Posted on 10/11/2023 5:56:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Senator Mitt Romney and former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan are holding a two-day summit that began Tuesday. It is described as a “closed-door” summit in Park City, Utah.
The Republican presidential ticket from 2012, who lost an election that should have been winnable, brought together four current presidential candidates. The four are Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Chris Christie, and Doug Burgum.
This is an 11-year-old summit called the E2 Summit. It focuses on foreign policy, tech, and finance/business. Those attending the summit are “well-heeled, well-wired Republicans” who want to find an alternative to Trump and fund that candidate.
The “maestro” behind the summit is Spencer Zwick. He said the attendees are from the Romney/Ryan network who “don’t just accept that Donald Trump is the nominee. That’s not in their DNA,” Zwick said. “They’re genuinely interested in a candidate they can get excited about and get behind.”
Notice two top candidates that were not invited – Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy. Why would that be? Why not come together for someone who actually has a shot at winning primary races – like DeSantis? The only one of the four they invited with a shot is Nikki Haley, who seems to be inching up in some polls now. Pence, Christie, and Burgum have no chance at catching on with primary voters.
Other scheduled speakers at the summit are Anthropic AI CEO Dario Amodei, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, and former attorney general Bill Barr.
Some donors are losing faith in DeSantis. However, he is the candidate with the most appealing record of any of the other not-Trump candidates. He’s the only military veteran running, he has Congressional experience, and he is a popular and successful governor. He turned a purplish swing state into a bright red large state. Isn’t that enough for them?
Romney and Ryan are way outside the world of regular Republican primary voters. Trump is way out in front in polls, for now, and both Romney and Ryan are never-Trumpers so it tracks that they are holding a secret-style of summit to try to take out Trump. They just picked the wrong candidates to do it. Romney isn’t running for re-election to the senate and Ryan has been in the corporate world since he left Congress.
Romney has a 54% favorability rating of all Utah voters who said they strongly or somewhat approve of Romney’s performance. His approval rating has gone up since he said he isn’t running for re-election.
I just don’t understand the logic. Why turn the summit into a waste of time, unless the deep pockets decide that Nikki Haley is their candidate. It’s debatable if she has a chance to win Republican primaries since the party leans more populist now. Haley is considered by many conservatives as too much of a neo-con to be the nominee. Maybe recent events in Israel will show that the United States has to lead or else bad actors fill the vacuum. Hamas didn’t start a war with Israel during the Trump presidency. Putin didn’t invade Ukraine when Trump was president. Trump was an isolationist when it came to foreign wars but he made a point to project strength and foreign leaders treaded lightly because they thought he was unpredictable. That was ok – it kept everyone in line. Joe Biden isn’t interested in foreign wars, either, but he projects weakness and vulnerability. That, and funding Iran with billions of dollars, is why we are where we are now. No one is afraid of Joe Biden.
One thing that is irritating about Romney is that he talks the talk of a never-Trumper but remember, he humiliated himself chasing a job in the Trump administration in 2016. Trump endorsed Romney in 2012, at Romney’s request. Romney supported Trump up until the gossip show video tape came out and then he delivered a scorching speech against Trump. Yet, as soon as Trump won the election, Romney was right there asking for a job in the cabinet. He thinks we don’t remember all that, I guess.
Trump endorsed Ryan and supported him as speaker. He worked with Ryan on tax cuts. We remember that, too.
All the secret drama seems like a waste of time. Do the candidates have so much free time that they can take off and hang out at a summit for a couple of days? I don’t think Romney and Ryan are the kingmakers they think they are.
I’ll just leave this here.
A strong performance from RDS. Cogent and lucid, clearly familiar with global security issues at a detailed level. Steady when he encountered pushback. He’s much more comfortable leaning into America’s capacity to project power. He should maintain this posture going forward. https://t.co/H0796GHewc
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) October 10, 2023
There nothing worse than bitter losers.
Nobody cares what these two losers think.
Summit? More of a mental tar pit.
So the Rino-summit?
Pretty much says it all!
It is because of RINO, spineless idiots like Romney and Ryan that we have the demented perv Biden in the WH.
This will go down in history as the “Looser’s Summit.
Trump represents America as a meritocracy.
Can't be having that! /s
Let them waste their money and their time. A couple of deep state embedded RINOs thinking they can play king maker because they know some disaffected big money donors. The thing they don’t realize is that there is a massive group of Americans out there who their money can’t buy, influence or sway - they’re derisively called MAGA, and they are being joined by the COVIDSCAMDEMIC war veterans impacted by its tyranny all over America.
That is, unless they’re gonna try and figure out a vote-cheat machine like the Democrats have.
“They’re genuinely interested in a candidate they can get excited about and get behind.”
However, they are not too interested in a candidate that the voters can get excited about and get behind.
No sir, forget that.
So country club pubs, ie, bought and paid for RINOs want an alternative to PDJT?
HAHAHAHAHA!
They can pick from their paid off GOBs but such a worthless offering ain't gonna beat Trump in 1,000 years.
On the brighter side we are seeing a new level of "The Stupid Party" and know a bit more about how they are going to maneuver when the slightest pressure is applied.
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The Republican branch of the Uniparty summit.
Just to let them know.. They have been after Trump for a long time.. They’ve tried every lie and heavy hand.. His numbers keep going up.
The 4 mentioned are not even close.. You keep trying.. Let me give you a clue
.... We are fed up with all of you... We need some sanity back. And get our country on firm footing again..
You dont have a chance in **** getting our vote for anyone but Trump.
The bland leading the bland.
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How about finding a new party that’s not infested with moles and people sworn to defeat it?
They just want to support the Dems from within.
Filthy Mittens up to no good…
Sounds like fringe group of GOPe, trying to appear to be relevant. This is disgusting. If they would ever put half as much effort into trying to understand what we want, and how Donald Trump represents us that way, they might have some value.
they both obtain the dead bodies through their companies
of dead children for the adrenochrome ... which they sell.
The Republic must protect the children from Romney and Ryan.
Well, I think the Never-Trumpers, Lincoln Project, Club for Growth establishment-wing of the GOP (let’s call them “Dem-GOPs) for short) have been through all the usual suspects. And all of them crashed and burned. Even their new guy and “flavor of the month” for a while, DeSantis couldn’t get much traction. (For what it is worth, I think DeSantis has done a great job in Florida—with a GOP legislature—but is not the one to tackle the D.C. swamp).
I know they really wanted Pence to rise to the top. They thought he could take credit for all of Trump’s successes while at the same time criticizing him for all of Biden’s failures. However, Pence’s polling never got over the single digits. Conservatives no longer trust him (with good reason).
I believe Youngkin is smart enough to “wait his turn” and possibly run in 2028. Who is left that hasn’t been floated yet as the Trump-slayer? A Kinzinger/Cheney ticket? Kemp/Abrams?
Well, there's Obama ... K. Harris ...
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