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1. Member
   DrewInWisconsin, Œuf

   @DrewInWisconsin

   8:28 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

   Mittens:

   “I call it the wise wing of the Republican Party.”

   How precious.

2. Reagan
   GLDIII Purveyor of Splendid Malpropisms

   @GLDIII

   

   8:41 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

   Well this news just made my day!  I don’t even care if the door hits your posterior on the way out.

   Just go and be quite.

3. Coolidge
   GPentelie

   @GPentelie

   8:48 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

   Romney quote from the OP:

   “I represent a small wing of the party. I call it the wise wing of the Republican Party. I don’t believe we’re going away.”

   This reminded me of one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite (just a bit below Thomas Sowell, to be “exact”) American philosophers/intellectuals/thinkers (boldings mine) :

   “In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” — Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition, 1973

   Bye, Learned Romney.

    

    

4. Member
   Kevin Schulte

   @KevinSchulte

   8:52 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

   Romney = Fraud 

   Pence = Fraud

   Bush clan = Fraud 

   Cheney clan = Fraud 

   This list is just the beginning . Feel free to add to it . So many choices in the Republican Corporate club . 

    

    

5. Coolidge
   Dotorimuk

   @Dotorimuk

   9:00 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

   Dude ran for President and didn’t even try to win.

6. Coolidge
   kedavis

   @kedavis

   9:06 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

   Dotorimuk (View Comment):

   Dude ran for President and didn’t even try to win.

   He strolled for President?

   Meandered?

   Moseyed?

7. Member
   Judge Mental

   @JudgeMental

   9:11 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

   Victor Tango Kilo:

   “I call it the wise wing of the Republican Party.”

   I think he means ‘wizened’.

    

8. Coolidge
   kedavis

   @kedavis

   9:14 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

   Judge Mental (View Comment):

   Victor Tango Kilo:

   “I call it the wise wing of the Republican Party.”

   I think he means ‘wizened’.

    

   How about “weasel?”

9. Member
   Kevin Schulte

   @KevinSchulte

   9:14 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

   Dotorimuk (View Comment):

   Dude ran for President and didn’t even try to win.

   That was the point . It became obvious when the Boy Wonder (PR) let himself get B slapped by the Joker Biden . 

   Oh, and as reward for helping throw the campaign . Speaker Ship . Disgusting !!! 

10. Member
    9thDistrictNeighbor

    @9thDistrictNeighbor

    10:33 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

    Viscious takedown by Raheem Kassam:

    Romney is even said to have e-mailed a story about how much his Republican colleagues loathe him to his advisers, referring to himself as “the turd in the punch bowl.”

     

11. Member
    DrewInWisconsin, Œuf

    @DrewInWisconsin

    10:40 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

    9thDistrictNeighbor (View Comment):

    Viscious takedown by Raheem Kassam:

    Romney is even said to have e-mailed a story about how much his Republican colleagues loathe him to his advisers, referring to himself as “the turd in the punch bowl.”

     

    Oh my. That’s not even the best part:

    Instead of some renegade rebelling against a new status quo in his party – MAGA – Romney cuts a pathetic figure who says he loses sleep over Trump. His wife and children won’t visit with him in Washington, D.C., and he appears to sit at home eating gifted salmon steaks on hamburger buns, drowned in ketchup. No, this isn’t satire:

    He tried to make [his Capitol Hill townhouse] nice, so that Ann would be comfortable when she visited. A decorator filled the rooms with tasteful furniture and calming abstract art. He planted a garden on the small backyard patio. But his wife rarely came to Washington, and his sons didn’t come either, and gradually the house took on an unkempt bachelor-pad quality. Crumbs littered the kitchen counter; soda and seltzer occupied the otherwise-empty fridge. Old campaign paraphernalia appeared on the mantel, clashing with the decorator’s mid-tone color scheme, and a bar of “Trump’s Small Hand Soap” (a gag gift from one of his sons) was placed in the powder room alongside the monogrammed towels.

    It continues:

    In the “dining room,” a 98-inch TV went up on the wall and a leather recliner landed in front of it. Romney, who didn’t have many real friends in Washington, ate dinner alone there most nights, watching Ted Lasso or Better Call Saul as he leafed through briefing materials. On the day of my first visit, he showed me his freezer, which was full of salmon fillets that had been given to him by Lisa Murkowski, the senator from Alaska. He didn’t especially like salmon but found that if he put it on a hamburger bun and smothered it in ketchup, it made for a serviceable meal.

    This is truly precipitous decline from a man who once took up the mantle of his party’s presidential nomination.

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    DaveSchmidt

    @DaveSchmidt

    10:48 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

    DrewInWisconsin, Œuf (View Comment):

    Mittens:

    “I call it the wise wing of the Republican Party.”

    How precious.

    Perhaps they are the appendix or gall bladder of the GOP. 

13. Coolidge
    kedavis

    @kedavis

    11:07 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

    DrewInWisconsin, Œuf (View Comment):

    9thDistrictNeighbor (View Comment):

    Viscious takedown by Raheem Kassam:

    Romney is even said to have e-mailed a story about how much his Republican colleagues loathe him to his advisers, referring to himself as “the turd in the punch bowl.”

     

    Oh my. That’s not even the best part:

    Instead of some renegade rebelling against a new status quo in his party – MAGA – Romney cuts a pathetic figure who says he loses sleep over Trump. His wife and children won’t visit with him in Washington, D.C., and he appears to sit at home eating gifted salmon steaks on hamburger buns, drowned in ketchup. No, this isn’t satire:

    He tried to make [his Capitol Hill townhouse] nice, so that Ann would be comfortable when she visited. A decorator filled the rooms with tasteful furniture and calming abstract art. He planted a garden on the small backyard patio. But his wife rarely came to Washington, and his sons didn’t come either, and gradually the house took on an unkempt bachelor-pad quality. Crumbs littered the kitchen counter; soda and seltzer occupied the otherwise-empty fridge. Old campaign paraphernalia appeared on the mantel, clashing with the decorator’s mid-tone color scheme, and a bar of “Trump’s Small Hand Soap” (a gag gift from one of his sons) was placed in the powder room alongside the monogrammed towels.

    It continues:

    In the “dining room,” a 98-inch TV went up on the wall and a leather recliner landed in front of it. Romney, who didn’t have many real friends in Washington, ate dinner alone there most nights, watching Ted Lasso or Better Call Saul as he leafed through briefing materials. On the day of my first visit, he showed me his freezer, which was full of salmon fillets that had been given to him by Lisa Murkowski, the senator from Alaska. He didn’t especially like salmon but found that if he put it on a hamburger bun and smothered it in ketchup, it made for a serviceable meal.

    This is truly precipitous decline from a man who once took up the mantle of his party’s presidential nomination.

    Doesn’t he still have a bunch of Bane Capital money etc?  He should be able to hire better companionship than that.

14. Coolidge
    DaveSchmidt

    @DaveSchmidt

    11:12 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

    kedavis (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin, Œuf (View Comment):

    9thDistrictNeighbor (View Comment):

    Viscious takedown by Raheem Kassam:

    Romney is even said to have e-mailed a story about how much his Republican colleagues loathe him to his advisers, referring to himself as “the turd in the punch bowl.”

     

    Oh my. That’s not even the best part:

    Instead of some renegade rebelling against a new status quo in his party – MAGA – Romney cuts a pathetic figure who says he loses sleep over Trump. His wife and children won’t visit with him in Washington, D.C., and he appears to sit at home eating gifted salmon steaks on hamburger buns, drowned in ketchup. No, this isn’t satire:

    He tried to make [his Capitol Hill townhouse] nice, so that Ann would be comfortable when she visited. A decorator filled the rooms with tasteful furniture and calming abstract art. He planted a garden on the small backyard patio. But his wife rarely came to Washington, and his sons didn’t come either, and gradually the house took on an unkempt bachelor-pad quality. Crumbs littered the kitchen counter; soda and seltzer occupied the otherwise-empty fridge. Old campaign paraphernalia appeared on the mantel, clashing with the decorator’s mid-tone color scheme, and a bar of “Trump’s Small Hand Soap” (a gag gift from one of his sons) was placed in the powder room alongside the monogrammed towels.

    It continues:

    In the “dining room,” a 98-inch TV went up on the wall and a leather recliner landed in front of it. Romney, who didn’t have many real friends in Washington, ate dinner alone there most nights, watching Ted Lasso or Better Call Saul as he leafed through briefing materials. On the day of my first visit, he showed me his freezer, which was full of salmon fillets that had been given to him by Lisa Murkowski, the senator from Alaska. He didn’t especially like salmon but found that if he put it on a hamburger bun and smothered it in ketchup, it made for a serviceable meal.

    This is truly precipitous decline from a man who once took up the mantle of his party’s presidential nomination.

    Doesn’t he still have a bunch of Bane Capital money etc? He should be able to hire better companionship than that.

    Where are rent-a-friend Krystal or David French?

15. Coolidge
    kedavis

    @kedavis

    11:15 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

    DaveSchmidt (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin, Œuf (View Comment):

    9thDistrictNeighbor (View Comment):

    Viscious takedown by Raheem Kassam:

    Romney is even said to have e-mailed a story about how much his Republican colleagues loathe him to his advisers, referring to himself as “the turd in the punch bowl.”

     

    Oh my. That’s not even the best part:

    Instead of some renegade rebelling against a new status quo in his party – MAGA – Romney cuts a pathetic figure who says he loses sleep over Trump. His wife and children won’t visit with him in Washington, D.C., and he appears to sit at home eating gifted salmon steaks on hamburger buns, drowned in ketchup. No, this isn’t satire:

    He tried to make [his Capitol Hill townhouse] nice, so that Ann would be comfortable when she visited. A decorator filled the rooms with tasteful furniture and calming abstract art. He planted a garden on the small backyard patio. But his wife rarely came to Washington, and his sons didn’t come either, and gradually the house took on an unkempt bachelor-pad quality. Crumbs littered the kitchen counter; soda and seltzer occupied the otherwise-empty fridge. Old campaign paraphernalia appeared on the mantel, clashing with the decorator’s mid-tone color scheme, and a bar of “Trump’s Small Hand Soap” (a gag gift from one of his sons) was placed in the powder room alongside the monogrammed towels.

    It continues:

    In the “dining room,” a 98-inch TV went up on the wall and a leather recliner landed in front of it. Romney, who didn’t have many real friends in Washington, ate dinner alone there most nights, watching Ted Lasso or Better Call Saul as he leafed through briefing materials. On the day of my first visit, he showed me his freezer, which was full of salmon fillets that had been given to him by Lisa Murkowski, the senator from Alaska. He didn’t especially like salmon but found that if he put it on a hamburger bun and smothered it in ketchup, it made for a serviceable meal.

    This is truly precipitous decline from a man who once took up the mantle of his party’s presidential nomination.

    Doesn’t he still have a bunch of Bane Capital money etc? He should be able to hire better companionship than that.

    Where are rent-a-friend Krystal or David French?

    Let’s be realistic, I’m sure Mittens can’t outbid Pierre whats-his-face.

16. Member
    Eustace C. Scrubb

    @EustaceCScrubb

    11:56 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 13, 2023

    In a world of geriatric pols, I’m happy when any of them that throw in the towel. 

17. Coolidge
    kedavis

    @kedavis

    12:12 AM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    But what do you suppose is the REAL reason that his family wouldn’t even visit him there?

18. Coolidge
    GlennAmurgis

    @GlennAmurgis

    3:02 AM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    DaveSchmidt (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin, Œuf (View Comment):

    9thDistrictNeighbor (View Comment):

    Viscious takedown by Raheem Kassam:

    Romney is even said to have e-mailed a story about how much his Republican colleagues loathe him to his advisers, referring to himself as “the turd in the punch bowl.”

     

    Oh my. That’s not even the best part:

    Instead of some renegade rebelling against a new status quo in his party – MAGA – Romney cuts a pathetic figure who says he loses sleep over Trump. His wife and children won’t visit with him in Washington, D.C., and he appears to sit at home eating gifted salmon steaks on hamburger buns, drowned in ketchup. No, this isn’t satire:

    He tried to make [his Capitol Hill townhouse] nice, so that Ann would be comfortable when she visited. A decorator filled the rooms with tasteful furniture and calming abstract art. He planted a garden on the small backyard patio. But his wife rarely came to Washington, and his sons didn’t come either, and gradually the house took on an unkempt bachelor-pad quality. Crumbs littered the kitchen counter; soda and seltzer occupied the otherwise-empty fridge. Old campaign paraphernalia appeared on the mantel, clashing with the decorator’s mid-tone color scheme, and a bar of “Trump’s Small Hand Soap” (a gag gift from one of his sons) was placed in the powder room alongside the monogrammed towels.

    It continues:

    In the “dining room,” a 98-inch TV went up on the wall and a leather recliner landed in front of it. Romney, who didn’t have many real friends in Washington, ate dinner alone there most nights, watching Ted Lasso or Better Call Saul as he leafed through briefing materials. On the day of my first visit, he showed me his freezer, which was full of salmon fillets that had been given to him by Lisa Murkowski, the senator from Alaska. He didn’t especially like salmon but found that if he put it on a hamburger bun and smothered it in ketchup, it made for a serviceable meal.

    This is truly precipitous decline from a man who once took up the mantle of his party’s presidential nomination.

    Doesn’t he still have a bunch of Bane Capital money etc? He should be able to hire better companionship than that.

    Where are rent-a-friend Krystal or David French?

    Kristol will do it or a price – (see Pierre Omidyar)

     

19. Coolidge
    Postmodern Hoplite

    @PostmodernHoplite

    7:16 AM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    I’m late to the party, and s’pose I have nothing particularly new to add to the thread other than I’m glad he’s leaving D.C. Maybe he was an effective Senator on behalf of Utah? But it doesn’t seem to be the case that his constituents are all that upset about the pending end of his term.

20. Member
    Western Chauvinist

    @WesternChauvinist

    

    8:33 AM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    I was Anybody But Romney before I was Anybody But Trump. At least I was right half the time.

    Romney’s low character was confirmed when he released that video screed against Trump in 2016 after glad-handing him and taking Trump’s money in the 2012 election. Better to stay silent than to make a video and be confirmed a jackwad. 

21. Coolidge
    Stad

    @Stad

    9:37 AM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    Watch Romney make a beeline for the No Labels ticket . . .

22. Member
    DrewInWisconsin, Œuf

    @DrewInWisconsin

    9:38 AM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

    I was Anybody But Romney before I was Anybody But Trump. At least I was right half the time.

    Romney’s low character was confirmed when he released that video screed against Trump in 2016 after glad-handing him and taking Trump’s money in the 2012 election. Better to stay silent than to make a video and be confirmed a jackwad.

    And of course, I can never forget Romney joining in a BLM march:

    

23. Reagan
    GLDIII Purveyor of Splendid Malpropisms

    @GLDIII

    

    9:48 AM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    Stad (View Comment):

    Watch Romney make a beeline for the No Internal Convictions No Labels ticket . . .

    FIFY

     

24. Member
    DrewInWisconsin, Œuf

    @DrewInWisconsin

    10:52 AM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    The Coppins piece in The Atlantic is really . . . weird. Or maybe that it reveals Romney as a real weirdo.

    All the breathless nonsense about January 6th feels like invented fiction. Of course, Coppins labels it a “coup,” because that’s the Narrative that even “Republicans” falsely believe. But this?

    Romney calls, and King informs him of a conversation he’s just had with a high-ranking Pentagon official. Law enforcement has been tracking online chatter among right-wing extremists who appear to be planning something bad on the day of Donald Trump’s upcoming rally in Washington, D.C. The president has been telling them the election was stolen; now they’re coming to steal it back. There’s talk of gun smuggling, of bombs and arson, of targeting the traitors in Congress who are responsible for this travesty. Romney’s name has been popping up in some frightening corners of the internet, which is why King needed to talk to him. He isn’t sure Romney will be safe.

    This is delusional.

    Of course, I can’t discount the idea that Intelligence Agencies were deliberately pushing a false narrative in order to add weight to their “fedsurrection.”

    And so much of the piece is about Romney’s reaction to Trump that it’s coming off more as a book about Donald Trump.

25. Member
    Django

    @Django

    11:01 AM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    from the HuffingAndPuffington Post via msn

    Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is calling out members of his own party for putting their political ambitions ahead of the best interests of the nation. 

    And there’s one GOP lawmaker in particular he seems to have special disdain for.

    “I don’t know that I can disrespect someone more than J. D. Vance,” Romney told journalist McKay Coppins in a book excerpt published in The Atlantic.  

    Vance must be heartbroken. 

26. Member
    JennaStocker

    @JennaStocker

    11:07 AM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    I read the headline in my alerts and was mentally preparing for a sad post. Boy was I wrong!

27. Member
    DrewInWisconsin, Œuf

    @DrewInWisconsin

    11:17 AM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    Django (View Comment):

    from the HuffingAndPuffington Post via msn

    Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is calling out members of his own party for putting their political ambitions ahead of the best interests of the nation.

    And there’s one GOP lawmaker in particular he seems to have special disdain for.

    “I don’t know that I can disrespect someone more than J. D. Vance,” Romney told journalist McKay Coppins in a book excerpt published in The Atlantic.

    Vance must be heartbroken.

    As I said in the PIT, I already like J.D. Vance! You don’t need to make me like him more.

28. Coolidge
    Postmodern Hoplite

    @PostmodernHoplite

    11:56 AM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    Stad (View Comment):

    Watch Romney make a beeline for the No Labels ticket . . .

    This hadn’t occurred to me before, but I think you might be on to something here.

29. Reagan
    GLDIII Purveyor of Splendid Malpropisms

    @GLDIII

    

    12:44 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    Postmodern Hoplite (View Comment):

    Stad (View Comment):

    Watch Romney make a beeline for the No Labels ticket . . .

    This hadn’t occurred to me before, but I think you might be on to something here.

    Can you see him wrestling with Joe Manchin for the top spot? Worth paying for a ring side seat for that event.

30. Member
    DrewInWisconsin, Œuf

    @DrewInWisconsin

    12:53 PM EDT ⋅ Sep 14, 2023

    GLDIII Purveyor of Splendid Ma… (View Comment):

    Postmodern Hoplite (View Comment):

    Stad (View Comment):

    Watch Romney make a beeline for the No Labels ticket . . .

    This hadn’t occurred to me before, but I think you might be on to something here.

    Can you see him wrestling with Joe Manchin for the top spot? Worth paying for a ring side seat for that event.

    Egg McMuffin will certainly want to be a part of this menage a troi.