Don’t get so caught up in a furor over Senator-elect Mitt Romney writing a political hit piece against the President of the United States that we forget to look at the big picture.
Senator-elect Mitt Romney’s niece is Ronna McDaniel, Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Senator Romney didn’t just wake up on New Year’s Day and haphazardly write a specifically constructed character assassination against the President of the republican party; who is currently the President of the United States.
No, this attack was done with forethought and specific intent.
Think rationally and logically. Why write the op-ed at all? What is the purpose behind writing the op-ed? What does the author have to gain by writing the op-ed?…
And specifically, given the nature of the familial relationship between republican Senator Romney and RNC Chairwoman McDaniel, not to mention the political profession therein, with the senator writing something highly damaging; well, there’s obviously a larger intended purpose on Romney’s end of the equation.
Likely many will believe Ms. Ronna McDaniel was generally unaware that her uncle was going to take such a position of expressed opposition. She didn’t know? Mitt Romney wouldn’t, given the circumstances, tell his niece of his intention?
Let’s presume Romney didn’t tell his niece. What does that tell us about the character of Mitt Romney; his obvious self-interest; and, in the bigger picture, what does that tell us of his relationship to republican party objectives, writ large?
What exactly is this ‘republican party‘, Romney’s frame-of-reference (under such a presumption), all about? Who would Mitt and Ann Romney believe is operating it?
If Mitt Romney felt his current DC entry point, constructed by his specific intent, would leave him entirely isolated from any influence and/or affluence from his position – he wouldn’t do it. Right? But he did…. so he doesn’t view this adversarial starting point as damaging to his political objectives.
It’s a new year. So let’s stop the nonsense explanations and reconciliations attempting to justify behavior…. let’s just accept them. [People write “you’re negative”, I don’t think so…. I just accept things as they are, not as I wish them to be.]
If Senator-elect Mitt Romney wanted to plant his flag and express his political position as an incoming freshman Senator from Utah he could have written an article outlining his views, his positions, his point of reference; what he hopes to achieve, etc. etc.
But he didn’t. He specifically went out of his way to level his best attack, a verbal and thought-out assassination, based on character, against the sitting President of the United States.
And he didn’t just think about this earlier this morning. This was pre-planned.
There had to be an earlier conversation with the Washington Post. Right? There had to be some form of editorial review…. Right? There had to be some purpose; there had to be some scheduling, correct?
Keep it simple.
The most likely scenario is Mitt Romney coordinated with other like-minded political allies to start the incoming congressional year with a broadside assault against the chief executive.
Agreed?
Romney is aligning himself.
Romney wouldn’t stand alone.
Accepting the above as obvious, that alone tells us quite a bit.
Remember, there is an agenda behind these people that 97% of the electorate just don’t understand. Nothing will change until Mitch McConnell is defeated. Nothing. {Go deep} Remember also, what we already know about how the resistance is set up for a very specific set of sequences {Go Deep}.
Think back to the 2015 instructions from republican insider Alex Castellanos as he described how the RNC could eliminate the disruptive influence of Donald Trump:
[…] “The best way to do it is how Brutus killed Caesar. Get real close, snuggle up, and shiv him in the ribs”… (link)
You still think Mitt Romney’s niece, Chairwoman of the RNC, Ronna McDaniel, didn’t know her uncle was going to publish a direct attack against the President of the United States… The president of the party she is in charge of ?… I digress.
A pattern of political stories are beginning to show signs of a common continuity. In the bigger of the big pictures seven words continue to set the baseline: “There are trillions of dollars at stake”.
When the common sense Tea Party movement formed in 2009 and 2010 it contained a monumentally frustrated grassroots electorate, and the scale of the movement caught the professional republican party off-guard. When Donald Trump ran for the office of the presidency he essentially did the same thing; he disrupted the apparatus of the professional republican party.
The difference between those two examples is one was from the bottom up, and the second was from the top down. However, the commonality in the two forces resulted in the 2016 victory.
It took a few years for the heavily armored old guard of GOP to formulate a plan to retain their control. In the example of the Tea Party, the republican power structures moved in 2011 through 2014 to co-opt the vulgarian movement and impede their disruptive influence. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was at the forefront of those power moves. {Go Deep} and {Go Deep} The basic issue for the GOP was retention of power.
McConnell and crew tamped down the fire. A few years pass and the issues that spurred the Tea Party movement remained unresolved. In 2015 Donald Trump taps in to that exact same Tea Party frustration toward the control authority within one-half of the DC UniParty; again, the professional republican apparatus was disrupted.
From the first moment candidate Trump announced his platform positions; from the very first poll *after* those platform positions were announced; Donald Trump was leading the republican field in every-single-poll from August of 2015 through today. Center stage throughout 2015 and 2016 and President of the United States as an outcome therein.
Yes, the “movement” rebranded and now MAGA wins the presidency.
So it should not come as a surprise to see an eerily similar response from within the GOP toward the new threat; the Trump presidency.
@Deplorable Me, #50:
And it’s over 1,984 miles long? An engineer has calculated that a 25′ tall wall such as Trump describes would require 3 times as much concrete as was required to build the Hoover Dam, not to mention 10,190,000 cubic feet—or around about 5 billion pounds—of steel reinforcement.
This is the reality of simple arithmetic. Such a thing cannot happen, and it isn’t really because of Democratic opposition.
@Greg:
Liberals are always the first to punch out. We couldn’t go to the moon either, could we?
There are parts of the border that don’t require a wall; it is too harsh and forbidding. Just go back to your nap and let the adults run the government. We’ll be OK.
@Greg: The wall, its actually a 30 foot tall steel slat barrier, with spikes on the top and nice soft razorwire for a landing on the US side. You know damn well drones and dudes on atvs cannot cover the remote areas, some invaders will always get through but when the soft spots are found they can be made more secure. The price tag of 30 billion is less than what we spend on those that are already here yearly, special language teachers, foodstamps. Then slowing the drug trafficking you know we have a problem with opiates crossing the border. Like I said a 10 % surcharge on money wired to Mexico and central America would help pay, Mexicans living abroad sent home almost $27 billion and if renewed each year take care of maintenence and maybe all the border guards too, if not we can up the surcharge. There can be no talks of fixing our immigration system til we get the border secure, politicians have a way of reneging on deals.
100 illegals were treated for TB before being sent home. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB. HV has been found along with upper respritory infections,chicken pox and flu.All get medical treatment on our dime plus fed and housed.
Fences work 65 countries have fences anyone saying they dont are blowing smoke.
@Deplorable Me: Actually you are partially correct —Dow fell heavily in o8 and early O9 but signaled a bull mkt in mid 09 as it closed up over 20% from it’s early 09 low—bull continued with corrections until bear signaled last month. DOW UP or flat every year from 2009-17–huge bull run– RIDICULOUS for you to say it was down 09-2012 As you know bull run from mid 09 till Jan 2017 an incredible 11000+ points—Dow up about 3000 more under DT–down in 2018 and a rough start today—bear market signaled late December 2018 could run 2-5 years =. I’d expect Dow sideways to down 25000–16000 over that time frame.
@Deplorable Me:
Trump should acknowledge this. He should present a rational plan for improved border security, which could certainly include enhanced physical barriers in the locations where they’re truly called for, and stop speaking in terms that sound like some modern-day Great Wall of China.
@Greg:
He has. If you would pay attention, you would know this.
You actually think, after the wall has been discussed and planned for two decades, that there is no plan?
You know what I would like to see? Democrats stop buying votes with lies about “free health care” and “fee college”. But, we won’t be seeing that happen, will we?
@Deplorable Me: Never Trumper Ryan said there are mountains and we couldnt put up the wall, we built an intercontinental railroad, we went to the moon, its a good thing Ryan is retiring 20 years younger than he proposed for all of us. We are AmeriCANS not Cants, its not like we are politicians trying pass a bill about real health insurance they had 8 years to craft and all ran on or something impossible like that.
@kitt: cans not cants
Maybe a hat?
ALL polls show majority of Americans oppose the wall.
@Deplorable Me:
Yep. That’s exactly what I think. I think there’s no specific plan for Trump’s wall, just as there was no plan for an Obamacare replacement that’s cheaper, better, and available to everybody. There was no plan for infrastructure modernization. Nor is there any plan for what will follow our disengagement in Afghanistan or Syria. There’s no plan on how to deal with our once again skyrocketing national deficit. There’s most certainly no plan on how to counter Russian geopolitical ambitions.
@Greg: Keep fooling yourself what happens with all the crap democrats will send to the senate, it will never see debate, same thing that happened with AHCA alternatives they never saw the floor.
Ryan who is not a lawyer but an economist major put up that bloated POS budget and tried to shift the blame, we know what committee he came from, we know what the uniparty is up to.
$12 billion more for “international affairs programs,” including $2.9 billion more “for economic and development assistance, including funding for the West Bank/Gaza, Syria, and Pakistan, where our foreign aid is either frozen or under review.”
Yes lets assist development in other countries but protection of our own country ZIP. They would rather they get teargassed than simply locked out.
Lets tear down the immoral wall around Pelosis mega mansion.
What was that nice bridge plan that only covered those with pre-existing conditions? The one that didnt take over 1/6th of the economy and run up insurance costs and deductibles?
@Richard Wheeler:
Hmm… the ones I’ve seen show overwhelming support for border security and the wall.
@Greg:
Well, there ya go. There’s the problem. You don’t think very well. Did you happen to see the process of building numerous prototypes, testing them, evaluating them and selecting the best options? No, you didn’t because CNN was only feeding your fake news.
The Obamacare replacement plan was great but for one detail; it relied on a majority of Democrats to actually care more about America than Obama’s legacy of failure.
@kitt: Democrats today now prefer “border security” which, today, does not include a wall. What does it include? Well, who knows? It is supposed to continue the past trend of dumping money on the problem so criminal politicians can line their pockets.
However, what we saw was necessary for “border security” when the “caravan” (aka “invasion”) approached was the mobilization and deployment of the US military. THIS (along with was exists of the wall) protected the border. Now, can you remember who bitched about the COST of this “border security”? I’ll give you a hint… GREG. Greg and all the Democrats bitched and moaned about the cost of deploying troops to secure the border against 14,000 illegal immigrants THEIR allies mobilized to hurl against our border.
The wall would be there 24/7 and it would be effective. The wall would be there long after Trump is gone and the next Democrat takes office, lying about how much they oppose illegal immigration, open borders and support security. The wall would be cheaper than manning the border with guards or troops and it would pay for itself many times over as we reduce the number of illegal immigrants already here and draining our taxpayer-funded resources.
Bottom line, all it is is: Trump wants it, so they oppose it. Great, big, infantile, spoiled crybabies.