It’s not exactly a secret that Mitt Romney despises former President Donald J. Trump but as it turns out, he doesn’t think very much about many of his other fellow Republicans either.
With the hotly anticipated release of the new tell-all book about the retiring Utah senator only days away from hitting bookshelves, the latest tasty nuggets have been dished out as a sample of what’s to come.
In a sneak preview from Politico Playbook, the failed GOP presidential candidate takes jabs at a number of prominent conservatives including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and a number of former GOP presidential hopefuls, adding to cheap shots he already took at former VP Mike Pence and Ohio Senator JD Vance.
The book, titled “Romney: A Reckoning,” was penned by McKay Coppins of The Atlantic, the digest of the Acela Corridor cultural elite and few politicians are as dear to their hearts as the former governor of ultra-liberal Massachusetts who reached across the aisle to link arms with the Democrats on both failed Trump impeachments.
From @playbookdc, another preview of the new Mitt Romney biography, in which Romney, consumed with old resentments, appears to dump on everyone who ever ran against him. https://t.co/0eYO0y1Ekt pic.twitter.com/M7DoHf3Z3q
— Byron York (@ByronYork) October 19, 2023
The author sat down with Romney at the senator’s Washington, D.C. townhouse over the course of two years to put together what is described by Amazon as “a redemptive story about a flawed politician who summoned his moral courage just as fear and divisiveness were overtaking American life.”
On DeSantis, Romney says that “There’s just no warmth at all,” adding that he ” looks like he’s got a toothache,” while posing for selfies with voters in the key early-voting state of Iowa, although he does pay a compliment to the Sunshine State Republican who he says is “much smarter than Trump.”
The sanctimonious senator is less enamored with Cruz whom he calls, “frightening,” “scary,” and “a demagogue.” Romney also slimes former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich who he says is “A smug know-it-all, smarmy, and too pleased with himself.”
Pierre Delecto also flames former Lousiana Governor Bobby Jindal as “a twit,” and said of former Texas Governor and Trump administration Energy Secretary Rick Perry, “Republicans must realize that we have to have someone who can complete a sentence.”
He also assailed his fellow failed GOP presidential candidate and former Ohio Governor John Kasich. “Lack of thoughtfulness, lack of attentiveness, ego. No wonder he and CHRIS [CHRISTIE] spark,” according to Politico Playbook.
In a previous teaser, the Mormon Romney accused Pence, a devout Christian, of betraying his faith over his support for Trump.
“[Nobody] had been more loyal, more willing to smile when he saw absurdities, more willing to ascribe God’s will to things that were ungodly than Mike Pence,” according to excerpts published by The Atlantic
He also expressed contempt for two other Christian Republicans, trashing former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee as a “huckster,” a “caricature of a for-profit preacher” and former Senator Rick Santorum as “Sanctimonious, severe and strange.” There are undoubtedly more but people will have to buy the book to find out.
Have you pre-ordered yet? ROMNEY: A RECKONING is out next week… https://t.co/aNz1oU8pa4 pic.twitter.com/EBZ0X3Ii9D
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) October 16, 2023
“Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald Trump’s GOP, he has made headlines in recent years for standing alone against the forces he believes are poisoning the party he once led. Romney was the first senator in history to vote to remove from office a president of his own party. When that president’s supporters went on to storm the US Capitol, Romney delivered a thundering speech from the Senate floor accusing his fellow Republicans of stoking insurrection,” reads the Amazon description of the Coppins’ book which is already number one in the Campaigns and Elections category.
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