Mittens Thurston Howell Romney III has let it be known that he is displeased with the vulgar man who's leading the GOP pack--Trump, Frump, Dump or some-such vulgar name.
According to New York Magazine:
As Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican presidential race, frustration and panic have become high enough to make some inside the party Establishment pine for a candidate they roundly rejected as recently as January: Mitt Romney. Romney himself has become one of Trump’s most vocal detractors inside the party. “He’s someone to whom civility means a lot. The whole Trump thing really bothers him,” a close Romney adviser told me...
Ah, civility! The very lifeblood of today's GOP. Coming from the comically gauche Romney, this is priceless.
Forget Romney's sycophantic drooling over Trump in 2012:
“There are some things that you just can’t imagine happening in your life,” Romney told the crowd gathered for the occasion Thursday at Trump’s eponymous casino here. “This is one of them. Being in Donald Trump’s magnificent hotel and having his endorsement is a delight. I’m so honored and pleased to have his endorsement.”
Never mind strapping your dog to the roof of your car for a long journey; never mind insulting the baked goods proffered by voters; never mind insulting their dress-sense...how about insulting fully 47% of the population? How's
that for 'civility?
But, hey! Let bygones be bygones.
The GOP's 'men in smoke-filled rooms' are freaking right the fuck out because Donald Trump has taken the usually covert GOP douchebaggery and made it overt.
They yearn for the days of RoboMitt, who was also a douchebag, who also insulted people and who also hadn't a clue...but at least he didn't sound like he was huffing glue from dawn til dusk.
Trump, in contrast, sounds like he's huffing glue, popping pills, smoking crystal meth and bathing in Olde English 800...before breakfast. He sounds like Montgomery Burns, minus the elfin charm.
And that's a problem.
Because although it's too early to tell, there's a small chance that Trump might win the GOP nomination. But there isn't snowball's chance in hell that Trump could win the election. So the GOP capos are desperately seeking an answer.
They're hoping that Carly Fiorina might damage Trump in the next debates...but that is a pretty slim thread to hang your hopes on. And so, unbelievably, they're back to doing The Romney Two-Step.
I know, I know. It's almost too good. NYM says:
...some Romney-ites are only too happy to talk up the prospect of their man jumping into the race if the Establishment fails to stop Trump, whose support in Iowa and New Hampshire is currently greater than Jeb Bush's, Scott Walker's, Marco Rubio's, Chris Christie's, and John Kasich's combined.
“Mitt wants to run. He never stopped wanting to run,” a senior member of his 2012 team told me. Other Romney-ites, watching this cycle’s candidates falling short, feel a sense of vindication after all the attacks they endured after Romney's failed 2012 bid.
Do it, Mitt...a nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woowoowoo...hahaha...and
I thought 2012 was comedy gold, what with sex-pest Herman Cain, crazy lady Michele Bachman and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang.
But this...oh, man: on with the show!