Mitt Romney’s game all about running … again

If they ever name a street after Mitt Romney, it’ll have to be one-way.

How Romney was his latest announcement, that he couldn’t bring himself to vote for Donald J. Trump for president.

And of course Mitt wouldn’t say if he’d cast his ballot for Dementia Joe Biden, just like Gov. Charlie Baker, another pathetic RINO disappointment as Massachusetts governor.

At least with Willard Mitt Romney the end game is always clear, because it never changes. He still dreams of becoming president.

And indeed, just as Mitt proudly proclaims his “present” vote in the presidential race, right on schedule CBS “News” comes out with a story: “Republicans prepare for possible ‘post-Trump world.’”

Get it? Just like after the Republican loss in 2008, Mittens is going to pick up the pieces if … .

Willard seriously believes that voting against the most popular Republican incumbent president since Ronald Reagan is a good career move.

Could he possibly be any more clueless?

A good tactician Mitt isn’t. And his judgment about Trump is clouded by the towering grudge he holds against 45.

Bottom line: Romney can’t stand it that Trump succeeded in getting elected the first time he ran for president. Mitt ran twice, in 2008 and 2012, but it’s more than that.

Remember, his dad, Michigan Gov. George Romney, was the favorite to win the 1968 GOP nomination, but he blew himself up by mumbling about being “brainwashed” when he was in Vietnam.

So the Romneys, father and son, are 0-3 in presidential races, and Trump is 1-0.

Then there are the similarities between Mitt and Trump. They were born nine months apart. Trump is 74, Willard 73. They both went to Ivy League schools. (Penn and Harvard). Both their fathers were millionaires, and while Mittens made a few hundred million more, Trump became a billionaire.

Of course, their public images diverge more than somewhat. Mitt has always fancied himself as Dudley Do-Right. Trump, not so much.

Mitt had a fake Twitter account under the name Pierre Delicto. Can anyone imagine Trump wanting to … dilute his brand by using a fake name?

Unlike Trump, Mitt is someone who calculates his every step. When he was governor, Mitt never pardoned or commuted any sentences. (Didn’t want a Willie Horton on his record.)

For judgeships, he almost always selected a prosecutor. It seemed, well, safer (but of course it wasn’t).

The ultimate cautious Mitt was exposed in an early GOP presidential debate in 2011. He was asked about his landscaper in Belmont using a crew of illegals. Romney said he read him the riot act:

“Look, you can’t have any illegals working on our property. I’m running for office, for Pete’s sake.”

Georges Clemenceau once famously said of Germany, “They’re either at your throat or at your feet.”

That describes Mitt’s relationship with POTUS.

At Trump’s feet: when he needed his endorsement in 2012 (Mitt flew to Las Vegas to beg for it, as Trump later recalled). Then there was his campaigning for the secretary of state’s job after the 2016 election. (Trump made him eat frogs’ legs in the French restaurant at Trump Tower). Voting for Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court next week.

At Trump’s throat: renting a hall to deliver an attack during the 2016 primary season calling Trump a grifter and a bust out. And being the sole Republican senator to vote to convict Trump on one of those bogus articles of impeachment earlier this year.

It’s that Dudley Do-Right attitude about Mitt that’s so grating. Just last week he tweeted (under his real name) that U.S. politics had become a “vile, vituperative, hate-filled morass.”

Guess who the former Pierre Delicto blamed for this sorry state of affairs.

He’s also said recently that it is “unacceptable not to commit to a peaceful transfer of power.” He wasn’t talking about the Democrats since 2016, he was referring to, well, you know.

He wants a “commission” to address the problem of wildfires. (Hey Mitt, how about we just go back to our old policy of clearing shrub and dead wood?)

What’s sad is that even after all these years, Mitt somehow thinks that his groveling will ingratiate himself to Democrats who would never dream of voting for him.

Didn’t Romney learn anything from his own runs for president? The two-on-one debate pile-ons. The flat-out lies about his nonpayment of taxes.

Mitt’s goal, like John McCain, is always to be the last Republican standing. As if that did him, or McCain, any good.

(Remember how when McCain was the most liberal Republican in the primary the Democrat stenographers with press passes called his bus the Straight Talk Express. Once he was one-on-one with their hero Obama, they started calling the bus the Strait Jacket Express.)

The mainstream media are already buttering up Mittens again. Here’s a headline from the Washington Post: “Romney’s the guy who can’t please anyone – and he’s humble enough to accept it.”

That’s what they’re saying now. But don’t worry — if he ever were to get the 2024 nomination (doubtful), the Post will just dust off their old story from 2012 about how he allegedly bullied the gay kid in his prep school.

Wake up Mitt. You’ll never be president. And neither will Pierre Delicto.

from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/2Tf0d4B