Utah Senator Mitt Romney Thread

[Jeff Lebowski]

This is encouraging.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50410509

The poll found 51% of Utah voters say Romney best represents their political and policy preferences, while 37% chose Trump. Another 12% picked neither.

and this is discouraging:

The results flipped among survey respondents who identified themselves as Republicans, with 51% saying Trump best represents them compared to 42% for Romney. Only 8% of Republicans named someone else.

[myboynoah]

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[Donuthole]

I assume he's referring to Trump's first impeachment, which included two counts: abuse of power and obstruction of justice. Romney voted to convict on the first count, and to acquit on the second. Kind of dumb to criticize Romney for that, given that Mitt was the first senator in history to vote to convict a president of the same party.

Ha. I had forgotten that was a separate impeachment trial (too many to keep track of!). Still, imagine being so caught up in your partisanship that you use that to make your point in the face of the subsequent, well, you know, historical act. That would be like bagging on Derek Fisher for not playing better defense on Tim Duncan's last shot in Game 5 of the 2004 Western Conference finals.

[myboynoah]

Yeah, give me a break. Have they not been paying attention?

Whatever. Mitt getting all saucy on the repub party dopes.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Purity test culture. So stupid.

[PaloAltoCougar]

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Mitt voted to convict Trump, right? What specifically is this guy referring to?

I assume he's referring to Trump's first impeachment, which included two counts: abuse of power and obstruction of justice. Romney voted to convict on the first count, and to acquit on the second. Kind of dumb to criticize Romney for that, given that Mitt was the first senator in history to vote to convict a president of the same party.

[Donuthole]

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Twitter is underwhelmed by that response, not surprisingly. Amazing how the primary response of people who share Mitt's sentiment is "but what have you done about it!!??" As if Mitt is the judge, jury, and executioner on such an issue.

This tweet in response has me particularly confused:

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Mitt voted to convict Trump, right? What specifically is this guy referring to?

[myboynoah]

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[Donuthole]

Mitt the lone Congress member not kowtowing to the Eagle forum in Utah:

Republican lawmakers once feared the group for its ability to quickly mobilize members through its formidable phone calling tree. The advent of social media has dampened some of that power in recent years. Yet Ruzicka’s reputation has not waned during her 31-year reign leading the respected conservative organization. How else to explain five of Utah’s six members of Congress showing up to bend the knee at the event? Sen. Mitt Romney was the lone holdout.

Keep it up, Mitt!

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics...KxpOe3N9rxrDG8

[Eddie]

The thing is Eddie, Lee isn't seen as any sort of rival to Trump because while he might have voted against some of his legislative goals some times he never opposed Trump in any meaningful way. Romney voted to impeach the man twice, and Lee compared him to Capt. Moroni. They aren't really close at all.

The GOP is not over Trumpism or Qanon by a long-shot. Trumpism is still the governing force in the GOP. What a joke, and a national shame. God bless people like Romney and Cheney who put country before party.

I get it - I understand one was calling Trump a grifter while the other was calling him Captain Moroni. But for people who tend to say they voted for Trump based on what he did and not based on what he said - there's a bit of a disconnect hear them cheer for Lee and boo Mitt when one's voting record supported Trump's agenda and the other's voting record did not.

For the record - I take failure of the censure of Mitt passing at the Utah state GOP convention as a good sign that the entire GOP isn't driven by Trumpism. Though I acknowledge there is too much Trumpism in the GOP for my liking.

[frank ryan]

The thing is Eddie, Lee isn't seen as any sort of rival to Trump because while he might have voted against some of his legislative goals some times he never opposed Trump in any meaningful way. Romney voted to impeach the man twice, and Lee compared him to Capt. Moroni. They aren't really close at all.

The GOP is not over Trumpism or Qanon by a long-shot. Trumpism is still the governing force in the GOP. What a joke, and a national shame. God bless people like Romney and Cheney who put country before party.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I think the thing that is crazy to me is that Romney voted more in line with Trump than essentially any other GOP senator. Definitely more than Mike Lee did. So why are these folks booing Mitt and cheering for Lee? Seems like they'd have a similar amount of contempt for a senator who opposed Trump as much as Lee did.

Trumpism is a cult. So frustrating.

[Eddie]

I think this editorial is spot on. Why would a reasonable, honorable guy like Mitt want to continue to associate themselves with the white nationalist, Trump worshipping, anti-democracy nut jobs who currently control the Republican party?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/02/opini...lah/index.html

I think the thing that is crazy to me is that Romney voted more in line with Trump than essentially any other GOP senator. Definitely more than Mike Lee did. So why are these folks booing Mitt and cheering for Lee? Seems like they'd have a similar amount of contempt for a senator who opposed Trump as much as Lee did.

[BlueK]

I think this editorial is spot on. Why would a reasonable, honorable guy like Mitt want to continue to associate themselves with the white nationalist, Trump worshipping, anti-democracy nut jobs who currently control the Republican party?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/02/opini...lah/index.html

[Uncle Ted]

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Sounds like Mitt had a "Harry Reid accident".