Failed 2012 Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has had a “love/hate”, but mostly hate, relationship with President Trump. Now Utah Senator Mitt Romney, (he was pretty much a shoo-in for the Mormon state with high name recognition, along with an endorsement from President Trump), the former face of the “Never Trump” movement, who now denies it, is at it again.
Yesterday Senator Mitt voted against the confirmation of a Trump appointed United States District Judge in Texas.
Michael J. Truncale did, in fact, go on to be confirmed no thanks to the consistent flip-flopping former Marriott board member.
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Romney did not seem to care about Truncale’s consistent record of constitutional fidelity, but was instead more concerned with grandstanding against the President. In his typically self-serving manner, Romney rushed to the fake news shortly after making his vote to virtue signal to the opposition media.
“He made particularly disparaging comments about President Obama. And as the Republican nominee for president, I just couldn’t subscribe to that in a federal judge,” Romney said to Politico. “This was not a matter of qualifications or politics; this was something specifically to that issue as a former nominee of our party.”
It’s ironic that his reasoning for going up against Trump is because Truncale previously criticized former President Barack Obama, especially considering the fact that Romney was Obama’s arch enemy when running against him in 2012 for President. In the debate below Romney and then President Obama clash in a presidential debate.
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This highlights a long string of events where Mitt Romney, a once darling conservative and thought of by Republicans as their only hope against a country being “fundamentally changed” by former President Barack Obama, now puts his own anger and agenda before the American people’s.
In January of this year, the freshman senator wrote a scathing op-ed piece trashing President Trump after using Trump’s endorsement to help him get elected in the first place.
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Romney did not gain popularity points with his constituents, or fellow Senators for his petty op-ed ed piece, which was tantamount to “biting the hand that feeds” behavior. Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul, who sometimes disagrees with President Trump himself, had strong words for Romney’s surprising theatrics in an interview on Fox News.
“You know I think calling the President dishonest, for Senator Romney to come into the Senate and even before he’s sworn in to call the president dishonest is not productive and I think it’s going to backfire on him. I think there’s going to be a backlash from conservatives across the country who say well gosh, the president gave us two conservative supreme court leaders, the president gave us the largest tax cut in twenty or thirty years, the president gave us regulatory reform. Why is he out there calling the president dishonest? I think that when you attack someone’s character like that, I think that’s such a low blow and so personally directed and so malevolent that, it’s not something like someone’s going to change their character. He’s now called his character dishonest, and I think that’s a bad way for him to start in the Senate because I think it’s going to spoil relations between his representation of Utah and the president.”
-Senator Rand Paul
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Funnyman and Fox News political commentator Greg Gutfeld also had some words of wisdom for Mitt.
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Another reason why this is bad for him, despite Romney’s past resistance to President Trump’s agenda and leadership, perhaps because of bitterness that he himself was never able to get elected to the Presidency because of what Trump has referred to as a campaign where Mitt “choked” against Barack Obama, is President Trump’s approval ratings. You see, President Trump has enjoyed some very nice approval ratings, especially at one point a 93% approval among fellow Republicans. Mitt isn’t likely to gain friends by attacking the President who has strong numbers like this.
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The Republican Senator from Utah has enjoyed speculation that he may consider yet another Presidential run in 2024, aiming at the moderate conservative base and catering to the polished politician and globalist agenda troglodytes. The evidence as placed does not bode well though, for such a strategy. This gives leeway for speculation that Mitt Romney could be delusional and nothing but a hindrance for the party as a whole which is moving closer to populism and an ‘America first agenda’ in wake of record illegal immigration and huge trade deficits.
Perhaps Mitt Romney would be best served focusing on saving face and using his time as a U.S. Senator to be effective and work with other Republicans to get conservative judges elected, not stonewalled, and stand up for the values he claims to have.