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he's getting lots of flak on

artappraiser — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 02:14:20 +0000

In reply to No big surprise. Romney caved

he's getting lots of flak on that here on twitter and I see Salt Lake Tribune just published this Bloomberg Opinion Eli Lake: Romney fails his first test on Russia, looks to me like he's gonna hafta to splain himself

No big surprise. Romney caved

rmrd0000 — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 01:42:28 +0000

In reply to Mitt Romney: "The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump’s character falls short."

No big surprise. Romney caved and voted to remove sanctions on a Putin ally just the way Trump wanted.

When Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, opened 2019 with a scathing commentary lamenting President Donald Trump’s lack of moral leadership, it seemed he was claiming the mantle of the late Sen. John McCain.

Like McCain, Romney — for the most part — did not partake in the ritual fealty that so many of Trump’s vanquished foes demonstrated. Sure, he met with Trump in November 2016 to audition for secretary of state. But Romney never fully bent the knee.

So one might think Romney would have joined the 11 other Republican senators who voted this week to stop the Trump administration from lifting sanctions meant to squeeze Russian President Vladimir Putin’s allies. Senate aides told me Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not try too hard to whip the vote, and neither did the White House.

Yet Utah’s junior senator voted with the administration. His communications director, Liz Johnson, told me Romney “believes the U.S. should maintain strong sanctions on Russia for its bad behavior, including its interference in our elections.” Nonetheless, she said, “his vote was in line with longstanding U.S. policy and will help preserve our leverage to gain concessions from other bad actors.”

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/01/17/eli-lake-romney-fails-his/

Her point was it had nothing

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 21:44:19 +0000

In reply to From the article

Her point was it had nothing to do with what she posted (except it had "Romney" in it), so please post under a related comment or start a new base comment. Thanks.

From the article

rmrd0000 — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 21:32:50 +0000

In reply to And you made that as a reply

From the article

Despite Romney’s harsh critique of the president, there’s no sign yet that he will confront Trump in the Senate. He’s indicated he supports Trump and the GOP’s position that the southern border needs more money for security in order to end the shutdown, and used his op-ed to praise Trump’s conservative judges, tax reforms and criminal justice reforms

Despite his Op-Ed, there is nothing to suggest Romney will be a Maverick. He will fall in line. Past statements do not indicate that he will be an outlier.Romney is just another Republican Senator. The Republican Senators are overreacting.

Romney on Anglo-Saxon

rmrd0000 — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 21:16:06 +0000

In reply to Some of the quotes Politico

Romney on Anglo-Saxon Heritage

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, a Romney foreign policy adviser claimed that President Obama does not appreciate the shared “Anglo-Saxon heritage” between Britain and the U.S.

“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,” the adviser said. Obama “is very comfortable with American decline and the traditional alliances don’t mean as much to him.”

https://www.ebony.com/news/mitt-romney-and-the-return-to-an-anglo-saxon-world/

Romney on why Obama won

On the night of presidential elections there is, usually, always a winner and always a loser.

Part of the tradition is for the losing candidate to telephone the winner and concede the battle. The tone the loser is seeking to achieve is one of dignity and grace.

But a former senior aide to President Barack Obama has claimed that was not quite how things went in 2012. Indeed, David Axelrod, says that Mr Obama was “not amused” after receiving a concession call from defeated Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

“[Mr Obama] unsmiling during the call, and slightly irritated when it was over,” Mr Axelrod writes in a new memoir - Believer: My 40 Years in Politics.

Mr Axelrod claims the reasons for his boss’s displeasure was that Mr Romney had suggested to him the only reason he had won was because he had managed to get black voters to the polls in sufficient numbers.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mitt-romney-to-barack-obama-you-won-election-because-you-got-black-people-to-vote-10026485.html

Romney is a bottom feeder like Trump. Trump is swimming in the same cesspool as Romney. Romney has better language skills in public. Remember the 47%?

And you made that as a reply

artappraiser — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 21:10:27 +0000

In reply to Romney on Anglo-Saxon

And you made that as a reply to my comment about reception by other GOP Senators (instead of placing it as a new comment on the thread) because?

Some of the quotes Politico

artappraiser — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 20:47:00 +0000

In reply to Mitt Romney: "The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump’s character falls short."

Some of the quotes Politico has here are actually quite interesting in that you get a glimpse of the fucked-up partisan way the whole Trump situation has gotten some of them thinking:

Romney gets chilly reception from GOP senators after Trump attack

Republican colleagues are criticizing the Utah senator for opening a new rift with the president, 01/08/2019 05:02 AM EST

Newt the Cynical Pol is dazed

artappraiser — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 03:55:46 +0000

In reply to Mitt Romney: "The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump’s character falls short."

Newt the Cynical Pol is dazed and confused that Mitt does not act in lockstep politically. Bannon is seeing establishment Republican zombies rising from the dead

Meanwhile, The Hill reports that Mitt has got himself a seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, giving him an opening to wade into several looming foreign policy battles between Congress and the White House....He was also named to the Help, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committees. The committee assignments will need be ratified by the full Senate next week. The Foreign Relations Committee spot could provide Romney with a pathway to highlight his differences with Trump on foreign policy, an issue where the president’s views diverge from most of the Senate GOP caucus....

Go ahead, Mitt Romney: Utah

artappraiser — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 22:07:17 +0000

In reply to Mitt Romney: "The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump’s character falls short."

Go ahead, Mitt Romney: Utah Republicans are the most anti-Trump

Analysis by Harry Enten @CNN.com, Updated 10:23 AM ET, Thu January 3, 2019

A surprise, Ann Coulter no

artappraiser — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 02:18:15 +0000

In reply to Mitt answers Trump's tweet on

A surprise, Ann Coulter no likey the crybaby lashing out with bashing:

Uh oh. https://t.co/6lacbNwYpY
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) January 3, 2019