© 2020 Jim Spence - There is so much to talk about. The Iowa Caucuses come around as often as the Olympic Games. Once every four years it is an important operation that requires leadership and management. The 2020 Iowas Caucuses is the subject of for at least one column.Mitt Romney commits political suicide. Who knew? Of course there was that time when he was seen climbing up on the ledge.
It does not work well to try to think like an everyday person, when trying to get inside the head of an ambitious politician. You have to think more deeply about their “perception” of perceptions, instead of reality.
In Mitt Romney's announced justification for voting to toss Trump out of office by force, he presumed to divine Donald Trump’s motives. He did so despite the availability of the film of Joe Biden (watch it here) bragging about halting an investigation into his son Hunter in the Ukraine. Biden didn't admit to using $1 billion in U.S. taxpayer loan guarantees as leverage. HE BRAGGED ABOUT IT. One can only assume that Biden has become so used to getting away with different forms of corruption, he doesn’t even realize what corruption is. Or put another way, the video of Biden’s bragging, should be played in every household in America until it sinks in. This guy is really corrupt and dumb. And the voters in the Democratic primaries have figured it out too. It is really sinking in.
Since Romney dared to divine the motives of Trump, we will do the same with the analysis of his motives. The Romney situation is actually not very complex. Trump and his team saw the video of Biden literally confessing to a crime in the Ukraine. They chose to investigate. We must surmise that Mitt Romney thinks the film of the Biden confession is irrelevant. This makes no sense. Romney knows that Trump, as America’s executive officer (which includes law enforcement), has every right to determine if the Ukraine had information about an illegal shakedown. Were there elements of politics involved in Trump's actions? Of course there were. Politics is involved in everything that goes on in Washington.
The bottom line is simple. Political calculations were also at the heart of the Romney impeachment vote. Mitt wants to draw a line in the sand distinguishing himself from Trump. He wants to be set apart. He will get his wish.
Mitt did not really think this through very well. He seems to think public policies that are working will simply be a passing fad. He must also be thinking that eventually the Church of Progressivism will become resurgent. However, it is a real head scratching experience to figure out how Mitt could think Progressives will turn to good ole Mitt in any election. More amazing is the fact that Utah sent this guy to Washington. Don't make any long range plans on your senate seat buddy.
We learned all we needed to learn about Romney when he was captured on film TELLING THE TRUTH in 2012. The subject was the federal income tax rolls in the United States. When Mitt was filmed on a phone explaining to donors that only half of Americans were paying ANY share of the tax burden, he was right. Virtually 50% of U.S. citizens pay no federal income tax.
Sadly, when Romney was challenged on this point by the anchors working at the Church of Progressivism television networks, he pretended he was misunderstood, and he retracted what he said about tax fairness.
There is a label for this sort of duplicitous behavior by politicians. Many observers call people like Mitt Romney "weasels." A good number of the 50% of Americans that actually pay for all the services the federal government provides, felt completely betrayed by Romney when he did this.
Contrast Mitt' smooth duplicitous "style" with the abrasive approach of Trump. What would Trump have done under the same circumstances? He most surely would not have backtracked and Kow Towed to members of the Church of Progressivism media. He would have doubled down and told them to take a long hard look at the IRS’s own reports on federal income tax receipts. Trump has a bias in support of all people who pay income taxes. It is quite a flaw.
The great irony of all this is how Romney is reveling in the praise heaped on him by members of the Church of Progressivism media, and church members in the House and Senate. He seems to forget that it was just eight short years ago these very same people who just tried unsuccessfully to alter the 2016 election, were branding Romney as a shameless racist and greedy capitalist pig.
C’mon Mitt, you are an ambitious politician. This role requires you to remember who your friends are. If you don’t do so, it won’t be too long before you don’t have any real friends.
Also remember this Mitt, Substance Trumps Style. (pun intended)
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