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2016-03-03 -Obits-
Romney decides that Republican voters should be ignored. He knows better than voters.
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Posted by 3dc 2016-03-03 12:39|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 "Here's what I know: Donald Trump Champ is a phony, a fraud," Romney said. "His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing members of the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat health care plan/tax."

And had you been elected, Mitt, I suspect a lot of us would still feel the same way.
Posted by Bobby 2016-03-03 12:52||   2016-03-03 12:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Donald Trump to speak about Romney attack at 1:30PM ET
Posted by 3dc 2016-03-03 13:21||   2016-03-03 13:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Kasich said Romney threw his support behind Kasich.
Posted by 3dc 2016-03-03 13:24||   2016-03-03 13:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Where was that slim fight when facing the buddy of convicted terrorist (and co-author) Bill Ayers?
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-03 13:25||   2016-03-03 13:25|| Front Page Top

#5 My thoughts are that Rubio has placed the word "con artist" there as part of larger strategery, along with a couple other suspicious nuggets over the last few days. Romney, apparently an establishment tool, has assembled these pieces along with other items (such as Trumps returns, which I don't care about) that just don't seem to die no matter how much Trump disavows or explains. Things like making up stories about how everyone calls him "The Donald" as a badge of disrespect. I thought Melania came up with that, and it doesn't seem disrespectful. Or I'm sure Trump would have said something about it long ago.

AFAIAC, we are heading towards socialism. Rather than let the planners get their "share", I'll take the chance that the whole thing burns to the ground rather than they get anything. Personally, I don't think Trump would let that happen.
Posted by gorb 2016-03-03 13:29||   2016-03-03 13:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Ben Wade: Now, I always liked you, Mitt.

But you never knew
when to shut up.

Even bad men love the Donald.
Posted by JHH 2016-03-03 13:30||   2016-03-03 13:30|| Front Page Top

#7 So basically, Romney said that beating Trump is world-shatteringly important, but not important enough to stoop for voting for Ted Cruz.

So long, Willard! Don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya...
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-03-03 13:30||   2016-03-03 13:30|| Front Page Top

#8 And if The Donald is any kind of KKK Grand Wizard, why did Romney accept his endorsement years ago? After all, according to Romney's own words, accepting such an endorsement would be horrible. All The Donald wanted to do was look into who was behind a couple of obscure groups before he made a decision, which is more than I can say of the current PoS inhabiting the Whitehouse.
Posted by gorb 2016-03-03 13:33||   2016-03-03 13:33|| Front Page Top

#9 If Romney had said "Gee, you know, Trump's an OK-ish guy, but I really like Cruz" it might have actually accomplished something. But saying "OMG! This Nazi actually means what he said when he endorsed me four years ago!" isn't going to do jack shit but add to Trump's vote totals.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-03-03 13:48||   2016-03-03 13:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Loser
Posted by newc 2016-03-03 13:56||   2016-03-03 13:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Speculation on Romney's motivation.

And here are the attack videos going back and forth.
Posted by Iblis 2016-03-03 14:27||   2016-03-03 14:27|| Front Page Top

#12 If you listen to Romney's speech in its entirety, you will agree with him. Unless of course you are really a Hillary supporter.
The bulk of his speech addressed real issues. Snippets of broad conclusions sound like and are no better than Trump's comments about his rivals, but are not the important content of the speech; unless reason and facts have nothing to do with the election.
Posted by Grins Snese4215 2016-03-03 14:32||   2016-03-03 14:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Apparently after being goaded about Taxes by Romney one of Trumps Spokesmen said "Mitt Romney was weak. That's why he released his taxes."

https://twitter.com/kwingfieldajc/status/705467863226818561

Hard to say if this is accurate or even when it was said, but it makes it sound like Trump may have been telling a falsehood when he said he'd release his taxes when the audit was over.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-03-03 14:43||   2016-03-03 14:43|| Front Page Top

#14 Romney/Gore to unify the losers.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-03-03 14:44||   2016-03-03 14:44|| Front Page Top

#15 Lions don't concern themselves with the opinions of sheep.
Posted by regular joe 2016-03-03 15:05||   2016-03-03 15:05|| Front Page Top

#16 If you listen to Romney's speech in its entirety, you will agree with him. Unless of course you are really a Hillary supporter.

For people who live in the fantasy of the old republic. It's over. It's done. It's not about Democrats vs Republicans or socialists vs conservatives. It's about power and how the ruling caste walked away from the bulk of the political body to impose their view of the world by dividing and in doing so alienated so many they created the situation they face now. The outer party and proles are realizing their choice is in a leader who will at least articulate their frustrations and address them, cause the ruling caste has refused to even though empowered to do so. Lip service. It's now a choice of Caesar, Pompey or Crassus.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-03 15:38||   2016-03-03 15:38|| Front Page Top

#17 Romney's message is pure desperation and continuation of how out of touch the republican leadership is with voters.

Posted by Airandee 2016-03-03 15:44||   2016-03-03 15:44|| Front Page Top

#18 The Republican leadership has been increasingly out of touch with voters since they turned their backs on Barry Goldwater.

At that time they were called Rockefeller Republicans and while the names changed the Noblesse Oblige attitude remained the same. "They are my people...I love them. PULL!"

Both Bushes were canonical examples.
Posted by AlanC 2016-03-03 16:22||   2016-03-03 16:22|| Front Page Top

#19 Neil Cavuto said that today something he had never seen before. When Trump started his speech the traders on the floor quit trading and watched the speech - for the whole 50 mins!
Posted by 3dc 2016-03-03 16:29||   2016-03-03 16:29|| Front Page Top

#20 Releasing tax returns is just smoke and mirrors for the rubes when real assets are parked in corporations and trusts (legit) and foundations (dodgy).
Posted by Alaska Paul 2016-03-03 16:29||   2016-03-03 16:29|| Front Page Top

#21 Romney's message is pure desperation and continuation of how out of touch the republican leadership is with voters.

I thought pretty highly of the man until recently. I hope he's not being coached by the RNC.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-03-03 18:29||   2016-03-03 18:29|| Front Page Top

#22 Neil Cavuto said that today something he had never seen before. When Trump started his speech the traders on the floor quit trading and watched the speech - for the whole 50 mins!

I've been watching market reaction as well. As Trumps nomination solidified, an upturn would not surprise me much.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-03-03 18:32||   2016-03-03 18:32|| Front Page Top

#23 http://www.whdh.com/story/31377151/romney-gop-should-pick-cruz-rubio-or-kasich
Posted by Zhang Fei 2016-03-03 18:40||   2016-03-03 18:40|| Front Page Top

#24 lblis, I have been scratching my head trying to figure out what Romney was doing. A 3rd party run doesn't make sense; Mitt would lose. Are the do nothing Congressmen and Senators so afraid of losing their perks that they would rather have the Democrats continue to control the WH?

The party eating itself is just plain stupid. What a bunch of idiots. There is no justification for this; none.
Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-03-03 18:47||   2016-03-03 18:47|| Front Page Top

#25 You forget that under a Donk, the Senators and Congresscritters still get perks. They're protected. They threw us over the side a long time ago.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-03 19:29||   2016-03-03 19:29|| Front Page Top

#26 Its got to be Cruz...or Trump. Anything else will just be 4 more years of the same bullshit PLUS a loss of momentum that will end with a Dem in the White House again in 4 years. Cruz and...Trump...are the only 2 guys who even pretend to give a damn about "the rest of us".
Posted by Crusader 2016-03-03 19:56||   2016-03-03 19:56|| Front Page Top

#27 Sven: point well taken. I offered a possible explanation because like you, I have been struggling to understand what is going on.
Posted by Unomock Fillmore1957 2016-03-03 20:25||   2016-03-03 20:25|| Front Page Top

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