Posted on 05/18/2016 5:46:12 AM PDT by detective
Mitt Romney has ruled out an independent bid for president, and is not actively recruiting any more potential candidates to do so at the moment, though he remains hopeful someone will emerge, allies told Yahoo News Tuesday.
Romney “feels like America hangs in the balance. He’s very distraught about [Trump],” said one Romney adviser. “He thinks Trump is this vulgar, dangerous, principle-less, value-less opportunist — putting it mildly.”
The 2012 Republican nominee for president has been the most outspoken GOP figure continuing to steadfastly oppose Trump. Romney has been asked to consider running for president himself, but did not seriously consider it, those who know him said. But he remains alarmed at the prospect of a Trump candidacy, even as hope appears to be fading that any alternative can be found.
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Still wondering why Romney thinks he’s a conservative. If Obamacare was at the root of discontent with government intervention, what made TPTB think we’d support Mitt?
Meanwhile, Mitt still has nothing bad to say about bathhouse Barry.
I don’t think Romney wants Hillary to win. I think he is just jealous that Trump can “rally the troops” in such a huge way, and him and Ryan were such losers.
This from a guy whose father was the CEO of a major automobile manufacturer. What a clown.
Somebody must have sneaked up behind Mitt-Witt and given him a wedgie in his magic underwear.
GTFO Mitt-Witt, you’re a loser and in America’s rear view mirror, we’re driving forward with TRUMP behind the wheel!
Bishop Romney imposed BOTH Gay Marriage and RomneyCARE
as a carpetbagging Governor (since has fled)
on Massachusetts voters to whom he lied,
and Romney destroyed the judicial system and
TANKED the economy on his watch making it the
‘worst in the nation’.
But that is never covered by the fawning Chris Wallace
and the rest.
Romney should run with Hillary.
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
the ruling political class and their masters in the Donor Class are desperate, they can no longer count on the Enforcer Class to obey them.
The romeny/ryan ticket, the party of the imbeciles has been exposed and the masters are starting to fear the people.
Mitt, the “severe conservative”, has finally developed a backbone.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-campaign-policy-idUSBRE89M0A620121023 [from 2012]
On Afghanistan, where Romney . . . lauded the president’s “surge” of forces into the country. “The surge has been successful and the training program is proceeding apace,” he said, saying there were 350,000 Afghan forces “ready to step in to provide security and we’re going to be able to make that transition by the end of 2014.”Asked about his stance on drones, Romney solidly backed Obama’s extensive use of the unmanned aircraft for surveillance and targeted killings without putting U.S. troops in harm’s way. “I support that entirely, and feel the president was right to up the usage of that technology,” Romney said, although he added that “we can’t kill our way out of this mess” and that Obama should have done more to combat “Islamic extremism.” On Iran, where Romney has at times stressed the threat of military strikes to discourage Tehran from seeking nuclear arms, he instead praised sanctions imposed by Obama, put the accent on a negotiated solution and called force a last resort. “It is also essential for us to understand what our mission is in Iran, and that is to dissuade Iran from having a nuclear weapon through peaceful and diplomatic means,” Romney said. “It’s absolutely the right thing to do, to have crippling sanctions. I would have put them in place earlier. But it’s good that we have them,” he said. “They do work. You’re seeing it right now in the economy.”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/11/514528/romney-surrogate-praises-obama-initiatives-for-reducing-co2-says-romney-is-not-a-denier-of-climate-change/ [also from 2012]
Romney Surrogate Praises Obama Initiatives For Reducing CO2, Says Romney Is ‘Not A Denier’ Of Climate Change
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If Mitt had been willing to treat Obama the way he treats republicans, we would only have had eight terrible years under the treasonous usurper. Mitt would have been a bad president, but that’s still dramatically better than the current bigot who bubbles over with hatred for everything good on earth.
The NWO of which Romney is a part is on the ropes and their house of cards is about to fall. Romney is only the spokesman for the GOP elements.
He thinks Trump is beneath him as a human being...the same way he looks at the middle and lower class riff raff. He has a club of like minded “gentlemen” and he wants no one in who is not a part of that club.
America was in the balance in 2012 and Romney fumbled it.
“Where’s the outrage! Where was the outrage about Obama and the havoc he is doing to the country? Where’s the outrage over Hilary and her crimes? Donald at least is pro America and will at least on occasion be conservative.
“A business genius he is not.”
Trump made over $550 million last year and is worth $10 billion. What are your numbers genius?
Scoreboard.
Trump has EARNED his wealth, he has been down on those construction sites day after day with a hard hat on, could you EVER imagine MITTENS working, getting his hands dirty.........NOT!!!! Trump IS NOT your normal REALLY rich guy MITTENS had it handed to him and TRUMP EARNED IT the hard way that is why he IS relatable !!!!!!
Well well well. Mittens is butt hurt
Precisely. Perhaps his dad was partially right the GOPe has been brainwashed
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