Posted on 05/02/2021 9:27:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins was "appalled" by the Utah GOP's censure vote on Saturday of Sen. Mitt Romney, who was met by a chorus of boos when he took the stage.
Utah Republicans voted 798-711 to defeat the censure resolution toward the end of the party's meeting. Romney moved to "remove Trump from office in two illegitimate impeachment trials," which "hurt the constitution and hurt the party," said Davis County Del. Don Guymon, who wrote the resolution.
Collins defended Romney on Sunday and said the party should not be helmed by "one person," potentially referring to former President Donald Trump.
“I was appalled," Collins told CNN's Jake Tapper of the censure vote and jeering. "Mitt Romney is an outstanding senator who serves his state and our country well."
She continued: "We Republicans need to remember that we are united by fundamental principles such as belief in personal responsibility, individual freedom, opportunity, free markets, a strong national defense. Those are the principles that unite us. We are not a party that is just led by one person. There are many prominent, upcoming, younger men and women in our party who hold great promise for leading us."
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a Trump critic, was another prominent Republican who faced backlash from her party after she was seen elbow-bumping President Joe Biden ahead of his first congressional address Wednesday.
Collins backed Cheney, who told her colleagues that she and Biden are not "sworn enemies."
"Liz Cheney is a woman of strength and conscience, and she did what she thought was right, and I salute her for that," Collins said. "We need to be accepting of differences in our party. We don’t want to become like too much of the Democratic Party, which has been taken over by the progressive left."
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Leave her alone.
Wait until she speaks somewhere.
These people are so out of touch, they must live on another planet.
I like her Brother Tom way better
She continued: “We Republicans need to remember that we are united by fundamental principles such as belief in personal responsibility, individual freedom, opportunity, free markets, a strong national defense.
No, you are committed Senator Collins to mouthing the words and doing NOTHING to backing them up with action.
If he was an outstanding senator he wouldn't have been heckled and booed by voters in HIS OWN PARTY.
Liz Cheney is a woman of strength and conscience, and she did what she thought was right, and I salute her for that,” Collins said.
She is a war mongering POS who likely is profiting by sending our sons and daughters to die so that she can line her pockets or benefit her donors.
The morons who vote in Utah basically gave one of their two Senate seats to Massachusetts.
Ha ha ha.
The booing was music to my ears.
I hope it gets worse as time passes.
Next up: Liz Cheney.
+1 You got it exactly right.
The GOP elites have nothing but disdain for their voters.
She vowed to retire at least 12 years ago when her tenure expired. She is a fake and a liar.
“...the party should not be helmed by “one person...”
But the country CAN??? HOW STUPID can she be?
It’s OK for Pelosi to RUN THE COUNTRY???
Romney, Collins, Cheney - all outdated, sad relics of the past. They have no future in the GOP. Pretty soon they’ll have no present in the GOP.
I am appalled she is appalled. Even big tent Republicans should be appalled at someone as divisive as Mitt Romney.
Now that was a great comment!
Mitt is nothing but a sleazy opportunist. His “colleagues” like him because they are just like him.
Okay, Susan, tell us what is the acceptable way to let politicians know they’re not representing us. Voting does not work. The right isn’t allowed to protest. Now, people can’t even boo. What is acceptable?
How dare those peasants!
Who do they think they are???
Alas its not just those three. The GOP is filled with people just like them.
United us, until THEY turned the last two principles into "sellout to China" and "Endless Wars".
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