ANGOLA, IN (WTVB) – For the most part, former Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney put politics on the back burner Saturday when he spoke to graduating seniors at Trine University.
The Washington Post has reported that William Kristol, who is the editor of the conservative magazine Weekly Standard, met with Romney on Thursday in attempt to get him to run for the White House again as an independent in an effort to stop presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Romney poked fun at himself and his party on Saturday. He said Republicans don’t get a lot of opportunities to speak at graduations and he was happy to give a speech in which he is not conceding.
While not mentioning them by name, there was no mistaking Romney was referring to Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders when he said these are tumultuous times. He said “demagogues on the right and the left draw upon our darker angels, scapegoating immigrants and Muslims or bankers and business people.”
Romney used most of his speech to give Trine graduates some life lessons. He urged them to keep their friends they made in college and to pursue a life of health and happiness
