Romney assails Trump in New Year's op-ed: 'The president has not risen to the mantle of the office'

Washington Times ^ | January 1, 2019 | Victor Morton

[rdl6989]

Days before he officially becomes a U.S. senator, Mitt Romney took to the Washington Post to fire a shot across President Trump’s bow, saying Mr. Trump had made a “deep descent” in December and is hurting the national character.

In an op-ed column published online Tuesday evening, Mr. Romney, now a Republican senator-elect for Utah, came down hardest on recent moves in foreign policy and Cabinet positions related to that.

“After he became the nominee, I hoped his campaign would refrain from resentment and name-calling. It did not. When he won the election, I hoped he would rise to the occasion. His early appointments of Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions, Nikki Haley, Gary Cohn, H.R. McMaster, Kelly and Mattis were encouraging. But, on balance, his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions this month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office,” he wrote.

[Freee-dame]

The WaPo hated him when he was the Republican candidate. Now I guess Mitt will become their new darling. Mitt just hates Trump and is deep into protecting the swamp. He certainly has no loyalty or appreciation of the millions of Republicans who voted for him, even though we didn’t like him.

[TnTnTn]

If you mean he hasn’t fallen into lockstep with the globalists and swamp denizens...well yeah...America First...MAGA...

[AAABEST]

Finished? This miserable POS just got elected... again. We're stuck with him for 6 long years.

Get ready for "protest votes" and losing tie-breakers from now until 2025.

[Gay State Conservative]

Mitt Romney...bringing Massachusetts values to the great State of Utah.

[Lurkinanloomin]

McCain and Romney were both willing Designated Losers.

McCain was the first candidate I ever saw endorse his opponent and Romney just quit after the first debate.

Neither ever had any intention of winning.

They were just to give the impression of a “free and fair” election for the Kenyanesian Usurpation.

[entropy12]

Just say FUMR!

[Freee-dame]

Mitt will get far more media attention and adulation by being the new McCain, opposing everything PDJT wants to do. If he became a ‘rat, he would be a nobody.

Why did the people of Utah inflict this man upon the Republican Party and conservatives of America?

[jospehm20]

Tillerson, Sessions and McMaster are all turds, just like Romney. What a loser.

[OldMissileer]

Funny coincidence. I am literally reading Kurt Schlichter's new book, Militant Normals, and am on page 182 where he describes Mitt Romney:

The conservative wing of the Elite imagined that the best guy to embody the spirit of the age was a dude who seemed more like a mousier version of Judge Smails in Caddyshack (1980), without the laughs or the human touch.

You just knew that Mitt had never, ever seen Caddyshack. And if he had, he would think Rodney Dangerfield was the bad guy."

[nfldgirl]

“Bye Felicia.”

[Bonemaker]

[Lurkinanloomin]

Bush League Republicans don’t care if the GOP is destroyed as long as the borders stay open and the laws stay unenforced.

[eclectic]

POS

[lighthouse]

Tomorrow would be a perfect day to call McConnell’s office Nd let him know that the base will not stand for this kind of backstabbing. Republicans who refuse to follow Reagan’s 11th commandment should not be given committee assignments etc.

[Yaelle]

Did Romney ever comment on how well Clinton rose his mantle in office?

[Albion Wilde]

Just when we think McCain is out of it, this dipwad pulls us back in.

[CJ Wolf]

Same thought but against Obama. No different result. He is owned and controlled.

[a fool in paradise]

Mittens didn’t even reach the office and is a liberal chump.

[atc23]

Trump is the last Republican president. Demographics and Fraud make the current version of the party unworkable. The party has no interest in being anything but a different version of Marxist / socialist democrats

[a fool in paradise]

Because Mormon.