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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,273
    89ute said:
    He's not a Utah Mormy any more. He's northeast and Ivy League.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club




    He has fought way harder against Trump than he ever did running against Obama


    I still like Romney. He may not appeal to today's conservative, but he's exactly my kind of politician. Sure, his time in Mass. has probably liberal'd him up a bit, but he's no liberal. Bongingo is overreacting IMO.
    Nothing's changed with me. I'd still take Mitt over Trump.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,273




    He has fought way harder against Trump than he ever did running against Obama


    I still like Romney. He may not appeal to today's conservative, but he's exactly my kind of politician. Sure, his time in Mass. has probably liberal'd him up a bit, but he's no liberal. Bongingo is overreacting IMO.
    Nothing's changed with me. I'd still take Mitt over Trump.
    Me too. If he had a good Republican Congress behind him, so that he didn't have to court the left as much, I think he'd be a great Prez.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,273
    edited February 2020




    He has fought way harder against Trump than he ever did running against Obama


    I still like Romney. He may not appeal to today's conservative, but he's exactly my kind of politician. Sure, his time in Mass. has probably liberal'd him up a bit, but he's no liberal. Bongingo is overreacting IMO.
    Nothing's changed with me. I'd still take Mitt over Trump.
    You must like losing or democrats because that pussy would give in every time
    I think Romney's dalliances with the left is a subtle bundle of factors. First, Romney comes from a background of people who literally don't use profanity. Trump's a little rough around the edges for that crowd, and Romney is never going to be the lightning rod Trump almost seems to love to be.

    The other thing is that Romney isn't really a natural for Trump's base. Of that base, the sub-group we call Evangelical Christians are not good bedfellows for the Mormons, who they (and a lot of other people) see as weird and culty. Outside of that, he's not blue collar and he's not a southerner, so if he's racist he's going to hide it. He has none of that "tells it like it is" appeal, because that's not who he is. He's a different human being altogether, and probably let's things you and others here don't care about matter to him. Like appearances, decorum and all that shit that's so easy to make fun of.

    Romney is not, I agree, a 'say anything', bottom line guy in the mold of Rush Limbaugh and Trump, and there's no question that living in Mass. has made him more of a New Englander than a Utah Mormom. And those people are, as I've learned over the last 5 years, a breed a part. My old boss told me that upstate NW was very different than New England, at which point I looked at a map and said, "yeah right". He was right. It is.

    All that said, Mitt still holds conservative values, has brains, has credibility and great fucking hair.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,435 Founders Club



    Like I said last night - Americans love a winner and the establishment wants to get on board

    Mitt wanted to be Secretary of State. This is probably when he was begging for the job