First off, if you want a good laugh, read this highly biased CNN article, which reads like a left-wing opinion piece rather than a description of Romney's new book: https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/media...ces/index.html
However, the article does get one thing correct: Mitt Romney repeatedly rips the GOP in his new biography, "Romney: A Reckoning", where he oddly chose left-wing Atlantic reporter McKay Coppins to write.
There's no question Romney has issues with Trump and the current GOP. Trump repeatedly attacked him, and much of Romney's own party didn't do a lot to stand up for him. I understand why he's hurt by this. He went from conservative 2012 Presidential nominee to being seen as a spineless RINO within less than a decade.
I always liked Romney. I agreed with most of his views. I felt he was a practical conservative, and had a great head on his shoulders. He seemed like a decent man, as opposed to guys like Trump and Biden, both of whom clearly have a lot of dishonesty and shadiness built into their core.
Unfortunately, Romney has allowed the left to manipulate him, due to his emotional pain from his party somewhat rejecting him. While he has a right to be angry, it highly disappointed me that he hired a known left-winger to write his biography. If he's still the conservative he claims to be, he shouldn't allow himself to be used as a tool by the left to discredit the GOP, even if he doesn't like the GOP's present direction. The Romney I knew would never want to see today's extreme left wing agenda succeed.
While I haven't read the book, one thing notably absent from its description is any criticism of the leftward turn of the Democratic Party in the past decade. There are many new, radical ideas presently promoted by Democrats which were NOT supported 10 years ago. This includes men in women's sports, cashless bail, woke DAs not prosecuting entire classes of crime, transgender 3-year-olds, pornographic books in middle school libraries, blanket student loan forgiveness, universal basic income, abortion on demand without limits, among others. Has the GOP changed in the past decade? Yes, but more in personality than policy. GOP policy today is roughly the same as it was in 2013, whereas Democrats now support all kinds of policies which were considered crazy a decade ago.
You simply cannot complain about the GOP changing without also noting that the other party has changed even more.
Unfortunately, it seems like Romney is acting like the bitter ex-wife who was dumped for a younger woman. And much like the bitter ex-wife, while some of the criticisms he's citing are undoubtedly correct, you can also see that it's coming from a place of anger/hurt rather than rational thought, and it seems his goal is more to hurt those who hurt him.
Romney should have hired a moderate Republican, or at least a legitimate centrist, to write his biography. He's an interesting guy with an interesting life. Definitely his comments about the GOP should be part of any biography, but they should not be the central theme, nor should he have handed the project to a known left-winger, who turned his biography into a political opinion piece.
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