RINO Mitt Romney, the guy who failed miserably in 2012 despite going up the disaster of the Obama presidency and who made his money as a corporate raider, is getting back on the anti-Trump warpath, this time doing so in the form of a Wall Street Journal article.
In an op-ed for that paper, Romney argued that now is the time for GOP donors to wield their influence to winnow the non-Trump ticket down to just one person, thus giving the anti-Trumpers a chance to claw back the GOP from MAGA and return to the pre-Trump days.
Romney made that goal clear from the beginning of the op-ed, saying that it is possible for a non-Trump candidate to win the primary “if the field narrows to a two-person race before Mr. Trump has the nomination sewn up.”
Continuing, he then called on “Republican megadonors and influencers—large and small” to use their influence to force those candidates without much of a shot of victory out before it is too late for a non-Trump ticket to win. Romney’s idea is similar to how the Democrats gave the nomination to Biden when all of his main competitors dropped out at around the same time and backed him, taking the remaining wind out of Bernie’s sails.
Romney then jumped straight to saying the silent part out loud, which is that the wealthy have a huge amount of influence on campaigns because of the amount of money they can contribute through super PACs (Political Action Committees), organizations that have no donation limits.
“The vast expansion of super PACs gives megadonors oversized influence on campaigns. A few billionaires have already committed tens of millions of dollars,” Romney said. Getting to how that’s important here and how he thinks they should spend their money, he said, “Donors who are backing someone with a slim chance of winning should seek a commitment from the candidate to drop out and endorse the person with the best chance of defeating Mr. Trump.“
He then admitted that GOP leadership is powerless over candidates compared to the bags of money sitting on the sidelines or behind different candidates, saying, “Donors may think that party leaders can narrow the field. Not so. Candidates don’t listen to party officials.“
But, instead of calling for a change to the rules that would strip power away of oligarchic interests, Romney just called on those oligarchic interests to do what he thinks is the right thing, which is to back “a nominee with character, driven by something greater than revenge and ego.”
In other words, Romney wants the GOP to return to the days of being “court jester conservatives” that serve as a punching bag for the left while losing gracefully, and he’s calling on oligarchs to use their money to combat the will of the average Americans who see Trump as their one hope of combating leftists like Gavin Newsom on one hand and rapacious globalists like Mitt Romney on the other, both of whom are overtly hostile to their interests.
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