The Incredible Smallness of Mitt Romney frontpagemag.com/point/272443/i…
The Washington Post op-ed is everything conservatives despise about Romney in a nutshell.
There is the choice of venue. WaPo is a government insider paper, one that violently loathes Trump. Publishing an attack on Trump in the Post isn't a statement of principle, but an act of pandering to the political elites of the swamp.
And everyone knows it.
And everyone knows it.
If Romney were trying to have this debate within Republican circles, he might have aimed for the National Review. Running an op-ed in the Washington Post isn't really about attacking Trump, it's about polishing his credentials in the mainstream media.
And that's exactly what conservatives loathed about Romney. They always sensed that his first audience wasn't the town hall meeting, it was the media. That he was so bad at it, only made it worse.
And the media is still Romney's first audience. Having gotten past an election, all he can think of is trying to win over the media. And he's always willing to sell out conservatives to make it happen.
