Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) put out a blunt statement on Tuesday on how he has become “troubled” by “our politics, as it has moved away from spirited debate to a vile, vituperative, hate-filled morass that is unbecoming of any free democracy.”
Yeah, whatever, Mittens. You’re just the same as the rest of the GOP scumbags, letting the Handmaidens’ nomination go through. And your bothsiderisms is almost as much a stretch as the NYT and WaPo.
Someone is trying to maintain his status as anti-Trump while voting to confirm Trump’s nominee because the Republican Party once nominated him for something important. “I had the courage of my convictions once, please don’t ask me to act with integrity a second time!”
As soon as you start doing both siderism, you show you aren’t actually trying to help anything.
Hey Mittens, in the same breath/tweet when you include with the following:
“Democrat’s launch blistering attacks of their own-though their presidential nominee refuses to stoop as low as others,” he added, dinging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for ripping up Trump’s speech during the State of the Union this year…"
your words are hollow and meaningless.
Oh, please. Yes, Trump is a hateful monster, but your party, including YOU, has kept him in power. Yes, you’ve spoken out, but it’s a wishy-washy attempt at best.
Republicans need a long period of self-reflection. You’re all deplorable most of the time. Unfortunately, most won’t change at all. It doesn’t pay as well.
I’ll add that Mittens obviously doesn’t think it’s that bad. The Lincoln Project people sure seem to get it.
I really didn’t hear any policy differences in there. It’s that Trump’s bizarre behavior makes them all look bad, even as he mostly does what they tell him to. Mittens is reading the same polls everyone else is, in which ordinary people think politics are too divisive now. It was always scorched earth with the GOP, has been for a long time, but Trump made it too goddamned obvious and that crossed a line. So just shut up and take your beating, Mitt. You all have been asking for it and here it comes.
From this one can conclude:
–Romney plans to run in 2024
–Romney will vote to confirm Barrett
So, nothing new.
Methinks mittens is setting up for another bite of the apple in 2024
Romney’s speech can be summed up as “Democrats are bad too.”
The length Republicans go through to try and find false equivalences, I mean Keith Olbermann.
The fact is since Ronald Reagan, Republicans have had 7 policies.
There is almost nothing less becoming than the occasional squeaks of protest from Mitt, Sasse, Rubio, etc. They’re positioning for the post-Trump world, trying to set themselves up as the respectable wing of the GOP that should get a seat at negotiations.
Here’s the thing though. The “respectable” wing has lost, and it’s not coming back. It will be Tom Cotton’s party after Trump.
And if we take the presidency and both houses of Congress, we would be foolish to negotiate with the gop on anything.
Hey Mitt…
Any power that might have been in your words was negated when you launched into bothsiderism.
The problem right now does NOT lie with the Democratic Party.
Thanks for the nothing “berder” Mitt. Your party is the problem.
Don’t forget the new one they’ve added since 2016:
Nothing new to add except Mitt likes things calm because that is the best environment for the kind of soft-pedal bullshit he sells whereas conflict ridden environments work better for Trump; each seeks the kind of sales environment that works best for them and naturally don’t like the other’s style .
ETA: In a highly transactional environment, bullshit tends to rise to the top; neither Mitt nor Trump are outliers, they represent different versions of a central tendency.
Mitt cannot win a Presidential election. The fundagelical base won’t put a Mormon in the White House and the gun-toting Qanon folks believe everybody who doesn’t own a REALLY BIG pickup is a baby-eating monster from Planet X. There simply are not enough corporate libertarians to get him into the presidency.
If he was less ego-driven, he’d say he’s voting for Biden out loud, vote present on the Supreme Court nomination and, in the spirit of bipartisanship, take a position in the Biden administration, maybe ambassador to Utah…
I would add at least three more:
Voter suppression.
Federal Budget manipulation.
2nd Amendment manipulation.
YOu either vote against Barrett on the principle that what McConnell has done is wrong or you shut the fuck up. Using a knife and fork while feeding at the trough does not make you better.
“No sane person can want that”? Romney is smart enough to know that the anger is an instrument – wielded in service of objectives.
Dismissing some “crescendo of anger” in faux-patriotic language either misses the point or is disingenuous.
Mitt can work himselft into froth about Nancy Pelosi tearing up Trump’s SOTU address, but crickets about policing that kills Black Americans at an alarming rate, a Senate that won’t pass COVID-19 relief for people, or Mitch McConnell stacking the courts with activist judges. Glad he’s got his rich-guy priorities straight.