Everybody’s favorite chameleon Republican, Mitt Romney, arrived in Washington this week flashing a brand-new color.
A never-Trumper during the campaign—“a con man, a fake,” Romney said in a savage March 2016 speech about Donald Trump—Romney so despised the future president that he boycotted his nominating convention in Cleveland. “He’s playing the members of the American public for suckers. He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat,” Romney said in his speech.
But just a few months later, after the election made Trump the president-elect, Romney’s never-Trump colors had faded enough for him to choke back the vomit and sit through an audition with Trump for the job of secretary of state. Trump allowed Romney to kiss and slobber on his ring because he can’t get enough of that. But seeing through whatever protective coloration Romney had conjured up for the meeting, Trump wisely dumped him from contention. Who would want to hire somebody who had called them a “phony” in a national speech?
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