Sen. Willard Mitt Romney is retiring from politics on account of ailing well being.
The voters acquired sick of him.
Actually I needed to begin this column with the standard, “And so, farewell, Mitt Romney….”
But the fact is, the chances are nice that “Pierre Delecto” (for that was certainly his Twitter nom de plume) is just not going anyplace, not less than not for some time.
You know rattling nicely Romney nonetheless fantasizes about changing into president. And consider it or not, there are a bunch of political has-beens and never-weres who’re looking out desperately for a doomed candidate to run for president beneath the “No Labels” label.
Romney and Joe Manchin might find yourself flipping a coin to see who will get to be the Jill Stein of 2024.
But in relation to bust-out candidates for president, who higher than the present senator from Utah and former governor of Massachusetts, who has already failed twice, in 2008 and 2012.
Mitt made his announcement with a videotaped message saying that it was “time for a new generation.”
Then, in true Mittens trend, excerpts have been leaked from a brand new biography by which he denounced two of his Republican colleagues within the Senate – Josh Hawley and J.D. Vance.
Hawley is 43 years previous. Vance is 39. So a lot for that new technology.
Mitt is commonly described as a RINO – a Republican in Name Only. I don’t assume he even rises to that unhappy stage. He’s a constitution member of the GOP’s “Useful Idiot” wing, which means helpful to the Democrats, particularly when he assaults one other Republican.
But No Labels isn’t the proper title for Mitt’s new social gathering. How about “No Principles?”
Remember when he bragged that he was “severely conservative?” Or when he instructed his landscaper in Belmont to cease hiring unlawful aliens – “I’m running for president for Pete’s sake.”
So it was completely in character that Mittens would come with in his announcement a blast at Donald Trump. He actually detests the previous president, primarily, I feel, as a result of they’re the identical age. Both have been born in 1946, Mitt on March 12 and Trump on June 14.
And but Trump is the one who turned president – on his first strive.
A French chief as soon as mentioned that the Germans are both at your throat or at your ft. Trump might say the identical of Mitt Romney. In 2012, Trump made him fly to Las Vegas.
“He was begging for my endorsement,” Trump recalled. “I could have said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees.’ He would have dropped to his knees.”
Trump mentioned this in 2016, when Mitt was denouncing him – he was at Trump’s throat, you may say. Then Trump gained and Mitt flew to New York to beg – beg! – for a job within the new administration. At Trump’s ft, because it have been.
Trump gave him the again of his hand, so Mittens determined to maneuver to Utah and run for the Senate. You know, identical to he moved again to Massachusetts in 2002 to run for governor.
After one time period as governor, he acquired bored and determined to not run for a second time period. Now after one time period within the Senate, he will get bored and decides to not run for a second time period.
Do you start to detect a sample right here?
He stop as governor as a result of he didn’t assume it was bettering his prospects for successful the presidency. I might counsel the identical m.o. is in play right here.
It’s all about Mitt’s father, George Romney, the late governor of Michigan, one in all Mitt’s many residence states. George ran for president in 1968, however his marketing campaign imploded after he mentioned on tv that in a go to to Vietnam, he’d been “brainwashed.”
(Comedian Mort Sahl commented that given George Romney’s towering mind, a mind wash appeared like overkill, and {that a} “light rinse” would have gotten the job finished simply as nicely.)
Mitt has all the time relished the faux accolades of state-run media. I’m certain that since his announcement, he’s been eagerly looking out the Internet for any constructive opinions.
That was the entire rationale behind his “Pierre Delecto” alias on Twitter – he needed to offer himself large moist slobbering kisses on social media!
It was pitiful, however this pathetic longing for approval is a blind spot for all RINO’s.
Remember John McCain – when he was operating because the RINO candidate in 2008, state-run media swooned, speaking about his bus, the Straight Talk Express.
Once McCain gained the nomination in opposition to Obama, the Democrats’ amen refrain turned on him. The comrades started calling McCain’s bus the Strait Jacket Express.
Mitt realized nothing from this. The fellow vacationers beloved him when he was operating in opposition to actual Republicans within the major, however then they turned on him like a pack of rabid jackals!
He gave ladies most cancers! He was a homophobe in prep faculty!
And worst of all, he put his canine in a crate on the highest of his automotive and drove the beast to Michigan. One morning throughout the Republican conference in 2012, the New York Times ran not one, however two columns on the identical op-ed web page denouncing his remedy of poor Seamus, the Irish setter.
Remember, Romney didn’t kill Seamus. And he was operating in opposition to a man who’d admitted consuming canines as a boy in Indonesia.
Then throughout the debates, the plus-sized moderator Candy Crowley teamed up with Obama to destroy Romney. And Mitt’s response was the identical as when a drunk Ted Kennedy lunged for his throat within the 1994 Senate debate at Faneuil Hall.
Mitt dropped to the ground and went into the fetal place and started whimpering for his mommy.
Trump described him completely again in 2016:
“Mitt is indeed a choke artist. He choked like I’ve never seen anyone choke.”
But now Mitt is retiring from politics – once more. He’s denouncing the shortage of civility and bipartisanship – once more. He’s ripping Trump – once more.
I can see the editorials in state-run media now. He’s an elder statesman. He’s grown, advanced. Why can’t we get Republicans like Mitt Romney anymore?
There are 5 Sunday-morning political chat reveals on TV that no person watches anymore. Trump’s already booked for Meet the Press this week. That leaves 4 for Mitt to beg to go on. The over-under on what number of he makes is three.
I’ll take the over.
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