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Jonah Goldberg: Mitt Romney is owed an apology
Post-Gazette ^ | June 11 2020 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 06/17/2020 12:54:16 PM PDT by rintintin

“Romney didn’t win, did he?”

That was former Senate Democratic majority leader Harry Reid’s response to whether he regretted lying about then-GOP presidential nominee — and now Utah senator — Mitt Romney.

Mr. Reid accused Mr. Romney on the Senate floor in 2012, when he was running for president, of not having paid any taxes in four years. It was absolutely untrue and was discredited by Washington Post fact-checkers and others at the time. But that didn’t stop the onslaught of unfair and inaccurate accusations and innuendos.

The Mitt Romney who ran for president in 2012 went on to vote for conviction in President Trump’s impeachment trial. And that same Mr. Romney became the first known Republican senator to march with the George Floyd protesters over the weekend.

You remember 2012, right? That was the year of the last presidential election before Donald Trump’s victory. And the way liberals attacked Mr. Romney’s presidential campaign on opinion pages of newspapers, news broadcasts and in the media echo chamber of blue check-mark Twitter, has a lot to do with how the next election went — and how this one will go. Their treatment of Mr. Romney was an inflection point for many on the right.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bow2romney; bow2romneycare; bow2romneymarriage; jarjarfatberg; mittisreek; reek; romneybackstabbing; theloyalopposition; uniparty
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To: rintintin

Jonah and Mittens deserve $HIT and shoved in it!


21 posted on 06/17/2020 1:03:28 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: jmaroneps37

Pierre Delecto is up to his eye balls in crooked dealings just like Joey Fingers and Dollar Hunter.


He is quite hysterical about the investigation. You have found the reason.


22 posted on 06/17/2020 1:03:55 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: ealgeone

I am ashamed I voted for that liberal rino asshole!!!


23 posted on 06/17/2020 1:04:10 PM PDT by ontap
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To: ealgeone

“ IF mittens had fought back he might have won. ”

Romney Care sunk him. We all knew it would and when he’d get visibly a grey when asked about it, he just made it worse.


24 posted on 06/17/2020 1:04:14 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: rintintin
Jonah Goldberg: Mitt Romney is owed an apology

No, he's not. Everything the Democrats threw at him, Romney bent over and took it up the @ss -- sideways.

If Harry Reid had told a lie like that about Donald Trump, Trump would have posted hourly Twitter messages about Reid until Reid climbed onto another "assault exercise machine."

25 posted on 06/17/2020 1:04:30 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: rintintin
Mitt Romney is owed an apology? Let me try.

Dear Mittens,

You spineless backstabbing cur, I am sorry I ever voted for you.

26 posted on 06/17/2020 1:04:54 PM PDT by Fellow Traveler
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To: rintintin

Sorry, Jonah, no one gives a sh** about Mitt and 2012.


27 posted on 06/17/2020 1:05:53 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: rintintin

All Mitt is owed is a swift kick in the ass, and a shove out the door.


28 posted on 06/17/2020 1:06:05 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: rintintin

Dear Mittens,

I apologize .... for voting for you.


29 posted on 06/17/2020 1:06:20 PM PDT by CommieCutter ("Trump is god emperor and he will win." -- some hacker)
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To: rintintin

So a Mormon priest stuck out his foot and tripped another Mormon priest.

Do what they got to do.


30 posted on 06/17/2020 1:08:47 PM PDT by lurk
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To: rintintin

Mitt Romney is due a severe a$$ whippin’, plain and simple.


31 posted on 06/17/2020 1:09:42 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: rintintin
Now it is the right that attacks Mr. Romney’s character while the left has a strange new respect for it, not because his character has changed, but because it hasn’t.

No, it's that after all that Romney has been through he should know better than most what President Trump is dealing with, but doesn't act like it.

It's President Trump who is owed an apology, not Romney.

-PJ

32 posted on 06/17/2020 1:10:48 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Mount Athos

My initial reaction to this column:

“Amid all this turmoil, why did Jonah feel a compulsion to write about something as trivial as the RATs slandering Mitt eight years ago? As if there was nothing else to write about? And, by the way, apologies are for losers.”

Jonah Goldberg wrote one excellent book, “Liberal Fascism,” which I read twice. But that was before his early-onset dementia set in.

A sad business, because he has considerable talent. But he continues to double down on his Never Trump lunacy. Meanwhile, other Trump skeptics have seen the light — Mark Levin and Kurt Schlichter among others.


33 posted on 06/17/2020 1:10:52 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: Alberta's Child
If Harry Reid had told a lie like that about Donald Trump, Trump would have posted hourly Twitter messages about Reid until Reid climbed onto another "assault exercise machine."

Okay, I laughed out loud.

GREAT line.

34 posted on 06/17/2020 1:13:25 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: rintintin

Apology? Not bloody likely.


35 posted on 06/17/2020 1:18:05 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: rintintin

I would eagerly take a time ship back to not vote for this guy.


36 posted on 06/17/2020 1:26:34 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: rintintin

mmmm... that’s about 247th on my 2020 top ten list.


37 posted on 06/17/2020 1:26:56 PM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: M. Thatcher

LOL. Thanks.


38 posted on 06/17/2020 1:29:19 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: rintintin
Somebody told Jona he was an intellectual. He ought to be flipping pancakes. That would be far more productive than him stringing together letters of the alphabet for a price.
39 posted on 06/17/2020 1:29:49 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: ealgeone

Are we talking about Pierre Delecto?


40 posted on 06/17/2020 1:32:44 PM PDT by abbastanza
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