Posted on 02/12/2021 5:26:49 AM PST by RandFan
Mitt Romney is a spring chicken. At a sprightly 73, the GOP’s 2012 nominee is: one year younger than the outgoing president and 2024 frontrunner, five years younger than both the incumbent president and the Senate minority leader, and seven years younger than the Speaker of the House. In the uppermost echelons of American government, only the Senate majority leader—boy wonder Chuck Schumer—is any younger, and only by three years.
This fact has been gnawing at me as the septuagenarian Utah senator/Massachusetts governor from Michigan snatches headlines left and right. Maybe I’m wrong; I hope I am. But in the age (no pun intended) of President Joe Biden, it’s hard not to think that Romney might still have an eye toward the Oval Office.
Mitt didn’t move to Utah for nothing. At the time, it seemed like he might have been gearing up for a 2020 primary contest, wriggling back into national news with a 2018 Senate campaign. By the beginning of campaign season, that route was obviously impossible. (Bill Weld, his predecessor as Massachusetts governor, tried—and got a single delegate from Iowa.) Now, as the first murmurs of 2024 prospects begin to surface, every other story in the New York Times contains Mitt Romney’s name. It may seem odd that Mitt Romney—of “binders full of women” and “47 percent” infamy—has become a media darling, but the only Republican to vote for conviction in Trump’s first impeachment has done a fine job courting corporate outlets.
The senator’s best recent clip came in the midst of the Capitol riot, when he shouted at Ted Cruz and company, “This is what you’ve gotten,” as the mob entered the building......
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Romney’s 15 minutes of fame lasted but 2 and a half. His walk in the sun ended in complete and total darkness. Hey Mitt-don’t go away mad. Just go away...
I won’t vote for him again.
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I didn’t vote the top of the ticket in 2012. The first time ever, since I was eligible to vote in a presidential election, at age 23, in 1968.
Muck Fitt Romney!
I think I remember arguing with you about that back in 2011. I won’t be arguing with you about it in 2024.
I would rather give commie Joe a post mortem second term.
No way, no how would I vote for him.
I wouldn’t let that scum, Mitt scrub my toilet. He is hot worthy,
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