There are men like Ted Cruz, who got over being beaten by Trump and continues to stand for conservatism. And then there are worms like Mitt Romney, who will never get over his butt-hurt at losing to Trump and who has abandoned every principle he ever claimed to have because he’d rather get back at Trump.
“ There are men like Ted Cruz, who got over being beaten by Trump and continues to stand for conservatism”
Romney was never a conservative. His record as governor of Massachusetts installing socialized medical care should have been sufficient evidence for anyone contemplating voting for Romney in 2012. A Romney administration would have been much like Obama’s. Big social programs, perpetual wars. He certainly would not have made an effort to repeal Obamacare, which was modeled after Romeycare. Romney would have continued the Clinton, Bush, Obama open borders policies. Certainly no action to reform NAFTA or crack down on China trade.
The Tea Party gave the GOP control of the House of Representatives in 2010. When he ran for POTUS in 2012 Romney made it very clear he wanted no support from the Tea Party movement. Not only did he not share the conservative philosophy of the Tea Party, he was and is a patrician elitist who wants nothing to do with the working class rabble.