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Lou Dobbs on Romney declining to endorse in 2020: 'What is wrong with this man?'
2019-09-15
[THEHILL] Fox Business host Lou Dobbs went after Sen. Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a member of the Never Trump Party and is attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain...
on Friday after the Utah Republican said this week that he does not plan to endorse President Trump or others in 2020, asking, "What is wrong with this man?"

Dobbs, a vocal backer of Trump, referred to the GOP senator as a "never Trumper and RINO" in a segment Friday night. He began the segment by touting Trump's electoral chances in 2020 as well as predictions that there won't be a recession next year.

"Can you hear the tears falling on the marble floors under those terrible, terrible anti-Trump-ers?" he asked, suggesting more attention should be paid to "this booming Trump economy."

He then shared news that Romney would not endorse in the 2020 presidential race, either before or during the general election when Trump is seeking a second term.

"Romney says he has no plans to endorse President Trump for the 2020 election," Dobbs began.

"I know many of you were waiting to hear what Romney would be saying about our president," he deadpanned. "Well, there it is."

The segment was first reported by Mediaite.

Dobbs noted that Romney was so far declining to endorse Trump "or any other Republican candidate in the primary or general election."

"I mean the despair is spreading across the country now," he said.

Dobbs pointed out that Romney also declined to endorse Trump in 2016 before he eventually won, adding: "As you can see, he's not a quick learner."

He then turned to interview former White House aide Kelly Sadler, a communications official for a pro-Trump super PAC, about Romney, asking: "What is wrong with this man?"

Romney, who has sporadically broken with Trump on various policy issues, said this week that he doesn't plan to endorse anyone in the 2020 election.

"I'm not planning on endorsing in the presidential race," he told CNN. "At this stage, I'm not planning on endorsing in the primary or in the general."

Posted by:Fred

#9  *Gilded Age
Posted by: Lex   2019-09-15 19:39  

#8  Me, I follow the $$$. This the Age of Oligarchy, the second coming of the Robber Barons, Gimded Age Redux.

Future historians will explain most of the actions of our ruling class with regard to money flows.
Posted by: Lex   2019-09-15 19:39  

#7  All explanations in this comment thread are valid, but I would add that Romney's still butthurt that Trump did what he couldn't.

Add ego to the toxic stew of Ruling Class imperatives and you get Willard and his ilk.

BTW, the most famous character in fiction named "Willard" was a rat. Just sayin'.

Posted by: charger   2019-09-15 12:09  

#6  Romney is first and foremost a moneyfiddler, a financial engineer.

His career as a money guy will be hurt if he is seen as in any way sympathetic to Trump by those business counterparties whom he critically depends on for deal flow, exits, and financing.

Those counterparties - Wall Streeters and bank execs as well as consumer company CEOs - are now falling into line with The Resistance and signaling to the Dems, the media and various blackmail "activists" that they are woke, that they oppose racism 'n' sexism ''n' cis-hetero-normative-genderism.

Romney is simply trying to preserve his fortune and his business. Nothing to do with politics.
Posted by: Lex   2019-09-15 11:51  

#5  He's a liberal caught in a time when the Socialists have purged the old party of his kind. So he just steals a seat from the Trunks instead of working his ass off forming a real Liberal Party taking votes from the other two parties of the old guard Donks and RINO Trunks.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-09-15 07:39  

#4  Nobody asked you to endorse you spineless twit. You're supposedly Mormon, where the hell is your spine?
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-09-15 07:19  

#3  Who’s Romney? The guy who endorsed Obama in 2012.
Posted by: Airandee   2019-09-15 07:05  

#2  Who's Romney?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2019-09-15 01:24  

#1  Who shares my apathy (except perhaps as a negative indicator) as to who Romney endorses?
Posted by: magpie   2019-09-15 01:00  

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