Romney Shanks Trump in Hopeless Bid for Another Failed Candidacy

Mitt Romney has done something interesting. He has written an extremely divisive opinion piece in which he undermines his party’s incumbent president by claiming the president is a divisive person who undermines America’s position.

Ordinarily, one expects a president’s party members to back him up in the lead-up to a reelection campaign. Romney has done the opposite. He has decided to give the left a big torpedo to aim at Trump’s hull.

Romney cannot be elected. He needs to knock it off. He belongs to a fringe religion which is unpopular with a large percentage of Christian voters, and the GOP can’t seat a president without strong Christian support. Romney is the proverbial dog in the manger; he can’t eat the straw, but he is willing to sit in the manger and bite anyone else who tries to eat.

Obama, a weak president, beat Romney by about 4 percentage points in 2012, and there is no reason at all to think he will do better against a more competent Democrat in 2020. The same Christians who snubbed him in 2012 will snub him again, and he has already proven incapable of converting Democrats. On top of all that, having lost one election already, he is, correctly, perceived as a loser. He probably can’t even get the nomination.

Romney’s presidential campaign will flop. He can’t do himself any good, but he might damage Trump and the US. He may help a socialist kook get elected. If Elizabeth Warren makes it to the Oval Office, we may have Mitt Romney’s selfishness to thank.

It really is selfishness. Trump can win in 2020, and Romney knows it. He also knows there are other candidates who can draw more votes than he can. He knows he is rolling the dice with America’s future, in order to hang one more title around his own neck.

He also chose to go negative right out of the starting blocks. That’s startling, coming from a Republican. He could have promoted himself without trying to kneecap Trump.

Romney’s attack is surprisingly harsh. He goes so far as to call Trump a racist. This is shocking behavior from a so-called Republican. There are liberal commentators who won’t go that far.

Trump has never shown any sign of true racism. He stated, correctly, that Mexico sends us criminals. Correctly but tactlessly, he criticized African countries with appalling, completely self-inficted standards of living. He has worked to secure our borders against all illegitimate visitors regardless of race. Those things don’t make him a racist, and Mitt Romney knows it. Romney has shown that he is willing to abandon honesty and sink to the level of a Michael Moore or a Kathy Griffin, in hopes of launching another hopeless campaign of his own.

Romney wants to get America back on the one-world government bandwagon. Look at this snippet:

Trump’s words and actions have caused dismay around the world. In a 2016 Pew Research Center poll, 84 percent of people in Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Sweden believed the American president would “do the right thing in world affairs.” One year later, that number had fallen to 16 percent.

Let’s think about that. Trump has upset people “around the world.” Isn’t that a little vague? He has upset some people, but he has pleased others. He has definitely upset some of our enemies. Isn’t that a sign that he’s putting us first? When the Chinese are happy with America’s president, it’s not a good sign.

Romney thinks it matters what Canadians and Western Europeans think about our president. Here’s an interesting fact: Trump isn’t their president. He’s not their advocate, either. He is the president of the United States, and he’s supposed to support us against our allies as well as our enemies. Trump wants to put an end to the obscene leeching our allies subject us to. Naturally, that would upset them. It will cost them money. It’s also important to point out that the nations Romney mentions are farther to the left than the USA. Wouldn’t it be a little odd if their citizens liked Trump more than Obama?

Obama went around the world bowing to people and apologizing for America. It was repulsive. Trump is willing to step on foreign toes in order to get us better deals. I’m all for that. I’m an American. I’m not Swedish or French. I want my president to help Americans first. Once he has looked after our interests, he can consider the problems of foreigners who don’t live here, pay taxes, or serve in our military.

Romney says, “The world needs American leadership, and it is in America’s interest to provide it.” That was true during World War Two and the Cold War. Is it really true now? Do we want to be the world’s unpaid policeman forever? The threat of a communist takeover is gone. We’re going socialist from inside now; we don’t have to worry about Russian tanks moving in.

Putin is aggressive, but he is not an imperialist. The Chinese have absorbed a few nations in their realm, and they have a completely legitimate claim to Taiwan, but they have never had any plans to conquer the world. Do we really care if countries like Venezuela cuddle up to Putin instead of us? They are not coming after us.

Japan committed widescale atrocities in China, but the Chinese don’t want to take over Japan. They haven’t taken over Korea, even though North Korea gives them headaches. They didn’t take over Vietnam, even though their proxies won.

Putin wants Ukraine, which is a Russian-speaking nation that borders Russia, but we don’t see him trying to rebuild the Berlin Wall or restore Russian control of Poland.

“American leadership” is expensive, and it inevitably involves actions bordering on imperialism. Here’s a thought: maybe if they know we’re not eager to wipe their noses and break up their fights, other countries will find other ways to solve their problems. Revolutionary, I know.

Donald Trump is coarse. He lies a lot, albeit about trivial things no one really cares about (life goes on regardless of how many people attended his inauguration). He is a serial adulterer. He runs casinos. He can’t admit fault. He is thin-skinned. He insults people unnecessarily. I know all that, and ordinarily, he’s not a person I would feel compelled to defend. He and his family have been attacked so unfairly and dishonestly for so long that I can’t help wanting to say something once in a while. It’s strange to find myself in this position.

Romney has disgraced himself with his selfishness and treachery, but I wonder if anyone will realize it. Will conservatives who worry about 2020 support Romney’s fragging attempt and put together a drive to replace Trump?

Back when Obama was on the way out, everyone knew Joe Biden was too eccentric to win. It was reported that Biden was called to the Oval Office and informed that the Democrats would not support him, and that Hillary was to be anointed. We don’t know if this really happened, because the Democrats, in what will surely be the only instance in history, had more class than Mitt Romney. Obama didn’t write a piece for the newspapers, tearing Biden down over known issues like exhibitionism, plagiarism, and instability. Whatever happened happened behind closed doors.

How can it be that we have reached a point where Democrats behave better than Republicans?

I truly hope we won’t be dumb enough to step on the same landmine twice. We let leftists and a misguided desire for unity drive our terrible choices in 2008 and 2012. We are unquestionably stupid enough to do it again.

We can do so much better than Romney. Cruz or Paul would be fine, and they are both electable. Romney is like Jeb Bush; he could walk on water and still lose.

I know what Trump is. I don’t support him for that. I support him for what he does. I wish he were a mature, well-mannered man who inspired respect in his personal life. He’s not. He is still a finer person than Hillary Clinton, and his agenda is much closer to the will of God.