Before Ronald Kessler served as Newsmax’s chief emissary for Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions, before he sold out his previous loyalties to dutifully back John McCain in 2008, he was a huge supporter of Mitt Romney — disturbingly so, given his creepy fawning over Romney’s wife.
Kessler may still be carrying a flame for a Trump presidency, but he’s also reviving his old love for Romney. Which brings us to Kessler’s May 23 column, in which he declares that, according to American Conservative Union chairman Al Cardenas, “Mitt Romney is ahead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.”
Romney is not the only beneficiary of Kessler’s fluffing; he also slobbers over Cardenas as well, touting how, as a child, “Cardenas and his family fled Fidel Castro’s Cuba with only the clothes on their back,” that Cardena “essentially rebuilt the Republican Party in Florida, becoming its chairman and helping Jeb Bush win election as governor,” and that Cardenas “was a mentor to Sen. Marco Rubio, who was a young lawyer in Cardenas’ Miami law firm.”
That’s largely recycled from Kessler’s previous fluff job of Cardenas when he became ACU chairman, succeeding longtime Kessler fluffee David Keene.