Here goes Mittens....

[TeamPooka]

His speech is starting
What do you think?

[DawgHouse]

1. I don't think he can stop the Trump Train.

[Surya Gayatri]

2. He seems to be suffering from "dry mouth". Smacking his lips every few words. Very irritating...

[chelsea0011]

3. Is there an image of Trump throwing his support to him in the background?

[MgtPA]

4. He's sporting a comb-over

That's new

[DawgHouse]

5. I'll just wait for Trump's response.

What a circus!

[earthside]

6. Five point gain in the polls for Trump.

I won't listen to Rmoney, but if Mitt bashes The Donald as expected, this is about as good an endorsement as Trump can get.

[TeamPooka]

17. yup

[Eugene]

7. Vote for anybody but Trump.

He's asking voters to force a contested convention.
Beyond that his ideas are standard GOP establishment.

[B2G]

8. This is pretty surreal

The GOP must be in terror right now to trot out Mittens like he's some kind of elder statesman.

High entertainment.

[TeamPooka]

42. I've never seen anything like this before in American politics. nt

[Surya Gayatri]

57. Absolutely unprecedented and unique in modern US politics.

[leftynyc]

75. They quite literally have nobody else

There are zero elder statemens in the repub party today. Whose going to listen to W or dick?

[B2G]

77. I'm actually surprised Cheney hasn't weighed in.

He comments on absolutely everything else.

[leftynyc]

79. What could that slug

say that anybody (even repubs) will listen to?

[nolabear]

9. Dr. Frankenstein is trying to disassemble the monster. They're going to broker that sucker.

This is what they're preparing for, not convincing a single Trump supporter, none of whom gives a single searing fuck.

[BuelahWitch]

10. Is he getting heckled?

Heard someone shouting, then he said, "Thank you!" I couldn't tell if it was sarcastic or not.

[DawgHouse]

11. LOL - back to the tax returns.

Says he doubts Trump made donations to veterans as he claimed.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

28. Do you list donations? For some reason don't remember ever doing that - or maybe

if it's some be fancy schmancy tax return?

[DawgHouse]

32. Yes to qualified organizations.

Unfortunately my donations are small, wish I could do more. This is from the IRS website.

You may deduct charitable contributions of money or property made to qualified organizations if you itemize your deductions. Generally, you may deduct up to 50 percent of your adjusted gross income, but 20 percent and 30 percent limitations apply in some cases.

[OldHippieChick]

70. You must list your donations on a long-form

return and if you give more than $500, you must give the full address of the 501(C)(3).

[nolabear]

12. AAAAAANNNDDD Reagan.

With a side of John Adams.

[DawgHouse]

13. And Lincoln! Don't forget Abe!

[sufrommich]

14. I think the first shot was just fired in the

GOP civil war.

[Hortensis]

34. :) Did it take out Rubio I wonder?

[nolabear]

15. Is anyone watching Trump's Twitter feed?

If he's not live tweeting this it's because someone has tied him up.

[TeamPooka]

20. lmao

[Surya Gayatri]

60. In a strait jacket. Bwaaahaaaaaa!

[TeamPooka]

74. not a peep on Twitter

[justhanginon]

16. Trump may just sent a one word tweet, "LOSER!". n/t

[DawgHouse]

18. Trump will respond at 1:30 PM - LIVE

[joeybee12]

19. I think it's simply adorable that he believes he matters! So cute! nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. I think the republican party just got the big flush

Sweet!

[DawgHouse]

22. Bully Trump supporters will just circle the wagons.

[TeamPooka]

23. "A business genius he is not." lol

[nolabear]

24. Welp, that was a roast most rare.

I wonder how long the elves have been working on that. I hope Megyn Kelly was taking notes.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Bitter jerk. Hates Trump. Hates Clinton. Hates he didn't run ! nt

[Hortensis]

51. Nah! Mitt has his religion, remember?

There is much evidence that Mitt is an ardent fundamentalist believer whose life is devoted to serving his God. At least he truly believes so, and I'm sure he's sincere as far as it goes.

With that in mind, what could he be making of all of this chaos on the right but that it is proof of God and Satan squaring off in the final days? The Mormons have already finished their work of preparing the world for God's kingdom that God created their church for. God apparently didn't want him to be president last time, and there must have been a reason he had Mitt's past donors refuse to support him this time -- only to bring him in now....

It's time. Even a heathen like me can see that. The Mormons have a site all ready in Missouri for the capital of God's kingdom here on earth. Obviously, though, Armageddon means God will need to have His man in charge of the world's greatest military might before unleashing hell on earth.

In other words, another right-wing extremist appears to be entering the field. God!!!

[Satch59]

26. He won't change "Trump fans"...

Best thing that could happen is for either Trump or one of the others to go third party...

Trump will come back with a stupid response, his fans will cheer and nothing will change...but certainly interesting to watch them eat their own and further destroy their party.

[TeamPooka]

27. thing of beauty. :)

[TeamPooka]

29. Romney: The Emperor has no clothes, or money, or brains. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

30. Don't forget - Trump wants to get rid of offshore tax havens - Mittens LOVES them nt

[DawgHouse]

35. Oh yes, I agree that Romney is always looking out for his best interests!

[TeamPooka]

31. "His imagination must not be married to real power." That's a good line, I hate to say.

[csziggy]

33. Romney uses too many multi-syllable words for Trump followers to understand

What Mittens says is to the point but Trump followers need single syllable words to be able to decipher what is said.

Romney should have stood up and said "Trump is a crook!" and left it at that.

[sufrommich]

36. Well to be fair,he literally said that Trump

is a phony carnival barker who will destroy the GOP. I've never seen anything like this.

[DawgHouse]

37. He did indeed but do you think it matters to those who support Trump?

I think they are anti-GOP and are happy to see it destroyed. JMHO

[sufrommich]

39. I think Romney and Co.know there's a certain segment

who will ignore them,I think they're speaking to voters who are more GOP establishment.

[DawgHouse]

48. That makes sense.

[Johonny]

43. This speech is for the 60%+ not currently supporting Trump in the party

This is not for Trump supporters. The goal is to try and keep the winner take all states from Trump and humiliate him at the convention.

[Surya Gayatri]

63. "Trump is a fraud" comes close...

[morningfog]

38. Not enough to stop Trump. If goppers really want to stop him, mere attacks and insults won't do it.

Trump thrives off shit slinging.

There has to be a call to direct action. A new nominee, a forceful endorsement, a vow to fight at the convention, a plan that will prevent Trump from gaining enough delegates to win the first ballot, etc. That was simply not enough today.

[Johonny]

46. The only (best) way to stop him would be to eliminate winner takes all state delegates

he has no path to the nomination without them.

The GOP would be changing rules on the fly...

[drray23]

40. I give him credit for at least trying to do something

Now, of course I did not vote Romney and never would have but at least he is trying to do something about Trump. Unfortunately, I do not think it will work. It is a day late and a dollar short. Not to mention, Mitt does not have such a big influence on the party itself and certainly almost zero on the electorate. He might with the donor class but Trump is mainly self funded.

[TeamPooka]

44. The guy most of them didn't want last time is knocking the guy some of them want this time :)

[gabeana]

47. I want trump to win it

destroy the GOP, the great thing about Trump, all he is doing is verbalizing especialy when it comes to race is what the GOP has said in close doors since the 1960's

we want trump

[TeamPooka]

49. I do and I don't. I'd like to think the better angels of our political opposition will rise to

the occasion and not sink further down to their lesser demons.
For the sake of the country.

[2naSalit]

41. Either

he's a diversion as in, "Look over there!" and there's a plot afloat between them or the Rs have lost their minds and sent a little green army guy to take a swat at Godzilla.

[B Calm]

45. Are we witnessing the self destruction of the Republican party?

[sufrommich]

50. I think we are. Who knew that St. Ronald Reagan would

plant the seed that destroyed them by sucking up to the racist Christian right. Delicious.

[DawgHouse]

52. Lawd, Christie will have a press conference at 1:00 PM EST

[B Calm]

54. I have my popcorn popper ready!

[DawgHouse]

56. LOL, and then Trump at 1:30. Long afternoon, be sure to make enough popcorn!

[B Calm]

58. Hopefully Trump will be so pissed off at the GOP he'll announce that he is running 3rd party.

[DawgHouse]

61. Oh wow, you're right. That would not surprise me at all.

[DawgHouse]

82. Shoot, my popcorn is getting cold.

[sufrommich]

55. This should be interesting.

We're going to need a bigger bad of popcorn.

[msanthrope]

59. Bourbon. Lots of bourbon. nt

[DawgHouse]

71. Okay, it's 1:06. Where's Christie?

He's probably tied up in a cloak room somewhere.

[TeamPooka]

53. Not a single tweet from the donald yet. nt

[WiffenPoof]

62. A Chinese Philosopher Once Said...

"May you live in interesting times."

I can check that off my list.

[Surya Gayatri]

65. I believe the full saying is: "May you be CURSED to live in interesting times..."

[WiffenPoof]

66. Is That So???

I had no idea. That puts a different spin on it!

Was it Confucius?

-P

[Surya Gayatri]

67. Here's all I know...

"May you live in interesting times" is an English expression purported to be a translation of a traditional Chinese curse. Despite being so common in English as to be known as "the Chinese curse", the saying is apocryphal, and no actual Chinese source has ever been produced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times

[WiffenPoof]

69. Thank You!

I appreciate your research. The world at our fingertips!

[GliderGuider]

72. "May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of important people." nt

[JHB]

64. So how did Mitt's unintentional endorsement of Trump go?

Or is he still rambling all over Amercia in his usual "quality ain't my Job 1" style?

[tavernier]

68. Reminds me of the game

First liar doesn't stand a chance.

[liberalfromaustin21]

73. Mitt is a fool

I hope we never have to hear from him again in the future. But I'm not holding my breath.

[GliderGuider]

76. I don't think the GOP old guard have a clue what they're facing.

I think there has been a sea change in the electorate:

The rise of American authoritarianism

What's made Trump's rise even more puzzling is that his support seems to cross demographic lines — education, income, age, even religiosity — that usually demarcate candidates. And whereas most Republican candidates might draw strong support from just one segment of the party base, such as Southern evangelicals or coastal moderates, Trump currently does surprisingly well from the Gulf Coast of Florida to the towns of upstate New York, and he won a resounding victory in the Nevada caucuses.

Perhaps strangest of all, it wasn't just Trump but his supporters who seemed to have come out of nowhere, suddenly expressing, in large numbers, ideas far more extreme than anything that has risen to such popularity in recent memory. In South Carolina, a CBS News exit poll found that 75 percent of Republican voters supported banning Muslims from the United States. A PPP poll found that a third of Trump voters support banning gays and lesbians from the country. Twenty percent said Lincoln shouldn't have freed the slaves.

Authoritarians are a real constituency that exists independently of Trump — and will persist as a force in American politics. Authoritarians prioritize social order and hierarchies, which bring a sense of control to a chaotic world. Challenges to that order — diversity, influx of outsiders, breakdown of the old order — are experienced as personally threatening because they risk upending the status quo order they equate with basic security.

This is, after all, a time of social change in America. The country is becoming more diverse, which means that many white Americans are confronting race in a way they have never had to before. Those changes have been happening for a long time, but in recent years they have become more visible and harder to ignore. And they are coinciding with economic trends that have squeezed working-class white people.

This is an utterly terrifying election. It's not about policies, it's about psychology - specifically about the Shadow in the electoral unconscious.

Cthulhu has awakened in the soul of America.

[Katashi_itto]

78. Neither does DNC for that matter.

[greatauntoftriplets]

80. He should have made the speech two months ago.

The Trump train has left the station, unfortunately.

[TeamPooka]

81. Some of them want to pretend they're not on the train but they'll all ride it later. nt

[DawgHouse]

83. The crowd is rowdy.