01-03-2019, 07:54 PM
(01-03-2019, 12:00 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: Well, I don't think anyone here is a pig or that the Washington Post is pigpen liner Mags. But, even if they were, I'd be surprised if Mock's Democrats or liberals would got to the mat in defense of Mitt Romney.
Romney's made it clear that he supports most of Trump's policies and that he will thus toe the Republican party line when it comes to Senate votes.
He's just planting a flag with his face on it atop the moral high-ground, yet again, in my opinion.
Maybe he wants to be first in line as a 2020 Republican challenger should the party need/support one? Or, maybe he's sincerely troubled by Trump's demeanor and character and he's trying to get other Republican senators to resist conforming to it, for the good of the party and the country?
In any case, unless your head is extremely sensitive, I don't think you'd need a ton of aspirin just to explain/defend your characterization of Romney as a Democrat, a RINO, and a dope when you supported him so fully in 2012 (though your turnabout isn't much of a mystery to me anyway).
Romney's positions and character don't seem to have changed much, if at all, over the last 7 years, to me. Then again, I thought Paul Ryan was solid and principled back in 2012 and I was definitely proven wrong on that one. I don't know if Ryan was a fraud back then or became one later. Doesn't really matter -- he's dust now.
Washington Post and New York Times used to be bastions of critical and informative news. Now they are a joke. They are so prejudiced against Trump and so transparently so, that they have traded in all their credibility and more. No longer does using them as a source show assertions have been backed.
As to Democrats and Progressives using Mitt as someone to defend....yes and no.
The play is the same. An establishment Republican (one of those same dickheads who shared 90% of the exact same stances if not policies as their Democratic counterparts AND in in an effort to show that they are not the bigotted Nazi loving homophobic sexist party, they apologise for every faux outrage at every faux slight foisted on them by the Democrats) such as Mittens, McCain, Ryan disagrees with Trump not being a Bush, Clint or Obama, every clamour around, "See Trump's own party says..." or "Republican X says..." like this makes ANY point.
But they are Republicans? Why? Because they are in the party?