Good day all. Last week, former Massachusetts governor, two time failed presidential candidate, and paid up member of the Never Trump brigade, Mittens Romney, announced he was running for the United States Senate, replacing retiring Rino, Orrin Hatch.
The Beltway Uniparty is looking forward to Mittens taking over for Hatch. They see him as the new “John McCain,” someone who will “Reach across the aisle” and give the Progressive Democrats everything they want. Here are some of the details from The Washington Compost:
In more ways than one, followers of traditional Republican orthodoxy are facing an emotional inflection point this week.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), at home battling an aggressive form of brain cancer, will not attend this weekend’s Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of foreign policy leaders from NATO nations that has become a central clearinghouse for global security matters and a celebration of Western values and democratic institutions.
Yeah, I’m having a conspiracy moment here.
McCain, an avatar of all of the above, has been a regular attendee for decades. Last year, less than a month after President Trump took office, he stole the show with a speech that denounced the new president’s refusal to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Our fellow citizens seem to be flirting with authoritarianism and romanticizing it as our moral equivalent,” McCain said there last February.
John McSlime despises President Trump. Why? Because Donald Trump won where McSlime lost. McSlime has also been a very big interventionist, ready and willing to send American troops anywhere that might benefit his benefactors in the United Fruit company. This puts him at odds with President Trump who mirrors the American population’s tendency towards isolationism. (Stay out unless we are directly threatened, but if we go, make sure we utterly destroy that which we see as a threat)
But with McCain’s retreat comes the reemergence of another man: Mitt Romney, his political rival for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. Romney had been scheduled to begin his campaign for senator from Utah on Thursday, but he delayed the announcement Wednesday “out of respect for the victims and their families” of a shooting at a South Florida high school.
Romney’s reasoning wasn’t “Out of respect,” for the families, it was fear of being overshadowed by the horror of that scumbag’s actions. Like McSlime, it’s all about Mittens Romney.
It’s not clear how Romney, a heavy favorite to win, would approach his role as a senator, particularly in the era of Trump. His aides say that on the campaign trail he will avoid the role of chief foil to the president.
Oh I think we know what his approach will be. He said it. His goal is to “Stop Trump!” As to his being the “Heavy favorite?” I wouldn’t count on it. I don’t make any claims to the mindset of the voters in Utah, but the only reason Mittens thinks he can win is his religion. He, like a majority of voters in Utah, is a member of the Church of Later Day Saints. He’s counting on that putting him over the top.
But at times, Romney has sounded like just that — and a defender of Western values, and a deep antagonist of Putin and a free-market globalist.
Oh really? Please explain.
Romney took to Twitter, for instance, to lash out at Trump last month after The Washington Post reported that the president, in a meeting with senators, said that he did not want more immigrants from countries such as Haiti or in Africa, using an obscenity to describe such nations.
“The poverty of an aspiring immigrant’s nation of origin is as irrelevant as their race,” Romney tweeted. “The sentiment attributed to POTUS is inconsistent [with] America’s history and antithetical to American values.”
And now we see Mittens for what he is. Another out of touch, big government, open borders Globalist. Somehow, I don’t think that’s what the voters in Utah want right now. Of course, as far as the Establishment Republicans are concerned, what the voters actually want isn’t important.
Friends of both Romney and McCain say Romney’s willingness to jump back into the political arena provides them with another high-profile antagonist to Trump’s America-first worldview.
And this is why a lot of “Republicans” are going to face primary challengers this year, and why others have given up any hope of being reelected.
Plenty of other Republicans on Capitol Hill maintain those traditional Republican values of global dominance and free trade, but most of their voices have been quieted in the era of Trump.
And who might these “Traditional Republicans” be?
“He’ll have a big impact. He comes with immediate gravitas, credibility and stature, and it will be a whole new power structure, I think, in the Senate, as people gravitate to him,” Senator Jeff Flake, (Rino-AZ), said of Romney.
He’s also going to bring a truckload of baggage with him. Can we say “Romneycare?” Sure we can! As for Flake, he’s history. Both he and McSlime have lied to the Arizona voters for the last time. In Flake’s case, he knows he has no chance at all in the Republican primary, so he’s quit. McDiaperStain? He’ll be dead soon, but not soon enough. He should be forced from Congress on medical grounds. He is no longer of sound mind. (If he ever was)
The anti-Trump Republicans need all the help they can get. McCain returned to Arizona before Christmas and has not appeared in the Senate since. Flake is retiring at the end of this year. Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.), after a public dispute with Trump about his behavior related to race riots in Charlottesville, announced that he, too, would retire.
The thing about the Deep State swamp dwellers of the Beltway Uniparty. They lie. A lot.
Corker is reconsidering whether to run for reelection, but he probably would do so only if Trump supports his bid — a move that might make criticism of the president more difficult.
Corker has his own problems with the GOP primary if he runs. First, he will be called a two timing liar, which he is. The second problem is Obama’s Iran treaty. Corker was the GOP point man for pushing it in the Senate. Basically, this weasel had Obama’s back as he sold out the United States. Of course, Corker, like most of the Establishment Republicans, (When they aren’t sitting around their country clubs sipping gin and tonic), is totally out of touch with the mood of the Republican base.
Senators in both parties say that in world travels, gravitas matters. World leaders take McCain far more seriously than any other senator traveling abroad.
“When John McCain speaks, the world listens,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), McCain’s longtime travel partner, said Wednesday. “He’s got respect from all over the world in terms of foreign policy.”
That isn’t something most Americans consider to be a positive thing. We’ve spent the last 20 years dealing with the so called “Free Trade” that the GOP(e) has been pushing. What has actually happened is all our good jobs have been freely shipped overseas and in trade, the rich elitists, (as opposed to those who made their money working their butts of to become rich), getting all the money.
In 2016, we elected president Donald Trump to be the president. He stated that he would tear up any of these so called free trade agreements if they didn’t actually benefit the United States and American workers. He also said that he had no interest in kowtowing to the “World Leaders” or the United Nations. The results?
Jobless rates are dropping across the board, manufacturing jobs are coming back and the “World Leaders” are finding out that they have an American President who is putting America first. This is not what Mittens Romney and the rest of the GOP(e) globalists want. I don’t know if Mittens has a decent primary opponent, but I hope he does. I want to send this carpet bagging fraud back under the rock he squirmed out from under and soon.
Thatisall
~The Angry Webmaster~
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