1/4/2019 -
David Limbaugh Townhall.com
Two days before he was sworn in as Utah's junior U.S.
senator, Mitt Romney published an op-ed in The Washington Post, publicly
broadcasting, once again, his disapproval of President Donald Trump.
Disappointing, but not surprising.
Something seems to compel those in the never-Trump crowd not
only to perpetually obsess over Trump but also to constantly remind us of their
profound distaste for him -- lest it escape our top-of-mind awareness.
A few things popped out at me when I read Romney's piece --
apart from his flagrant hypocrisy in reigniting his public relations campaign
against Trump after abandoning it when seeking to be Trump's secretary of
state.
Why did Romney believe he needed to write this now -- as his
first volley -- instead of first expressing his intention of trying to work
with Trump to move his agenda forward in what promises to be a very tumultuous
time, with militant, partisan Democrats about to assume control of the House?
Why would Romney choose to publish his piece in the overtly
liberal Washington Post? Are political liberals and the mainstream media his
constituency now? It would be one thing for a newly minted GOP senator to take
on Democrats in that publication, but it's quite another for him to harshly
criticize his party's president in a paper that exclusively speaks for the
opposition party -- a party that will doubtlessly leverage this op-ed against
the president and in favor of the Democrats' policy agenda, which Romney has
been telling us for years he abhors.
Does Romney mean to undermine and demonize GOP border
enforcement hawks and other Republicans at this critical time when he piously
proclaims that he "will speak out against significant statements or
actions that are divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or
destructive to democratic institutions"? Exactly what statements or
actions is he calling racist and anti-immigrant? I ask because I've heard some
never-Trumpers outright denounce border enforcement supporters as nativists and
racists not because any statements they've made could remotely be construed as
anti-immigrant and racist but because they callously and wrongly presume or
pretend to presume that their fierce opposition to illegal immigration and
their desire to encourage assimilation and preserve national sovereignty, the
rule of law and an orderly immigration process are somehow racist. This is
below the belt, destructive and, yes, quite divisive, Mr. Romney -- with your
own party, no less.
What other statements or actions of President Trump does
Romney consider divisive? Is he equally agitated over the Democrats'
unapologetic divisiveness, or is his angst reserved only for Trump and his
Republican supporters? Stated another way, if Romney was so eager to write an
op-ed before he'd even set foot in the Senate, why didn't he use it to call out
Democrats for telegraphing their intent to use their newfound control of the
House to unleash partisan hell on President Trump? Or is making nice with these
self-pronounced partisan militants and their media cheerleaders more important
to Romney than fighting their toxic agenda?
What Trump actions does Romney believe are "destructive
to democratic institutions"? I, for one, am tired of hearing this
Democratic trope that Trump is threatening our democratic institutions when he
has done nothing of the sort and has been appointing constitutionalist judges
who are dedicated to shoring up our democratic institutions and, unlike
President Obama, has refrained from issuing lawless executive orders to advance
his agenda. Why, Mr. Romney, do you want to legitimize this false charge
against President Trump? We Republicans faithfully supported you in your 2012
presidential bid and wouldn't have considered undercutting you like this.
Why, Mr. Romney, do you feel it is necessary to announce
that you "will support policies that (you) believe are in the best
interest of the country and (your state), and oppose those that are not"?
How many Democrats would send a public message to the country that by gosh,
they will not support their president if he's doing things they believe are not
in the country's best interest? Can't some things just be left unsaid, or is it
necessary in every other paragraph to remind Americans that Trump embarrasses
you and you'll only grudgingly support him -- and then, only when you have to?
Why couldn't you have kept your powder dry rather than
virtue-signal to leftists who'll never love you any more than they did Sen.
John McCain? Are you so consumed with distaste for Trump that you are blind to
the Democrats' far worse partisanship and divisiveness? Are you really unaware
of the Democrats' stated intentions to wage political war against Trump for the
next two years or until they run him out of office? Do you not see that
enabling the Democrats in this way could help to advance their nightmarish
agenda? Which will you oppose more, Trump's bad manners or the Democrats'
socialist, culturally nihilistic agenda? Which is less in the nation's
interest?
It is not President Trump who threatens the nation's
interest, Mr. Romney, but the Democratic Party, which you have just gone out of
your way to assist -- whether you realize it or not.
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