on the primary election ballot through signatures instead of through the polotical party convention. Here’s the relevant piece from deseretnews.com...
“The Utah Republican Party declared itself a qualified political party under the law known as SB54, which allows candidates to get on the primary election ballot by gathering petition signatures, going through the political party’s convention, or both.
“This central committee bylaw is in direct violation of that. For me, it’s a matter of integrity and honoring what you say you will do as a party,” Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, who brokered the SB54 compromise, said on KSL Newsradio’s “The Doug Wright Show” Monday.
Trump seems to have a good sense of who to endorse and when to do it. Same with Wicker here in MS - I can't see choosing him over McDaniel but McDaniel hasn't officially entered the fray ....yet.
What Is It About Mitt Romney?
John Schroeder
Wed, Feb 28, 2018
http://www.hughhewitt.com/what-is-it-about-mitt-romney/
McKay Coppins had a Monday piece about a failed attempt to keep Mitt Romney off the ballot for the open Utah Senate seat. This after the president’s endorsement (before the primary!) of Romney. There is clearly a significant group of people that really, really do not like Romney. I find that bewildering. Mitt Romney is the least objectionable guy I have ever seen in public life. What is it that makes people object to him so? And it is not just this party thing in Utah – now that he is back in public life, and given my very active and public support of him in his presidential runs – I have got people coming out of the woodwork to tell me how much they don’t like him.
The short answer is, typically, “proven loser.” But that does not hold water for very long. The 2012 presidential election had a number of extraordinary factors involved and the man is not running for president again. He has won some pretty significant elections in his life. Further, the political realities in Utah give him an overwhelming advantage in this Senate race. “Proven loser” is a convenient excuse for objecting to Romney, but it is not a genuine reason.
The other thing I hear a lot is “milquetoast.” That’s just utter nonsense. Mitt Romney is not bombastic, profane, pushy or needlessly confrontational, but he is no milquetoast. That is a charge born purely of ignorance. Anybody that has studied his business dealings, or his rescue of the Utah Winter Olympics, or his service as governor of Massachusetts knows the man is not “a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, especially one who is easily dominated or intimidated.” This again is excuse, not reason. But it does, I believe, begin to hint at the real reason behind the obvious animus towards Mitt Romney.
We currently reside in an ugly, nasty, indecent world. Consider Hollywood. A lot of people think we need to fight fire with fire, and Mitt Romney is not a fire-fighting fire. Mitt Romney is a pillar of decency. His mere presence in political life shames those that would continue to drag us into indecency, even for the sake of fighting indecency. Mitt Romney’s political fights are a reflection of the battle that is raging for the soul of the nation. It is not really a political fight at all. It is a fight about who we want to be at our core.
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Well If You Read It On The Web....It Must Be True!
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