Never fear, they’ve got someone far worse to replace him with.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Romney was booed by a gathering of the Utah Republican Party’s most active members months after his vote at the second impeachment trial, and a measure to censure him narrowly failed.
Still, Romney has been seen as broadly popular in Utah, which has long harbored a band of the party that’s favored civil conservatism and resisted Trump’s brash and norm-busting style of politics.
The faith arrived in the western state with pioneers fleeing religious persecution and spread globally with the religion’s missionaries, a legacy that’s left the church’s conservative members embracing immigrants and refugees.
Romney, a Brigham Young University graduate and one of the faith’s most visible members after his 2012 presidential campaign, had been a popular figure in the state for two decades.
The image crystallized with his comment, secretly recorded at a fundraiser, that he didn’t worry about winning the votes of “47% of Americans” who “believe they are victims” and “pay no income tax.”
Romney accepted Trump’s endorsement during the primary race for his 2018 Senate run but also pledged in an op-ed that year that he would “continue to speak out when the president says or does something which is divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions.”
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Ah good, so now he can sit on the sidelines and armchair quarterback the demise of the GOP that he himself helped create. Dr. Frankenstein is fine with his monster smashing everything while he sits back and retires.
Fuck you Mittens, you greasy, lying sack of shit!
Eh, I’m not so sure about that. He correctly predicted that Russia was our largest geopolitical enemy (which Obama laughed at), and he also staunchly opposed Trump (being the only party member to vote to convict him). The ACA is also based on a plan that he created as Governor of Massachusetts. I think his track record shows him as a fairly different sort of Republican than whatever the hell is going on there today.
But yeah, his policy is terrible like the rest of the GOP. No argument from me there.
I’ll give him some props where it’s due, but that’s his party. He voted for his wife (as a protest vote) in 2016 instead of Clinton. So in my opinion, he effectively voted for Trump.
His voting record speaks for itself (repeal of Dodd-Frank, cutting taxes across the board, no mandatory limits on GHG emissions, reducing the EPA authority and mandate - that’s just a couple of paragraphs from Wikipedia).
He’s the “moderate” republican who didn’t do enough in my opinion and now we will get to hear just how disappointed he is with the current state of affairs over and over. And all without a hint of irony.
Oh great, cue the criticism of the GOP from another EX-congress member
Sounds like someone’s planning to write a tell-all!
Back when we were all conspiring to take rights away from women and minorities, some of the tactics we used were unsavory
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I don’t like Mitt at all, but almost guaranteed that whoever takes the seat will be much less reasonable and more right wing than Romney. We’re more likely to get another Mike Lee than a Jon Huntsman.
Even this asshole has given up. He has enough wealth to at least live through the societal collapse for a few years maybe.
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I think yall are getting cause and effect mixed up. He would be 83 at the end of his next term and he’s worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He can walk off into the sunset and enjoy his riches for a few years, and he was probably always going to do that.
Knowing he didn’t need to run for re-election, he was able to vote his conscience during the Trump Administration.
So, he was reasonable because he was retiring, he’s not retiring because he’s too reasonable.
He could easily get re-elected now even after voting conscientiously. His retiring has nothing to do with going against Trump / fascist GOP.
Headline should read “Mitt Romney Cashes Out” first line should read “During his x year senate career Romney’s net worth increased by …”
Going out by saying ‘enough of the boomers, give someone else a shot’ is nice. We’ll see who the Mormons pick to replace him.
Introducing… Matt Romney. Same policies, same lack of personality, same ability to fill a suit. But now slightly younger!
“second verse
Same as the first
A little bit louder and a little bit worse”
Never thought there would be a time where he would be more reasonable than most Republicans. The replacement will be more extreme than him.
Remember when “binders full of women” was enough of a gaffe to sink a presidential run? Man, do I miss those days.
Or a “hiyaaaa!”
They found the photos
I guess it’s time to go home and watch the Great Salt Lake disappear while claiming humans aren’t capable of changing god’s climate.
Mah, now he’s retired he’ll suddenly realize how terrible he’s been all these years.
Climate change is real, we should help the poor, all that jazz, no more power to effect change.
I smell a biography book deal and a string of news appearances where he talks shit about how the GOP has lost its way.
Don’t forget the speaking engagements where he banks another few hundred million.
