Thursday, October 24, 2019

"Cowardice camouflaged in smugness."

In American Greatness, Julie Kelly refers to Mitt Romney as a fraud who is "Cowardice camouflaged in smugness."
Apparently, the twice-losing Republican presidential candidate is an admitted “lurker” on the social media website and amuses himself by replying to anti-Trump posts and any comment—favorable or not—about himself. One can almost imagine him lying in bed wearing his monogrammed robe, scratching the back of his slumbering wife with one hand while quietly typing “romney’ in Twitter’s search box with the other. Taking on the pseudonym of “Pierre Delecto,” the prim Mormon momentarily can unload his political, religious, and familial burdens to spar on the profane platform, liking tweets of fellow Trump foes and whining to blue-check marks who dare challenge his moral authority.

...Now, Romney is trying to act like a tough guy. But whether it was his failure to confront Barack Obama about his post-Benghazi lies before the 2012 presidential election; his groveling before Donald Trump after the 2016 election; or his operating behind a hilarious Twitter alias, Mitt Romney can never quite pull off the act.

We all know the type—and Romney, reliably, plays it to a tee.
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