Romney calling Trump 'phony,' urging Republicans to shun him

[Zorro]

Source: AP

Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is charging into the increasingly divisive White House race with a verbal lashing of Donald Trump and a plea for fellow Republicans to shun the front-runner for the good of country and party.

Romney is branding the billionaire businessman as "a phony, a fraud" whose "promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University," according to a speech Romney planned to give at the University of Utah on Thursday morning. The Associated Press obtained excerpts of his remarks in advance.

Trump, in turn, dismissed Romney as "a stiff" who "didn't know what he was doing" as the party's candidate in 2012 and blew a chance to beat President Barack Obama. "People are energized by what I'm saying" in the campaign and turning out in remarkable numbers to vote, Trump told NBC's "Today."

In ratcheting up the rhetoric, Romney cast his lot with a growing chorus of anxious Republican leaders — people many Trump supporters view as establishment figures — in trying to slow the New York real estate mogul's momentum.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/gop-sees-options-stopping-trump-not-good-ones-082019626--election.html

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The slapfest continues!

[Trust Buster]

1. A two time loser who begged Trump to endorse him in 2012. Nice.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Not sure how the GOP can stop Trump but basically calling his voters idiots probably ain't it

Nice try anyway, Mitt.

[chelsea0011]

32. You got that right. Especially since many or Trump supporters voted for Mitt,

and not only regret ever doing that, but also hate this guy for failing in multiple elections and dragging the party down with them. This Mitt speech will only harden them as they all know this guy is and will always be a loser.

[monmouth4]

3. Romney is preaching to the choir, Trump's supporters will just be encouraged...n/t

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. Poor Donald Drumpf...being at the receiving end of Romney wrath. Romney "charged in" and

give him a "verbal lashing": Phony. Shun him. shun him.

Oh be merciful, Mittens. Smite not your fellow Rebublican.

[AxionExcel]

5. So this is all just another Republican poo fling?

I thought Rmoney (R) was going to make news?

Republicans flinging poo is just more more more of the same old poo.

[lastlib]

25. But these are the masters at work.....

The best of the best of the poo-flingers! We should observe them so that the mastery of poo-flinging is not lost, should we ever revert to our simian origins.

. . . . . .

The best of the best.....The best the GOP can do. I personally welcome the self-destruction of the Party of No.

[2naSalit]

26. I see it more like

Those tiny army guys trying to save the city from Godzilla with their puny bullets...


pew, pew!




Drumpf is Godzilla!

[Javaman]

6. this is the "big" speach by mittens?

you know the repubs are in deep shit when they have to trot him out to act as the voice of reason.

Mr. 47%

[MowCowWhoHow III]

7. Jeb!, Micro Rubio and now Mittens

Is this a reverse-reverse-reverse-super-ninja psychological GOTV for Trump?

[2naSalit]

27. Whether it was meant as such or not

you know it's gonna turn out that way.

[Old Vet]

33. Thanks for the laugh

[Zorro]

8. Apparently there's another Republicant "debate" tonight

Hope this one is open carry.

[Myrina]

13. I want to see one set up like a cage-match in wrestling ...

... lock 'em in, strategically place a few folding chairs nearby ... maybe give Rubio a shiv to hide in his cuffs ...

[Frances]

9. As worthless as a degree from trip university sounds like a good line

But agree that trump supporters won't respect Romney because he's a "loser"
I hope trump becomes a "loser"
That's why I am committed to any dem who is the nominee

[houston16revival]

10. Is this "shun"

the secular political equivalent of excommunication?

Speaking in tongues

[anniebelle]

11. Pot meet kettle, lol

[Myrina]

12. The sharks are circling ...

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/03/02/indiana-republican-says-trump-can-and-should-stopped/81216154/

[Madmiddle]

14. No one more phony than Romney.

If a phony calls a phony a phony, is the phony a phony? Or is the phony calling a phony a phony, a phony?

[2naSalit]

28. Hey!

That sounds like a trick algebra question! I think it's both, therefore, each negating the other such that the answer is equal to "X"... which is X=0.

[NCjack]

15. Mitt: That's all you got? Surely you know some insider info about Donald, e.g.,

some crimes he has concealed, unpatriotic acts, unethical business deals. You know -- stuff like you do. Wrecking companies and looting workers' pension funds.

[kairos12]

16. Rmoney starting a tRumpster fire. Hilarious.

[truthisfreedom]

18. Drumpftser fire!

[Botany]

17. Yes, because Mitt is so genuine

[2naSalit]

29. Yikes! That looks so practiced!

Reminds me of Thurston Howell III.

[Botany]

37. Romney's laugh was always creeppy to me .... it was so forced and it looked like work

[2naSalit]

38. Nice.

I like his dry wit.

[earthside]

19. In other words, Mitt campaigns for Trump.

The supreme irony is that when a Repuglican establishment loser like Romney goes on the attack against Trump, it only further confirms to the Tea Party base that Trump is the right guy for them.

You know, what is so funny about all of this is that for nine years now the Repuglican Party from Establishment to Tea Party has engaged in nothing but reactionary Obama hate. For all those years they never presented alternative policies, ideas, or programs -- just hate and obstruct Obama.

The Mark Levins, Limbaughs, and Fox News were the cheerleaders for this Repuglican strategy, they made this bed of nothing but emotional reactionaryism.

The perfect embodiment of that culture in the form of Donald Trump has emerged and is sleeping in their bed and now the Repuglican establishment and even the bomb-throwing talk radio subculture is aghast that Trump is doing so well with 'their' people.

Think about it, Trump sounds like any daily broadcast of the Mark Levin show ... but Mark Levin hates Trump!
The Repuglicans are clueless.

On the other hand, I'm not one to discount Trump's appeal. I think he could be a serious contender if he gets the nomination and could win, especially if the Democrats are foolish enough to nominate Mrs. Clinton. There is still much economic distress among working and middle class Americans ... and boring, tired, old establishment, status quo politicians are not what the electorate is looking for in 2016.

[Sunlei]

22. understood, 9 years of republican hate & all they have built in America is bullshit mountian

[closeupready]

20. Romney certainly is a Ph.D. in phoniness and bankruptcy abuse, so

perhaps he's on to something....?

[2naSalit]

30. He's

sucking up for a VP spot.

[Sunlei]

21. republican shunning of their lunatic-base is what emboldens those bigots

[Bradical79]

23. Wow, an article where I can agree with Trump AND Romney on something!

[quote]Romney is branding the billionaire businessman as "a phony, a fraud" whose "promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University," according to a speech Romney planned to give at the University of Utah on Thursday morning. The Associated Press obtained excerpts of his remarks in advance.

Trump, in turn, dismissed Romney as "a stiff" who "didn't know what he was doing" as the party's candidate in 2012 and blew a chance to beat President Barack Obama. "People are energized by what I'm saying" in the campaign and turning out in remarkable numbers to vote, Trump told NBC's "Today." [/quote]

Can't say I disagree with either of them on there points

[Eugene]

24. Is that all he has?

Mainstream Republicans have called Trump a phony conservative for months.
I hasn't worked. Trump University comes as too little too late.

So what if Trump's promises to be America's best deal maker contradicts
being an unflinching conservative? The GOP base doesn't care.

[Geronimoe]

31. Corporations are people my friends

[Vinca]

34. Mitt "Dancing Horse" Romney calling someone else a phony?????

[laserhaas]

35. Everyone is being played... Mitt is coming in June

Been saying so .... since January of last year.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027656127

[chapdrum]

36. Rmoney didn't want to be preznit

according to one of his sons' indiscreet statements after Dad lost.

Looks like the GOP "brain" trust is pulling another basket case off the bench, yet again.

These people truly deserve each other. Too bad it doesn't end there.

[we can do it]

39. Pot meet kettle

[restorefreedom]

40. romney, the pathetic loser, just increased trumps poll numbers. nt

[Eugene]

41. Donald Trump Calls Mitt Romney ‘Irrelevant’ ‘Choke Artist’

Source: ABC News

Donald Trump Calls Mitt Romney ‘Irrelevant’ ‘Choke Artist’

By PAOLA CHAVEZVERONICA STRACQUALURSI
Mar 3, 2016, 2:40 PM ET

Donald Trump unleashed a tirade against Mitt Romney at his campaign rally this afternoon in Portland, Maine, saying the former presidential candidate held back from running this time around because of him.

“So when Mitt started raising his head a few months ago, I was very strong," Trump said. "I said, Mitt Romney should not run. He's a choke artist.”

Trump also suggested that Romney may still have a desire to run.

“I heard Mitt Romney made a fairly long speech," he said. "I’ll just address it quickly because it’s irrelevant."

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-calls-mitt-romney-irrelevant-choke-artist/story?id=37372216

It would have been smarter for Trump not to take the bait, but he just can't help himself.

[spooky3]

42. The Dems had better have the DVRs rolling.

Their campaign ads this fall are writing themselves.

[daleo]

43. Whatever doesn't stop Trump, just makes him stronger

More and more, I see Trump as a sort of alternative universe Obama. Weird as it may be, many dispossessed people are seeing hope and change in Trump. Sure, it is classic false consciousness, but it is still a powerful phenomenon.