A lot has changed in the Republican party since Mitt Romney ran for president in the year 2012 and that is the understatement of the millennium. It’s not the same party. And America is not the same country. Say what you will about Mittens, now and in 2012, he was at least a recognizable Republican type. You knew the cut of his gib. You know from whose loins he sprang — and I’m not talking about his father George, per se, I’m talking far more about his Republican antecedents, the ideas about government so small you can drown it in a bathtub, the fewer the regulations the better, even the Reagan insanity of trickle down government. Mittens bore the torch for all that.
One thing to be said about that era in contrast with this one, is that back then we had clarity. We knew what to expect from Team Red and Team Blue, we had traveled down those same corridors many times before. There was also a sense of decency in the Republican standard bearers. We heard gracious concession speeches from Romney and from John McCain. We heard a particularly exemplary concession speech from George H.W. Bush. And I daresay if life had gone a different path and Dubya was defeated, as I so vociferously hoped and prayed he would be, twice, that he had it in him to do the same. We knew where we stood back then and who we were dealing with. Now this is where we are.
This comment is coming from a man who in essence buried himself by saying that, “There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it — that that’s an entitlement.” Sep 25, 2012
That sunk Romney, and rightfully so. But today’s electorate is just fine with the adjudicated rapist, currently under indictment in four separate cases (although the Trump Organization fraud case should be concluded with a judgment by Judge Engoron by the 31st of January) not to mention the fact that Trump’s declared bankruptcy six times and the rest of it.
Well, I can help Mittens out with his dilemma. He wonders why a lot of the electorate is out of touch with reality? I can definitely tell him that the fact that the majority of his fellow elected Republicans lying nonstop about how Trump is innocent and the victim of a Deep State plot explains at least 90% of this problem. The other 10% is attributable to deep seated ignorance and lack of education. That problem has always been with us and I venture to say always will be. But it is brand new that the Republican party went rogue in the year 2016, when they decided to put the reality TV star, trust fund baby, failed businessman at the top of its ticket.
That’s how we got here, Mitt. And you know it better than anybody. Although I give you resounding credit for having had the balls to vote to remove this cancer from our body politic. Barry Goldwater and the GOPers of that generation applauded you from the ether, I have no doubt, when they saw that. It’s a shame that the rest of your colleagues in the Senate were so ballless. Had they not been, then we would not be in this mess.
Because that is the answer. Every time that Ted Cruz endorses Trump, or Lindsey Graham, or any of them, it just tells the lunatic fringe that they’re not really lunatics after all and that the insane propositions that they hear coming from RSBN, Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, all of them, are in fact real.
This is what happens when a political party loses its bearings and its moral compass is smashed.
Meanwhile, here are a few stats which might interest Romney.
That’s some GOP electorate that would STILL vote for Trump even if he is convicted or attempting to run the country from a prison cell.
I don’t know how much stranger this is going to get. All I know is that 2024 is the year we find out. And maybe what we’ll find out is that Trump will still be coming back in 2028. Or, maybe this is our destiny.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2019
I don’t think W was a successful business man. That seems to have been a myth in the republican party for some time. That a good business man could run the country better and more efficiently. So that seems to have been part of the set up for IQ45.
Maybe I’m just missing it, but I don’t see anywhere that argued that Dubya was a “successful businessman.” The only mention of Dubya I saw was in reference to a “path not taken” where Dubya lost (either 2000 or 2004) and gave a graceful concession speech.
The only reason Dubya got into politics in the first place was because he was a bust as a businessman–and several failures at that.
6 bankruptcies and inability to get loans from.any reputable North American or European bank supports your point. We had to file for bankruptcy in 2013. It took us 8 years,andca,VA loan to allow us to buy a house. The Donald should have become far more of an outcast.
W. , successful or not, was the first to prove that being a businessman means the person would be a good president. Unfortunately, the republican voter is incapable of learning even the most basic things and they are certainly unable to look at the past and draw intelligent conclusions.
The problem with running government like a business is very simple to understand: government services, etc. must be available to everyone regardless of their wealth or lack thereof. Businesses do not care if you have money or not-they will only sell things to those who can afford their products/services. This is a glaring difference that for whatever reason republicans either cannot fathom or just do not care to.
Dubya along with Cheney are war criminals, lying about WMDs although they knew from intelligence it wasn’t true. Tens of thousands of innocent people were killed along with thousands of our troops killed, injured or left with PTSD. Romney stood with this criminal time and again by remaining in the insurrectionists party. He’s no hero or harbinger of truth.