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    I have to admit that I found it encouraging to see Romney's OpEd last night. I have been seriously wondering if our new Congress was going to have anyone on the Republican side of the aisle holding this president to account. It would seem that Mr. Romney is ready to step into the shoes of John McCain and Jeff Flake (to name a couple).

    Tomorrow, the one-party stranglehold on our federal government ends. Hopefully, 2020 will see even more balance brought to our system of governance, including replacing the travesty we now have in the White House. Then, perhaps, we can all stop giving Mr. Putin what he most wants: a divided America. Perhaps in 2020 we can find a leader who truly knows what it means to unite - and not one bent on getting even because he was picked on at a correspondents dinner.
    The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

    I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

  • #2
    Mitt the Hypocrite sure loved Trump when Trump endorsed and donated to his 2012 presidential campaign, and when he asked to be on Trump's cabinet in 2016, and when he sought and received Trump's endorsement for his 2018 senatorial campaign. Talk about a fair-weather friend. I'm not sure if Romney is angling to run against Trump as a Democrat, or if his plan is more subversive: to run as an independent "spoiler candidate" in order to divide the Republican vote and hand the Democrats an easy win.

    The irony is that if Romney had fought as hard against Obama and the Democrats as he has against Trump, he would probably be enjoying his second term as president right now.
    Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
    But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
    Than a fool in the eyes of God


    From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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    • #3
      I actually agree with much of what Romney said: Trump's character is poor. He can't seem to keep good people in office. He isn't a uniting force in the nation but a dividing one. He has had some good policies and ideas.

      But it isn't ALL his fault. The Democrats were unwilling to work with him from the beginning. They were just as dividing as he was. Personalities on the left were just as onerous as Trump (e.g. Maxine Waters) and the total meltdown of the left has caused more damage than Trump ever could. The right didn't lose it when Obama won. We didn't riot in the street when the Democrats took back the House. But the left lost it when Trump won. Acted like two-year-olds throwing a tantrum. Coming up with conspiracy theories, investigations, biased media, the list goes on.

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      • #4
        trump-tweet-romney-2.jpg

        Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
        But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
        Than a fool in the eyes of God


        From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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        • #5
          Pull the chain!
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • #6
            Seems that the chairman of the Republican National Committee is none too happy with Romney -- who happens to also be her uncle!

            Source: RNC chair McDaniel sides with Trump over uncle Mitt Romney


            In the reinvigorated feud between her uncle, Mitt Romney, and her boss, President Donald Trump, Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has picked a side: the president’s.

            McDaniel was critical of Romney, referring to him in a post to Twitter only as “an incoming Republican freshman senator.” Romney, who will be sworn in as a senator from Utah later this week, authored a scathing op-ed published Tuesday by The Washington Post in which he wrote that Trump “has not risen to the mantle” of the presidency.

            “POTUS is attacked and obstructed by the MSM media and Democrats 24/7,” McDaniel wrote on Twitter. “For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack @realDonaldTrump as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive.”



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            • #7
              Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
              Seems that the chairman of the Republican National Committee is none too happy with Romney -- who happens to also be her uncle!

              Source: RNC chair McDaniel sides with Trump over uncle Mitt Romney


              In the reinvigorated feud between her uncle, Mitt Romney, and her boss, President Donald Trump, Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has picked a side: the president’s.

              McDaniel was critical of Romney, referring to him in a post to Twitter only as “an incoming Republican freshman senator.” Romney, who will be sworn in as a senator from Utah later this week, authored a scathing op-ed published Tuesday by The Washington Post in which he wrote that Trump “has not risen to the mantle” of the presidency.

              “POTUS is attacked and obstructed by the MSM media and Democrats 24/7,” McDaniel wrote on Twitter. “For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack @realDonaldTrump as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive.”



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              That was GREAT!!! Given that the ridiculous back-stabbing flip-flopping turd is her own uncle, that's even better than Dan Bongino's glorious fiery rants.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                Pull the chain!
                Probably the best of all the responses!
                The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

                I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
                  Probably the best of all the responses!
                  I actually had a bunch of bumper stickers printed up with that message, and they were selling like hotcakes!
                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by carpedm9587 View Post
                    I have to admit that I found it encouraging to see Romney's OpEd last night. I have been seriously wondering if our new Congress was going to have anyone on the Republican side of the aisle holding this president to account. It would seem that Mr. Romney is ready to step into the shoes of John McCain and Jeff Flake (to name a couple).

                    Tomorrow, the one-party stranglehold on our federal government ends. Hopefully, 2020 will see even more balance brought to our system of governance, including replacing the travesty we now have in the White House. Then, perhaps, we can all stop giving Mr. Putin what he most wants: a divided America. Perhaps in 2020 we can find a leader who truly knows what it means to unite - and not one bent on getting even because he was picked on at a correspondents dinner.
                    As much as I think he deserves to be impeached, I don't think that, divided as it is, it would be in the countries best interests to impeach now if he can be kept in check from this point on from doing any more damage to the country and democracy here and around the world. Although, there may be no choice but to impeach if the Mueller report comes out before that. The sad thing is that we also have, along with Trump and his administration, a republican party who has also shown themselves, a great deal of them, to be complicit in abetting the criminal and enemy to democracy sitting in the White House. What a tragedy!

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                    • #11
                      Loser Romney says nasty things about Loser Donald, while voting for everything Loser Donald wants? Oh yay. Can they both just go away and never ever come back?
                      "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                      "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                      "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                        Loser Romney says nasty things about Loser Donald, while voting for everything Loser Donald wants? Oh yay. Can they both just go away and never ever come back?
                        I don't agree with Romney on policy either, he's a conservative republican, but he isn't an enemy to, or an underminer of, democracy, a wannabe dictator, or a treasonous puppet of V. Putin's. He's bad, as is the entire republican party right now, but he isn't the danger that Trump is.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by JimL View Post
                          I don't agree with Romney on policy either, he's a conservative republican, but he isn't an enemy to, or an underminer of, democracy, a wannabe dictator, or a treasonous puppet of V. Putin's. He's bad, as is the entire republican party right now, but he isn't the danger that Trump is.
                          The Republican politicians are aiding and abetting Trump. Saying Trump is a bit of a mean fellow while voting to enact everything Trump wants isn't #Resistance, it's just pathetic and morally culpable (which strikes me as being about the best possible description of Mitt Romney I can imagine).

                          Trump is just a reflection of everything the Republican party has become and stands for, just done with below-average PR so that everyone can see more than usual what pond scum the Republicans are in reality when their propaganda mask slips. I just heard that McConnell has decided to aid and abet Trump today on the shutdown by refusing to hold a vote in the Senate to reopen the government.

                          I think on the whole, McConnell is worse than Trump: Trump is an imbecilic moron whose first and last goals are his own wealth and ego, but McConnell actually does his supervillian levels of evil knowingly. Trump might have dummy-fascist tendencies of "wow, it is cool that the North Korean media praise their glorious leader, why can't the media here be nice to me??? They're so mean to me, waaaahhh!!" but McConnell's actively presided over the Republicans systematically sabotaging US democracy from the state level all the way to SCOTUS. Trump is a demented buffoon who's A Bad Guy in almost every aspect of his life, but McConnell is actively and actually Evil.
                          "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                          "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                          "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by JimL View Post
                            As much as I think he deserves to be impeached, I don't think that, divided as it is, it would be in the countries best interests to impeach now if he can be kept in check from this point on from doing any more damage to the country and democracy here and around the world. Although, there may be no choice but to impeach if the Mueller report comes out before that. The sad thing is that we also have, along with Trump and his administration, a republican party who has also shown themselves, a great deal of them, to be complicit in abetting the criminal and enemy to democracy sitting in the White House. What a tragedy!
                            I am mostly in agreement. I think Pelosi's position is a rational one: wait for the investigations to play out. Now that the Dems have control of the House - true oversight can be exerted and things that have remained hidden and rubber-stamped can be hauled out into the light. What Trump likes to call "Presidential Harassment" is what many of us call "Presidential Accountability." Yes - there will obviously be politics played by both sides - but having all of the power in one party is a formula for rampant corruption - and we have seen that in multiple government positions already.

                            As for the Republican Party, I hope it someday re-finds it's heart. What it has become is a travesty of what the Republican Party used to stand for. When the best leadership that can be found is a man like Trump, the Grand Old Party has become a party significantly comprised of political trolls. We need at least two parties to have a contest of ideas, and to have a degree of oversight. We don't need the travesty we currently have occupying the White House.
                            The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

                            I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                              The Republican politicians are aiding and abetting Trump. Saying Trump is a bit of a mean fellow while voting to enact everything Trump wants isn't #Resistance, it's just pathetic and morally culpable (which strikes me as being about the best possible description of Mitt Romney I can imagine).

                              Trump is just a reflection of everything the Republican party has become and stands for, just done with below-average PR so that everyone can see more than usual what pond scum the Republicans are in reality when their propaganda mask slips. I just heard that McConnell has decided to aid and abet Trump today on the shutdown by refusing to hold a vote in the Senate to reopen the government.

                              I think on the whole, McConnell is worse than Trump: Trump is an imbecilic moron whose first and last goals are his own wealth and ego, but McConnell actually does his supervillian levels of evil knowingly. Trump might have dummy-fascist tendencies of "wow, it is cool that the North Korean media praise their glorious leader, why can't the media here be nice to me??? They're so mean to me, waaaahhh!!" but McConnell's actively presided over the Republicans systematically sabotaging US democracy from the state level all the way to SCOTUS. Trump is a demented buffoon who's A Bad Guy in almost every aspect of his life, but McConnell is actively and actually Evil.
                              You seem to have given in completely to the "us vs. them" mentality that has become the norm today. In some respects, you have adopted Trump's political model. You might want to consider just how much you want to be what you claim to loathe.
                              The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

                              I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas

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