{"id":112740,"date":"2019-01-03T21:44:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T01:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=112740"},"modified":"2019-01-03T21:44:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T01:44:27","slug":"romney-flips-before-even-taking-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=112740","title":{"rendered":"Romney flips before even taking office."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mitt Romney backtracks after Trump-hating op-ed attack bombs<\/h1>\n<p>By Monica Showalter<\/p>\n<p>Arriving in Washington for his new gig as Utah&#8217;s junior senator, Mitt Romney jumped right in to\u00a0revert\u00a0to form, putting out a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/mitt-romney-the-president-shapes-the-public-character-of-the-nation-trumps-character-falls-short\/2019\/01\/01\/37a3c8c2-0d1a-11e9-8938-5898adc28fa2_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.566eaa7af55c\">Washington Post\u00a0attack op-ed<\/a>\u00a0decrying President Trump&#8217;s lack of &#8220;character&#8221; and calling on Republicans to reach across the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Gad, his act is old.<\/p>\n<p>Here Trump has given us the best economy in decades, and Mitt has almost nothing to say about it other than that he agrees with it. \u00a0Trump also\u00a0never wavered on the appointment of Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh and has fought like a lion to\u00a0get\u00a0more\u00a0constitutionally minded judges appointed. \u00a0Trump\u00a0chipped away at the nightmare of Obamacare, starting with an end to\u00a0its vile\u00a0poverty tax slapped onto\u00a0the\u00a0Americans who could not\u00a0afford its\u00a0costly one-size-fits all offerings. \u00a0And he&#8217;s fighting like heck for a wall with which to restore the integrity of U.S. borders. \u00a0And contrary to Romney&#8217;s op-ed claims about U.S. allies no longer\u00a0loving us, a lot of our allies love us \u2013 just ask Italy, Hungary, Poland, Israel, or Brazil. \u00a0As for the ones who don&#8217;t (and as France shows, it&#8217;s just the leaders who don&#8217;t like Trump,\u00a0not the yellow-vest protesters), why do we want the\u00a0love of\u00a0such detested\u00a0political leaders? \u00a0These are people who hate us, and who hate their own people, too, allowing Muslim hordes from stone-age\u00a0cultures\u00a0to descend upon them, feed at their welfare troughs and sex-harass their women, turning vast swathes of Europe into no-go zones. \u00a0Meantime,\u00a0get a load of how friendly things are now with Brazil. \u00a0Heck, get a load of how civil things are with socialist Mexico. \u00a0Take a look at the de-fanging of North Korea. \u00a0Is Trump supposed to have warm, friendly, back-slapping relations with leaders of hellholes such as Cuba and Venezuela? \u00a0Is he supposed to do whatever Angela Merkel or Theresa May wants\u00a0him to do?\u00a0 He&#8217;s chosen to make friends with the people who stand for things\u00a0\u2013 in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, as well as Italy, Hungary, and much of Eastern Europe. \u00a0A few\u00a0allies seem to be annoyed at Trump, but they hated Trump from the beginning, and they&#8217;re all politically on the way out.\u00a0 Romney&#8217;s\u00a0charge that Trump has turned America&#8217;s back on allies is not only ridiculous, but sounds like the thinking of someone who reads Tom Friedman and only Tom Friedman on foreign affairs. \u00a0So out of touch.<\/p>\n<p>Now\u00a0he&#8217;s backtracking. \u00a0Same old Mitt.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.air.tv\/v1\/iframe\/nVX5-IWkSJK9hXalgXCLfg?organization=QagFeVqASkS2dCISoltOZQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It shows that his\u00a0potshot against Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/02\/us\/politics\/mitt-romney-trump-republicans.html\">bombed, particularly with Republicans<\/a>, who were all out there and ready to be his friend but can now see that he&#8217;s got other priorities, such as\u00a0filling the towering boots\u00a0of&#8230;Jeff Flake.<\/p>\n<p>Man, that is making him\u00a0unpopular.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what his own niece, Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, had to tweet\u00a0about it: &#8220;For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@realdonaldtrump<\/a>\u00a0as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive[.]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is how\u00a0Newt Gingrich\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2019\/01\/02\/gingrich_to_romney_the_senate_doesnt_care_who_you_used_to_be.html\">responded<\/a>:\u00a0&#8220;The Senate doesn&#8217;t care who you used to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is what Rand Paul told\u00a0Fox News, as transcribed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2019\/01\/02\/rand_paul_on_romney_there_will_be_a_backlash_for_holier_than_thou_anti-trump_op-ed.html\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>:\u00a0&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how it really helps anybody&#8217;s cause for people to stand up there like they&#8217;re holier than thou,&#8221; Paul told FOX News&#8217; Neil Cavuto. \u00a0&#8220;And it&#8217;s like, look at me, how virtuous I am. And I`m going to bring down the presidency by criticizing his character in front of the whole nation.&#8221; &#8220;It does nobody any good,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And, in the end, I think it&#8217;s going to look petty, and I think there&#8217;s going to be a backlash to this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is what Lindsey Graham\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/01\/02\/graham-attacks-mitt-romney-anti-trump\/\">had to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What I want Sen. Romney to know, it&#8217;s not just about Trump \u2013 it&#8217;s about us[.] &#8230; And remember what they tried to do to you, Mitt, when they got through with you? \u00a0You were a bad guy. \u00a0The truth is, you&#8217;re a good guy, but in their world you will always be a bad guy if you try to cross them on policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After that barrage \u2013 everyone just loathing Romney&#8217;s tired diatribe \u2013 Romney is now\u00a0backtracking, starting with the absurd claim that he &#8220;wants to be clear.&#8221; \u00a0Sorry, pal, when you have to &#8220;be clear&#8221; after an attack like that, you&#8217;re obviously beating a retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s\u00a0saying he will play nice, sometimes. \u00a0Oh, gad, same thing Kyrsten Sinema says.<\/p>\n<p>Such a smarmy, self-righteous, and utterly boring opening number. \u00a0Did he really think such a politically tone-deaf attack\u00a0would make him popular? \u00a0It shows that Mitt hasn&#8217;t changed a bit in all these years. \u00a0Just as Trump can be best understood as a typical hotel chain owner running his empire like a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2018\/12\/what_makes_trump_run.html\">Detroit fire department<\/a>, resolving crisis after crisis and not being subtle about it, Romney can best be understood as something less sympathetic: as the sneaky management consultant ensconced with the corporate honchos upstairs, plotting how many &#8220;useless&#8221; workers to lay off.<\/p>\n<p>People don&#8217;t like that.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has said that if Romney had fought President Obama as hard as he fights against Trump, he&#8217;d be president today. \u00a0It&#8217;s true enough, but the backtrack is obviously Romney&#8217;s style, proof that he never would have made a good president. \u00a0With this latest failed attack, we now we know why he didn&#8217;t win. \u00a0He doesn&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221;\u00a0winning.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2019\/01\/02\/romney_my_op-ed_was_about_my_relationship_with_trump_and_how_well_work_together.html\">CNN screen shot<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/mitt_romney_backtracks_after_trumphating_oped_attack_bombs.html#.XC5ZRaVz3zY.twitter\">https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/mitt_romney_backtracks_after_trumphating_oped_attack_bombs.html#.XC5ZRaVz3zY.twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney backtracks after Trump-hating op-ed attack bombs By Monica Showalter Arriving in Washington for his new gig as Utah&#8217;s junior senator, Mitt Romney jumped right in to\u00a0revert\u00a0to form, putting out a\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0attack op-ed\u00a0decrying President Trump&#8217;s lack of &#8220;character&#8221; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=112740\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}