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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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Let me be perfectly clear: I love the phrase “kneeling before the Orange God-King”!
I’m not a fan. However that wasn’t what I was talking about.
As to the post, I’ll use Tommy Thompson here in Wisconsin as a comparison . I’ll vote for him, but is he really the best we can do?
Man, you know who else was perfectly clear.
I can do both.
Gary, I especially loved it after the Great Election of 2016. Romney went to visit the Orange God-King to kiss his ring. After the humiliating ring kiss, Trump told the Great Dog Persecutor.
“Your dismissed now”
I remember it a bit differently.
You have a flair for turning a phrase, “the Great Dog Persecutor.”
Among other reasons, here’s the thing that bugged me the most about Mitt Romney when he ran for president. Paul Ryan had a plan for reforming entitlements that was so mild it would have taken something like 20 years to balance the budget. Then when he was named Mitt Romney’s VP candidate, Ryan had to abandon or modify that plan because it was just too harsh for team Romney.
I get that in a state like Massachusetts a Republican cannot get elected unless they are a watered-down Democrat. But Utah? Surely an actual conservative/conservatarian could win there, so why settle for Mitt Romney?
Now they think that Fusion GPS and Perkins Coie can be charged as unregistered foreign agents. I love it.
Trump has surrendered to the inevitable and has endorsed Romney. How sweet it is!
The Don has not surrendered to the The Royal Dog Persecutor.
It is an olive branch of peace offered to take him under his fold.
If The Royal Dog Persecutor bites the Don’s hand. Well then, to bad, so sad, for The Royal Dog Persecutor. ;)
Can we please stop with this kind of talk?
How about Senator Romney vote his conscience whether he agrees with Trump or not?
Whether or not Romney’s future actions are correct is not determined by Trump alone. This kind of language is the reason Trump supporters are accused of cult of personality behavior.
After all the things Romney said about Trump, I think he’d be quite the hypocrite to accept Trump’s endorsement. Yes, I know, it was during the campaign, and therefore, just politics.
Having fun with Gary is all.
I dunno . . . if Gary insists on “Orange God-King,” then I think “Royal Dog Persecutor” is perfectly acceptable (and less obnoxious than “Orange God-King,” and also funnier).
Yeah, he should probably announce that he cannot accept the endorsement. I mean, the President is obviously willing to let bygones be bygones, but Romney should probably refuse to forgive because it would go against his principles.
Just to be clear Umbra.
I think Romney will make a decent Senator provided he doesn’t choose to be a spoiler in the mold of McCain. I am sceptical about the spoiler part. Utah’s choice though.
How is that sweet? Trump destroys everything he touches remember? He just hosed Romney’s chances!
Why are you okay with this?
The reason Gary says things like “Orange God-King” is Trump’s supporters’ tendency to judge public figures solely by their relationship to Trump. Ben Sasse was an up and coming conservative hero until he expressed displeasure with Donald Trump. Now he’s routinely mentioned in the same breath as John McCain and Susan Collins. Remember when Paul Ryan was added to the 2012 Presidential ticket in an attempt to appeal to conservatives? But, no, he’s uncomfortable with Trump, so now he’s the embodiment of The Establishment ™.
Donald Trump is not, and should not be the sole measuring stick by which one’s conservatism is measured. Ben Sasse, Paul Ryan, Jonah Goldberg, James Lileks, Kevin Williamson…. No one doubted these men’s conservative bona fides until they said, “No,” to Donald Trump. Now they have been unpersoned. This has got to stop.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan lost support among the conservative base long before Trump came into the picture (the former didn’t have a whole lot to begin with).
Incidentally, I’m a fan of Mike Lee and would love to have another Trump skeptic like that in the Senate. I don’t understand why conservatives (Trump supporters or not) should be happy about wasting an opportunity for another Mike Lee or Ted Cruz in favor of someone like Romney. Utah is not Delaware, or even Ohio (though I would hope we can do better in Ohio than people like Kasich-another person who lost conservative support before Trump came along).
All of these guys are plenty conservative and plenty entitled to say anything they want about Trump.
My issue is with the Moralist Rockefeller Republicans that just want “good government” + “civility” and don’t really give a damn about the regressive economy and cultural Marxism.
A fellow Ricochetti asked that I stop using the name “Orange God-King” so I have.
Funny names aren’t a big deal.
Uh oh. National Review is publishing anti-Romney pieces, too!
But… but… The Establishment!
I was going to say that article only came out after the Trump endorsement, but I see it was yesterday. I’m not going to compare timestamps.
Muh Establishment!!