PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS. “‘Opportunity of a Lifetime’ to Dine With The Donald — and Mitt,” as Newsmax noted on May 31st, 2012:
The Democrats may have raffled off a couple of seats to an overpriced dinner with George Clooney a couple of weeks ago, but, not to be outdone, the GOP has responded with an “opportunity of a lifetime” to dine with the Donald — and Mitt.
The Romney campaign officially launched dinewiththedonald.com [Website redirects to https://secure.mittromney.com/donate/donald and now 404s – Ed] on May 30 amid the hype and sensation that seems to follow billionaire businessman Donald Trump everywhere he goes these days.
“What a spectacular opportunity to dine with two really tremendous individuals — one that is an international icon, and the other the future president of the United States of America,” Michael Cohen, Trump’s executive vice president and spokesperson told Newsmax. “It’s really an opportunity of a lifetime and we suspect that it will raise an enormous amount of money.”
Cohen estimated that the promotion will generate “many millions” of dollars for the Romney campaign.
Trump himself tweeted the following message to his 1.2 million followers on Twitter: “What could be better than dinner with @MittRomney and me?”
Today, Romney tells voters that Trump’s “bankruptcies have crushed small businesses and the men and women who work for them. He inherited his business, he didn’t create it. And whatever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there’s Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks and Trump Mortgage. A business genius he is not.”
And Trump replies:
“He was a disaster,” Trump said of Romney. “He ran one of the worst campaigns in presidential history. That was an election that should have been won by Republicans.” Trump also noted that Romney “begged me for my endorsement four years ago” — an endorsement he eventually gave (as immortalized in the picture at the top of the post). [Reprinted below — Ed]
At Commentary, Jonathan S. Tobin responds, “Right Message. Wrong Messenger,” given that Romney “is the embodiment of the party establishment that so many Republicans have come to despise:”
This animus for anybody that has been part of the party leadership in the past isn’t terribly logical or fair. But a lot of Republican voters are angry at the failure of their party to halt President Obama’s liberal agenda and dissatisfied with government in general. The affable Romney embodies both of these concerns because of his defeat at the hands of President Obama and his characteristic moderation. Having been around for two presidential election cycles and with a past as a liberal Republican governor of a blue state during which he laid the foundations for ObamaCare, the party base was never happy with him and likes him even less today.
And of course, as Michelle Malkin writes, where was this Romney in the fall of 2012 when it came to attacking his actual opponent in the race, or the media that propped him up?
Exit quote:
Senator Geary, call your office.
