Mitt Romney another RINO

Publius · January 4, 2019, 3:25am

Don’t forget saving the 2002 Winter Olympics…

zonulet · January 4, 2019, 4:15am

Mitt Romney, drier than a popcorn fart, still can’t believe Trump won at something he lost.

sikofit · January 4, 2019, 12:00pm

I agree

Jamerican · January 4, 2019, 12:35pm

What makes you a RINO these days?

Is it because as a republican you don’t always go with the status quo?
Is it because as a republican you are your own person and know what is right or wrong?
Or is it because you’re not a follower like most of these 45 drones in the GOP?

Camp · January 4, 2019, 12:41pm

I am laughing so hard my sides hurt.

Everyone is a tool in DC including Romney albeit a very well groomed and mannered tool.

IBC · January 4, 2019, 1:12pm

Meh. If Romney were the R candidate, you’d vote for him, RINO or no.

hindsight · January 4, 2019, 1:26pm

This man speaks the truth.

margaretms2 · January 4, 2019, 1:59pm

What different/substantive policy ideas do you think Romney has that deviate from the rest of the polarized GOP?

margaretms2 · January 4, 2019, 2:03pm

The thing is: Flake, Sasse, Corker, etc. It’s not like they actually did anything, other than yammer and pout. For example, if any or all had wanted to say: The President needs to change course/behavior, and we’re going to caucus with Democrats/block judges/engage in actual oversight until he does–okay, that’s bucking the party. But overwhelmingly, these cowards expressed disapproval, while voting to enable the President.

Camp · January 4, 2019, 2:05pm

Immigration is the topical one and I don’t think he really minds poorly fenced borders and depressed middle class wages.

Samson_Corwell · January 4, 2019, 3:49pm

margaretms2:

Sewell:

DOLOOP:

The premise of the OP appears to be that Republicans really suck at nominating actual Republicans for the Presidency.

And are not the least bit angry at themselves for it

From the time I’ve joined here, I’ve been fascinated by the way that RINO/“real conservative” get defined in often arbitrary or incoherent ways. But the definition is all-encompassing, non-negotiable, and black-and-white with regard to tribal membership.

So in 2004, when I joined, real “Republicans” and “conservatives” were defined on this forum entirely by absolute support for the war in Iraq and the Bush administration, even though the former, in particular, wasn’t conservative at all. And now, of course, they’ve distanced themselves from it by electing a guy who earned the GOP nomination, in part, by dishonestly claiming he opposed the war before it started.

What makes Trump a “real” conservative and “real” Republican, but not Romney, or Corker, or Flake, or whomever (who, by the way, vote with Trump and the GOP almost 100% of the time)? It’s bizarre. And, as with Iraq, sooner or later they’re going to have shove Trump down the memory hole and evade responsibility for him.

It’s cannibalism that is as bad as the kind we can find in leftist circles on “political correctness”.

Guvnah · January 4, 2019, 5:24pm

Even Jeff Flake would be better than any Dem.

IBC · January 5, 2019, 12:04am

That’s why the RINO appellation is so meaningless.

Guvnah · January 5, 2019, 4:12am

No argument from me.

In fact, RINO is the new GOP, which means that the vast majority of them are GOP, and the true conservatives are NRINOs. (New RINOs.)