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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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Yes. He suspended his presidential campaign to go back to D.C. while Obama stayed on the field. He told us that we had nothing to fear from an Obama presidency. He restricted his running mate from fully going after Obama and Biden. This is what we mean by Trump fighting and McCain and Romney not being fighters Gary.
The Rats have turned us into a Banana Republic.
Our 3rd world electoral process, primarily in Blue states, has turned us into a laughing stock.
And the uncertainty in the process is pushing us to civil strife.
I’m not going to accept Biden as the president unless I see proof there was not significant cheating.
That will align with his history of donations.
ok, he has to blow his own horn because the media is so skewed against him. Until the campaign, I didn’t know about the Nobel prize nominations or that we were energy independent. The WAPO ‘fact’ checkers refer to 20K+ ‘false or misleading statements’, then Bernie says 20K+ lies. A basic staple of propaganda is to keep pounding away with the greatest possible volume of whatever so that some of it will sink in somehow somewhere. We tend to follow the path of least resistance. Our education system does not teach us how to think, but what to think.
Thats the problem.
How do we “count all the legal ballots” with the obvious fraud going on? Illegal registrations through motor voter, illegal voting by refusing to require Id to vote, ballot harvesting when the courts have said no need for a witness or compare signatures, more ballot harvesting with backdating of ballots and trucks dumping off thousands of Biden votes in the middle of night ( 26,000 for Biden and zero for Trump in one example in Philadelphia ), the methods go on and on.
We have a 3rd world electoral system now almost entirely due to constant efforts by Democrats to undermine the voting process.
666,
Yeah, a van, a Chrysler 300, and a Ferrari pull up at 4 AM in the morning with 130,000 ballots all for Biden. The ballots hadn’t been verified. Just perfect. Perfect bullsh*t that is. FRAUD!
Regards,
Jim
666,
Regards,
Jim
Hell, if this election was Biden v. Romney, Romney would have cast a vote for Biden.
Never forget that Romney marched with BLM.
Mitt Romney would have been part of the surrender monkeys. Shall we call them the Surrender RINOs? I think thats’ a good name.
He would have lost the rust belt completely. I think he did.
Drew,
Just great, virtue signal by marching with Marxist Rat-Bastards. Idiot.
Regards,
Jim
I’ll say it. McCain was the Hunter Biden of Arizona. He was a dumb guy and built his career on his father’s position. He was a horrible pilot and a corrupt Senator. He was a fool in foreign policy and cost this country greatly in blood and treasure with his efforts. His only claim to fame is that he didn’t break the law and commit treason while a POW.
Drew, your state owes the rest of the country an apology. Wisconsin Dems spent the last 18 months stealing this election.
Says who?
We should all know that Dems will cheat in every election. If a state goes blue, the cheating will start. MI, PA, WI all flipped blue, because the GOP didn’t fight in 2018. After that, the die was cast.
He’d be Biden’s pick for VP.
Wisconsin Dems have been stealing elections for more than 18 years. Fraud in Wisconsin is a well-oiled machine.
I agree. Romney is not “nice” and Nikki Haley said it well in her book. As Governor of South Carolina she experienced the smug self-serving backstabbing of Mitt Romney.
Harsh but fair. I never understood where McCain was some kind of ‘hero’ for not accepting special treatment. Everyone would have known and he’d be disgraced for the rest of his life. On the other hand, a pretty good chance of survival being an Admiral’s son. Important POWs are closer to hostages and aren’t as expendable as ordinary enlisted men. So he made a smart, practical choice. The right choice. Good for him, but not heroic.
The amount of energy put into his ‘hero’ status as a life-long politician was despicable.
Naw. they would tickle his B#lls pretending to offer it to him, then give him a job in a “unity government” of Administrator of Small Business Administration.
I do not agree with the literal assertion of the OP. I am no fan of Mitt Romney at present, but I don’t think that he would have conceded in these circumstances.
I do agree with the spirit of the OP. Trump is a fighter in a way that Romney is not.
I do not agree that we are looking like a Banana Republic. I actually think that we’re handling a very close election quite well, in very difficult circumstances. We’re in the middle of a pandemic, and we seem to be processing votes in a generally orderly fashion.
There may be some fraud or shenanigans going on. I have not seen much evidence of this, and many of the claims about this have been bandied about are weak or groundless. Some are plausible, like James O’Keefe’s release.
Spot on.
Trump took on a senile Joe Biden and lost. Trump is too stubborn to admit and many of his supporters are too blind to realize it.
Trump lost his bid for reelection.
George W. Bush won his bid for reelection.
Quit trying to convince Republicans to back losers like Trump.
Trump took on senile Joe Biden, the criminal syndicate of which he is a puppet, and the deep state. And lost by a hair. Not bad, but better is possible.
The state of Maine is a great case study in how much of a loser Trump is.
Trump lost to senile Joe Biden in the state of Maine by a decisive margin. Biden 54 percent; Trump 43 percent.
Susan Collins beat her opponent 50 percent to 43 percent.
Or take the state of Georgia.
Right now Trump is ahead of Biden in Georgia by less than 9,000 votes and after all the votes are counted Trump might lose in Georgia.
But David Perdue is leading in his race for election to the US Senate by over 107,000 votes.
Republicans need to wake up and realize that Trump is a loser who couldn’t even beat Joe Biden, who hid in his basement for most of the campaign.
Biden strategy was to sit back and let Trump do all the talking. The more Trump talked, the more people decided that they would rather have a president who is senile than another four years of Trump, a blathering moron.
I doubt that anyone decided that. The ruling class want their positions of honor back, and the hate media conducted a four-year hate while engaging in information suppression. Just the same, Trump got more votes than he did four years ago.
It’s not like the voters were unwilling to vote Republican in 2020.
The voters re-elected Susan Collins in Maine by a 50 percent to 43 percent margin even as they rejected Donald Trump in favor of senile Joe Biden by a 54 percent to 43 percent margin.
Clearly, many voters were willing to vote Republican, but at the presidential level they made an exception and voted to send Donald Trump back to his profession of running strip club-casinos.
Maybe you should take a look at the results in the state of Maine where Susan Collins beat her heavily funded Democrat opponent by 7 points while Trump was getting routed by senile Joe Biden by 11 points.
Look at the state of George where David Purdue leads his Democrat opponent by over 100,000 votes while Trump leads Biden by less than 10,000 votes.
Sure, but that doesn’t contradict anything I said.
A Trump whose public policy record is like that of Susan Collins’ voting record is not what we want in high office, even if she did the right thing on the latest judicial nomination. Next time for a presidential candidate we need someone like Trump, only more so.