The such as it is mettle of Senator Mitt Romney

FOTP News in Review for … Sunday, April 7, 2019

Picking on Mitt Romney is as easy as hitting a piñata full of alarm clocks and kittens without a blindfold in broad daylight, but for the love of the cauda equina, the bundle of spinal nerves and spinal nerve rootlets that occupies the lumbar cistern, if the former Massachusetts governor were any more spineless, echinoderms would be telling him to grow a pair.

Romney, who has been Utah’s senator for fewer than four months, was on Meet the Press on Sunday, and is already ashamed of his work and his title.

CHUCK TODD

Do you prefer Governor or Senator still?

SEN. MITT ROMNEY:

The term Governor’s always better, but I guess I’ve got to go by my current title, which is Senator. —

CHUCK TODD:

That’s exactly what we —

SEN. MITT ROMNEY:

But Mitt — but Mitt is just fine, Chuck. Mitt is just fine.

I’ll tell you: If my urologist hated his work as much as Romney hates his, I never would have let him near my prostate.

But I digress.

Romney was on the show — actually, there was no good reason for him to be on the show other than Chuck Todd’s desire to prove there are national GOP figures willing to stand up to Donald Trump.

CHUCK TODD:

Welcome back. Most Republican office holders have been reluctant, even a bit scared, to criticize President Trump. Not Mitt Romney. Just two days before he took the oath as a new senator from Utah, Mitt Romney wrote this, “Presidential leadership and qualities of character is indispensable. And it is in this province where the incumbent’s shortfall has been most glaring.”