Letter: Romney should have been disfellowshipped — Utah can do better
(Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune) Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney met with Marc and Rachael Gibson as they stopped their van to speak with him on 640 West in Orem while the candidate was collecting signatures in the neighborhood, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018.
Just like Hillary Clinton, who thought that those who did not support her were deplorable, irredeemable, etc., Mitt Romney did not care about “that 47 percent” of the electorate who did not support him.
Quite a statement from someone called as a bishop and stake president in the LDS Church, who is bishop and president to all in his geographical calling, members or not. He should have been disfellowshipped. This cost him in 2012, like his father’s statement about being “brainwashed on Vietnam,” which knocked him out of front-runner status in 1968. The Republicans in Michigan at that time were dominated by the Grosse Ile country club set and were really just “liberals” with a lot of money and a great desire for power not just of the monetary type.
A “never Trumper” … Mitt would not carry Grand Rapids, Mich., where Trump campaigned after midnight on election eve.
Utah can do much better than Mitt.
Jack Reed, Logan
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