If he had walked out of that restaurant, grabbed the media microphones like a boss and said, "That fraud Trump invited me here under false pretenses, offering a cabinet position in exchange for my soul...well, I just told him not now, not ever..." (mic drop and exit stage right)...had Mittens found the balls to do THAT? He would be redeemed in my eyes...alas, the slimebag did not have it in him...

No respect for Ted cruz endorsing Trump either.

The only time I really respected Romney is when he criticized Trump and called him out as the fraud that he is. It was the most coherent and on message that I have seen him.

Screw orange hitler.

Barack Obama is president of the United States.

Not Mitt Romney, and not Donald trump.

We are in serious trouble

is a perfect character for Trump.

I'm assuming Trump wanted that apology on bended knee?

McMullin, if he is still a Republican, might be the last decent one out there. The rest of them are beyond help and hope.

legitimizes him. I can kinda understand Gore giving it a shot. But Gore isn't an enabler. Anyone in the Republicon party enables him by not demanding (at the very least) he be vetted by releasing taxes or divesting of business. Somebody DEMAND something from Trump. UGH. They go there to get favors and hope the king treats them well. fuck that shit

With Romney, the question is whether he - in good faith - thought he could be an influenece on Trump by being in the room when some foreign policy decisions would be made AND whether he seriously could support to the best of his abilities the policies the President decided on. These two things might be at odds with each other for anyone alarmed by Trump's foreign policy or lack of a coherent foreign policy. On the one hand, they could end up being the sane voice in the room and potentially preventing something bad or doing something good - per their definition (not ours) of good and bad. On the other, they could become the face of a foreign policy that they strongly disagree with.

Consider that Colin Powell, who was actively considered as a potential nominee by both parties, was completely compromized by the UN speech on Iraq that he made defending the need to attack. He supposedly was not part of the pack for the war, but he will forever be seen as the one who made the case for invasion. I wonder if he contemplated either quitting or refusing to give that speech - which could have resulted in him being asked to quit. Powell could not have known what would be asked of him when he agreed to be Secretary of State. I wonder if he ever has imagined what could have happened had he refused and quit stating he did not believe the case he was asked to make.

In 2000 or 2001, joining GWB's administration was joining many people that Powell had worked with under GHWB. For Romney, accepting being Secretary of State for Trump would be a blatant grab for the prestige that position brings. The comments he made during the election were very unusual and almost certainly his real opinions. The ONLY thing that has changed is that Trump won the Presidency.

Keeping his powder dry...

Although he shouldn't of had dinner with fuckface in the first place.

I can't believe things have gotten so bad that Mitt Romney, of all people, seems like a voice of semi-sanity. Holy shit.

that these people meeting with Donald J. Trump

don't get a word in edgewise, are only being dictated to, and have no
effect on the outcome of anything at all

There is no dialogue. There is a meeting, boss and subordinate.

Rmoney has lost all credence when he met the orangeutan for scallops.
What was the all smiles about, it not to kow-tow to the orange one.
Oh, maybe to get a job for Ronna, his niece, that's not nepotism, is it?