He can choke on his words.
Good old Mitt. Still a world class flip-flopper.
Now that he’s spoken glowingly of President Trump, he can toddle back to his California mansion, or Utah, or whatever hole he normally resides in.
One of the main reasons I was able to convince myself to vote for Trump is because Romney was so dead-set against him. I’m still willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, but chatting up this creep is not helping one bit. Romney is part of the problem. He needs to be on the outside looking in.
So he didn’t get the position.
Maybe Trump offered Romney the job of Ambassador to France and Monaco; replacing Jane Hartley. We may remember that Romney spent 2½ years in France as a Mormon missionary. He is fluent in French. This would be like old times for Romney.
I remember that Trump did endorse Romney and thought he would be a good president. Nothing has changed that opinion. I do not believe that Trump will stab conservatives in the back on this. I can live with Romney as SoS, but not with Trump having to expend political capital or diminish his standing with his base to hire him.
As much as I detest Romney, he is still more conservative than ANY head of state he will ever meet with. Maybe excepting Marie la Pen if she has any chance.
Romney was almost the president. The rest of the world will treat him with deference and respect from day 1. Trump will have no difficulty managing him, and he will do a good job.
The real silver lining is that Romney will be out of the country most of the time.
In the end, we have no choice but to trust Trump’s judgement on this.
Obviously it’s hard for us out here who elected him to “Drain the Swamp” to understand how putting one of the most powerful swamp creatures of all into the SoS position is going to help accomplish that.
If Trump wants to look us in the eyes and say Romney has turned his coat and is willing to help reduce the size and corruption of government (reducing his own power and influence and through Trumps own actions so far eliminating lobbyists which would affect the Utah mormons ability to influence Washington in the future) ... well... I personally won’t believe it. It’ll require the hard long term proof.
But let’s see. Trump has traditionally not done what everyone expects. It seems mighty convenient to dangle Romney in front of the media. It could simply be a very large distraction for the MSM from everything else he is doing.
A RINO gets a seat at the table and now all is well.
When you have them by their balls, their hearts and mind will follow...
Trump must feel the same inside as Julius Caeser did when he pardoned his opponents after he defeated the Senatorial forces. Trump has shown Romney is no beacon of political morality and integrity. Romney will turn on the dime if that means power. Romney is no Cato the Younger. If I remember right, someone on the inside of the Romney camp or GOPe claimed that Romney actually thought he has so much swagger with the GOP voters that his speech where he condemned Trump would derail his campaign. The insider claimed Romney was shocked his speech was meet by a collective yawn.
Seems like Trump has bitch-slapped Mittens in a significant way and made him his slave....
I sincerely hope that Romney won’t be chosen for this cabinet position. He has proven that he can’t be trusted by virtue of his past criticism and attempted sabotage of Trump’s run for President.
Once a traitor...always a traitor AND HE CANNOT BE TRUSTED to carry out the business of Secretary of State without using the position for possible political self-advancement in the future AGAINST Trump.
Don’t give Romney anything... he turned into a worm. And being devoutly religious is a description that does not fit either Romney or Ryan. Their ‘fruit’ does not speak ‘Godly’.
I so want Trump to drain the swamp.. and looks like he is using some of the swamp to get other things he wants. Trump needs to explain himself as soon as possible... to let us know why he is using swamp people in his administration.
And please don’t let turncoat romney have anything.... he is not to be trusted.. but most in Washington are not to be trusted. Swamp people living in swamp land.
Trump is smart enough to know that he was not elected to be a dictator. While he is about to undo the dictator-wannabee Obama’s executive orders, he fully realizes that the same thing could be done to him by the next president. Thus, he needs to gain his accomplishments by the legislative process, so that they will be more durable and more difficult for a future successor to undo.
All of this is to say, he has to play the hand he’s dealt . . . and I have complete confidence in his ability to parlay whatever hand he’s dealt into a winning hand. If he has to “play” the inclusion of RINOs to get done what needs to be done, so be it. If it takes bringing Romney on board to grease the passage of his plans through Congress, that’s just the way it goes.
I would much rather he win with a team composed of people we don’t like than pick a “pure” team and go down to defeat.
Which mouth on which side of his head did the bloviating?
There is NEVER any doubt that Rudy will put America First. Rudy would be best SoS in modern day history. Selecting Romney would be a political calculation against what Trump ran on which was anti establishment. Romney is full on establishment. Trump ran on draining the Swamp. Rudy had proven he knows how to drain the swamp. Vs. Mitt Romney being the Swamp.
Grovel, Mitt! GROVEL!!!
Maybe Mittens is lobbying to get Egg McMuffin in the new administration. Didn’t Egg keep Trump from taking Red Hampshire?