Mit Romney just pushed Donald Trump head first into the shredder
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and
politician who served as the 70th Governor
of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. Following his
service as Governor, Romney was the Republican Party's nominee for President
of the United States in the 2012 election.
After he was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 2002, Romney helped develop and enact
into law the Massachusetts health care reform legislation, the first of its kind in the nation, which
provided near-universal health insurance for
those people living in his State.
He earned a Master`s degree in Business Administration at Harvard
University. He certainly is no dummy, of that one can be sure. He is also
someone you wouldn`t want to do a number done on you like he did on Donald
Trump when he gave an incredible speech at Salt Lake City on March 4th
2016.
But first let me point out to you that being a loser doesn’t necessarily
apply to people who run for office and lose the race. Great candidates for the
presidency have lost the race and they certainly were not losers in the way
that Donald Trump is. Even if this twit becomes the President of the United
States, I would still think of him as a loser. A loser in my opinion is someone
who says stupid statements and does stupid things and appears to the general
public as a buffoon.
I will type his speech using the font, Arial and the font in my
commentary will be in Georgia so that you can differentiate between his speech and
my commentary.
I am now going to quote Romney`s speech and expand it by referring to
some of his remarks about Trump as he was pushing that loser head first into
the shredder.
I am not here to announce my candidacy for
office. I am not going to endorse a candidate today. Instead, I would like to
offer my perspective on the nominating process of my party. In 1964, days
before the presidential election which, incidentally, we lost, Ronald Reagan
went on national television and challenged America saying that it was a
"Time for Choosing." He saw two paths for America, one that embraced
conservative principles dedicated to lifting people out of poverty and helping
create opportunity for all, and the other, an oppressive government that would
lead America down a darker, less free path. I'm no Ronald Reagan and this is a
different moment but I believe with all my heart and soul that we face another
time for choosing, one that will have profound consequences for the Republican
Party and more importantly, for the country.
That
doesn't mean we don't have real problems and serious challenges. At home,
poverty persists and wages are stagnant. The horrific massacres of Paris and
San Bernardino, the nuclear ambitions of the Iranian mullahs, the aggressions
of Putin, the growing assertiveness of China and the nuclear tests of North
Korea confirm that we live in troubled and dangerous times.
But
if we make the right choices, America's future will be even better than our
past and better than our present.
On
the other hand, if we make improvident choices, the bright horizon I foresee
will never materialize. Let me put it plainly, if we Republicans choose Donald
Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are
greatly diminished.
I agree with that statement entirely.
Let
me explain why.
First,
the economy: If Donald Trump's plans were ever implemented, the country would
sink into a prolonged recession.
A recession is a business cycle contraction which results in a general slowdown in economic
activity. household income, business profits, while bankruptcies and unemployment rises.
A
few examples: His proposed 35% tariff-like penalties would instigate a trade
war that would raise prices for consumers, kill export jobs, and lead
entrepreneurs and businesses to flee America.
His
tax plan, in combination with his refusal to reform entitlements and to
honestly address spending would balloon the deficit and the national debt. So
even as Donald Trump has offered very few specific economic plans, what little
he has said is enough to know that he would be very bad for American workers
and for American families.
Again I am in total agreement with him.
But
wait, you say, isn't he a huge business success that knows what he's talking
about? No he isn't. His bankruptcies have crushed small businesses and the men
and women who worked for them. He inherited his business, he didn't create it.
And what ever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then
there's Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump Mortgage? A
business genius he is not.
A number of Trump's corporations had filed for
bankruptcy; Trump personally had not. Hence, when his casino fell into about a
billion dollars in debt, the corporation filed for Chapter
11 bankruptcy. Trump
claimed that the properties were unable to make the improvements necessary for
keeping up with its flashier competitors. These financial troubles led to
Trump's second trip into filing bankruptcy. Donald Trump has filed for corporate bankruptcy four times, in 1991, 1992,
2004 and 2009. All of these bankruptcies were connected to over-leveraged
casino and hotel properties in Atlantic City, all of which are now operated
under the banner of Trump Entertainment
Resorts. It is estimated that he has $2.7 billion
dollars. If he used some of that money to make the necessary improvements on
his properties, they may not have gone into bankruptcy.
Now
not every policy Donald Trump has floated is bad. He wants to repeal and
replace Obamacare. He wants to bring jobs home from China and Japan. But his
prescriptions to do these things are flimsy at best. At the last debate, all he
could remember about his healthcare plan was to remove insurance boundaries
between states. Successfully bringing jobs home requires serious policy and
reforms that make America the place businesses want to plant and grow. You
can't punish business into doing the things you want. Frankly, the only serious
policy proposals that deal with the broad range of national challenges we
confront, come today from Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich. One of these
men should be our nominee.
I
know that some people want the race to be over. They look at history and say a
trend like Mr. Trump's isn't going to be stopped.
Perhaps.
But the rules of political history have pretty much all been shredded during
this campaign. If the other candidates can find common ground, I believe we can
nominate a person who can win the general election and who will represent the
values and policies of conservatism. Given the current delegate selection
process, this means that I would vote for Marco Rubio in Florida, for John
Kasich in Ohio, and for Ted Cruz or whichever one of the other two contenders
has the best chance of beating Mr. Trump in a given state.
Let
me turn to national security and the safety of our homes and loved ones.
Trump's bombast is already alarming our allies and fueling the enmity of our
enemies. Insulting all Muslims will keep many of them from fully engaging with
us in the urgent fight against ISIS. And for what purpose? Muslim terrorists
would only have to lie about their religion to enter the country.
What
he said on "60 Minutes" about 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.
Donald Trump expanded on his ideas about how to
defeat ISIS, suggesting the United States should let Russia take out
the terror group while the US stands down. Considering the fact that Putin took
over the Ukraine when that nation had a revolt, the same thing would happen to
Syria if the US merely stood by and did nothing.
Donald
Trump tells us that he is very, very smart. I'm afraid that when it comes to
foreign policy he is very, very not smart.
I am
far from the first to conclude that Donald Trump lacks the temperament of be
president. After all, this is an individual who mocked a disabled reporter, who
attributed a reporter's questions to her menstrual cycle, who mocked a brilliant
rival who happened to be a woman due to her appearance, who bragged about his
marital affairs, and who laces his public speeches with vulgarity.
On one occasion while Trump was
giving a speech, he was shaking and waving his arms around, mimicking a reporter he doesn’t like who suffers from arthrogryposis.
It’s a condition that can cause joints to get stuck in one position and
victims are often born with weaker or missing muscles. When he was publically
chastised for doing that, he said that is how he always talks.
After accusing another female reporter of being unprofessional
and overrated, Trump went on to complain about her demeanor: He said, “She gets out and she starts asking me all
sorts of ridiculous questions. You could see there was blood coming out of her
eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.” He was implying that she was menstruating
without taking precautions to stop the flow running down her legs.
Trump insulted his Republican rival Carly
Fiorina's physical appearance during an interview
with Rolling Stone magazine.
He said, “Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine
that, the face of our next president?!" I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not
supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?"
When he was asked if he said something like
that, he replied, “Probably I did say something like that about Carly,"
adding later that he said it in a jocular manner. He also said it wasn't about
her appearance. That wasn’t funny to Carly and it certainly wasn't about her
appearance.
Imagine if you will if this twerp was
the next president of the US and he spoke of a female leader of a nation that
is friendly with the US in the same way he spoke about those three women he
insulted so shamelessly. His Secretary
of State wouldn’t be able to find the words that would sooth the feelings of that
female leader.
Donald
Trump says he admires Vladimir Putin, while has called George W. Bush a liar.
That is a twisted example of evil trumping good.
Putin is a dictator who has his eyes
on other nations close to him, he is corrupt and he is as rich as Trump is from
his ill-gotten gains.
I can’t faulty Trump for calling
George W. Bush a liar. Plenty
of Americans think he is is a liar. Bookshops are filled with titles about Mr.
Bush like Lies and the Lying Liars Who
Tell Them and The Lies of George W.
Bush.
There
is dark irony in his boasts of his sexual exploits during the Vietnam War while
John McCain, whom he has mocked, was imprisoned and tortured.
Released documents suggest that a young Donald Trump
received several
deferments that could have allowed him to avoid service in Vietnam, contrasting
his claims that he made that he missed the draft solely because he had a high
lottery number. He spent those war years participating in his sexual exploits.
Dishonesty
is Trump's hallmark: He claimed that he had spoken clearly and boldly against
going into Iraq. Wrong, he spoke in favor of invading Iraq. He said he saw
thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating 9/11. Wrong, he saw no such
thing. He imagined it. His is not the temperament of a stable, thoughtful
leader. His imagination must not be married to real power.
He later said that he saw thousands
and thousands of people in New Jersey cheering as the buildings in 9/11 came
tumbling down. He later admitted that he didn’t say they were Muslims. The New
Jersey police stated that it didn’t happen in any case. Besides, where would he
be in New Jersey at those moments where
he could actually see thousands and thousands of people at those precise
moments standing on the shoreline cheering? I have told twerps kike him
millions of times not to exaggerate.
The
President of the United States has long been the leader of the free world. The
president and yes the nominees of the country's great parties help define
America to billions of people. All of them bear the responsibility of being an
example for our children and grandchildren.
Think
of Donald Trump's personal qualities, the bullying, the greed, the showing off,
the misogyny, the absurd third grade theatrics. We have long referred to him as
"The Donald." He is the only person in America to whom we have added
an article before his name. It wasn't because he had attributes we admired.
In grammatical terms, an ‘article’ is a word (or prefix or suffix) that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. Thus the word, ‘the’ is grammatical speaking,
an article.
Instead of referring to him as the Donald, they should remove
the letter T and refer to him as the rump. I love stepping out of the realm of
seriousness on occasion so that I can be facetious. This is one of those
moments.
Now
imagine your children and your grandchildren acting the way he does. Will you
welcome that? Haven't we seen before what happens when people in prominent
positions fail the basic responsibility of honorable conduct? We have, and it
always injures our families and our country.
Watch
how he responds to my speech today. Will he talk about our policy differences
or will he attack me with every imaginable low road insult? This may tell you
what you need to know about his temperament, his stability, and his suitability
to be president.
Trump responded to Romney’s speech by saying, “I
could have said, Mitt, drop to your knees, and he would have.” Does anyone with a functioning brain actually
believe that Romney would get on his knees
before Trump?
Trump relishes any poll that reflects what he thinks of himself. But polls are also saying that he will lose to Hillary Clinton.
On
Hillary Clinton's watch at the State Department, America's interests were
diminished in every corner of the world. She compromised our national secrets,
dissembled to the families of the slain, and jettisoned her most profound
beliefs to gain presidential power.
For
the last three decades, the Clintons have lived at the intersection of money
and politics, trading their political influence to enrich their personal
finances. They embody the term "crony capitalism." It disgusts the
American people and causes them to lose faith in our political process.
A
person so untrustworthy and dishonest as Hillary Clinton must not become
president. But a Trump nomination enables her victory. The audio and video of
the infamous Tapper-Trump exchange on the Ku Klux Klan will play a hundred
thousand times on cable and who knows how many million times on social media.
There
are a number of people who claim that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake. There is
indeed evidence of that. Mr. Trump has changed his positions not just over the
years, but over the course of the campaign, and on the Ku Klux Klan, daily for
three days in a row.
During a GOP debate, Donald Trump said that
he's got a big enough dick to be president. He then was questioned over how he
has responded to the endorsement of a former Ku Klux Klan leader. Trump, who
has been hit hard for taking his time to disavow the endorsement of a former
KKK leader, was asked explicitly why he rejected the group. And while he
repeated an earlier declaration that he totally disavows the endorsement. He
said, “I totally disavow the Ku Klux Klan. I totally disavow David Duke.” He
didn't explain why.
We
will only really know if he is the real deal or a phony if he releases his tax
returns and the tape of his interview with the New York Times. I predict that there are more bombshells in his tax
returns. I predict that he doesn't give much if anything to the disabled and to
our veterans. I predict that he told the New York Times that his immigration
talk is just that: talk. And I predict that despite his promise to do so, first
made over a year ago, he will never
ever release his tax returns. Never. Not the returns under audit, not even the
returns that are no longer being audited. He has too much to hide. Nor will he
authorize the Times to release the tapes. If I'm right, you will have all the proof
you need to know that Donald Trump is a phony.
It is conceivable that if his tax returns became public, there
would be no record of him giving any money to disabled persons or US veterans?
Attacking
me as he surely will won't prove him any less of a phony. It's entirely in his
hands to prove me wrong. All he has to do is to release his back taxes like he
promised he would, and let us hear what he said behind closed doors to the New York Times.
The paper couldn’t quote what Trump
said to him if his statements were off the record.
Ronald
Reagan used to quote a Scottish philosopher who predicted that democracies and
civilizations couldn't last more than about 200 years. John Adams wrote this:
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and
murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit
suicide." I believe that America has proven these dire predictions wrong
for two reasons.
First,
we have been blessed with great presidents, with giants among us. Men of
character, integrity and selflessness have led our nation from its very
beginning. None were perfect: each surely made mistakes. But in every case,
they acted out of the desire to do what was right for America and for freedom.
The
second reason is because we are blessed with a great people, people who at
every critical moment of choosing have put the interests of the country above
their own.
With respect to the American people, let’s face it, not all of
them are willing to put the interests of the United States above their own
interests.
These
two things are related: our presidents time and again have called on us to rise
to the occasion. John F. Kennedy asked us to consider what we could do for our
country. Lincoln drew upon the better angels of our nature to save the union.
The statement Kennedy made was “Ask not what your country can do
for you. Ask instead what you can do for your country.” That statement was used by a school as their
maxim many years before Kennedy used it.
I
understand the anger Americans feel today. In the past, our presidents have
channeled that anger, and forged it into resolve, into endurance and high
purpose, and into the will to defeat the enemies of freedom. Our anger was
transformed into energy directed for good.
Mr.
Trump is directing our anger for less than noble purposes. He creates scapegoats of Muslims and Mexican immigrants, he calls for the use of torture
and for killing the innocent children and family members of terrorists. He
cheers assaults on protesters. He applauds the prospect of twisting the Constitution to limit first amendment freedom of the press. This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.
Donald Trump did say that the United States
should kill the family members of terrorists. He said that on Fox on
December. 2nd, 2015. According to Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention, people who are
taking no active part in the hostilities "shall in all circumstances
be treated humanely. To this end, the following acts are and shall remain
prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever. violence to life and
person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and
torture.” unquote
After the Second World War ended, Nazis in Europe who murdered
innocent families were hanged as war criminals.
Here's
what I know. Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as
a degree from Trump University. He's playing the American public for suckers:
He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat.
Trump University was never a university. When the ‘school’ was
established in 2005, the New York State Education Department warned Trump that
his ‘school’ was in violation of state law for operating without a NYSED
license. Trump ignored the warnings. The so-called University is currently the defendant in three lawsuits — two class-action lawsuits filed in California,
and one filed in New York by then-attorney general Eric Schneiderman, who told CNN’s New Day in 2013: “We started looking at Trump University and discovered
that it was a classic bait-and-switch scheme. It was a scam, starting with the
fact that it was not a university.”
The hat that Romney was speaking about is one of many thousands
of hats that has Trump’s name on them.
His
domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make
America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the
judgment to be president. And his personal qualities would mean that America
would cease to be a shining city on a hill.
Actually after Trump as president had
dissed many of the leaders of other nations, and bankrupted millions of
Americans, the city on the hill would look the same as Troy when it was finally discovered centuries after if fell to the Greeks
America
has greatness ahead. This is a time for choosing. God bless us to choose a
nominee who will make that vision a reality.
That was the end of his speech. I
will now give you my own observations about Donald Trump.
If Donald Trump is elected as
president, many generations from now, children will ask their teachers, “Why
did the people of the United States in 2016, choose a buffoon to be the
president of our country? Their teachers may be as baffled as their students.
No one likes a bully and there is no
doubt in my mind that Trump is a bully. Hitler was a bully. Putin is a bully.
Anyone who has been bullied at school (I was not bullied) knows how harmful it
can be to one’s physic. The American people will be bullied if Trump is elected
as president.
He is also stupid. He wants millions
of illegal Mexicans seized and sent back to Mexico. I realize that it is hard
to have sympathy for anyone who sneaks into another country but imagine if you
will, what will happen if Trump as president orders the immigration authorities
and the police along with each State’s militia to go into the homes of these
illegal immigrants and seize them. It would be similar as to what happened in
Europe when the Nazis did that to millions of Jews. Germany is still reeling
with the shame because of their ancestor’s cruel actions against the Jews.
And will Mexico accept these
unfortunate deportees willingly? Not likely. The Pew Research Center indicates that
there were 11.3 million illegal immigrants in the U.S in 2014. There are
probably more now as more children are born.
How could Mexico suddenly house and feed that many people after they
arrive in a matter of months? We have already seen that kind of problem when
immigrants fleeing their own countries in Europe and Africa swarm into other
countries in Europe.
If your parents were
illegal immigrants and they managed to find work (and great many have) and you are in high school,
how would you like being dragged out of your school, placed in a detention
centre and then deported to a country where you can hardly speak its language?
Do the
vast majority of the people in the US really want that to happen to these
people? I don’t think they would condone it at all. But if Trump was president,
all they could do is watch their Mexican neighbours being dragged out of their
homes and schools and companies they are working for while screaming that what
is happening to them isn’t fair.
That dolt actually believes that the taxpayers of the US will willingly
pay for the building of a high triple-layered fence separating the US from
Mexico. Such a fence would have to have its base at least 50 or more feet below
the surface so as to prevent Mexicans from building a tunnel under it. And even
that isn’t a guarantee that some enterprising Mexican drug smugglers won’t
achieve that task.
The 1,954-mile(3,145
km) border
between the United States and Mexico traverses a variety
of terrains, including urban areas and deserts. Since the fence would be made if steel, the
cost of the material and labour would be a minimum of at least six billion
dollars and that is no guarantee that it will keep Mexican aliens out of the
US. He has decided that he won’t build a wall between
the US and Canada. That would bankrupt the United States government.
Trump’s support for
the concept of a government database to track Muslims in the United States is
deemed unconstitutional by legal experts. If he became the US president, it
wouldn’t be long before he would also demand a database on legal immigrants who
are living in the US and then later, a database on homosexuals and lesbians and
finally, everyone in the US would be listed on some form of data base. Adolph Hitler had that same idea and he put it
into practice.
The Anti-Defamation
League in New York called Trump’s proposal “deeply troubling and reminiscent of
darker days in American history when others were singled out for
scapegoating.” I remember when the
Japanese during the Second World War were singled out for scapegoating and the
blacks and Jews were also scapegoated. Now such conduct on behalf of the US
federal government was later and still is considered outrageous.
Former Florida Gov.
Jeb Bush called the prospect of a registry “abhorrent.” Florida Sen. Marco
Rubio said the idea was “unnecessary” and not something Americans would
support. And Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has largely avoided criticizing Trump
throughout the 2016 campaign, said, “I’m not a fan of government registries of
American citizens.”
This twerp has
promised that someday he is going to write a book about President Obama’s non-legitimacy as president since he believes that Obama wasn’t born in the United
Sates—a requirement to be the president of the United Sates. He was born in
Hawaii and although Hawaii wasn’t a state when he was born, its citizens there were
considered Americans nevertheless.
How is it possible
that this buffoon has obtain such high voting ratings despite his rambling,
threatening and being an insulting bully. I have a theory you may want to
consider.
Keep in mind that
right now, the only people who are currently voting for this buffoon to be the
Republican nominee for the presidency are Republicans who want a Senate
majority to be Republicans.
They want Trump in
the race because many of them believe that the majority of the citizens of the
United States think that Trump is right when he proposes deporting millions of
illegal Mexican immigrants, building a fence separating the US from Mexico and
putting Muslims on a data base. They
know that the Democrats won’t do these despicable things so with their
rhetorical right arms straight up and outward, yelling, Sieg Heil like the Germans did for Hitler, yhey want Donald Trump to be their leader. Well we all know where that got the
Germans.
I honestly believe
that the vast majority of America citizens are decent people and they won’t
tolerate a buffoon who is a laughing stock everywhere around the world to be
the leader of their nation and drag them into the abyss.
UPDATE:
March 4, 2016
Donald Trump on March 5th retreated from
his previous promise that if elected president he would order the military to
kill family members of militants who threaten the United States.
Trump’s
campaign subsequently issued a statement quoting him as saying he would not
order the military to take actions contrary to international or U.S. law.
But
fewer than 24 hours earlier, in the GOP debate, Trump stuck to his position on targeting
family members of militants and on an expansive use of torture against captured
militants.
When a
debate moderator asked him what he would do if the military refused to carry out
such orders, Trump replied: “They’re not going to refuse me. Believe me.”
The use
of torture and the killing of civilians are barred by the Geneva Conventions,
to which the United States is a signatory. Congress outlawed waterboarding and
any so-called enhanced interrogation techniques after the administration of
George W. Bush carried out such acts against suspected Al Qaeda fighters.
Members of the U.S. military are bound by duty and tradition to refuse orders
they know to be illegal. This includes intentionally targeting civilian
non-combatants.
Defining
when aggressive interrogation techniques such as waterboarding amount to
torture is a matter of debate, but Trump had made clear that as president he
would not hesitate to go beyond waterboarding which has been denounced by President
Obama and hasn’t been applied against terrorist suspects for some time now.
Trump'a retreat from his previous position is positive proof that his advisers are more qualified to be president than he ever will be.
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