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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney loyalists ponder a future with Trump
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a rally in Richmond, Va., Friday, June 10, 2016. (Steve Helber/Associated Press)
By Julie Bykowicz?|?AP June 11 at 1:07 PM
PARK CITY, Utah Donald Trump can be an effective president, and hes going to win with you or without you, Republican Chairman Reince Priebus told several hundred of the partys top donors and strategists Saturday.
Trump is setting a dangerous example for Americans by promoting trickle-down racism, and the party must look beyond this presidential election to find its future, the 2012 nominee Mitt Romney told the same group later that morning.
Delivered within moments of each other at Romneys annual business and politics summit at a five-star ski resort, those opposite messages were enough to cause whiplash. Thats a hazard of being a Republican this year, as the party struggles to figure out what to do with its controversial presumptive presidential nominee.
Blinking back tears as he spoke, an impassioned Romney said many have asked him to get off his high horse and back Trump, seeing presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as unacceptable. Either choice is destructive, Romney said. I love this country. I love the founders. I love what this country is built upon, and its values. And seeing this is breaking my heart.
schadenfreude continued at the Wash Post
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Romney loyalists ponder a future with Trump (Original Post)
BootinUp
Jun 2016
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PJMcK
(22,037 posts)1. Yeah, my heart's breaking for you, Mittens
(sarcasm)
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)2. "Trickle-Down Racism". Good meme . . . nt
Zorro
(15,740 posts)3. Trump: Romney "choked like a dog"!
Woo hoo! Whatta lotta class!