Sen. David Perdue: Mitt Romney makes the same mistake that cost him the White House

Washington Post ^ | Jan 5 2019 | David Perdue

[rintintin]

n a recent op-ed for The Post, “The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump’s character falls short,” Mitt Romney made the same mistake that many Republicans did in 2012 — a mistake that cost him the White House.

With his attempted character assassination of the president, a fellow Republican, Romney put self-interest ahead of the larger national interest: conservative Republican governance. The op-ed brought to mind 2012, when many Republicans chose to divide the party by continually bashing each other. Romney eventually discovered that many discouraged GOP voters decided to stay home on Election Day.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Being a skeptical cynic, It might be that Mitt is the designated opposition

Off topic, partly: I have lately been interested in analyzing cynicism, and IMHO cynicism is very different from skepticism. Whereas skepticism is openminded, cynicism is arbitrary. If I am cynical about “A,” I am perforce naive about the opposite of “A.” And if you are cynical about society, you are naive about government - which is opposite to society:

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;

the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.

The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.

The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

[oldvirginian]

It would be EPIC. Pay per view worthy.
Someone lied to Mitt and told him he was special.

In years past when a newly elected State Senator got to Richmond he/she was given the smallest office (think janitors closet), never assigned to a committee, couldn’t introduce or sign onto bills, never spoke on the floor and was told to sit down, shut up and learn. If they passed their probationary year the exceptional ones were possibly assigned to some very low level committee that was make-work.

The State HOR was even worse.
ALL freshmen reps of all parties were seated in the Kiddie Corner (yes, it was called that). The section of seating furthest from the floor, couldn’t introduce or sign onto bills, never spoke on the floor, assigned the worst offices imaginable (think towel closet in the mens room), told to sit down and learn.
The freshmen were infamous for flying paper airplanes, spitball fights and other juvenile behavior.
If a freshman won re-election they were then assigned to low level committees, could sign onto bills proposed by others and were given minimal time to speak on the floor.
I have talked to several former state representatives who admitted it was the best way to handle newbies, show them they are irrelevant until they calm down.

Can you imagine Mitt, AOC or that Tlaib git being treated like that?
I WOULD sell tickets to that.

[Impy]

A Senator writes something, they’d print it.

Very good editorial by Perdue, I didn’t know he had it in him.

[Wuli]

“We have two sets of laws one for the peon and one set for the elites. Why is Hillary still walking around? I think your post is a joke right? an attempt at comedy?. “

No, we get the government(s) we collectively choose, at every level, whether or not it is a bunch in government that some of us disagree with.

There may be failure at times and in incidences when the laws are not PROSECUTED equally, across the board, but that does not make “two sets of laws”.