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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Who cares what mizz Collins says? She’s proven herself to be unreliable.
If Susan Collins is taking advice at her age, and after spending her entire adult life in politics, we're more fked than even I thought.
Too bad Susan get used to it and much worse.
Name one legitimate thing Mitt Romney has done as a senator that served his state or country. Just one.
The only thing Romney has done is to embarrass himself by ranting and trash talking against Trump and promoting himself as the savior of the now defunct GOP establishment party.
He has alienated his constituency by incorrectly assuming that he and Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski and Liz Cheney and Ben Sasse and others, are the future of the GOP. NOT.
Romney has replaced John McCain as the backstabber-in-chief of those in his own party.
I am appalled that Mitt was not strung up by the booing crowd instead.
How’s about that Suzie?
Its a Red State, just naive & gullible one.
We need a new party.
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That is our only real hope at this point IMO. 75 million people are ready for one. We will never win by relying on a Gutless Old Party that stands for nothing.
Then she is just terrible and should get advisors.
CNN is not her friend.
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And Glenn Beck is appalled.
Murkowski is appalled.
George Bush is appalled.
Colin Powell is appalled.
Luz Cheney is appalled .
McCarthy supports Cheney’s appallment.
McConnell says he hopes it doesn’t affect his next check from China.
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Maine has Ranked Choice Voting for a reason.
Collins, like Murky in Alaska, ain’t going anywhere unless Deep State wants her gone.
Or until Mainers repeal RCV and go back to old fashioned voting machines.
Was Sen. Susan Collins ever “appalled” by the way RINO’s and neverTrumpers in the GOP treated President Trump?
Nope, I didn’t think so...
We need to elect ‘American First’ candidates...
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And you don’t see any Dems attacking Biden.
The GOP talked shit about and sabotaged Trump for 4 years.
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Trump supporters and Republican congressman being assassinated... Ho hum
Romney gets booed... OUTRAGE!
Neo-Cons supported Biden. And you think we’re leaving Afghanistan with Biden? Bwahahahahahaha!
Take over the party from the bottom up! If your precinct, county, state leaders have been in office more then two terms its probably time to remove them. Go to the meetings and start the process! It won't happen on its own or over night. You have to do it!
“How DARE those uppity civilians boo one of us! Don’t they know who their rulers are??”
Hi guy.
Here’s the problem.
Rinos forgot Reagan’s 11th commandment. Thou shalt not talk bad of fellow Republicans to the corrupt corporate media.
Vote out whomever targeted President Trump with hate, and maybe we will have a party.
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I'll bet her and Trapper are buddies. What else do you expect they are 'not sworn enemies'.
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