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Milk Toast Mitt and remember he is a “Never-Trumper” no matter what his
handlers are now proclaiming! He recently changed his twitter account to reflect
a Utah residence. This is the GOP prez candidate who worked on his CA home
during last month of 2012 prez bid-a real go getter! He exemplifies what we
conservatives hate about the GOP elites-the party of stupid!
“As someone who doesn’t care about the GOP surviving, I’m not too worried about
a Romney ascendency. But those who so badly want to save the GOP post-Trump
should remember that the surest way to remind voters of everything they hate
about this party is to elect Mitt Romney to the Senate.”
by Daniel Horowitz
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CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
Mitt Romney is the last person we need in the Senate!
Romney is the poster-boy for the status quo.
Posted January 3, 2018 by Daniel Horowitz
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Raise your hand if you’re excited for Senator Romney
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Democrats tend to elevate to high positions those who most effectively and
aggressively champion their values. Republicans, on the other hand, tend to
champion those who most effectively promote the values of the other side.1
Example number ten million? Mitt Romney’s likely run for Senate.
Whether we love Trump, love some aspects of him, or hate him, we should
recognize that the reason we have him as leader of the Republican Party is
because of past failed leaders like Mitt Romney. We have a failed culture,
failed government-run health care, a failed immigration system, and failed
foreign policy, with the entire society and political system inexorably marching
leftward. Why? Republicans pay lip service to fixing these issues during
campaigns, yet upon assumption of office, they double down on the same failed
policies.
What we are now seeing in President Trump is the exact opposite. He challenges
the way we look at immigration, foreign policy, alliances, and foreign aid.
Trump is asking the all-important question of “why.” Why are we doing so many
stupid things? Just last night, he challenged the sacred cow of the political
class — the Palestinian agenda:
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It's not only Pakistan that we pay billions of dollars to for nothing, but also
many other countries, and others. As an example, we pay the Palestinians HUNDRED
OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect. They don’t
even want to negotiate a long overdue...
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✔@realDonaldTrump
...peace treaty with Israel. We have taken Jerusalem, the toughest part of the
negotiation, off the table, but Israel, for that, would have had to pay more.
But with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make
any of these massive future payments to them?
5:37 PM - Jan 2, 2018
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Contrast this behavior with Mitt Romney, and you will see why, putting
temperament aside, voters chose Trump after they passed on Romney. Strictly as a
matter of politics, Romney has all the vices of Trump but none of the virtues.
Conservatives were leery of Trump at first because of his lack of ideological
core, but Romney was the original “Etch-a-Sketch
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a-sketch/> ,” minus the boldness and willingness to challenge the status quo. In
fact, Romney is the poster-boy for the status quo.
Mitt Romney is the grandfather of Obamacare. He sat idly while his state
redefined marriage before it was cool … and then proceeded to champion marriage
when seeking the presidency. On immigration, when running for president he was
“severely conservative” and talked about self-deporting, but his record before
running for president and ever since running for president is in line with the
failed established way of thinking. In fact, Obama issued the DACA amnesty
during the general election in 2012, when Romney had the biggest platform to
speak against this theft of our national sovereignty. Instead, he said
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amnesty in place, thereby trailblazing the GOP response of legitimizing one of
the most illicit acts of a president in modern history. In 2014, he opposed
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ailures-amnesty-edition> the conservative effort to fight Obama’s DAPA amnesty.
Even as it relates to bedrock Republican issues of Iran and Israel, we can see
the difference between Trump and Romney. All Republicans say they believe Iran
is an enemy, are pro-Israel, believe Jerusalem is Israel’s capitol, and are
concerned about Palestinian terrorism. But much like their “belief” in life,
whenever the opportunity presents itself to alter the paradigm, they
dogmatically cling to the status quo and downright savage those who are trying
to force change. Mitt Romney exemplified this behavior by wrongly attacking Ted
Cruz for accusing Obama of funding terrorism with the Iran deal.
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I am opposed to the Iran deal, but @SenTedCruz <https://twitter.com/
is way over the line on the Obama terrorism charge. Hurts the cause.
6:40 AM - Jul 30, 2015
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With Hezbollah’s funding from Iran increasing from $200 million to $830 million
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05166> after the transfer of frozen funds following the deal, we now know that
Romney was proven wrong, but he won’t admit it.
And speaking of Trump’s boldness on Israel and the PLO, let’s travel back in
time to the 2012 presidential primary with Newt Gingrich. On December 9, 2011,
Newt Gingrich boldly proclaimed
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there is no such thing as a distinct Arab “Palestinian” people, that they are an
invented people and that they have no claim to any land. In came Romney to
criticize him the next day at a debate in Iowa. “I will exercise sobriety, care,
stability and make sure that I don’t say anything like this,” said the
virtue-signaling human Etch-a-Sketch from Massachusetts who is now considering a
run for Senate in Utah.
Bingo! This is exactly what I mean. Even on the issues on which they claim to
agree with us, Romney Republicans virulently oppose doing anything meaningful to
change the paradigm1 because of “stability.”
“We wouldn’t want to destabilize Iraq and Afghanistan by changing plans.”
“We wouldn’t want to destabilize the PLO by cutting off funds.”
“We wouldn’t want to destabilize the insurance markets with the $2,000 monthly
premiums.”
“We wouldn’t want to destabilize ‘women’s health’ by defunding Planned
Parenthood.”
“Yes, we love Israel, but let’s not rock the boat by moving the embassy. Let’s
just talk about it aspirationally.”
“Yes, we need ‘immigration reform,’ but immigration reform really means the
same old amnesty, and don’t talk to me about reforming chain migration and the
refugee flow.”
GOP voters are sick of this game. Frankly, all voters are sick of the double
game. They want to challenge the status quo. As Reagan said, “[F]reedom is the
right to question, and change the established way of doing things. … It is the
right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire
among the people.”
In some ways, this is where an Etch-a-Sketch would come in handy. Voters want a
clean slate of ideas, unmoored from the failed assumptions of the past. Yet,
while Romney constantly erases his slate of aligned positions to comport with
his political opportunities, he always stubbornly adopts the failed assumptions
of the past.
Mitt Romney is the quintessential failed GOP politician in the sense that he
either trailblazes the left-wing policies of the political establishment or
blocks the path of those who try to stop the policies the Left has already
pursued.
So why exactly, at the age of 70, after failing to win the presidency on two
occasions, does Romney want to sit in the Senate? What will he accomplish?
In all likelihood, he will be the new John McCain. The man who cannot find any
reservoir of outrage against the sickening policies of the Left but who will
virtue-signal against the Right at the drop of a hat and will be the go-to
Republican for the media.
In that respect, Romney would be worse than nothing. A senator is not just a
vote but a voice. A senator can be a positive voice for us on any given cause,
as we see from Ted Cruz on almost every issue. Or a senator could be a negative
voice, constantly giving fuel to the other side, like Jeff Flake, John McCain,
and Lindsey Graham.
Let’s not forget that at a time when the Left is becoming dangerously unhinged,
Romney actually praised Antifa!
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✔@MittRomney
No, not the same. One side is racist, bigoted, Nazi. The other opposes racism
and bigotry. Morally different universes.
7:14 PM - Aug 15, 2017
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As someone who doesn’t care about the GOP surviving, I’m not too worried about
a Romney ascendency. But those who so badly want to save the GOP post-Trump
should remember that the surest way to remind voters of everything they hate
about this party is to elect Mitt Romney to the Senate.
Terry Payne
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in
your life.”
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