Posted on 09/20/2017 5:08:52 AM PDT by cotton1706
How many decisive rejections can a veteran national political figure experience at the hands of voters before that politician takes the hint and walks off into the sunset with some small measure of dignity still intact?
Willard “Mitt” Romney seems intent on testing the limits of that proposition by floating the story with friends in the conservative media that he’s toying with the idea of running for the U.S. Senate seat of octogenarian Orrin Hatch of Utah, who is expected to announce his decision to decline a run for yet another term next year. Evidently, Romney’s last electoral humiliation—the embarrassing rout by a weakened and vulnerable President Obama in 2012—was not enough to convince him that his fellow citizens just aren’t that into him. Even after taking the helm of the good ship Never-Trump last year to ostentatiously and piously declare that Donald J. Trump was neither an authentic conservative nor fit for public office (rich coming from a guy who’s taken just about every position on every issue imaginable), Romney seems to think that the American public awaits his latest judgments on policy issues and political strategy with baited breath.
They manifestly don’t, and the fact that Romney continues to seek a leading role on the stage of public affairs after two solid decades of being spurned by the American public at the state and national level testifies to a messianic egotism that borders on full-blown psychosis.
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Mitt Romney, along with John Kasich, have become odious men, determined to undermine conservatism's advance at any cost.
Which one of Mitt’s multiple residential estates qualifies as his legal residence?
Does that square with the Federal IRS filing data?
How about the “home owner’s exemption?”
A liberal republican is NEVER the lesser of two evils. It would be better to have a democrat hold the seat for a term than allow another John McCain, another Jim Jeffords, another Lisa Murkowski, another Susan Collins, another Olympia Snowe, another Richard Lugar, another Lamar Alexander into the Senate.
We’ve seen what they do once they’re given power. We’re both from Massachusetts. We saw Scott Brown pull the same tricks. No thanks!
Mitt Romney, along with John Kasich, have become odious men,
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Odious.
Spot on!
Courts have taken away most of the states’ ability to deny official residency status to anyone who claims it.
There are many examples of Congressmen with questionable residence.
Lee turned out to be a loser when the shooting started last year very disappointed in him
Conservatives should also be looking to find DINOs to run on the ‘Rat ticket..,
I take you back to the early days of Obola.ObamaCare was up for the crucial vote in the Senate.The senior Senator from Chappaquiddick had recently passed on to his eternal damnation and,in a special election,Scott Brown was amazingly elected to replace him.Brown's *entire* campaign was "I'll vote against ObamaCare" (I know...I was here).
This fact didn't go unnoticed by Harry Reid.Although Brown had been duly elected Reid would not allow him to be seated until *after* that vote thus allowing the Rat Party pig that Coupe Deval had appointed to temporarily fill the seat to be the 60th "yes" vote.
And BTW....at the Trump rally I attended in New Hampshire in August of last year Scott Brown was the "warm up act" for DJT.
FYI
If Mitt Romney who is from Michigan, or Massachusetts, or Connecticut also becomes “from Utah” he might be the senator with the most zipcodes ever.
Yup, and Reid used Scott Brown as a reliable democrat vote whenever he needed to give one of his members up for reelection some cover. And being a good moderate republican, Brown went right along, because that’s what they do.
Scott Brown didn’t halt liberalism, he advanced it, with his vote after vote for cloture, giving the democrats their 60th vote at times.
These types need to be stopped at the beginning. Utah nominates by convention. If Hatch retires, and Romney runs, I pray he is defeated, like McConnell’s stooge was when Mike Lee took the nomination, then the seat.
We’ve seen what they do once they’re given power.
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The Republican Party is what it is, and always will be. A weak, unprincipled servant of the Chamber of Commerce.
People like McCain and the others you mentioned will always gravitate to, and influence, the party. I’m afraid Trump is but a brief interlude in the party’s long and disappointing (but quite predictable) history, much like Reagan was. The GOP cannot abide conservative principles and always reverts right back to weakness and appeasement.
The GOP will never be the conservative party that we need.
Scott Brown was the epitome of a Republican politician who talks conservative (especially before elections) but always votes for more big government and is anxious to cooperate with their liberal cohorts.
So Mitt is going to pull a Hilary Clinton and carpetbag a state where he has a 2nd home. He really is a slimey used car salesman. If you shake hands with Mitt make sure you count your fingers.
Scott Brown...as imperfect as he was...would have stopped ObamaCare.Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins,as imperfect as they are/were,voted against ObamaCare.And if you had your way all three would have been replaced by Rats.
Good point. If he really wants to help, he should move to La Jolla full-time and try to replace Feinstein when she retires.
Yeah, good plan. And now you have Elizabeth Warren.
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