Posted on 01/05/2019 6:26:51 AM PST by Kaslin
What's with Mitt Romney, the newly minted Republican senator from the great red state of Utah?
Mitt hadn't even been sworn in yet and he put his name on a New Year's Day op-ed column in the Washington Post bearing the headline "Mitt Romney: The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump's character falls short."
Then Mitt showed up on CNN to repeat his complaint that after two years the president of his party has "not risen to the mantle of the office."
Sorry he feels that way, but if moderate Mitt really cared about the GOP he would have put a leash on that super ego of his.
Lots of us Republicans have criticized the president's words and actions - justifiably.
But Mitt's criticism - delivered publicly in two of the liberal media's holiest places - was an ill-timed cheap shot aimed at reminding everyone in the Washington elite that he may be a loser, but compared to the president he's still a morally superior being.
Mitt knew his scathing criticism would immediately be spread far and wide by the Trump Hate Media, which it was.
He also knew it would instantly earn the president's ire, which Trump expressed in a series of counter-tweets.
Even Mitt's niece, Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, hit her uncle upside the head for his subversive selfishness.
"POTUS is attacked and obstructed by the MSM media and Democrats 24/7. For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack @realdonaldtrump as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive."
Mitt's attack on the president was more than a little hypocritical, given that he had unsuccessfully begged him for a cabinet position and had happily accepted his support last fall when he was running for Utah's senate seat.
There may be many Republicans who agree exactly with everything Romney said, but that's not the point.
It was stupid of him to write a column excoriating the president two days before he even took his Senate seat.
He wants to be treated with respect in the Senate, and this is the way he starts?
He should have showed up in Washington, taken his Senate seat and said and done nothing.
If he has complaints or comments about the president, he should have made them to Trump in private.
Trump quickly put Mitt in his place with his tweets and now Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will have to do it in the Senate.
For the next two years or so McConnell will have to remind Senator Mitt exactly who he is and isn't:
"Take your seat, Mr. Romney. You're a junior member of the senate. You're not our party spokesman. You have to earn the right to be a spokesman, the way Lindsay Graham has."
What Mitt did with his op-ed piece - beside pump up his deflated ego, hurt his own party, help the Democrats and give the liberal media free Republican ammo to fire at the president - was to really piss off his new boss McConnell.
I don't think McConnell will be calling on the rookie senator from Utah anytime soon to seek his advice on anything.
Meanwhile, now that Nancy Pelosi and her leftist Democrat children have taken control of the House of Representatives, the next two years are going to be very rough for the president, the GOP and conservatives.
The last thing they needed was another egotistical Republican flake running loose in the Senate, but it looks like that's what the junior senator from Utah is going to be.
“...Isn’t he the author of romneycare from Massachusetts?...”
Yes, the same one...who tried to pull off the lie that the people of Massachusetts paid for Romneycare when they only paid for half of it. And yes, you guessed it. The federal tax payer was paying the other half. Romney tried his best to hide and dodge the fact....but the media (yes the media) caught him in the “lie”. He is a Trump-hating scumbag. Treat accordingly.
I saw Michael Reagan in person hen he addressed the Young Republicans at the University of Southern California in 1976 when he was stumping for his father who was running for president. At the time, he was in the boat-building business.
Michael began to go off the rails in 2000 when he passionately defended the kidnapping of the young Cuban refugee Elian Gonzales and his return to the Fidel Castro regime.
He might have sometimes been critical of him, but that that doesn't make him a Never Trumper. You obviously don't read his columns or any of the other columnists that I mentioned.
"Mitt Romney: The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump's character falls short."
And yours, Hillary's and another Bushie would have been so much better? Anyone look how the companies "rescued" by Bain Capital are doing?
Too early to totally give up on Romney — his votes may be better than his mouth.
There is plenty of things to label him without needing to use elements of his religion. M2C.
Mittens screwed the pooch even before taking office. Must be a new record.
You said it.
Willard is Gaston from Beauty & The Beast, without the muscles.
He owns a house, if you can call it that, in Park City. He uses it as a confab platform to wine and dine the ruling class.
By giving aid and comfort to the opposition party before even being sworn in to the Senate, Mitt Romney has outdone even John McCain.
Mitt promises to be a smarmy leader of the Republican Benedict Arnold Caucus, serving alongside the ever-disloyal Susan Collins, while inevitably working to recruit new members.
At least John McCain, as Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, was an expert on the military, so that when he appeared on the Sunday talk shows to oppose President George Bush there was a chance he might say something of substance. But Mitt Romney has no area of expertise and no stature in the Senate, so that when he appears on the liberal media to denounce Donald Trump he will be offering nothing but pure aid and comfort to the enemy.
So true. We don’t need the Bishop reading from the Book of RINO.
Thanks
I forgot about Willard running left of Teddy for the Senate...1994...
:)
Yes, he was winning until he made his sharp left turn.
Or,
Mittwit
Romney is literally almost old enough to be Flake’s father.
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