Self-Appointed Nemesis Romney Blasts Trump in Washington Post Op-Ed

Next stop for Romney: guest spots on TV talk shows.

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"Two days before he is sworn into the United States Senate, incoming Utah Senator Mitt Romney is blasting President Donald Trump's character. 

"In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Romney criticizes the president, saying that he hoped when Trump was elected in 2016 that he would "rise to the occasion" as leader of the free world. 

" 'On balance, his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions this month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of office," Romney wrote. " . . .

Mitt Romney bids to become Trump's Senate nemesis now that Flake and Corker are leaving  . . . All other things being equal, it would be nice to have a president who is an inspiring moral leader.  But in the swamp of D.C., people may praise such a person while slipping the stiletto in the back.  It takes a street fighter to keep one's back safe.  And get things done.

"I fear that the favorable attention Utah's Senator Mitt Romney will receive in the media is only going to encourage him in his disparagement of President Trump.

"I fear that as he joins the Senate, Mitt Romney is going to adopt the role of NeverTrump scold.  I'd ask him to think clearly about what a defeat for President Trump in the 2020 election would mean for the United States.  Whomever the Democrats choose as their nominee, it will be someone who wants a bigger government, higher taxes, limits on the Second Amendment, CO2 regulation and taxes, and more racial favoritism by entities under the sway of the federal government."   Thomas Lifson

Romney arrives in DC. Attacks President Trump  "After allowing Barack Obama to walk all over him in 2012, Mitt Romney finally made it to Washington, and immediately attacked President Trump.
"In a column in the Washington Post Romney could not argue facts -- “it is not that all of the president’s policies have been misguided” -- so he took the low road.
. . . "Never mind the appointments to the judiciary that he made. Never mind that voting for Romney and McCain got me Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, while voting for Trump got me Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
"No, no, no." . . .

Trump fires back after incoming U.S. Senator Romney blasts president  Romney certainly checked all the liberal boxes here:  "I will speak out against significant statements or actions that are divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions," he wrote."   

Would Romney have freed our hostages or kicked ISIS out of their conquered territories?