“Nothing is more symptomatic of the GOP establishment’s death drive than their continued embrace of the presidential aspirations of a man who shrank the party in 2012.”
Clueless GOP establishment continues to flounder
Mittens: GOP Establishment Chooses Mount Romney as Hill to Die on
by STEPHEN K. BANNON & REBECCA MANSOUR3 Mar 20163,677
After President Jeb, President Walker, President Christie,President Kasich, President Ryan, and President Rubio, the Republican establishment is now turning once again to the Adlai Stevenson of the GOP – Willard Mitt Romney.
Perhaps nothing is more symptomatic of the GOP establishment’s death drive than their continued embrace of the presidential aspirations of a man who shrank the party in 2012.
But then, these are the same Republican elites who are determined to grant amnesty to 40 million future Democrats. So, obviously party expansion and broad national victories are not their priorities. How else do you explain their bizarre desire to board the S.S. Mittanic one more time?
A full recounting of the unmitigated disaster that was the Romney campaign is beyond the scope of this op-ed. But let’s cut to the chase. Mitt Romney lost because he was unpalatable to working class Americans.
Sean Trende of RealClearPolitics explained in detail how Romney lost the election in large part because he couldn’t win over white working class voters.
That wasn’t an accident. It was by design. An August 2012 op-ed by Matthew Continetti in the Washington Free Beacon outlined the Obama campaign’s “voter suppression” strategy “to disillusion white voters without degrees in the Rust Belt and Mountain West.” Obama calculated that these working class voters would make Romney president if they voted Republican by the same 30-point margin as they did in 2010, but if they were demoralized and alienated by the GOP candidate, they would hand the election to Obama by simply sitting it out.
If anything, Romney’s attacks on Trump will probably help Trump. Romney stands for everything that caused the Trump movement.
I would vote for Romney if I could.
Trump is unfit to govern. An angry movement is not a political platform. He is a failed businessman with no understanding of world politics.
Exactly 5:12… Trump represents voters giving the ruling class the middle finger…
Candidate Trump=President Clinton
Will he elevate the Buffalo Wild Wings manager to Secretary of Defense? His driver can be Transportation Secretary
It turns out that Romney has experienced a bankruptcy rate of about 20-percent with his various investments.
in all seriousness show me someone who has not failed and Ill show you someone who has not done anything
I was sad to see Romney stoop to the level he has lately, culminating with his speech on Trump yesterday. Had he fought to advocate for himself and against Obama in ’12, he had a shot of winning. Please go home and watch the process from the comfort of your living room on TV, sir.
Did this guy just wake up a bit cranky from four years of hibernation or what?