Mitt Romney is about to smash Donald Trump in a speech for the ages

Yahoo Politics ^ | 3/3 | Allan Smith

[TangledUpInBlue]

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney plans to bash Donald Trump in a speech Thursday, according to excerpts of the speech being passed around social media.

In quoted remarks released by Bloomberg Politics editor Mark Halperin, Romney calls Trump "a phony, a fraud."

"He's playing the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat," Romney is expected to say.

Romney, who recently has been publicly critical of Trump's campaign, announced Thursday's speech on Wednesday at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

[Proudcongal]

It’s kind of sad, Mitt actually thinks he’s relevant. How embarrassing.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The last Designated Loser that the RNC/GOP foisted on us to prevent us from electing anyone to stop The Cheap Labor Express is going to lecture us that we’re too stupid to know what’s best for us.

Flooding the country with fraudulently documented foreigners is the most important thing to the RNC/GOP.

They will do whatever it takes to prevent us from keeping our country and the rule of law.

[Organic Panic]

This has to be Trump planned pay-ops. Trump couldn’t ask for a better endorsement than to have Mitt publicly bash him. I don’t support Trump but I certainly am more convinced to support him if Mitt attacks him.

But what really speaks volumes is Mitt isn’t going to support Cruz who is the only competitor left that can beat Trump. Mitt would rather have Clinton.

[dforest]

You should contact FOX and demand equal time!

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

You do not know what you are talking about. I’ll leave it at that. The messenger is irrelevant. Trump is an abuse of power waiting to happen.

[Diogenesis]

Willard Romney is the DECEPTION for the ages.

"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005

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Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>

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"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I am not defending Romney. I am saying Trump is an abuse of power waiting to happen.

[RC one]

[LMAO]

Romney needs to keep his yap shut but this is the danger a lot of us who are skeptical of a President Trump.

First, he’s no conservative. He’s more liberal than Romney. We are told by his supporters to ignore everything he has said and done in the past and just embrace everything he is saying now. I get the anger at the GOPe as we all have it but I don’t think Trump is the cure. If he loses the election, that will entrench and embolden the likes of Romney, McCain, Linda, ect
If he wins and becomes the disaster many of us believe he will, that will also entrench and embolden the GOPe.

I hope I’m wrong about Trump. But if those of us who are skeptical are right, the end results will just plain suck on so many fronts

[euram]

Romney, the guy who couldn’t bring himself to fight 0bama during a months long campaign, has come out to fight Trump with just a weeks notice. How pathetic is that?

[Washi]

What the heck is a "lousy hat"?

I've never heard of that particular idiom.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

“...for the ages ?”

[ConservativeWarrior]

The article comments are very telling. This is YAHOO news, and even in that setting, Romney is overwhelmingly dissed and dismissed.

The people have had enough. If it were 100 years ago, Mitt would be tarred and feathered.

[libertylover]

Mitt Romney should have easily won the White House. He blew it. Gave us four more years of the destructive obama administration. And gave rise to Trump.

Exactly!

[miss marmelstein]

Since Mark Halperin outed the speech on Morning Joe this morning, I can tell you it has nothing new. It must have been written by freeper anti-Trumpsters.

Why would anyone think that Mittens was capable of a “speech for the ages”??

[dforest]

What you are saying could come right out of Willard’s mouth.

It is also ridiculous and you know it. Trump has never led anyone to believe he would abuse power.

That said, you know Obama does that over and over and the GOP just helps him abuse power.

It is because they are owned by donors. So is Ted.

[jilliane]

Time for the GOP to sign their own loyalty pledge - loyalty to voters

[TomGuy]

Sounds like it could be sour grapes — weath envy.

[KeyLargo]

Mitt Romney walks to his campaign plane with U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) (2nd L), U.S. Representative Connie Mack (R-FL) (2nd R) and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R), after a 2012 Romney for President campaign rally in Tampa, Florida October 31, 2012. Reuters

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[Gasshog]

LOL! Baby Rom-zilla