Posted on 05/17/2016 4:07:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Among others sounded out for the mission are ex-Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, retired Marine Corps General James Mattis, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks. All have begged off.
Apparently, Romney, the Republican Party's 2012 nominee, personally sounded out both Sasse and Gov. John Kasich, who will be hosting the Cleveland Convention where the coronation of the Donald is to be held.
How Kasich could expect to beat Trump in November, when he lost every state primary to Trump, save his own, is unexplained. And, indeed, Romney's recruitment of Kasich raises a question.
If Romney believes that Trump is an unacceptable nominee and would be an intolerable president, and that Republicans have a moral obligation to prevent this, why does Romney not man up and take on the assignment himself?
Now, admittedly, Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, where Romney attended, does not have a long tradition of producing suicide bombers. Yet, Romney is asking others to undertake a mission that will kill their careers and make them pariahs in their party, but will not do it himself.
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Mitt Romney and Bill Kristol want Hillary Clinton to be the next President. Her immigration, trade, and foreign policy goals are pretty well aligned with the goals of the neoconservatives in everything but the details, while Trump's are not. However, they still need to maintain a charade of "opposing the Democrats," which is why they're playing these third party games.
Other neoconservative and GOP establishment luminaries are more honest: Max Boot and Mark Salter (McCain aide) have endorsed Hillary outright. Perhaps Mitt and Kristol can drop the charade and follow Boot and Salter's lead? We have establishment Uniparty, may as well make it official.
Like most men, Mitt is going thru mid life change. He falls apart and his wife just goes on cooking. Mitt has shown himself to be lacking in character. That was proven years ago.
Like "most" men? I didn't, and I don't think any of my colleagues did either.
Men reach a ‘certain’ age and most seem to realize they, too, experience changes just as great as the changes seen in females. These are handled in much different ways according to the individual male. If you’ve experienced none of this the answer might be one of two reasons...first reason being you’ve not reached that ‘age’ as yet.
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