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Saturday, May 25, 2019

What Is Mitt Romney Doing in the Senate?

Mitt Romney’s biggest accomplishment was moving into his office last month.

On Sunday, Willard Mitt Romney visited CNN to praise Rep. Justin Amash’s call for President Trump’s impeachment as “courageous”. He also claimed that it’s “way too early” to support Trump.

The Senator from Utah then claimed that, "the president has distanced himself from some of the best qualities of the human character.”

It’s never “way too early” for Mitt Romney to rise to the heights of moral condescension based on stunning accomplishments of character such as stabbing conservatives in the back.

Perhaps, Mitt could delight and entertain us with his own show of “the best qualities of the human character”, at the best dinner theater in the D.C. area followed by a juggling act.

Or, more relevantly, who cares what Romney thinks?

Romney is a 71-year-old freshman senator. He’s one of 9 Senate freshmen. None of whom, even the Democrats, get a fraction of the coverage, the platforms and the attention that the famous failure does.

Before this year, the last time Romney held elected office was in 2007. Twelve years ago.

Since then he lost two elections, one to McCain and one to Obama, burning through half-a-billion dollars, before heading to Utah and out-spending his opponent 5-1 on a Senate race he couldn’t lose.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...


Willard 'Mittens' Romney is more akin to the extinct moderate Democrats of several decades past. If he'd succeeded George the Second in 2008 arguably much of the nonsense Obama started wouldn't have gotten off the ground. If he'd lost in 2008 a different candidate would have faced Obama in 2012. If he'd defeated Obama in 2012 perhaps a Republican House and Senate would have made more actual progress. All conjecture.

But Mittens is now unmasked as just another Plutocrat with only a vestigial Republican thread. Similar to his Republican lite predecessor in the Massachusetts governor's chair William Weld, he can be counted on to undercut the President and other conservatives with his version of friendly fire.

On his way to taking possession of the McCain chair on the talking head newsgabs.

Anonymous said...

Like most elites he's there to protect his interests and interests of friends.