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Romney reportedly laughed hysterically at suggestion his impeachment vote is part of a plan to run for president
The Week ^ | Feb 5 2020 | The Week

Posted on 02/05/2020 2:21:49 PM PST by rintintin

If Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) had an ulterior motive for his decision to vote to convict President Trump for abuse of power, he's doing a good job of hiding it.

In an interview with The Atlantic, Romney was asked about a speculative story published by The Washington Examiner, which suggested his bipartisan behavior during the Senate impeachment trial was part of a plan to run for president in 2024. Romney, people told the Examiner, was trying to establish himself as the star of the Republican old guard should Trump fail in the 2020 election.

That apparently got Romney right in the gut, but not because his feelings were hurt. Instead, per The Atlantic, Romney cracked up at the idea. "Yes! That's it!," he reportedly jokingly exclaimed. "Look at the base I have! It's going to be at least 2 or 3 percent of the Republican Party. As goes Utah, so goes the nation!"

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2024; baincapital; gop; impeachment; mitt; mittromney; mutt; obamalover; rino; romney
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To: KevinB

You are right. But it would be fun to take it to its natural (legal) conclusion.


61 posted on 02/05/2020 3:07:27 PM PST by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: Sans-Culotte

I laughed hysterically about the very same thing.


62 posted on 02/05/2020 3:07:47 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Ouderkirk

I’m watching it now, and her comments about his trying to bargain with the Log Cabin Republicans to get their support for his President run, is nothing more than quid pro quo. What a slime ball. It must kill him that Log Cabin Republicans endorsed President Trump in his reelection bid.


63 posted on 02/05/2020 3:09:19 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: rintintin

This vote is about Romney and his imagined legacy as a statesman, not a Republican.

I’m not a Republican either, but I wouldn’t have voted for that silly charge to be upheld.

When it comes to Romney, everything is about Romney.


64 posted on 02/05/2020 3:10:01 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Naw, Pierre could really just have been that bad.

He came from the same brilliant political strategists who gave us McStupid.


65 posted on 02/05/2020 3:10:25 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: rintintin

The last Republican I voted for prior to Trump was Ronald Reagan. I sure as hell did not vote for the democrat either. I live in Texas and it would go Republican with no doubt so my vote for the libertarians was a protest vote against RINOs and middle of the road Republicans. My down ticket vote was all Republican.

I did vote for Trump as he said the right things to get my vote but at the same time I wondered, “does he really mean it?”

He did mean it and acted on his promises! I will proudly vote for Donald Trump in the next election and send money also. In the last election he stood between the abyss on one side which is the socialist democrat party and our great nation sliding into that abyss.


66 posted on 02/05/2020 3:18:01 PM PST by cpdiii ( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: rintintin

Thus Mittens dost secure himself the treasured “John McCain Throne of Swords” and will be held dearly by the DemonRats until he runs again.

Gunner


67 posted on 02/05/2020 3:35:33 PM PST by weps4ret (Republicans are suffering from Testicular Atrophy, The Continuing Saga!! Still!!)
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To: jjotto

Fine by me....


68 posted on 02/05/2020 3:39:07 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: NTHockey

I heard he said he discussed it with his family. His family didn’t fricken elect him! POS!!!


69 posted on 02/05/2020 3:47:07 PM PST by sheana
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70 posted on 02/05/2020 3:54:41 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rintintin
That should make a great ANTI-Romney Commercial on why ROMNEY VOTED TO CONVICT TRUMP !
71 posted on 02/05/2020 3:55:07 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: dfwgator

Why am I thinking a bat and slippery hands?
LOL


72 posted on 02/05/2020 4:21:15 PM PST by Zathras
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To: dynachrome
Vice president candidate, running with smokin’ joe biden.

Bingo! He really likes using the government issue 'Back-stabbing Dagger & Letter Opener' he inherited from John McCain...

73 posted on 02/05/2020 4:26:46 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike.")
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To: rintintin

He could not run for dog catcher at this point


74 posted on 02/05/2020 4:49:30 PM PST by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: rintintin

I don’t think he would get a vote from either party.


75 posted on 02/05/2020 4:51:35 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: rintintin

He plans to run for President.


76 posted on 02/05/2020 5:04:56 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: rintintin

Mitt Romney is a person without any principles of any kind, variety, and description. He’s called Etch A Sketch for a reason.


77 posted on 02/05/2020 5:05:14 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Durbin

“He’ll never win another election of any kind as a Republican.”


Never underestimate the propensity of large numbers of Mormons to vote for one of their own regardless of their political affiliation.


78 posted on 02/05/2020 6:22:46 PM PST by Towed_Jumper (Beware of a man who says believe in God as I do, otherwise God will punish you.)
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To: Howie66

Yeah...some 61 million of us thought Romney would be better than Obama.

Turns out that our vote count of 61 million was wrong 61 million times.


79 posted on 02/05/2020 8:31:23 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

I don’t think this is it. Minion may be corrupt, but no more than 90% of the Senators.

What drives Minion is unexplainable hate for Trump. He hates Trump not only because he won, but because as a Mormon he was been inculcated with the notion that you are “polite” in public (no matter what you really do). It’s more style over substance, but on steroids.

Third, he is driven by retribution for the humiliation Trump put him through in dangling that Sec State job in front of him.


80 posted on 02/06/2020 5:34:49 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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