Posted on 01/13/2019 7:12:20 AM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- The gift that keeps on giving for President Donald Trump is that his fiercest critics on the left are no paragons of virtue.
During an interview with Nevada Public Radio (KNPR) on Thursday, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Trump "amoral," proposed that newly minted Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, would make a "great foil against Trump" and said Romney should run against Trump in 2020.
It was an odd turnabout from the son of Searchlight. In July 2012, Reid told the Huffington Post that an investor told him of Romney, "'Harry, he didn't pay any taxes for 10 years.' He didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain."
A month later, the Senate's top Democrat claimed on the Senate floor that Romney, the GOP presidential nominee at the time, "has not paid any taxes for 10 years. Let him prove he has paid taxes, because he has not."
Reid provided no evidence to corroborate his claim. PolitiFact rated the claim "pants on fire" false.
Reid was unrepentant. Sure, he had lobbed a bogus charge without proof, but the ends justified the means. In 2015, when CNN's Dana Bash told Reid some considered his behavior toward Romney to be "McCarthyite," Reid countered, "Well, they can call it whatever they want. Romney didn't win, did he?"
On KNPR, Reid explained that he carefully distinguished between "immoral" -- "you do things" like cheat in business or on your wife, and "you feel bad about it" -- and "amoral," meaning "you have no conscience."
No conscience? As in, "Romney didn't win, did he?"
Indeed, a caller to KNPR confronted Reid about that very remark and the former senator was rather Trumpian in his response. "I never said he didn't pay taxes," Reid responded. "I said he didn't pay his fair share of taxes."
Pants on fire again.
During the interview, Reid also called Romney a fine "moderate Republican."
In 2012, however, Reid called Romney's claim that Senate Democrats would work with him a "fantasy" and "laughable."
At least Reid didn't vote for the Secure Fence Act of 2006 and then decide a decade later that a fence is immoral. That would be Reid's successor, Chuck Schumer, who voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, but now finds the notion of border barriers so beneath him.
Reid's view on immigration shifted before Schumer's. In 1993, he introduced the Immigration Stabilization Act to revoke birthright citizenship, which he described as "a reward for being an illegal immigrant." Reid had a dicey recollection on that score as well.
In October, Reid said that as soon as he proposed that bill, "my wife, Landra, immediately sat me down and said, 'Harry, what are you doing, don't you know that my father was an immigrant? She set me straight."
Yet somehow in the year after he was set straight, Reid wrote a piece for the Los Angeles Times in which he supported the 1993 bill.
Look, this is politics. People say nasty things about each other one season, and then they're dining on frog legs together the next. And yes, that's a reference to the post-election dinner between Trump and Romney, when the 2012 nominee thought he had a chance at being secretary of state after dismissing candidate Trump as a "conman" and "phony."
Reid also told KNPR that after the 2012 election, he met with Romney and they had "a wonderful visit and we shook hands when it was over."
The definition of amoral is when you have no conscience.
Pot...kettle...black...plus you’re stupid, Harry.
I believe we will all face judgement someday. I would rather face mine than his or any of these people that claim to be a Christian and yet condone slaughtering babies.
Who is Harry Reid ?
Get back on the treadmill
Oh? Here we go again. A Democrat that wants to pick the opposition candidate? Can you imagine Trump pushing Chuck Schumer would make a great candidate, or any other person say, like Pelosi, should be the candidate. Divide an conquer is still the name of the game. If it isn’t Romney it would be Kaysish.
How’s the eye their scumbag??? Your mobbed up brother still punching you?? One would think your magic underwear would have protected you?
Yeah…treadmill …right.
I have a friend who said Harry Reid has been amoral over the past decade and seems to take great pride in it!
Wow, a lesson in morality from Mr. Clean Face...
Oh I’d rather have Trump standing on a podium in front of me,
Than have to trust Harry Reid standing behind me,
It’s different ways of handling trust you see
Well Trump may make cringe worthy Tweets now and then,
But Harry has his daggers and he’d eagerly drive them in,
I may face palm but at least I’m not bleeding out!
Reid, who is 79, does not have long to live. I hate to be so abrupt about this, but Reid probably would not mind. In May, he went in for a colonoscopy, the results of which caused concern among his doctors. This led to an M.R.I. that turned up a lesion on Reid’s pancreas: cancer. Reid’s subdued and slightly cold manner, and aggressive anticharisma, have always made him an admirably blunt assessor of situations, including, now, his own: “As soon as you discover you have something on your pancreas, you’re dead.”
Harry Reid is just plain stupid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg
It gets dumber the longer he speaks...
Crooks, thieves, and murders calling the just "amoral".
He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.Proverbs 17:15.
Or the 50’s childhood retort
‘Takes One to Know One’
or (later??)
“I am rubber, you are glue. Anything you say bounces off of me and sticks to you!”
OR....Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me’.
TODAY, just stab or shoot em and be done with it..<: <: <:
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ANALYSIS---Romney rolls out The Plan.....
<><> he jumps out of the box to lambaste Trump in an op-ed piece,
<><> that was supposed to knock-out Trump and set Mitt up as the only viable 2020 candidate, but flopped bigtime.
<><> Mitt also had "nice guy endorsements" from people like Reid lined up to advance his ambitions.
Well, maybe Mitt thinks Harry's endorsement will line-up Democrats For Mitt?
BOL.
What's Mitt planning next after seeing his rollout flop bigtime?
Think of ALL the crooked, corrupt politicians (both sides) that have been exposed in the last 50 years - and this dude can ONLY and has ONLY named Trump as a Moral problem?
Seems I know know what they mean by Amoral - that is, he is not playing the corrupt backscratching deep state game.
Get back on your read mill and get it right this time, two black eyes , you failed!
Lighten up and go away Harry. You’re just an irrelevant, cranky old white guy, POS these days.
You far left commie lib types are always preaching to us not to be “judgmental”. Now, all we’re hearing out of you far left ***holes is about YOUR “morals” and “values”. FO snowflakes!
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