Posted on 05/03/2021 8:25:35 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, was loudly booed at the Utah Republican party convention – jeered as a “traitor” and a “communist” as he tried to speak.
“Aren’t you embarrassed?” the former 2012 GOP presidential candidate asked the raucous crowd of 2,100 delegates meeting at a convention center in West Valley City, Utah, on Saturday, the Salt Lake City Tribune reported.
Romney was the sole Republican to vote twice to impeach former President Donald Trump – for seeking political dirt on opponents from Ukraine and for inciting the deadly attack at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“You can boo all you like,” Romney told a restive crowd.
“I’m a man who says what he means, and you know I was not a fan of our last president’s character issues,” he said as delegates tried to shout him down with accusations that he was was a “traitor” and “communist.”
Romney defended himself from the jeers by listing his conservative credentials.
"Oh yeah, you can boo all you like, but I've been a Republican all my life,” he said, “My dad was a governor of Michigan, my dad worked for Republican candidates that he believed in. I worked for Republicans across the country and if you don't recall, I was the Republican nominee for President in 2012," Romney said.
“Yeah, I understand I have a few folks who don't like me terribly much and I -- I'm sorry about that. But I express my mind as I believe is right and I follow my conscience as I believe is right," Romney said— getting both boos and cheers, CNN reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
He had the opportunity and the power to put aside the electoral vote count for states that asked him to allow them to investigate their elections. Pennsylvania was one such state. He chickened out and then called for help when the “insurrectionists” protested his cowardice. He’s a slimy, weasel of a politician. If he thinks he can win Republican votes and become president, he’s living in a dream world.
Now he’s complaining about Biden’s policies. He’s the one who put Biden in office when he could have done the courageous thing and called a halt to the entire charade. Go away, Pence. You’re done.
“...and if you don’t recall, I was the Republican nominee for President in 2012,” Romney said.”
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Sadly, I do recall. You were the Hindenburg of Presidential candidates.
If I knew that I would be attending an event at which Romney was to speak, I think I would want some nice ripe tomatoes with me in case I got hungry.
Put a big L on his forehead for “Looser”
Yeah his Daddy cut the throat of Ronald Reagan and his friend Barry Goldwater....Republican oh yeah...
Goldwater got 800+ votes for the R nomination for POTUS at the 1964 GOP convention...George Romney only got 41...Big George had a tizzy fit and stomped out of the building followed by 16 yo Willard and went and helped Johnson win...with money and influence...
Ronald Reagan said that the moderate Romney caused the loss for the Republicans...
Oh yeah Willard is just like his Daddy groomed him to be ...
Bite me Romney.
5.56mm
Yes, but the censure motion failed. The optics of the booing were great, but vote went Mittens way.
They’ll re-elect him in 2024.
The Utah GOP has been serving up some real shit sandwiches lately. Mia Love. mitt Romney. Mike lee.
He voted to impeach Trump because he doesn’t like him, not because Trump committed an impeachable offense. Romney is an ass of the highest level and cannot be trusted. And who are those idiots in the Utah GOP who didn’t vote for Censure?
This BS from Newsmax?
He should have been tarred, feathered and run out of town! What an absolute disgrace!
I would have been booing with the rest of 'em... don't need Romney to tell me I can 'boo if I like'... how insulting.
Romney and Republican Establishment elites are ONLY representing themselves and their buddies... NOT them American people who elect them. That's bait and switch... Time for Romney to step down.
Interesting...
I was not a fan of our last president’s character issues,”.....Other than sticking up for the People, What other character issues is he talking about? I would like to know.
Now Mitten’s knows how the rank and file Republicans feel about him and his Old GOP ideas of Get along with Dems approach that served them well under Bush I and II. Times have changed. The people run the party and they picked Trump.
Yes, but is he a SERIOUS Republican?
Sen. Romney was jeered for the “traitor” and “communist” that he is as it tried to speak.
there fixed it
If you act like a jackass, don’t be surprised when someone tells you to go to your stall with the other jackasses.
Hey! Don’t put Mutt on an even plane with jackasses! Jackasses are way above the likes of him..........;)
This was all discussed in 2011/12...
Plus the fact that the mormons believed that Willard was their ‘White Horse prophesy’ come true...
They were going to own the American government through him...he would be despot king for life...
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