Mitt blasts The Donald.

[Mike Honcho 5,415]

Romney implores: Bring down Trump

 

 

"Here's what I know: Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud," Romney said. "His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing members of the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat."

 

Romney said that "dishonesty is Donald Trump's hallmark," pointing to his "bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third-grade theatrics."

 

Romney lambasted Trump on foreign policy, casting him as "very, very not-smart" in his comments about allowing ISIS to take out Syria's leadership and for proposing the slaughter of the families of terrorists.

 

"Mr. Trump is directing our anger for less-than-noble purposes. He creates scapegoats in Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for the killing of innocent children and family members of terrorists. He cheers assaults on protestors," he said, adding that Trump would trample First Amendment protections.

 

Romney also said Trump's remarks on CBS' "60 Minutes" on Syria and ISIS "has to go down as the most ridiculous and dangerous idea of the campaign season: Let ISIS take out Assad, he said, and then we can pick up the remnants."

 

"Think about that: Let the most dangerous terror organization the world has ever known take over a country? This is recklessness in the extreme," Romney said.

 

Romney even made an effort to pre-but Trump's response to his speech.

 

"Watch, by the way, how he responds to our speech today. Will he talk about our policy differences, or will he respond with every low-road insult?" Romney said.

 

He called on Trump to release his tax returns, predicting another "bombshell." "I predict that he doesn't give much of anything to our disabled, to our veterans," he said.

 

 

 

 

 

[fandandy 3,313]

Sounds like Romney's got his magic underwear in a bunch.

[KSB2424 3,173]

It's all true. But it won't matter. You'll hear "It's the Establishment just mad!@#!" or some other nonsense. No folks, its people with brains calling it like they see it. That's all it is.

[Mike Honcho 5,415]

Must be something in the air.

 

Watch Ted Koppel shred Bill O’Reilly for making journalism “irrelevant” when it comes to Donald Trump

 

“I’ve interviewed him a number of times,” O’Reilly said, and it’s “not an easy interview. How would you do it?”

 

“You and I have talked about this general subject many times over the years,” Koppel said. “It’s irrelevant how I would do it.” “You know who made it irrelevant?” he asked. “You did. You have changed the television landscape over the past 20 years. You took it from being objective and dull to subjective and entertaining. And in this current climate, it doesn’t matter what the interviewer asks him — Mr. Trump is gonna say whatever he wants to say, as outrageous as it may be.”

 

A stunned O’Reilly repeated the question, to which Koppel replied, “the first way you do it is not in the interview — you do it by some reporting. It’s an old-fashioned concept but I think demonstrating who and what Mr. Trump is and what his policies really amount to is something you don’t do in an interview. He doesn’t answer the questions.”

 

Koppel took this as an opportunity to light into Trump’s policies — or lack thereof. “When was the last time you have heard Donald Trump spell out a real policy on anything other than, ‘We’re gonna be the best, we’re gonna be the greatest, I’m gonna negotiate the best deals you’ve ever seen’?”

 

“There is no substance in any of that,” he concluded, “and nobody among his followers seems to care about that.”

 

 

Down goes O'Reilly!

[Kanil 521]

I thought it was a good damn speech... where was this Mitt when he was running for Pres!??

[DankNuggs 305]

There isn't an ounce of substance in any of Hillary's stances either... Whether its arbitrarily reducing business loan underwriting standards for women or minorites, to talk of creating jobs with no plan or substance behind it... To her foriegn policy plan that is founded on the economy being strong.... Its just a mishmash of special interest shout outs.

 

 

Why does trump get all the outrage?

[Sho Nuff 720]

There isn't an ounce of substance in any of Hillary's stances either... Whether its arbitrarily reducing business loan underwriting standards for women or minorites, to talk of creating jobs with no plan or substance behind it... To her foriegn policy plan that is founded on the economy being strong.... Its just a mishmash of special interest shout outs.

 

 

Why does trump get all the outrage?

 

A. Because there are actually people so strongly supporting Trump and actively doing so on this board.

B. WHo is supporting Hillary here?

C. We already know Hillary is a lying sack...people don't seem to be making a case saying she isn't.

D. WHy everytime someone criticizes Trump does someone bring up Hillary?

[BiPolarBear 495]

The Republican Party implodes and elects Hilary.

[drobeski 3,061]

Sounds like Romney's got his magic underwear in a bunch.

bigot

[KSB2424 3,173]

There isn't an ounce of substance in any of Hillary's stances either..

 

This is not about the Democrats. This is about the Republican Party and its Primary. Can we please stop with the "But they do it too!" childish nonsense. I mean fock.

 

Let's call this what it is. Angry White Guy is pissed that their party lost the last two elections and didn't obstruct Obama enough. They've been listening for 8 years of Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh rile and lather them all up to a frenzy. A Donald Trump comes along and pretends, yes pretends he'll be their savior and they fall for it hook line and sinker. Even though he's wildly unqualified, acts like a 3rd grader and just pitiful on all sorts of levels. It doesn't matter though because Angry White Guy is pissed.

[kutulu 1,703]

He is right though...whatever it is, it is going to be great.

[DankNuggs 305]

 

This is not about the Democrats. This is about the Republican Party and its Primary. Can we please stop with the "But they do it too!" childish nonsense. I mean fock.

 

Let's call this what it is. Angry White Guy is pissed that their party lost the last two elections and didn't obstruct Obama enough. They've been listening for 8 years of Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh rile and lather them all up to a frenzy. A Donald Trump comes along and pretends, yes pretends he'll be their savior and they fall for it hook line and sinker. Even though he's wildly unqualified, acts like a 3rd grader and just pitiful on all sorts of levels. It doesn't matter though because Angry White Guy is pissed.

Its not childish, its a double standard. And the american people are seeing right through it. They got 8 years of GWB talking a big game and then doing the same business as usual. Then we got the flip side of 8 years of Barack talking a big game, and then doing the same business as usual. They are looking to vote for someone they believe will not do the same thing.

 

No one is better than Trump at challenging Hillary on this.

 

The establishment is unnerved that they don't control Trump. They send out their minions and their elite donors to counteract this and it just fuels his campaign. Never underestimate the ability of the republican party to implode themselves. They never fail to impress

 

The republican party as we know it is dead. Its dead on their antiquated religious social platform, and they are dead on their unempathic fiscal platform. There is no going back, its over. As the republicans weaken, the democrats move farther left. They can choose to reestablish themselves towards the center or they can lose forever.

[KSB2424 3,173]

Its not childish, its a double standard. And the american people are seeing right through it. They got 8 years of GWB talking a big game and then doing the same business as usual. Then we got the flip side of 8 years of Barack talking a big game, and then doing the same business as usual. They are looking to vote for someone they believe will not do the same thing.

 

No one is better than Trump at challenging Hillary on this.

 

The establishment is unnerved that they don't control Trump. They send out their minions and their elite donors to counteract this and it just fuels his campaign. Never underestimate the ability of the republican party to implode themselves. They never fail to impress

 

The idiom to cut off your nose to spite your face means you shouldn’t do something out of spite or revenge that will end up causing more harm to you than to the person with which you are angry. In other words, do not let your overreaction lead to self-harm.

 

It's a wise idiom of which idiots do not heed.

[Big Guy 1,421]

Mitt just just showed his cards, the GOP establishment is DONE!!!

 

Forkin' Rinos!!!!

[Big Guy 1,421]

Sounds like Romney's got his magic underwear in a bunch.

 

[KSB2424 3,173]

Mitt just just showed his cards, the GOP establishment is DONE!!!

 

Forkin' Rinos!!!!

 

Do you even know what RINO means? Donald was pro l choice his whole life until.....like a couple years ago when he started planning to run as a Republican (fraud). He donated money to the Clinton's. He's proposed things like a religious test that is very unconstitutional and against conservative values.

 

Maybe all that is okay with you but Trump is a RINO if any of them are......

[hoytdwow 202]

Why would anyone care what Mitt Romney says? He has more phoniness in his pinkie than trump has in his whole body. Go home.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

 

This is not about the Democrats. This is about the Republican Party and its Primary. Can we please stop with the "But they do it too!" childish nonsense. I mean fock.

 

Let's call this what it is. Angry White Guy is pissed that their party lost the last two elections and didn't obstruct Obama enough. They've been listening for 8 years of Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh rile and lather them all up to a frenzy. A Donald Trump comes along and pretends, yes pretends he'll be their savior and they fall for it hook line and sinker. Even though he's wildly unqualified, acts like a 3rd grader and just pitiful on all sorts of levels. It doesn't matter though because Angry White Guy is pissed.

If it's just angry white guys being pissed, then how come there is such an increase in people voting in the republican primaries this year? And a decrease in the democratic primaries? Don't let the facts get in the way of your angry white guy theory though.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

 

Do you even know what RINO means? Donald was pro l choice his whole life until.....like a couple years ago when he started planning to run as a Republican (fraud). He donated money to the Clinton's. He's proposed things like a religious test that is very unconstitutional and against conservative values.

 

Maybe all that is okay with you but Trump is a RINO if any of them are......

Ronald Reagan legalized abortion in California as Governer.

[KSB2424 3,173]

If it's just angry white guys being pissed, then how come there is such an increase in people voting in the republican primaries this year?

 

That there are a lot of Angry White People. Duh.

[Voltaire 5,471]

The Mitt is really hitting the fan now. Establishment crooks totally freaking out.

 

This guy calling Trump a phony speaks out of both sides of his mouth depending on the audience. Nobody is more reliable for saying one thing and doing another than the spinning weathervane that is Mitt Romney.

 

Someone should tell Mitt a problem with the Republican Party he might not be able to comprehend is the candidates who are clearly more than happy to prostitute themselves for crooked insider donor cash.

[DankNuggs 305]

 

Do you even know what RINO means? Donald was pro l choice his whole life until.....like a couple years ago when he started planning to run as a Republican (fraud). He donated money to the Clinton's. He's proposed things like a religious test that is very unconstitutional and against conservative values.

 

Maybe all that is okay with you but Trump is a RINO if any of them are......

He is a reagan democrat in rough general terms, and its where the party should be moving to.

[KSB2424 3,173]

Ronald Reagan legalized abortion in California as Governer.

 

1. I'm not arguing the Abortion issue. I'm saying that out of all the people to call a RINO in this field, Donald would be top of the list. That's the point.

 

2. Reagan signed a Theruputic Abortion Bill that allowed abortions if there was something wrong. Like mentally of physically. He didn't just make Abortion legal in that sense. But like I said, that's not the point.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

 

That there are a lot of Angry White People. Duh.

Yup. They were pretty happy in 2012.

[KSB2424 3,173]

He is a reagan democrat in rough general terms, and its where the party should be moving to.

 

Ummmm, that's putting it mildly.

 

If the party is moving to having unconstitutional religious tests, having very poor to no foreign policy, and pretty much making shit up as we go, and allowing inflammatory and racial rhetoric then I'm out. Sorry. Not my cup of tea. I'll wait for Rand Paul to run 3rd Party in 2020.

[Bert 1,128]

 

Ummmm, that's putting it mildly.

 

If the party is moving to having unconstitutional religious tests, having very poor to no foreign policy, and pretty much making shit up as we go, and allowing inflammatory and racial rhetoric then I'm out. Sorry. Not my cup of tea. I'll wait for Rand Paul to run 3rd Party in 2020.

And that said he is far and away better than anything currently running on the republican side. This party is so focked up.

[KSB2424 3,173]

And that said he is far and away better than anything currently running on the republican side.

 

Based on what? Which issues? I'm not saying you are wrong but which issues does Donald stand out on compared to the others? I'm all ears. Lets hear the specifics.

 

Healthcare?

Taxes?

Foreign Policy?

Balancing the Budget?

Religious Liberty?

2nd Amendment?

Immigration?

 

Let's do this, I've been waiting anxiously for this exercise.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

 

1. I'm not arguing the Abortion issue. I'm saying that out of all the people to call a RINO in this field, Donald would be top of the list. That's the point.

 

2. Reagan signed a Theruputic Abortion Bill that allowed abortions if there was something wrong. Like mentally of physically. He didn't just make Abortion legal in that sense. But like I said, that's not the point.

.

 

Your point was that Trump flip flopped on abortion. You made the point, not me. I just pointed out that so did Reagan.

[avoiding injuries 1,650]

Sorry, Mitt. You should have done better so your opinions were still relevant. Time to go away...for good.

[TD Ryan2 316]

I've gotta' be honest here... a lot of what Mitt said matches how I feel about Donald Kardashian Trump...

 

but it doesn't matter - Mitt is just another politician who's been part of our failed government for a long time now - NONE of these politicians have ANY credibility with me.

 

Mitt says this - Bill Clinton says that - McCain says this - Obama says that.... Fock all of them - FOCK THEM! Why doesn't anyone get this? Why does it have to be any more complicated than this? Congratulations, you are a high ranking, elected official of the US Government - by definition, you are a failure, a fraud, a liar. But you're very wealthy and you have great health insurance, so congrats on that. Now fock off.

[KSB2424 3,173]

Your point was that Trump flip flopped on abortion.

 

No that is not my point. Lemme explain or expound.

 

1. If you take Donald Trump on his word (today), of how he feels about the issues (the little bit we do know) then he is a hardcore, far right Republican. Defund PP, Repeal Obamacare, tax plan is similar to other R's. He even goes further right than some other R's. i.e. a religious test for immigrants, no path to citizenship (amnesty) on and on.

 

2. If you don't take Donald at his word and think he is a centrist like DankNuggs is suggesting based on his old stances then A. He's a fraud because that's not what he's saying now and B. That means he IS the ultimate RINO.

 

So which is it? You can't have it both ways. Is he a hardcore republican based on what he says today and his stances? Or is he really a "Centrist" and therefore a lying fraud in all the debates and town halls he's been doing the past six months.

 

Which is it?

[KSB2424 3,173]

I've gotta' be honest here... a lot of what Mitt said matches how I feel about Donald Kardashian Trump...

 

but it doesn't matter - Mitt is just another politician who's been part of our failed government for a long time now - NONE of these politicians have ANY credibility with me.

 

Mitt says this - Bill Clinton says that - McCain says this - Obama says that.... Fock all of them - FOCK THEM! Why doesn't anyone get this? Why does it have to be any more complicated than this? Congratulations, you are a high ranking, elected official of the US Government - by definition, you are a failure, a fraud, a liar. But you're very wealthy and you have great health insurance, so congrats on that. Now fock off.

 

It's our job as the electorate to sift through the garbage, call a spade a spade, and pick out the diamonds in the rough as best we can.

 

It's akin to posts and threads here, on this very board. The majority are crap but its our job to find, and enjoy the rare pearls of wisdom or hilarity. And highlight them when we do.

 

What you speak is a defeatist attitude.

[hoytdwow 202]

 

Mitt is just another politician who's been part of our failed government for a long time now

 

 

He was actually a good governor in MA. It was only when he ran for president that he had to recant all his sensible, moderate views and toe the party orthodoxy line that he became a soul destroying phony.

HTH!

[TD Ryan2 316]

What you speak is a defeatist attitude.

 

perhaps - but it is the attitude that is propelling Trump - it's why so many don't "fear" the repercussions of a Trump Presidency... either it works or it doesn't - and it isn't working anyways, so who gives a fock if he's a fraud, all we've had is frauds anyways.

 

The Republican party is up in arms over Donald, yet Sarah Palin was a perfectly legitimate candidate for them - go back and look at my McCain support, go back and read my posts, I nearly threw up when that was announced - it was more of a joke, slap in the face, dumb voter tactic than anything I've ever seen. But that one was "OK" by them? They have no credibility.

[drobeski 3,061]

I've gotta' be honest here... a lot of what Mitt said matches how I feel about Donald Kardashian Trump...

 

but it doesn't matter - Mitt is just another politician who's been part of our failed government for a long time now - NONE of these politicians have ANY credibility with me.

 

Mitt says this - Bill Clinton says that - McCain says this - Obama says that.... Fock all of them - FOCK THEM! Why doesn't anyone get this? Why does it have to be any more complicated than this? Congratulations, you are a high ranking, elected official of the US Government - by definition, you are a failure, a fraud, a liar. But you're very wealthy and you have great health insurance, so congrats on that. Now fock off.

[Voltaire 5,471]

He was actually a good governor in MA.

He was.

 

And when he first indicated that he wanted to run for president the first time, right at the beginning of his first presidential campaign, I was excited for the guy.

 

Then he started campaigning ... and it was like you said... and my support evaporated.

[Bert 1,128]

 

Based on what? Which issues? I'm not saying you are wrong but which issues does Donald stand out on compared to the others? I'm all ears. Lets hear the specifics.

 

Healthcare?

Taxes?

Foreign Policy?

Balancing the Budget?

Religious Liberty?

2nd Amendment?

Immigration?

 

Let's do this, I've been waiting anxiously for this exercise.

It is not about issues. This is a race for the US presidency. He would get more votes than any of the other republican idiots.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,433]

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

 

perhaps - but it is the attitude that is propelling Trump - it's why so many don't "fear" the repercussions of a Trump Presidency... either it works or it doesn't - and it isn't working anyways, so who gives a fock if he's a fraud, all we've had is frauds anyways.

 

The Republican party is up in arms over Donald, yet Sarah Palin was a perfectly legitimate candidate for them - go back and look at my McCain support, go back and read my posts, I nearly threw up when that was announced - it was more of a joke, slap in the face, dumb voter tactic than anything I've ever seen. But that one was "OK" by them? They have no credibility.

Outstanding

[KSB2424 3,173]

It is not about issues. This is a race for the US presidency.

 

Hard to argue..

 

I unfortunately agree.