Kurt Schlichter: "That Miserable Bag Of Goo Mitt Romney Slinks Away Humiliated"

I suppose that one can argue whether we would have been better off if Mitt Romney had beat Obama in the 2012 election. I certainly thought so at the time. But hindsight is 20/20 and I no longer am sure. I suspect that, at best, Romney would have been Obama-Lite. 

    In any event, lots of people are glad that Mitt Romney has announced he will not be running for the Senate again. I stated last week that I thought it was because Romney believed that he wouldn't be re-elected, notwithstanding whatever other excuses he offered. Kurt Schlichter seems to believe the same in his piece, "That Miserable Bag Of Goo Mitt Romney Slinks Away Humiliated" published at Townhall. He writes:

Now this human dollop of Miracle Whip is going away, finally, and trying to keep his dignity in the face of his latest humiliation. Even the people of Utah, who have nearly infinite patience with establishment squishes, have had enough of this buffoon. He represents the worst of the Republican Party establishment that used to be: condescending without any achievements to justify the attitude, confident in his own competence when he never managed to show any, and fussily certain of his own moral superiority for no apparent reason.

I believe that Romney saw a path to power in the Senate by serving a role similar to that of John McCain: pretending to be Republican while serving as a swing vote for the Democrats. But while McCain spent many years building to that position, Romney apparently believed that he could simply slip into that role.

    In any event, Schlichter eviscerates Romney throughout his article. His key insight into Romney's character is this, though:

You hear from a few folks that Mitt Romney is a genuinely good man, but I haven’t seen it. All I’ve seen is pure ambition. He worked for Bain Capital gutting our country and ruining Americans’ lives. He was a complete empty vessel, and he tried to fill himself with whatever he thought was going to get him ahead. This was the guy who created the predicate to Obamacare – and only the Republicans could be a party stupid enough to nominate the guy who did that in a national election race where the marquee issue was opposition to Obamacare. When he was governor of Massachusetts, before Massachusetts stopped being useful and Utah started, he was all in on the soft lib GOP vibe. But running in 2012 he became “severely conservative” because he thought that was what the voters wanted to hear. If this guy had gotten elected, we would’ve still had the corrective of Trump, just later. Mitt was another eager caretaker of the failed establishment. He just wanted to manage the decline more efficiently.

And I thought this telling:

Some of the news reports of Mitt Romney’s retirement from self-service mention that none of his sons are Republicans. That figures.

It certainly does: “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” (Matt. 7:20). It is especially revealing since 70% of "Mormons" support the Republican party--Romney's family isn't even representative of the church to which he belongs.