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Mitt Romney Would Have Conceded By Now
Don’t get me wrong, I like the nice Senator from Utah. Unlike most Republicans, I always have and always will. He’s so nice. He means well.
That’s why he lost.
When he was accused of tying up the family dog on the roof, do you remember him reacting? I don’t.
With every election I can remember, Democrats have shown that they will do anything, say anything, to get their way.
Over the last four years, that shamelessness went into overdrive. Brett Kavanaugh is a gang rapist… Whatever it takes to keep him off the Supreme Court. The President is controlled by Russians, has stated that he doesn’t care about our servicemen, that he likes to take a bath in the urine of others, and don’t forget the time he tried to kill a bunch of fish in a koi pond.
They will say and do anything (even go through pointless and theatrical impeachment hearings) in order to try to subvert him. All it’s done is radicalize his base, and even push people (like me) into it. I now realize that there is no trusting, no working with the President’s opponents. They don’t want us and they don’t think they need us. Well, welcome to a very close 2020 election, and you’d like President Trump to go quietly into the night. Despite the clear irregularities and funny business happening in multiple states, they’d like us to “put country first” and accept any and all results at face value.
Nope.
Democrats torched any trust, any willingness to cooperate during the last four years. You reap what you sow.
The President won’t go quietly into the night. He will force a recount and force his lawyers into every state on the margins. And he should, it’s why he was elected. Unlike Mitt Romney and the batch of “nice” Republicans that came before him, the President fights and wins. He wins by playing by the rules they made.
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The thing about Mitt is that he isn’t always “nice.” It’s just that when he isn’t nice, it’s fellow Republicans (like Trump) he’s not nice to, not the left.
My attitude toward Trump is the same as that of Lincoln to Grant after the Battle of Shiloh. A lot of people wanted Grant sacked because he got caught unawares by the Confederates, took heavy casualties, and allegedly had a drinking problem. Lincoln’s response: “I can’t spare this man. He fights.”
Or to the businesses his vulture capital firm wiped out
Welcome to the party, pal.
My only comment is that John James ought to file for a recount as well.
I am hearing stories of 100s of 1000s of votes that only voted for Biden showing up in Wisconsin and Michigan. No other down ticket votes.
“Nice guys finish last.”
The old saying may not be true in general, but it applies to politicians these days in the era of a totally leftist, unhinged mainstream media. Trump has shown not reacting to criticism, partriculary if it’s a total lie, is not the way to go. Call ’em out. Give ’em a bad nickname. Go to the matresses when it comes to dealing with the press and Democrat opponents. A politician may not appear statesmanlike doing it, but he sure as heck looks weak not responding. And you know that other old saying:
“Silence is agreement.”
Remember when John McCain suspended his campaign trying to send a giant virtue-signal to the country how bi-partisan he was and his concern for the country in crisis trumped the importance of campaigning? The problem was this also sent the signal that he didn’t think it really mattered who was President since Obama did not suspend his campaign.
At some point in any altercation that turns physical, you realize there is no way out but to fight back and in some cases fight to the death.
We are at that point.
Some of us are realizing that now.
Many like myself have seen that long ago.
People who pretty much ‘have it made’ like Mitt are slow to grasp the importance because it doesn’t really affect them. Add a kind of Pollyanna-ish worldview from your religion along with the naive plan to role-model and do what you would have your opponent (or enemy?) do to prove your teams virtue, and your side loses every time to an unscrupulous opponent.
As far as I’m concerned, anyone in ‘our’ party claiming that’s not the case is less than useless, and I’d prefer them on some other team.
Not just a recount. We think the counting was fine. The ballots themselves are broadly fraudulent. When 7 Milwaukee counties have more votes cast than registered voters, when a 118 year-old dead man in Detroit voted…
Mitt Romney running for office:
A friend of mine ran for a local office a few elections ago. He sent out mailers to every registered voter, and paid exact to have the mailers returned if they name didn’t match the occupant of the address. He did it to clean up the voter list for his party. He got 44% of them back.
This is just one data point, but still it is impossible to believe that over 90% of registered voters are still living, or haven’t moved. To me this proves fraud.
I moved to a new apartment in Dallas last year. I got mail for four former residents. Voting by mail opens up opportunities for fraud which is why the Dims pushed it this year.
Trump has made so many outrageous claims over the years that makes it hard for most to take him seriously. His lack of discipline is probably going to come back and haunt him. If Mitt made the same claims he’d get a wider audience. He’d still get shot down and called a Fascist but most in their hearts wouldn’t buy it.
Huh? Milwaukee is a county and the turnout in that county was 83.6%.
I’m sorry, but that characteristic is simply NOT admirable. A man can turn his cheek as often as he wishes, and that’s his business. But when it’s our cheek he is turning, it’s a whole other story. That is not a sign of grace, it’s a sign of cowardice and wormish.
Mitt Romney would apologize to a man raping his wife.
Romney would not have had to concede the election. Romney won Arizona and Georgia decisively. Romney would have the ability to appeal to people in the suburbs much more effectively than Trump.
Like Trump, Mitt was called a misogynist and a Nazi and all the rest. The difference is that, when Mitt was called a misogynist, he tried to defend himself by talking about “binders full of women” and looked foolish and weak. The fact that people in their hearts understood it wasn’t a charge made in good faith, but that Mitt himself took it seriously enough to make a fool of himself responding to it, made them lose respect for him. People will vote for a bad but serious person for President; they won’t vote for a fool even if they think him a nice guy. Trump doesn’t play the fool for Democrats; that one thing is the reason we had President Trump and not President Romney
The original story was 7 Milwaukee wards.
And he doesn’t have to worry about his children and grandchildren because they have it made too. While my wife and I are comfortable in retirement, we’re concerned for our children, and for our yet-to-be-born grandson . . .