Letter: A RINO does not change his spots
(Rick Bowmer | The Associated Press) In this Friday Jan., 18, 2019 file photo, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, left, speaks with reporters after visiting with local officials to discuss how the four-week partial government shutdown is impacting an area with several major federal employers, including the Internal Revenue Service in Ogden, Utah. Sen. Mitt Romney says he’s “sickened” by the dishonesty the Russia investigation found in the Trump White House. Now President Donald Trump is firing back at the Utah Republican, tweeting Saturday, April 20, 2019 that if Romney “spent the same energy fighting Barack Obama as he does fighting Donald Trump, he could have won the race (maybe)!” Romney has been one of the few prominent Republicans to criticize Trump since Trump’s election.
In regard to the April 28 letter of T. G. “Bud” Mahas, “Romney is a RINO”:
Mahas laments that he is so sorry that he and others voted for, as he terms him, "the carpetbagger Mitt Romney.”
Sir: I'm sorry, but with all the exposure we've all had to Romney and the kind of person he has many, many times shown himself to be — a professional flip-flopper who only cares about the 1% while deriding and insulting the "47 percenters," and with his "binders of women" — you're trying to tell us that you're actually surprised by his behavior? Where have you been?
I’m afraid this might say more about you than it does him. A leopard does not change its spots. You made your bed — and now the rest of us are stuck lying in it. Thanks.
Alan Linett, Sandy
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