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Romney didn’t grovel; neither should Senate Republicans

By David Freddoso

Published December 14, 2016 9:26pm ET

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Romney didn’t grovel; neither should Senate Republicans — Romney has certainly made his share of mistakes, but in refusing to renounce his moral reservations about Trump as though he had been misleading people with some kind of political hyperbole, he showed that there was a limit to how far he'd go in the quest for power. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) | Carolyn Kaster

Mitt Romney was passed over for secretary of state, apparently because he refused to apologize to Trump for his harsh criticisms during the campaign. At the same time Trump’s closest aides were dumping on Romney, CNN reports, “Trump raised the possibility of a public apology with Romney as a way of mollifying those critics. … He asked Romney to say publicly he was ‘wrong’ about Trump.”

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