Mitt Romney Is No Angel: He Helped The Rise Of Trump Racism

[Nevilledog]

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When you see the right moaning over poor Mitt Romney to justify themselves doing the worst things (like supporting Trump), I wrote a handy reminder that it’s all bullshit

Mitt Romney Is No Angel: He Helped The Rise Of Trump Racism

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Mitt Romney Is No Angel: He Helped The Rise Of Trump Racism
Romney Wasn't A Victim In The 2012 Election, He Just Lost
6:03 PM · Aug 28, 2022

https://oliverwillis.substack.com/p/mitt-romney-is-no-angel-he-helped

To hear the conservative version of events in the 2012 election is to hear a child recounting the details of a bizarrely twisted and self-serving fairy tale.

In their mangled retellings, Mitt Romney was a victim. Romney came to the American people, hat in hand, offering up a sober conservative agenda of tax cuts and limited government. For the sin of making his intellectual offering, the story goes, Romney was fed to the buzzsaw. Democrats and the mainstream media brutally attacked poor, vulnerable, naïve Mitt, savaging his lantern-jawed reputation and smearing his character until he was unelectable at the national level.

This version of events is retold by the right to justify their current intellectual status: Rolling and luxuriating in the filth of racism, bigotry, and hate in the open manner pioneered by Donald Trump. Republicans are up front ogres, it is argued, because everyone was so darned mean to poor Mitt Romney.

It is utter bullshit.

Romney has always been and will always be a power-hungry, craven political actor. Beneath his veneer of genteel mannerism lurks a man who will do anything, morals be damned, to attain higher office. The best example of this is the very same election Republicans hold up the Mitt the Martyr myth for: 2012.

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[Runningdawg]

1. Mr 47% can GTFO and if you are too young to understand the reference, look it up.

[dalton99a]

6. +1. And for reference:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-183291/

Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
How the GOP presidential candidate and his private equity firm staged an epic wealth grab, destroyed jobs – and stuck others with the bill
August 29, 2012

[crickets]

8. Excellent article. The country definitely dodged a bullet there. nt

[crickets]

2. Birtherism and "binders full of women." Ugh.

Mitt is a filthy jackass. This is a timely, if unpleasant, trip down memory lane.

[Nevilledog]

3. Lots of discussion about this stupid as fuck tweet today 👇

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Bethany S. Mandel
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If I had to pinpoint a moment, when Mitt Romney spent his entire campaign being accused of killing Big Bird, building binders full of women, torturing the family dog, etc etc.

Matt Lewis
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When did the GOP become the party of jerks? https://thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-and-dr-mehmet-oz-embrace-their-inner-pricks…
11:11 AM · Aug 28, 2022

[crickets]

7. Wow - "being accused"?? 🤦

Mitt did dump on Big Bird by threatening PBS funding (seriously, wtf?), he did talk about binders full of women as though actual women didn't exist, and he did strap the dog crate on top of the car for a family road trip. Dude. Strap the luggage on top of the car. The dog rides with the family or you board him/leave him home with a sitter. I'm sorry, all of it bothered me, everything about Mitt Romney bothers me, but the poor dog. That tells you what kind of person he is right there.

He was "being accused" because he actually said and did all of these things and more. /rant off

Some of the responses in that thread just... yikes. Rupert Murdoch has a lot to answer for.

[Bread and Circuses]

4. Two-Faced Mitt

Romney has always tried to present himself as a compassionate conservative by publishing an editorial about one a year on a matter that his GOP is pressing forward. He tries to distance himself without distancing himself. Throws a lot of word salad around and the media jumps on it like he actually took a definitive stand. He waffles all over the place. Real Jerk. He has millions and his seat is safe, he could take hard hits at Trump and the Republicans but he doesn't .....he is spineless.

[ShazamIam]

5. Romney who trolled his audience, the NAACP Convention, in 2012, his comments included

[“I’m going to eliminate every expensive, non-essential program. That includes Obamacare,” Romney told the crowd of hundreds in a half-filled ballroom. Sustained boos of more than 10 seconds broke out, and Romney seemed unsettled by the reaction.]

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-campaign-romney-idINDEE86A0J120120711

And trolled every ordinary citizen with this statement.

"We won't let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers."

https://www.mediaite.com/online/romney-pollster-we-wont-let-our-campaign-be-dictated-by-fact-checkers/

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

[Kaleva]

10. I'll never side with TFG in attacking his enemies

I don't say anything about McConnell, Cheney or Romney or other Repub targets of TFGs wrath.