There isn’t a hat in the Vatican big enough to cover the head of Romney the Pious.

Romney once again reminded us that he’s no Donald Trump when he wrote a screed criticizing the president in personal terms, swiping the president for “dishonesty” after reading a report written by partisans. That kind of virtue-signaling gets you loved by the press, but since the press just tried to destroy the presidency for the past two years, Romney’s on the wrong side.

He can’t help himself. He’s trying to fill the shoes of John McCain, while at the same time pandering to the Sister Bertha Better-Than-Yous of the nation. Here we are after the Mueller report, full of the knowledge that the Democrats and their media sycophants have tried and failed to pull off a coup, and former losing presidential candidate Mitt Romney once again poked his head up, taking the Democrats’ side.

Perhaps Romney thinks since his personal life has been lived with high approval ratings on morality from the amen pews in America, he is the perfect foil for President Trump, with his widely publicized moral failings in his personal life.

But there’s a hell of a lot more to picking the right man for the job than counting divorces as a score.

Everything Romney the Pious does is a political calculation. Romney twice criticized Trump for his statements on Charlottesville, both times basing his remarks on false reporting by his beloved press.

It is Trump’s fault if we are perceived as racist by other nations, according to Romney the Pious. Really? Not the fault of the Left and Romney’s glorified media, who consistently call everyone on the right “racist” no matter what they’ve said or done? Yet Mitt said Trump should say he was wrong and apologize.

Apologize for telling the truth? For crying out loud, the statue protests were started not by neo-Nazis, but by people who didn’t want to see the loss of history. Yes, there were good people there as well as bad, and Trump said what he knew to be the truth.

Had Romney the Pious been president, perhaps he would have ordered all statues from the Confederacy torn down to appease the violent mobs who call everyone racist. That would’ve fixed everything, right?

And every time Romney complains about Trump pointing out how the press is the enemy of the people, collective groans are heard across the nation by ordinary folks who can see what’s right in front of them. Why can’t Romney see it? Maybe because Romney is still out there trying to gain affection from Washington Post editors who keep his torch lit just to cause chaos with the Trump administration.

Mr. “I can’t conceive of saying the media is an enemy” is a blind fool.

And of course we can’t forget Romney’s big, bold bag of wet horse manure that he wrote in the Washington Post a few days before he was sworn into office as the junior senator from Utah.

He said the president was “thoughtless” and not presidential, that he “has not risen to the mantle of the office,” and that Romney himself planned to “speak out against significant statements or actions that are divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions.”

Luckily, Romney the Pious was never elected president. But it’s just too bad we had to suffer through years of destruction and added debt, along with an effort to start a coup, because Romney failed to win an election by calling Obama a nice guy and giving him the road map to the government takeover of healthcare.

Apparently, a weekly show on NBC and a nightly show on MSNBC weren't large enough platforms for Chuck Todd to complain about troublesome conservatives, so he's written an article for the liberal magazine The Atlantic titled "It's Time for the Press to Stop Complaining — and to Start Fighting Back."

Under the headline, he added, "A nearly 50-year campaign of vilification, inspired by Fox News's Roger Ailes, has left many Americans distrustful of news outlets. Now, journalists need to speak up for their work."

This article doesn't deserve a rebuttal. It deserves a laugh track. It's like writing an article claiming there's been a 50-year campaign to unfairly vilify cigarettes as cancerous. Conservatives have exposed the so-called objective press as almost universally liberal, and Chuck Todd knows it. Hundreds of studies and tens of thousands of anecdotes don't lie. This entire article only underlines this point (and undermines his).

If you want to deny you're liberal, you might want to avoid writing an article decrying Fox News for ruining America in The Atlantic, which endorsed Hillary Clinton for president because Donald Trump is a "true national emergency, or an existential threat to the Republic."

The liberals attempt to define being properly identified as liberal-Democrat partisans as "delegitimization." It's merely classification. Would they submit to a poll of their newsrooms that tries to find the one Republican? They've pretty much avoided being polled on their political views since 1992, when they were 89 percent for Bill Clinton.

It's just as easy to lob that argument back over the wall. The liberal media have engaged in a "50-year campaign of vilification" of conservatives. They've sought to "delegitimize" every Republican presidential nominee from Barry Goldwater to Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.

It's especially ludicrous for Chuck Todd, of all people, to complain that conservatives have somehow misled people to assume he's tight with the Democrats. In the last election cycle, WikiLeaks exposed that in 2015, he and Mrs. Todd invited Clinton staffer John Podesta (among others) to their home for "Cocktails & Dinner in honor of" Jennifer Palmieri, another Clinton staffer, and her Democrat husband, Jim Lyons. Is that fact somehow "fake news"?

In the same article in which Todd rips into Fox News and its kind of "manipulators," he strangely tries to claim that they shouldn't be "going negative." The man needs an editor to tell him to stop sounding silly.

Todd blames Fox for having "unique ethical standards." Then there's the hilarious part where he suggests NBC News is fully transparent about its mistakes: "Here's what comforts me: The record is there for all to see." He writes this after the Brian Williams debacle, in which there was next to zero transparency in evaluating his lies, and after the Harvey Weinstein debacle, in which former NBC staffers are now accusing Todd's network of putting out a passel of untruths and distortions.

Has NBC been fully transparent about Matt Lauer? Todd should really retract this whole bungling mess.

If the media wanted to be respected as impartial, there's a simple solution: Act impartial. Be respectful. Quote people accurately. Presents facts, not opinions masked as impartial truth. Report news. Speculate carefully. Never editorialize.

In other words, don't write stuff like this.

Todd might even decide to avoid the furtive wining and dining with the Podestas and the Palmieris. That's the way to build confidence. It's the opposite of what the "objective media" offers us every day.

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