Mitt Romney was invited to this year’s Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference.
Now he is uninvited. Here’s why:
The organizer of the Conservative Political Action Conference defended his decision to uninvite Sen. Mitt Romney — saying the Utah Republican’s vote for more witnesses and documents in President Trump’s impeachment trial would make him unsafe at the event.
“This year, I’d actually be afraid for his physical safety, people are so mad at him,” American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp said in an interview Saturday on “Full Court Press” with Greta Van Susteren.
“The biggest problem we have with Mitt Romney is not that he’s just an individual following his political course. It’s the fact that he’s lied so continuously to conservatives,” Schlapp added.
Schlapp went on to decry the Romney as disloyal, saying, “When he needed a conservative like Donald Trump to endorse him in his Senate primary last time, he wanted him in. But then, when he gets the Senate job, he wants to distance himself from Trump. He’s a use-’em-and-lose-’em kind of guy.”
So we have two explanations.
One is that Senator Romney’s physical safety might be in jeopardy – which speaks poorly of CPAC and its people.
The other is that Senator Romney is a two-faced “use-’em-and-lose-’em” politician – which speaks poorly of Romney.
The sad reality is that both explanations seem valid.
I wonder whether Mitt Romney will stay a Republican; how long before his loathing of President Trump, and recognition that Trump now controls the party, will cause him to declare himself an independent.
I have a feeling it will happen sooner rather than later.
-I understand why some would think he may face violence, what with Conservatives going around beating people up for what they do and say. Especially at college campuses where they refuse to let some people speak.