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Mitt Romney is congressional Republicans’ secret weapon on trade
The Washington Post ^ | June 6, 2019 | Henry Olsen

Posted on 06/06/2019 12:14:48 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Republicans in Congress are confused about how to respond to President Trump’s multi-front trade war. With strong free-trade ideals but also cognizance of political and geopolitical concerns about Chinese competition, they stand paralyzed and inert. Mitt Romney can help them break out of their slumber.

Romney, now a senator from Utah, is uniquely positioned to lead his Republican colleagues on trade policy. He is unquestionably a leader of the party’s business and establishment wings. Those elements are strongly opposed to trade restriction, and deeply uneasy about Trump’s tariff wars, and they want nothing more than a quick end to all the conflicts. In principle, Romney shares nearly all of their concerns.

But Romney also was one of the first Republicans to see that China is different. His 2012 presidential campaign should have made more of that insight, but he nonetheless called for tariffs against China during that effort. Trump’s tariff war with China is an aggressive implementation of their shared vision.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: Utah
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To: Trump20162020

Mitt “Little Dogie” McRomney. The far left “media’s” new little princess now that Johnny Maverick is gone.


21 posted on 06/06/2019 2:26:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Trump20162020

Mittens the Magic Morman savior of the socialists.


22 posted on 06/06/2019 2:42:43 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck
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To: Trump20162020

Romney is a hack.


23 posted on 06/06/2019 4:03:32 PM PDT by mort56
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The Trump hating, America hating leftist media are trying desperately to puff up Mitt Romney. The same Mitt Romney that the same media accused of causing people to die of cancer a few short years ago.
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The oppo research on Romney is already set to be released the moment he stands as a threat to any Dem. This is the SOP: build him up as the candidate they can control and eventually ruin.

He’s a weak-assed fool at best and the Ds know it.


24 posted on 06/06/2019 5:57:04 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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I remember when Mitt was literally Hitler. It was after Bush was literally Hitler and after McCain was literally Hitler, but before Trump was literally Hitler.


25 posted on 06/06/2019 5:59:54 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Trump20162020

I thought he was the Dems’ secret weapon - only not so secret about it...but, if the WaaaaaPo says so, it must be true.....


26 posted on 06/07/2019 2:34:44 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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