Posted on 06/13/2016 7:12:18 AM PDT by Pelham
Mitt Romney suggested Friday that Donald Trump's election could legitimize racism and misogyny, ushering in a change in the moral fabric of American society.
The 2012 Republican nominee, who has openly opposed Trump's candidacy, went further than he has before in outlining to CNN's Wolf Blitzer how the country's character would suffer in a Trump White House. Trump's rhetoric has caused even some other Republicans to label him a racist, and Romney said he would not be able to paper over his incendiary remarks.
"I don't want to see trickle-down racism," Romney said in an interview here in a suite overlooking the Wasatch Mountains, where he is hosting his yearly ideas conference. "I don't want to see a president of the United States saying things which change the character of the generations of Americans that are following. Presidents have an impact on the nature of our nation, and trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America."
Romney, who actively sought to recruit an independent, third-party challenger to Trump, also conceded that a credible candidate will not emerge. But he did show a new openness to one non-Trump candidate, libertarian Gary Johnson, whom he did not rule out voting for.
Johnson's running mate is another former Massachusetts governor, Bill Weld, who once fundraised for Romney. If the ticket was flipped and Weld was the standard-bearer, Romney said he would have no qualms about voting for the libertarian ticket this fall.
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Or, Trickle-Down Treason?
Romney, an old fool, blathers about nonsense when the USA suffers from events like those that took place early Sunday morning.
Romney (and most progressives of either party) wouldn’t know racism if it bit them on the @$$.
ROFL....I think Willard ‘the rat’ Romney’s ‘magic underwear’ is to tight, shutting off the blood flow to his head...
Liberals have a clever scam. They call themselves Republicans so that conservatives fund their campaigns.
Right? Why would anyone other than CNN care about what this loser says, thinks or feels? #DumpRomney #DumpRyan
Already trickled down under Obama, and anti police too.
Trump is right Mitt did choke like a dog, no balls, no spine.
Glad he lost. Now STFU and go away.
Ryan is such a wuss he just might retire to his K street massa’s plantation if he is primaried the next two elections.
If he survives this primary.
WTH is Mitt Romney these days???? He’s not elected to anything is he???
I held my nose and voted for that scumbag, like I did for McCain because I knew Obama would be terrible but I had no illusions that either of them would be good, perhaps marginally better is all I could hope for. But I will never ever again vote for another GOP-e stooge. That's done.
He’s turning into Al Gore.
“Romney fights republicans like a rabid, caged dog. It’s the democrats he plays nice with. So this sort of escalation isn’t unexpected. He’s the worst. “
Good observation.
It's how the LSM conned McCainiac into being worse than he otherwise would have been.
(I still think he should have been booted out of the Senate during the thrifts corruption, if not into prison as well.)
Doesn’t he ever shut up? He’s embarrassed himself already, plenty. He will never win any public office in America other than possibly -— hitlery’s vp?
Trump is being handed the election on a silver platter thanks to Obama, Hillary,Romney and the Liberal Media ignoring the fact that we are at war with ISIS on our own turf.
I held my nose and voted for this jackass in 2012 with the thought that bad as he is, he’d still be a small improvement over Obama. Given Romney’s behavior during the past few months, I’m not even convinced that much was true.
So did I. The first time in years that I had voted for the GOPe. I’m glad the bastard lost.
Romney is the epitome of what is wrong with the Republican Party.
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