Romney is meeting with Ryan and filing paper work to start his bid for the 2016 presidency. What rules need to be changed at the convention to get that done? It remains to be seen. After watching his appalling speech, last week, I would be hard pressed to find anyone with the opinion that Romney isn’t fully engaged, in one form or another, in upsetting the apple cart at the Republican convention.
The Hill: Former Republican running mates Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan shared a meal over the weekend as part of a campaign swing out West for House candidates, an aide to the Speaker told CNN.
The Ryan aide declined to say if the presidential race was a topic of conversation, maintaining that the Wisconsin Republican only learned of Romney’s big anti-Donald Trump speechWednesday night.“I know Mitt feels strongly about this election, and he’s going to speak his mind,” Ryan said on “Fox and Friends,” declining to personally criticize Trump.Local media reports last week indicated that those making large donations to Ryan’s political action committee could get time on the slopes in Utah with him and Romney.The pair have been close since their White House bid in 2012 and have both emerged recently as influential voices in the GOP pushing back on rhetoric from the current front-runner.Romney unloaded on Trump as a “fraud” who lacks the temperament to be president and peddles failed business ventures during a speech Thursday at the University of Utah.Trump went on the offensive ahead of Romney’s speech, bashing him as a “failed” candidate.After Romney’s speech, Ryan again repeatedly declined to attack Trump, though he left open the possibility to do so in the future if he felt Trump or his rivals stepped over the line.“If I see ideas and comments that mislead the people as to who were are as Republicans, I’m going to speak out on those,” Ryan said at his weekly news conference.
The sinister motivation behind failed 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s blistering attack on current GOP front-runner Donald Trump last week became clear as day when reporters uncovered a “Statement of Organization” form he filed with the Federal Election Commission late last month.
Technically, Red Curve Solutions, a campaign consulting firm founded by Romney’s longtime close ally Bradley Crate in 2008, filed the document, but the fact that Crate also serves as the deputy CFO to the official “Romney for President” campaign made it obvious that he filed it on Romney’s behalf.
Moreover, according to The Hill, Romney met up with his former vice presidential pick for the GOP ticket in 2012, current House Speaker Paul Romney, only days before Crate filed this paperwork.
It appears that rather than trying to “save” the Republican Party from Donald Trump, Romney had a much darker motive. The former Massachusetts governor apparently aspired to enter the current presidential race and attempt to dethrone Trump, explaining why he went out of his way last week to call Trump a “phony” and a “fraud,” among other things.
