{"id":28253,"date":"2018-02-22T00:32:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T00:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28253"},"modified":"2018-02-22T00:35:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T00:35:56","slug":"fickle-describes-trump-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28253","title":{"rendered":"‘Fickle’ describes Trump and Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Please don’t accuse me of being sexist, but ….<\/p>\n

I always thought the term “fickle” was used to describe women. You know what I mean. Well, it appears two leading male political figures are rewriting the textbook definition of the word.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump and Mitt Romney have said some really harsh things about each other.<\/p>\n

Trump has called Romney, the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nominee, a “loser” who once “begged” Trump for his endorsement. Trump said Romney would have “gotten on his knees” for the endorsement if the GOP candidate had told him to do so.<\/p>\n

Romney, meanwhile, has called Trump a “fraud” and a “phony.” He has called the president a pathological liar.<\/p>\n

Well, lo and behold! Romney is now running for the U.S. Senate from Utah; Sen. Orrin Hatch is retiring at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

What do you suppose was the president’s reaction? He endorsed Romney, saying he will make a “great” U.S. senator.<\/p>\n

And Romney? Why, he simply grabbed that endorsement, hugged it tight and thanked the president for the words of affirmation.<\/p>\n

How long will this bromance last? Let’s assume Romney gets elected senator from Utah. I think it might endure right up until Romney delivers a harsh Senate floor speech denouncing a preposterous statement coming from Trump.<\/p>\n

That, I suppose, presumes that a Sen. Romney hasn’t allowed himself to be emasculated by the GOP Senate leadership that tells him to keep his trap shut when he feels the urge to criticize the president.<\/p>\n

Maybe I shouldn’t be too surprised that Trump and Mitt could bury the hatchet. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry once called Trump a “cancer on conservatism”; he’s now energy secretary in the Trump administration. And didn’t Housing Secretary Ben Carson call Trump a “liar” when they were running for the GOP nomination in 2016?<\/p>\n

Still, time will tell us quite a bit about the fickle nature of the Trump-Romney political relationship.<\/p>\n\n

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