How a president shapes the public character

By Mitt Romney, Washington Post.

Romney complains about Syria and Jim Mattis saying Trump abandoned allies and replaced experience with less experience. Without appreciation for how allies are supported without troops in the arena, nor how new allies are thoughtfully and carefully coordinated to fill the spot. Nor how one's experience is used until it is no longer the best suited, and replaced with an ideological match.

The attack is empty.

Romney doesn't like Trump's name calling.

Then Romney gets righteous. Even a bit religious were it not misapplied.

To a great degree, a presidency shapes the public character of the nation. A president should unite us and inspire us to follow “our better angels.” A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity, and elevate the national discourse with comity and mutual respect. 

Such boyish nonsense. The presidency does not shape the public character, rather, the public character elects its president. Once again, a politician gets the voter and reflection of voter reversed, where the reflection thinks it's the thing and the real thing is its own reflection. Otherwise we'd all cheat on our wives during Clinton administration, and we'd all be unctuous pontificating weasels weaponizing our company departments against our political opponents, kowtowing to our country's enemies and instigating racial strife and distrust of own police forces during Obama administration.

But we didn't. So he's wrong.

And where was this oppositional fire then? Held back. Like Bush II, and like McCain, all the fire is used against their own party and not against Democrats so richly deserving of fire and venom. So what does that say when such a onetime presidential candidate now junior senator yet to take his seat publishes such a screed?

It tells us that Mitt Romney intends to run for president again in 2020. And not run to win. Rather, Romney intends to run as spoiler to deliver the presidency to Democrats.

And we call this type Rat.

Much more Romney bullshit at the link.