MITT ROMNEY DECIDED HE WOULD TAKE ON DONALD TRUMP.
THE
REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT HAD TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO WAS WILLING TO
FIGHT HIM.
IT HAD TO BE SOMEBODY WHO IS NOT CURRENTLY AN ELECTED
OFFICIAL, BECAUSE THEY MIGHT HAVE TO WORK WITH PRESIDENT
TRUMP IF HE WINS, IF THESE ATTACKS DON'T WORK.
BUT THE
ESTABLISHMENT AND THE DONOR BASE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOT
LIKE DONALD TRUMP.
THE REASON THEY DON'T LIKE HIM IS BECAUSE
THEY CAN'T PREDICT HIM OR CONTROL HIM.
WE DON'T LIKE AND
FOR DIFFERENT REASONS.
HE USES RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, AND WE HAVE
NO EARTHLY IDEA -- I DON'T THINK DONALD TRUMP HAS ANY IDEA WHAT
HE WILL DO AS PRESIDENT.
YOU DON'T WANT A WILDCARD LIKE THAT,
ESPECIALLY ONE WITH FASCIST TENDENCIES.
BUT REPUBLICAN
DONORS ARE NOT WORRIED ABOUT THAT, THEY ARE PISSED THAT HE IS
NOT AN ORDER TAKER.
SO THEY TAKE THEIR LAST ORDER TAKER, MITT
ROMNEY, AND DECIDE TO ATTACK TRUMP WITH HIM.
BUT BEFORE HE
TAKES THE STAGE, DONALD TRUMP TAKES TO TWITTER.
THIS IS WHAT
HE WROTE WHEN HE FOUND OUT ROMNEY WOULD GIVE A SPEECH
AGAINST HIM --
JUST GETTING STARTED --
I SENSE A THEME HERE --
JUST GETTING WARMED UP.
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE WHAT HE SAYS AFTER
THE SPEECH.
I WILL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING.
I WILL GIVE YOU
ROMNEY, I WILL GIVE YOU TRUMP AFTER THE SPEECH.
AGAIN, BEFORE
THE SPEECH, TRUMP WRITES AT 3:59 AM -- DOES THIS GUY EVER GET OFF
OF TWITTER?
AND THEN HE GETS ON THE TODAY SHOW, APPARENTLY NOT HAVING
GOTTEN ANY SLEEP --
YOU GET A SENSE THAT HE THOUGHT MITT ROMNEY FAILED?
A MESS.
NOW, LET'S GIVE THE FLOOR TO MITT ROMNEY AND LET HIM
MAKE A PRETTY STRONG CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP.
I'M NOT HERE TO ANNOUNCE MY CANDIDACY FOR OFFICE, AND I'M
NOT GOING TO ENDORSE A CANDIDATE TODAY.
INSTEAD, I'D LIKE TO
OFFER MY PERSPECTIVE ON THE NOMINATING PROCESS OF MY PARTY.
BACK IN 1964, JUST DAYS BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, WHICH
INCIDENTALLY WE LOST, RONALD REAGAN WENT ON NATIONAL
TELEVISION AND CHALLENGED AMERICA, SAYING THAT IT WAS A
TIME FOR CHOOSING.
I'M NO RONALD REAGAN, AND THIS IS A DIFFERENT
MOMENT IN TIME, BUT I BELIEVE WITH ALL MY HEART AND SOUL THAT
WE FACE ANOTHER TIME FOR CHOOSING.
AND LET ME PUT IT VERY
PLAINLY.
IF WE REPUBLICANS CHOOSE DONALD TRUMP AS OUR
NOMINEE, THE PROSPECTS FOR A SAFE AND PROSPEROUS FUTURE ARE
GREATLY DIMINISHED.
IF DONALD TRUMP'S PLANS WERE EVER
IMPLEMENTED, THE COUNTRY WOULD SINK INTO PROLONGED RECESSION.
BUT YOU SAY WAIT, WAIT, ISN'T HE A HUGE BUSINESS SUCCESS?
DOESN'T
HE KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT?
NO, HE ISN'T, AND NO, HE
DOESN'T.
HE INHERITED HIS BUSINESS, HE DIDN'T CREATE IT.
AND WHATEVER HAPPENED TO TRUMP AIRLINES?
HOW ABOUT TRUMP
UNIVERSITY?
THEN THERE IS TRUMP MAGAZINE AND TRUMP VODKA AND
TRUMP STEAKS AND TRUMP MORTGAGE.
A BUSINESS GENIUS, HE IS NOT.
TRUMP TELLS US HE IS VERY, VERY SMART.
[LAUGHTER] I'M AFRAID
THAT WHEN IT COMES TO FOREIGN POLICY, HE IS VERY, VERY NOT
SMART.
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[FEED IS DOWN, SITE SAYS "WE ARE EXPERIENCING
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES"]
THE THIRD DEBATE --
I BACKED HIM, YOU CAN SEE HOW LOYAL HE IS.
HE WAS BEGGING FOR
MY ENDORSEMENT.
I COULD HAVE SAID MITT, DROP TO YOUR KNEES.
HE WOULD HAVE DROPPED TO HIS KNEES.
HE WAS BEGGING.
IT'S
TRUE.
HE CAME UP WITH THE 47%, HE DEMEANED 47% OF THE PEOPLE IN
OUR COUNTRY, RIGHT?
THE FAMOUS 47%.
ONCE THAT WAS SAID, I'LL BE
HONEST, ONCE THAT WAS SAID, A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT IT
WAS OVER FOR HIM.
OOF.
OH, MAN.
HE DID IT AGAIN.
WELL, ANYWAY, MITT, NICE TRY.
IT'S JUST ANOTHER FAILED ATTEMPT.
TRUMP JUST GET
STRONGER.
I DON'T KNOW WHEN THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT IS
GOING TO REALIZE HE IS LIKE THAT ALIEN IN STAR TREK -- WHEN YOU
FIRE THE PHASERS AT HIM, HE ONLY GETS BIGGER AND STRONGER.
SO YOU
CREATED THIS TRUMPENSTEIN WITH ALL THE RACES IN THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY PUSHED FOR DECADES AND DECADES, AND THE SOUTHERN
STRATEGY, YOU CREATED THE XENOPHOBIA, YOU FED THAT BEAST,
AND YOU SAID THAT BILLIONAIRES ARE GREAT AND THEY SHOULD BE
LAUDED, AND EVERYBODY SHOULD UNDERSTAND HOW THE GREATEST
PEOPLE IN AMERICA ARE THE RICHEST, MOST WONDERFUL PEOPLE,
AND THEN YOU GOT A BILLIONAIRE WHO CAME OUT AND SAID OKAY,
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS MONSTER YOU'VE CREATED, AND I
WILL NOW MARAUD THROUGH THE VILLAGE.
AND NOW WHEN YOU GO TO
FIRE YOUR PHASERS AT HIM, HE'S LIKE, GET ON YOUR KNEES.
YOU ARE
THE GUYS WHO WANTED TO DO A CORRUPT SYSTEM WHERE RICH PEOPLE
GIVE YOU MONEY AND YOU GET ON YOUR KNEES.
SO DON'T COMPLAIN
NOW THAT TRUMP TURNS IT AROUND ON YOU AND SAYS I WAS A RICH
GUY YOU GOT ON YOUR KNEES FOR.
SAD DAY FOR YOU, MAYBE YOU
SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN IN FAVOR OF ALL THAT MONEY POURING INTO
POLITICIANS, AND BRIBERY BEING LEGALIZED.
NOW THAT TRUMP IS
USING IT AGAINST YOU, DON'T CRY OVER IT.