Posted on 05/14/2019 3:12:40 PM PDT by jazusamo
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) voted against one of President Trump’s judicial picks Tuesday over past controversial comments the judge made about former President Barack Obama.
Romney, who faced off against Obama in the 2012 presidential race, cast the lone GOP “no” vote against Judge Michael Truncale, who was ultimately confirmed to the Eastern District of Texas by a 49-46 margin.
Truncale raised eyebrows in 2011 when he called Obama an “un-American imposter.”
He later told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was “merely expressing frustration by what I perceived as a lack of overt patriotism on behalf of President Obama,” adding that he did not subscribe to the “birther” theory.
However, Romney found enough fault with the original remark to vote against Truncale’s nomination.
“He made particularly disparaging comments about President Obama. And as the Republican nominee for president, I just couldn't subscribe to that in a federal judge,” Romney told Politico in a brief interview.
“This was not a matter of qualifications or politics. This was something specifically to that issue as a former nominee of our party.”
Romney has emerged as one of the few GOP critics of Trump, often hitting the president over his rhetoric. He most recently bucked the White House by opposing its plans to nominate Herman Cain to the Federal Reserve Board.
Though he votes in line with the president more often than not, he is more likely to oppose the White House than most other Republican senators, according to a tally compiled by FiveThirtyEight.
And to think I worked so hard to elect him, too
what a jerko
Spot on and in spades.
if Candidate Romney had said that truth, even once, about the ineligible enemy agent O in our White House, Romney would have won the election
Continuing the legacy of No Name.
other GOP senators need to stand up to this true mega loser.
Myth Remulak the reincarnation of Juan McRino. Another NWO mole. It is easy to spot.
Romney is just miffed that HE didn’t get a chance to say “[Obama is] a decent person and a person you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.”
We voted for traitors in 2008 and 2012 but we DID NOT know at the time and they were STILL better than the best dems had to offer.
And this is controversial, but I’ll say it.
Obama winning gave us the only chance at saving our country because it led to mass dissatisfaction with both parties which led to the emergence of Trump, who was and is the last great hope for this country.
We walked through the desert for 8 brutal years but we reached The Promised Land in Trump.
We must always have hope.
Even during the darkest hours of obama’s presidency, we did not know it was setting up the scene for a Great and Conservative and Financially Brilliant Defender of Christians and lover of Our Country to become the next POTUS.
Romney would have been a deep state puppet. His “accomplishments” likely would have been amnesty for illegals, bad trade deals, a “moderate” O’Connor-type rather than a strong Gorsuch-type to replace Scalia, and, no doubt, at least one new war somewhere.
So basically he would have been Hillary Clinton without the annoying voice
Hillary, but with magic underwear.
Romney is a two faced liar, a chronic backstabber, and about as useful to America as a concrete parachute.
Utah Morons elected Romney to vote for amnesty.
“Romney has emerged as one of the few GOP critics of Trump” -— “few GOP critics?” They’ve got to be kidding.
No need to blackmail, he back stabs Republicans for free.
I completely blame Utah voters. They did this they did it deliberately. For some reason they think they are more sanctimonious than others or something. Got to smirk around in their uppityness.
Because Mitt’s daddy came from Meh-Hee-Co.
We must always have hope.
Bump!
when he called Obama an “un-American imposter.”
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And he was right!
The Kenyan from Indonesia was never eligible.
The whole gang of Morons in Utah that wear the ‘magic underwear’ think they are the only ‘SPECIAL’ people in the world...
This is why the rest of Utahns call him RAT ROMNEY because he is the biggest RAT around...
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