Posted on 10/14/2016 9:36:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
After criticizing Trump’s comments on the lewd video released last week, the 2012 nominee did not say who he would vote for, but said he thinks Trump has “maybe a 25% chance” of winning.
In a new interview, Mitt Romney says that he criticized Donald Trump’s 2005 comments about women last week because they were “so over the line” that they demanded an answer.
“I felt that I had to say something again to simply point out to the women of America, and to the men of America,” Romney said in a podcast interview with Ashcroft in America posted on Friday, “that we’re better than that and that this does not represent the quality or character of our country.”
In the interview, Romney talks at length about the 2012 Republican primary, the general election against President Obama (“It was not until election night that we recognized we were not going to win”), why he believes Republican voters nominated Trump, what the future holds for Republican Party as an institution, and how he thinks it’s likely that Hillary Clinton will win, but he doesn’t think “it’s impossible that Donald Trump wins,” saying he has a 25% chance.
“We’re conflicted as a people right now,” he said. “To a certain degree, we feel patriotism, pride in our country, [and] hope for the future. We’re family-oriented, God-fearing, hardworking people. On the other hand, there’s a growing stream of anger and resentment, defeatism, victimhood, and a lot of people are sort of torn in both ways. We have our better angels and our darker angels, if you will.”(continued)
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I don’t want the party put back together, if the RINOs don’t want us DEPLORABLES in. Mitt should leave because he doesn’t have a future - neither does the #NEVERTRUMPERS.
Uh, this party has been going down the tubes for years.
Candy Crowley sounds like a dancer at a ‘Gentleman’s Club’...
LOL!!!
Good for you! And your dog.:)
My Lab has been deplorable for three years....she’s still basically a puppy. :)
The Traditionalist Patricians are deeply concerned.
Just boot Romneykins and a few similar miscreants. The new, reformed Republican Party will start coming together just fine without them.
Mittens and Candy sitting in a tree.
K.I.S.S.I.N.G
Just boot Romneykins and a few similar miscreants.
And if ANY of the usual suspects have ANYTHING to do with the upper ranks of the NRRP then we know we know we are being snookered again.
The furniture on that plane is better than the furniture in my house.
Of course, I shouldn’t have said “a few” .... it will take quite a blood letting to start reforming the Republican Party!! But start with Romneykins and his cabal.
These traitorous-to-their-electorate preening condescending fools need to accept that the “party” was THEIR party before. They are now Whigs...or soon will be. None of these degenerate globalists should ever be trusted with authority or responsibility. What pathetic creatures with only concern for their self-interests.
Weren't they a semi famous indie band? No wait, that was the Afghan Whigs.
Why does anyone even listen to this loser?
You anus-aperture Romney, the only thing difficult to put together will be your cheap labor express and globalism. Trump has certainly accomplished that much.
What, Governor, have you done to heal it or to stem the rift?
Yeah, as long as Romney, Bush and Ryan are in the party...I’m out.
There will be no GOP national Party left if Trump loses.
Hey Mitt, it’s about priorities in life! Now STFU!
Bishop Willard is such a whining, mewling, genocidal little pain. He is as useful, pleasant and necessary as gas bubbles in the intestines. The one good thing he has done is let the cat out of the bag about the hivemind mormon political machine.
“I think even with a Trump victory....the GOP is probably going to evolve into two parties within a very short period of time (four years is my guess). On one side will be the familiar GOP-RINO Party, and on the other side will be a state by state Deplorable Party (aka Tea Party and conservatives). It will generate a massive Democratic Party win in the Senate in 2020, but it’s likely to occur.”
That is certainly a possibility, but also a possibility is to go for a more moderate, federal - in the original sense of local control, small government peace party. Everyone will have to compromise, but could live with it. The Uniparty’s fake Punch and Judy show was intended to polarize. As long as the Bush family and neocons had a stranglehold on the GOP machine, it got narrower and weirder and more globalist.
If he wins, Trump could pick up the inheritance of the Reagan appeal to former Democrats.
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