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Mitt Romney Announces Senate Run
Former Massachusetts governor and 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney made it official. Via a campaign video, he announced he’s running to replace Orrin Hatch as the next US Senator from Utah.
I am running for United States Senate to serve the people of Utah and bring Utah’s values to Washington. pic.twitter.com/TDkas6gD2p
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) February 16, 2018
In 2012, Romney won Utah’s vote by nearly 50 points. Now at age 70, he’s going to see if he’s still got it. What do you think: are you happy Mitt’s running for office again?
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I’ve not been shy about the fact that I don’t think very highly of her*, but I’ll give her this much: She is sincerely concerned about this issue, and has not hesitated to call Trump out when he appears to be going soft.
*This predates Trump by many years.
Yeah but what I mean is would she still say that Romney’s the guy who’s gonna save us from “Mexican Invaders.”
Hey, this is the first election where I’ll be old enough to be a Senator, and I live in Utah. I’ll represent the Ricochet Wing of the Republican Party. You can count on me to be a firm supporter of principles and stuff. Vote for me!
I have bout $500 free. Will that be enough to throw my hat in the ring?
It might be enough to throw your hat toward the ring.
At the very least you could use it to put up a web site that says, “We need :thinking: in the Senate!”
“No more governing without :thinking:”
That’s funny. :) :)
I would be thrilled to have a US Senate filled with decent, conservative voting and courageous people like Jeff Flake who stood up to Trump. Thrilled.
Trump was and is not qualified to be president, and was nominated by a minority of our party. His populist BS is not conservatism. I admire and respect Romney, and if Trump keeps screwing up, hope that Romney beats him in the 2020 primary.
We saw this before, two nominees fight each other, Taft and Teddy Roosevelt in 1912.
Trump is leading us to an epic wipeout in 2018, and cannot win in 2020. If you want to hold the White House in 2020, you would vote for Romney over Trump.
Perhaps his name is Ben Sasse, R-NE.
Trump broke Reagan’s 11th Commandment. He gets no loyalty from me.
We need you in government, but we have discovered that it helps to have some governmental experience before you seek a higher office. See the grifter in the White House right now.
i suggest that you run for school board or City Council, and then for the Utah Legislature. With seasoning, I would be thrilled to see you run for Congress and then the Senate.
When you have 17 candidates you need to have a two step national primary. Seventeen and then two. I got that from Michael Medved.
Trump comes down to two things: people want their cut of statist Keynesianism (thank you war mongering RINOs) or they want it fixed. They are sick of cultural Marxism.
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin. Trump came within 1.5% in Minnesota. Historically, the GOP candidate averages losing by 6% in Minnesota.
What’s going on here?
The electorate doesn’t care for some reason.
oh goody I get to grind my anti Romney ax again.
No, no. You split the votes ftom my run!
YES!
There care plenty.
November: Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma
December: Alabama.
January & February: Wisconsin, Florida
Yes, we know.
I, on the other hand, think that so-called Republicans like Flake, who bragged about donating to a Democrat campaign to help the Republicans lose the Senate, is something we need less of, not more of.
People just want stuff given to them or in lieu of that they will take a good economy. And they don’t want their identity shamed. Knowledge of government and civics is not required. Now the Democrats get their crack at it.
Get ready to lose PA-18.
It would be pretty cheap for the young who are such a big proportion if the uninsured. Obamacare destroyed most of the health care system but that is another story. Heritage finally decided the individual mandate was not all that helpful.
NeverTrumpers are impossible to convince. They would accuse Trump of being unable to swim if he walked on water.
The problem is, so much is forced into premiums and taxes anyway due to bad policy. The 1986 law where they are forced to take everyone at the emergency room. Medicaid is subsidized buy under billing hospitals and doctors so they force it into the honest and productive guys premiums. On and on.
We need to be honest about visibly accounting for subsidy and premium risk. It was bad before Obamacare now it’s worse.
People really need to be on direct primary care too.
Which resulted in Wilson, arguably the closest the US has ever come to actual Fascism (read some Goldberg) getting elected.
The polls say otherwise. The Democrats’ lead in the generic ballot has been steadily tightening, and the latest poll even had the GOP ahead by 1% (within the margin of error, but still….)
I have praised Trump on Judges, but the main credit should go to Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley.
Trump never won over a majority of Republicans, only a plurality in a crowded field, and then a rotted convention.
Now 37 pages showing meddling. Will the collusion end with Donald Trump, Jr., or extend to his father?
37 pages show meddling but no collusion, or at worst “unwitting” collusion. 13 Russians were indicted, zero Americans.
There was no collusion. The dream is over. Let it go.
Getting a “like” from @garyrobbins on this post is ironic.
For the record, it’s directed at you too.
Also, does anyone think Trump’s lawyers would let him run for POTUS if he actually laundered money for the Russians or whatever?