We Now Go Live to Mitt at Trump Tower Big Willard

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We Now Go Live to Mitt at Trump Tower
Big Willard Style.

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It is possible that old-guard types like Willard think they need to come aboard in order to make sure that El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago doesn't sell Rhode Island to Gazprom in the middle of the night.

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BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
NOV 17, 2016

OK, now the doings at Camp Runamuck have gone over the hill and far away. But, no, says CNN, it can always get stranger.

The two men are set to meet this weekend to discuss "governing moving forward" and potentially a role for Romney in Trump's Cabinet, the source said.

The source declined to specify for which Cabinet positions Romney is under consideration. The meeting is the latest in a series of Trump's conversations and encounters with Republicans who did not support his candidacy in an effort to reunite the GOP following a divisive election that fractured party leaders past the Republican primary and into the general election.

I spent all year thinking to myself, you know, Willard's not the unprincipled opportunist that he played in our 2012 drama, the guy who ran away from the one decent thing he'd done as governor of the Commonwealth (God save it!) and who subsequently money-whipped his rivals and then lost an election that many people in his party thought he had in the satchel.

He really stepped up and told the truth about what was happening to his party, and how what was happening to his party was nothing compared to what could happen to the country.

The man looked genuinely pissed that a leveraged arriviste with a golden commode might achieve what had rightfully belonged to him. It was like watching some Depression-era comedy come to life—or, at least, the first reel of Caddyshack.

He called a press conference to drop anathemas on the head of Donald Trump. He stayed away from the convention and from the campaign. Willard's disdain seemed real and heartfelt. It made me like him, a little.

And now, this? Someone tell me again what a political outlier Trump is within his party. Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, the young Never Trump stalwart, is burbling about "paid rioters." And now, the lost prince of American plutocracy has come to pay a call, and perhaps find a place at court.

It is possible that old-guard types like Willard think they need to come aboard in order to make sure that El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago doesn't sell Rhode Island to Gazprom in the middle of the night.

If that's their plan, they are misreading their man as badly as they misread him over the past year. Right now, they're all coming to him, all the people who laughed at him and made fun of his candidacy, and jilted him in Cleveland last summer, and whispered about how disastrous he would be as a president. They're all coming to the big tower with his name on it. Winning!

If Trump hires Willard to work for him, it will be because he wants to tell people that Mitt Romney came to him begging for a job and that, He, Trump, nature's nobleman, was a big enough guy to give him one.

He's going to mount Willard's head on the wall of his den, right above the Tiffany vase that holds Chris Christie's balls. By next March, he'll be sending Romney out for another bucket of KFC.

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