Trump endorses Romney in Utah Senate race https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/374576-trump-endorses-critic-romney-in-utah-senate-race
Posted on 02/10/2020 12:30:42 AM PST by robowombat
“One of the ugliest political spectacles I have ever witnessed”
FEBRUARY 8, 2020 BY DAN PETERSON
From a recent article by the superb conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg:
I have criticized—and defended—Mitt Romney many times. But the effort, admittedly mostly from the worst goons, buffoons, and satraps of Trumpism, to describe him as a person of low character in defense of President Trump is one of the ugliest political spectacles I have ever witnessed. Has Romney at times been calculating? Of course. He’s a politician. But the suggestion that he is not an honest or decent man because he was “disloyal” to such a profoundly dishonest and indecent man is an exercise in mobbish immorality and the madness of crowds. And by the way, all of these gibbons and poltroons yammering on about how he was disloyal never seem to dwell on the question of why Trump should demand his loyalty in the first place? What does Romney owe Donald Trump? What trust or bond has he “betrayed”? Romney wasn’t elected because of Donald Trump.
If you honestly would prefer your children grow up to be more like Donald Trump than Mitt Romney, I don’t know that there’s anything left to talk about. Watch his actual speech on the floor. I have no problem with people who disagree with his reasoning. But to come away thinking he’s anything other than a man molded by charactering-building institutions (his family, his church, the Senate itself) who is trying to do right by them strikes me as a kind of Trump-personality-cult derangement. And speaking of the d-word, last week I noted the effort to bend all of conservatism and the Republican Party to the cause of personal loyalty to Donald Trump was a form of intellectual corruption. This week we saw it could actually get worse. The hysterics insisting that Romney must be kicked out of the GOP—an effort Mitch McConnell sees for the idiocy it is—are in effect arguing that you can vote for all of Trump’s judges and the vast bulk of his legislative initiatives and it counts for nothing if you don’t accept full baptism into his cult of personality.
I’ve been saying for 20 years that the cult of unity is a poison and that the hero in the American political tradition is not the mob, but the man who stands up to it. This week there was one hero and it wasn’t Donald Trump.
MITT SPLIT HIS VOTE TO COVER HIS BETS. HE IS JUST A PHONY POLITICIAN WHO WANTS TO RUN AT A LATER DATE.
Mitt is out... he will change party to independent soon
"(In 2012,) Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if Romney is the GOP nominee."
Cult of personality is one thing. Voting to impeach the President is another. Trump represents the people. Romney voted to impeach us.
This author just confirmed his derp state status. And his idiot status.
Romney a hero? Hardly.
Stopped reading right there. The 'perfumed princes" in conservatism are the 'rats biggest allies.
These are holy authorities, gods in waiting, Tin Angels. They are pretentious and supercilious with an air of superiority that renders them worthless as mere mortals. God save us from these wanna-be Masters of the Universe.
Jonah Goldberg is predictable as they come for never Trumpers....
Good points....
With the clarity of 20-20 hindsight, I am glad that Romney lost in 2012.
If he had won, most likely we would not now have, or ever would have, a President Trump.
Exactly what the Democrats do to keep their members in line on votes, and that's okay? Hmm???
Jonah and Peggy Noonan are still peddling their ‘he’s a bad guy’ to a grand total of about three people.
Aren’t these the people who previously told us that actions speak louder than words? Here is a president who has delivered light years beyond anything Mitt Romney would have done with GOP majorities of 100-0 Senate and 435-0 House.
They also overstate the anti-Romney invective. We already knew he was a coward, a snake and an egomaniac - this only confirmed it.
Jonah sets up a nice false choice - Trump v Romney. Trump is a 2-term president. Romney is a carpetbagger who won’t get close to the White House, mostly through his own fecklessness.
Isn’t mike lee mormon? Jeff Flake.
Jonah, maybe its you.
Pelosi and Romney, both claimed to be acting in the name of God. So did the Spanish Inquisition and others across Europe. The problem is no one is buying doing evil in God’s name these days.
The author is a scholar in Islamic studies and an apologist in defense of the Mormon church.
Romney voted against Trump for the simple fact of envy and jealousy
The US senate is a “character building institution”?
“House trial was held in secret. Trump couldn’t call witnesses or present evidence. Prosecution case was based entirely on hearsay by unknown people and other known Democrats. Vote was partisan in the House when Pelosi promised a bi-parrtisan conviction.”
After 3 years of the criminal conspiracy of DemocRats to overthrow Trump for purely partisan purposes, people being upset at Romney’s vindictive vote is the ugliest political spectacle? That’s derangement.
Romney’s got his hands in the Ukrainian cookie jar along with his son. The evidence is being released and it’s sick how these politicians are involved getting rich by diverting American taxpayer’s money known under the table as “foreign aid”..... they should all be charged with felony actions!
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