Dear Mitt and John,
I regret to say that it's over between us. I voted for both of you for president and I probably will again if it is a choice between one of you and Elizabeth Warren but even then it will be a reluctant vote because I know you'll end up betraying conservative principles.
But the big problem is Trump.
Both of you are enjoying acclaim from the left for your Trump-bashing. You are greeted as the saviors of the Republican Party and the antidote to Trump. But here's the thing, these people will never vote for you, ever. You don't represent them, you represent what they want their opposition to be - moderate and ineffective. You both had your shots at being president. Mitt at least made it to the finals but John, you barely made it out of the starting gate. Neither of you has done anything to endear yourselves to conservatives since then. Yes, Mitt, you won a Senate seat in a can't-loose race but that doesn't give you national credibility and John, you burned through your good-will as governor by spending your second term running for president and appearing on out-of-state talk shows.
Both of you spend a lot of time complaining about Trump not being presidential but neither of you seems to appreciate that the final choice was between Trump and Crooked Hillary. While lionized as the most-qualified presidential candidate ever (talk to George H W. Bush about that) no one bothered to look at her record. She accomplished nothing as senator and her term as Secretary of State was destructive to world peace. She was responsible for transforming Libya from a prosperous nation ruled by an authoritarian to a poverty-stricken failed state. She supported both sided in Egypt and Syria which eventually caused a coup in Egypt and a civil war in Syria. And she managed to antagonize Putin. To say nothing of Hillary's ability to lose two "hers to loose" presidential races. Do the two of you seriously think that she would be a better president than Trump is?
In your attacks on the President you are showing that you value style over actions. You would be happier with a socialist from an Ivy League college than a coarse billionaire from Queens.
As a conservative, I am judging Trump by his actions instead of his tweets. The economy is doing far better than experts said was possible. The worst authoritarian excesses of the Obama years are being rolled back. The government set a record for the fewest new regulations created in a year (that's supposed to be a good thing). Border security is finally being taken seriously. Yes, that's messy. It's always messy when a law that was ignored for years starts to be enforced. But it needed to be done.
A lot of the messiness of Trump's administration is like that - Obama tried to change the norms and Trump is restoring things to the way they were as recently as 2014. This needed to be done but I don't think either of you has the guts to do it. You'd tut-tut about how Obama exceeded his authority but you'd let things stand rather than upset people. You'd fail to stand up for conservative principles.
And that's why we're through.
I wish the two of you luck in your new endeavors, Mitt in the Senate and John on talk shows that I don't watch. But please don't expect and support from me i the future.
Mark
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