Mitt Romney's tirade against Donald Trump speaks volumes about the republican party's Presidential nominee in the 2012 election. And Mitt did not realize it, but his words were an indictment of the failure of the republican party itself and gives the voters a real reason to vote democratic in the November elections.
An example: Mitt said, "If we republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished." Those words describe what actually took place when the republicans choose George W. Bush as their party's nominee. Only the 1% like Romney and Trump were prosperous on Bush's watch, the economy tanked, record job loses, the wall street bank failures and the worst terror attack on U.S. soil and a unnecessary war and occupation of Iraq over WMD that did not exist.
Most of what Romney said about Trump may be true but Trump is just aping what the republican party stands for. The only difference is Trump is not conservative and just a little more radical. Trump and the party are both against legal and illegal immigration, the ACA, trade, balanced budgets, the Iran agreement, increase in the minimum wage, equal pay, civil rights for all and the list goes on and on.
Trump and the party are for: trickle down economics tax breaks for corporate America and the wealthy, budget deficits, dividing the country using race and religion, the special interest groups, U.S. ground troops in the middle east in an active combat role against ISIS, abolishing some federal departments and a hosts of other misguided adventures.
Mitt and the republican party would like to see Cruz or Rubio be their nominee and have overlooked John Kasich because he does not fit their warped conservative ideology. Mitt is a 47 percenter, Kasich is not. Trump has the backing of a number of republican officials who serve in congress and several governors. That should tell the voters there is no difference between Trump and the party. And to top it off all the republican Presidential candidates signed a pledge to support Trump if he is the nominee.
Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney in 2012 and Mitt loved it. Four years later the republican party has been exposed as a failure and Donald Trump was created. The party has no real leaders and for a good many years have stood for nothing and against everything.
Mitt Romney's tirade on Thursday was followed by good news on Friday. The economy created 242,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate stayed at a steady 4.9%. The democratic administration of Barack Obama continues to move the country forward while two multi millionaires and their party continue to be an embarrassment to the people and their country. There are so many reasons to vote democratic in the November elections.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
