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Dear President Romney,
Thanks for doing a great job as President. Please hang tough.
It’s sad that two years into your presidency, the MSM and FBI/DOJ is still investigating your campaign and other activities. I’m trying to keep score, so to speak, here are the big ones:
– Full financial forensics analysis of the Mormon Church because you visited tabernacles at most campaign stops. Where is the outrage from Congress?
– Your “Notebook of Women” has transformed into a DOJ investigation into polygamy, saying that some of the families you visited at tabernacles were, in fact, yours, putting you in violation of US law — making false statements and other ridiculous charges. The New York Times has spilled ink on the subject nearly every day since you narrowly beat Hillary. The Clinton email server barely got a paragraph.
– Visiting Mormon tabernacles in foreign countries during the campaign so they want to charge you with accepting donations from foreign nationals. The treason charge because the missions you visited were in third-world socialist countries is way out there. Which also prompted the Intelligence Community to get a FISA warrant for suspected international fraud and terrorist support activities — you fed a Muslim baby!
– The IRS has jumped on the bandwagon by investigating all your tax filings during your years with Bain. This takes the cake since the DOJ/Obama leftovers hired Lois Lerner to lead the investigation.
– A re-hash of the 2002 Olympics financials?! You saved the taxpayer millions of dollars and they accuse you of profiteering and fraud. When will it end?
On the civilian side:
– ACLU has filed multiple charges against you, the Mormon church and God for “Separation of Church and State” violations, that by accepting money from Mormons while electioneering for a government position was illegal. I think it was really the usage of the “Mormon Miracle” when the economy leaped to 3.2% GDP first quarter. The real scandal is Obama taking credit for it.
– Church of Scientology has hired a legion of celebrity-hired lawyers (thanks Tom Cruise!) forcing the release of “secret” Mormon practices and claiming that Mormonism is not a Christian religion. CNN was blasting this 24×7 during the Christmas holiday run-up.
– The National SPCA is asking a judge in Massachusetts to have all pets removed from your home while they have protesters march in front of your home with placards reading “Dog Hater” with a picture of a dog chained to a car trunk hood. Ridiculous. But I see a local judge is reviewing the case and the Massachusetts State Police are prepared to go in with an armored vehicle, stating, “will shoot all resisting animals if necessary.”
I think you should start using Twitter and take your message right to the people.
Good Luck,
@JimGoneWild
Ha!
I have no doubt that the MSM would do exactly that if Romney were president!
That is what gets me. The MSM is acting like expected. The Democrats are about what I expected. The NeverTrump is a surprise. I did not expect the establishment GOP to join with the Democrats as much.
Me too.
Well done…
Yes. Which leads to the question: exactly who/what is really their common foe? What are these unusual bedfellows allied against?
Taking the personality/person of Donald Trump out of the picture and inserting almost any other political figure I can think of — like Mitt Romney — brings into unusual focus how skewed much of the thinking/assertions and punditry is regarding the current President.
I disagree.
Neither the MSM, nor the Daily Kos, nor Salon, nor New York Magazine, nor The New Yorker, nor Slate, nor Vox, nor The New Republic, nor Atlantic would go after Romney like this.
Romney was not a Birther, but Trump was.
In 2008, after McCain won the Florida Primary, Romney promptly got out and endorsed McCain. Trump kept threatening that if he didn’t win the nomination, he’d run Third Party.
Romney never bragged about all of the married women he was bedding, because it is likely that the only woman he ever had marital relations with was his first, and only, wife Ann. Trump cheated on Wife 1 with Wife 2, then cheated on Wife 2 with Wife 3, then cheated on Wife 3 with a porn star and an almost year long relationship with the Playboy Bunny of the Year for 1968.
Romney didn’t cheat people, anyone could invest in Bain Capital.
Romney answered to a Board of Directors, and the voters of his state, Trump has answered to no one since his father came down with Altzheimer’s Disease.
Romney released his tax returns which showed extremely high charitable giving, Trump won’t release his tax returns, and the so-called “Trump Foundation” got shut down for flagrant self-dealing, the cardinal sin of any fiduciary.
Romney did not try to escape public service, he served on a two year mission for his church.
Romney is a faithful member of his church, Trump parades around talking about “Two Corinthians.”
Unlike Trump with only a bachelors degree in economics (not business), Romney had both a MBA and JD from Harvard.
Unlike Trump who had five bankruptcies, and inherited his money, Romney was a dogged investor.
Unlike Trump who ran a sham “Trump University,” Romney saved the Salt Lake City Olympics.
Romney is a life-long Republican, Trump is a Populist who took invaded the Republican Party to take advantage of our stupid “plurality wins all delegates” rules.
Both Romney and Trump have five children, Romney from his only wife, and Trump from three wives. (One can only speculate about the number of abortions and illegitimate children in Trump’s countless affairs and casual insemenations.)
In August 2018, Romney said that it must be electorally disqualifying to equivocate on racism, Trump has played cute games about David Duke during the 2016 election, and then White Supremacists concerning Charlottesville. With response to Trump on Charlottesville, Romney tweeted “No, not the same. One side racist, bigoted, Nazi. The other opposes racism and bigotry. Morally different universes.”
That sums it up: Romney and Trump exist in morally opposite universes.
I wholeheartedly disagree with this statement — the point of my post. After Obama, the media smells socialism in our future and will do anything to make sure its not stopped.
Trump is a tough, smart, street fighter. Romney is tough and smart, but we needed a fighter — for now anyway. I’ll take a flawed man who can get the job done.
I take it you don’t like Trump. Hehe . . .
We can win our arguments with the Left without becoming jerks.
Romney is smart, Trump isn’t, in fact he apparently failed to comphrend that the Mattis resignation letter was a rebuke until he heard TV commentators tell him so.
Romney is a leader who people wish to emulate. Trump is a bully, and I, for one, refuse to be led by him, or to be complicit in his bullying.
Romney would have been a good president. My main point was that the media would have found problems with any president with an ‘R’ after his name, even if they have to make them up.
Arguments? These are not arguments.
I’ve never met anyone who wanted to emulate Romney. Or any other President, for that matter.
And many of us refuse to be complicit in left-wing bullying of Trump’s voters. I wish you were among them.
It’s like he’s got a laundry-list of JournoList talking points in his copy/paste buffer, innit?
Yes, and Obama was the first birther. Somehow that fact is ignored by people like Gary.
You know, there’s some stuff here with which I don’t disagree, and I actually appreciate the time taken. It is, however, filtered through the realm of subjectivity and Trump animosity that undermines the valid points. Not all of these items relate to governing and some of them are simply distortions. But I’ll keep in mind that Romney is smarter than Trump because he failed in 2012 and Trump succeeded in 2016.
Oh, Gary….
As I read this post by @jimgonewild I read that it is irrelevant whether Romney is a better or worse person than any other President. It’s an argument that over the past decade the press and portions of the government bureaucracy, have stooped to such a level that no matter how good a person is, if that person is a Republican, the press and its cooperating portions of the government bureaucracy will tint, color, assemble, twist, or manufacture allegations of wrongdoing against that person.
How can you argue with this? The MSM is there to promote statism no matter what.
It shouldn’t come to this, but I think this is right.
I can’t get excited about this. Maybe I should.
In general, econ is harder.
Some or all of this is just part of the business.
IMO, he’s just another RINO from Massachusetts. I think his track record shows it, but not a deal breaker for me.
Well, who should we blame, here?
I’m underwhelmed by the whole political class on this stuff as long as they aren’t abusing their power.
Trump fumbled this because he lacks civic experience, which is why I was against him. Everyone knows what he meant.
Pro-abortion and started Romney Care in Massachusetts, with what was effectively stolen money from the federal government.
JMO, he’s just another typical politician.
Gary, I think your beef is more with the electorate and the GOP Ruling Elite.
When people “behave badly” (who is to blame here and for what?) or the system is breaking down, I’d say look at the incentives.
Ben Sasse wouldn’t agree with me.
Yeah, antifa (who are actually very, very “fa”) are just kind-hearted people opposed to racism and bigotry.
That’s all they are.
Here they are opposing the racism and bigotry of a random vehicle passing by.
I wish I could “like” this post more than once.
It wouldn’t have mattered who won the GOP nomination in 2016: The fact that they were a Republican would be reason enough to castigate them.
Suffice it to say that Romney’s understanding of what went down in Charlottesville is the understanding of someone who only watches CNN.
And that is a problem.
I have very conservative friends who don’t really look for news outside of the mainstream outlets, and have a wildly different view of current events than I do. They’re conservative, they’re more conservative than me in some cases. But they really don’t know what’s going on, thanks to the news media.
I went ballistic on a Dem friend who wanted to fly-speck Romney. One silver lining to Trump is that after he is gone and Dems are flyspecking the Republican candidate, I can say, “Well, s/he certainly isn’t as bad as Trump, is s/he?”
I would be honored to have a life like Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio or any of the other 16 candidates. I would be ashamed to have had a life like Trump.
No Drew, I wrote it up on the fly. The only thing I did was to check my facts on my iPhone while writing on my iPad.
Do you want to try to contest any of the points I made, or do you just want to throw rocks?
I just got this LOL
Trump, Romney, McCain, George Bush 43, Bob Dole, George Bush 41, Reagan, Ike, Coolidge, TR, Taft, McKinley, Grant, Lincoln. Which one of these people is not like any of the others?