Like other Republicans around the country who lam-blasted Donald Trump during 2016?
Mitt Romney now is working hard to show that he can kiss the guys butt…
Grown adults genuflecting in public….
This the same Romeny that Trump paraded around , then kicked to the curb….
U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney sees President Donald Trump’s proposed $100 billion in new tariffs on China as a shot across the bow but doesn’t think it would lead to trade war.
“I think the president is leading with some policies that will wake up our friends in China and they’ll recognize that business as usual is going to have to change,” the former Republican presidential nominee said. “China over the years has taken advantage of the attitude in America, which is we haven’t watched very closely and they’ve been cheating.”
Romney and his wife Ann talked to about 600 people at what was billed as a “candid conversation” about faith, family and life in their home moderated by former TV news anchor Ruth Todd at the new Hale Centre Theatre in Sandy. Much of the 40-minute discussion, however, turned to politics.
A massive trade war with countries placing tariffs on each other would not be good, Romney said.
“I don’t think we’re going to go there,” he said.
Trump will focus on specific companies and countries that aren’t playing fair and tell them to change their rules or lose access to the U.S, Romney said.
Romney, who harshly criticized Trump over the years, said he supports much of what the president has done such as cutting taxes, rolling back business regulations and reducing the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in southern Utah….
image…newyorkjournal.com
That’s not really what the article says. He is essentially saying he is ok with the threat of the tariffs to China (only) but does not think a trade war is going to happen. He states that would be a bad thing. Apparently, he doesn’t think Trump is serious. Not sure why.
In fact Yes CG….
IF you dig deeper in to the piece….
But the screaming headline and read will be Mitt Romney is in bed with Trump on policy…
Romney is eeking his support….
THAT is ALL thatr matters…
only if people reach improper conclusions based on headlines, as many do.
Mormons don’t dance much or “name your tune and I’ll dance to it” would definitely apply in this instance.
James is right, Romney is on one ass kissing Trump’s ugly flabby ass, and saying, just in case he might offend a free trader, “but maybe it won’t start a trade war.” And maybe the Chinese might refuse to loan us anymore money. Ya think?
As Governor of Massachusetts, “I’d never try to restrict abortion, I favor gay rights!” As a Utah Senate candidate aiming for President 2020? “Arrest those doctors, and concentration camp for gays.”
This is exactly how he now discusses the immigration issue. A chicken in every pot, and flip flops for everyone!
He can be Nelson Rockefeller or Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh or Steve Schmidt. It all depends on what the craven soulless Bain Capital greedy douche bag shows up on any given day, and what his focus group told him to say.
Mormons dance or are otherwise involved in show business quite frequently.
In his 2012 Presidential campaign, Romney did say he would label China a currency manipulator. Some in the party accused him at the time of wanting to start at trade war, which he denied.
The only similarity on this issue may be as it relates to China, certainly not on Mexico, Canada, or the EU, and what Trump is proposing goes far beyond what Romney ever supported or said he would support.
I stated in an earlier comment that Trump IS basicly right that China IS gaming the system….
They ALL do….
But the hurt in going at this they WAY Trump is ?…..IS the problem…
But this time he’s dancing to Trump’s tune. Just like so many other Republican candidates this year. How do they walk upright with no spines??
Not nearly as much as Democrat candidates on the tariffs such as Sherrod Brown and Bernie Sanders.
Yes again CG….
Democrats HAVE complained about the Chinese trade imbalance also…
But the CONSUMER makes out in this….
Fucking with China is also gonna cost farmers and other American produces SERIOUS hurt….
In fact?
Other countries COULD move to displace American producers….
Trump isn’t cerebral enough to understand all this , he has to be taken aside and lectured….
BTW?
The market is DOWN again almost 400 points….
Kudlow is gonna have to make up some sorta bull shit counter to calm people down….
Trump has said again today…..
Yea, People are gonna suffer ‘pain’…
Mitt Romney trying to cozy up to Trump in Utah where some people say Donald Trump ain’t that popular….
…President Donald Trump appears to have something of a fan in the form of Senate candidate Mitt Romney, who said Trump’s first year had been “very similar to things I’d have done my first year.”
The former GOP presidential nominee, who ran in 2012, said President Trump had done things better than he’d expected—which comes as quite a U-turn on his comments in 2016 when he described Trump as a “fraud” who was “playing the American public for suckers.”….
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