Posted on 03/07/2016 4:30:58 AM PST by Helicondelta
The Republican Party’s last-ditch, last-gasp opposition to a Trump nomination finally has a prominent face as its symbol.
But not everyone in the party is happy with what Mitt Romney is doing.
It’s not that they object to the 2012 presidential nominee trying to prevent the current front-runner from becoming the 2016 presidential nominee.
It’s not that they disagree with Mitt called Donald a fraud, a phony, a bully, a misogynist and a bad businessman.
No, the dissent can be summed up like so: Is that all you’ve got, dude?
Some party officials resent the fact that Romney waited this long to jump into the fray. And that once he did, the former governor didn’t offer any concrete way to slow Trump’s progress.
He didn’t indicate any willingness to get into the race himself.
He didn’t endorse another candidate. And the first rule of politics is you can’t beat someone with no one.
Instead, Romney seemed to embrace a diffuse strategy for denying Trump the required 1,237 delegates: Let Marco Rubio win Florida, let John Kasich win Ohio, let Ted Cruz win states where he is strongest.
But voters don’t think, and act, that way.
Some party officials are ticked off that Romney waited until the ballgame was almost over to come off the bench; one of them even refers to Mitt with a two-word expletive.
Privately, they also raise this question: With Ben Carson now out, how long will Rubio and Cruz continue to throw the kitchen sink at Trump? If he is destined to be the nominee, they ask, at what point are the remaining contenders simply doing the Democrats’ dirty work for them?
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The GOP LIED to its voters that it would remove RomneyCARE.
This demonstrates that RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE/HillaryCARE,
as far as the GOP cares, IS FOREVER (with them EXEMPT).
Headline should read...”why Romney was the right guy”. Save a lot of time that way.
Romney is the epitome of “The Man” - the rich white powerful authoritarian who steals your opportunity and sets up rules to keep you down. The one who has no senses of fair play and sticks it to the little guy.
The fact he can’t see this is hilarious!
I was in the MA GOP at the time: Romney has always been a self-serving, sanctimonious fraud.
And not one discouraging word from Mitty WRT a putative opponent (should he jump in)......Hillary/s sabotaging US ntl security to get rich as Secy of State.
The Republican Mitt saved all his vituperation for a Republican candidate.
Thankfully, Mitt has good hair....at least, the grandkiddies have a consolation prize.
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And remember kiddies....grandpa displayed an offensive smirking smug self-assurance....vim, vigor, energy, passion, zeal, self-assurance, steadfastness to purpose....when villifying and condemning Trump..... that he never displayed when he ran for president against the current WH resident.
Something the Trump bashers on FR should ponder.
But he didn't get in.
He can't expect to get in at this point and not face voter resentment. He looks like a skater by having avoided the fray.
If the elite steal this nomination, that means they don't need voters to stay in power. That will mean they'll usurp even more power and wealth for themselves, at the expense of the rights and the economic survival of the middle class.
That being said, Trump has to spell out the issues HE WILL NOT compromise on. Core principles cannot be compromised, and he has to make that clear as he starts talking about what negotiations will be about.
Y’think, Howard? Duh.
Resentment? Try fury. Rage. It was the most disgusting display—I find myself hating the Estab more than I ever hated Hillary or Barack—
I would say join the Democratic Party but they wouldn't let him near them
A little corroboration from Howie Carr:
That's because it isn't the right question. Thanks Helicondelta.
The Cheap Labor Express is desperate to block us from electing a President that would enforce the laws and borders.
#IwantmyRomneyvoteback
ROMNEY thinks he has a shot. There no way in hell the rank and file who run the GOP are going to allow this to happen.
If the GOPE trys anything like this, you would have whole state delegations walk out of the Convention. Georgia for one is not going to put up with any of this clown crap. We going to make dam sure our delegate know full well that doing anything like that is a career ending move back home.
This is the thing the political pundits and the Dc Media consultants always forget. They continually forget it goes beyond just winning a transit political advantage. You got to live with us afterwards. They can be hard headed some time, they are not politically suicidal. Beyond their own careers, these people really do not have any principals. They may kick up their heels but in the end they will do as they are told by the Party.
There is a lot of anger in the party machine at the local, county and state level at DC. It not just the voters who are angry.
Romney is the ultimate coward. Instead of getting on the race from the beginning and facing Trump in the debates, he’s trying to break in line on the final lap.
Instead of spending money, he’s relying on the GOPe to get him a backstage pass to the stars.
Instead of a head-on meeting, he delivered his side of the debate, without rebuttal, via the media.
Like Jeb, Romney wants to be “appointed” to the presidency via royal proclamation from the GOPe.
When there were eleven or twelve candidates dukeing it out on stage, Romney hid in the shadows, laughing off his possibility of running. Now, with the field narrowed to Trump, and three losers, he wants to jump in.
He’s the typical GOPe coward.
Let Marco Rubio win Florida, let John Kasich win Ohio, let Ted Cruz win states where he is strongest.
But voters don’t think, and act, that way.
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Willard as a Mormon bishop and religious figure thinks the little people know when he is speaking “ex-cathedra” Mormon style and they will jump to do his bidding...
Willard is member of a Kardashian type royal Mormon family...
everyone stands up when they come into the room and are awed by their presence...
and of course Willard has had the Mormon so called “2nd anointing” which gives him leave to do anything he wants to and its excused as perfectly “spiritual” and correct...
That’s why his speech was so ugly and bigoted and hypocritical ...he considered what he said to be (Mormon) “heavenly” inspired, and even prophetic...he is after all of the mormon so called “melchezedeck priesthood”...he could say whatever he liked in whatever TONE and it would drop onto the ears of the little people as costly gems when it really was snakes and toads...
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