Posted on 05/28/2016 2:55:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Mitt Romney’s advisers begged him not to go to war with...Trump. After he decided to go ahead, Mr. Trump dismissed him as “lightweight” and “failed candidate.” This week, Newt Gingrich called him “pathetic.”
Mr. Romney, sticking to his guns, has become a rare figure in American history—a former presidential nominee openly defying the man succeeding him as his party’s standard-bearer.
Sitting at his home on the Pacific Ocean last week, Mr. Romney reflected on the waves he created by attacking Mr. Trump, how his family helped persuade him it was the right thing to do, and how he increasingly finds himself a voice in the wilderness.
“Friends warned me, ‘Don’t speak out, stay out of the fray,’ because criticizing Mr. Trump will only help him by giving him someone else to attack,” Mr. Romney said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal—the first time the 2012 GOP nominee discussed in depth his reasons for going after Mr. Trump.
“They were right. I became his next target, and the incoming attacks have been constant and brutal.” He said he had no illusions he would alter Mr. Trump’s progress toward the nomination or spark a meaningful independent candidacy.
His motivation: “I wanted my grandkids to see that I simply couldn’t ignore what Mr. Trump was saying and doing, which revealed a character and temperament unfit for the leader of the free world.”
Today, the GOP anti-Trump chorus is dwindling, leaving Mr. Romney among the few making the case publicly.
Mr. Trump, in an interview on Wednesday, said of Mr. Romney: “Once a choker, always a choker. I’ve got a store worth more than he is.” He said Mr. Romney’s attack “has nothing to do with his country. It has to do with me. I’m the one who forced him out”...
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Romney is jealous Trump is more popular. Romney blew it and the country has suffered because of his failure to win last time. Now he would rather give it to Hillary, who would cause further ruin to our freedoms, because of Romney’s own petty resentment and jealousy. His grandchildren will grow up and question their grandfathers sour grapes.
Enjoying his wealth and privilege while doing nothing for the unemployed millions except trying to stick America with four more years of Obama under corrupt Clinton ...
“I wanted my grandkids to see that I simply couldn’t ignore what Mr. Trump was saying and doing...”
Mittens, puhleese.
I hope your great great grand kids choke on their silver spoons.
Everybody hates Mitt Romney.
They will not seize going after Trump. This douche needs to give it up but he won’t, and that goes for the others. GOPe is not going down without a fight eventhough they are losers.
In terms of seeing (i.e., interpreting) the current political landscape, both of them are blind as a bat.
Exactly!
Oh gosh mittens. You will always have Ted and Glen
Wish any of them had campaigned that hard against the deme
Perhaps he should be seen through new glasses. Pathetic candidate. BUT what if he had been elected? Would this country be where we are today: at the crossroads with a new wave of Constitutional warriors? Or would we still be slowly slipping into the abyss of socialism with American citizens never having opened their eyes? Many ‘folks’ hand not yet heard the alarm of Paul Revere.
Just as Trump is a blessing to our great America. In a fashion, Mittens and his losing might have also had a purpose.
Wait until those grandkids and great-grandkids watch video of “Get the transcript, Candy!” and the aftermath of that grand fiasco. And basically the phoning in of the 3rd (foreign policy) debate.
The 2012 race was Romney’s to win because the incumbent had such a massively horrible record during his first term. But Romney couldn’t pull it out, not after that get-the-transcript exchange in the second debate.
Romney, in typical establishment Republican form, folded. But he lost graciously, and for establishment Republicans, that is what really matters.
Their egos blind them...
Perhaps a clue as to why the putz was not well received, and swung and missed the slow pitched pumpkin over the plate?
What emasculated beta male douche Romney said in his speech against Trump distilled down to the essence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xd3kr-QpeM
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If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished.
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If Donald Trump’s plans were ever implemented, the country would sink into prolonged recession.
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His tax plan in combination with his refusal to reform entitlements and honestly address spending would balloon the deficit and the national debt.
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But you say, wait, wait, wait, isn’t he a huge business success? Doesn’t he know what he’s talking about? No, he isn’t and no he doesn’t.
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Frankly, the only serious policy proposals that deal with a broad range of national challenges we confront today come from Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich. One of these men should be our nominee.
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Mr. Trump’s bombast is already alarming the allies and fueling the enmity of our enemies.
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I’m afraid that when it comes to foreign policy he is very, very not smart.
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Now, I’m far from the first to conclude that Donald Trump lacks the temperament to be president.
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There is a dark irony in his boasts of his sexual exploits during the Vietnam War.
Dishonesty is Donald Trump’s hallmark.
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He’s not of the temperament of the kind of stable, thoughtful person we need as a leader.
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Think of Donald Trump’s personal qualities. The bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third grade theatrics.
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There are a number of people who claim that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake — thank you.
Let me say that again. There’s plenty of evidence that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake.
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If I’m right, you’ll have all the proof you need to know that Donald Trump is indeed a phony.
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Mr. Trump is directing our anger for less than noble purposes.
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Here’s what I know. Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.
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He’s playing the members of the American public for suckers. He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat.
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His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president and his personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be a shining city on a hill.
The Trump movement is a no win situation for the GOPe. Should a Trump presidency be a success, the GOP as we know it will be permanently changed. Those who resisted the move to populism and nationalism will be forever on the outside looking in.
If Trump is a colossal failure, the GOP as a whole is toast. Those who opposed him, still go down with the ship.
Many will work to undermine a Trump administration for precisely as you stated, ego. Never mind the consequences.
Exactly.
A penguin.
I most always use that name also how in the hell did we go from 911 to electing one ? i got nuttin
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