Posted on 09/15/2023 5:54:53 AM PDT by cotton1706
When Mitt Romney announced his retirement from electoral politics on Wednesday after one term in the US Senate, he made no mention of his deep roots in Massachusetts. But those who have known him for decades say they saw unmistakable echoes of his time as governor of the state in his pragmatic streak in the hyper-partisan US Capitol.
The Utah Republican, 76, said he was leaving content with his work, noting that in the first two years of the Biden administration, he was at the center of several significant bipartisan pieces of legislation, including the infrastructure bill, a gun safety law, and election reforms to address the efforts by former President Trump to overturn his loss in 2020.
He also emerged as one of the most vocal critics of Trump within the GOP — despite at one time seeking to be his secretary of state — ultimately being the only Republican senator who voted to convict him during his first impeachment on abuse of power and one of seven to do so during his second, over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Romney to retire, calling for a ‘new generation’ beyond Biden and Trump It’s that combination of dealmaking and departure from party orthodoxy that those who have known him for years particularly see in common with his time in Massachusetts, when he worked with a heavily Democratic Legislature to advance policies, including the signature universal health care deal he achieved with the backing of his one-time rival, Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy, who Romney challenged in his first political campaign in 1994.
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So Mitch McConnell's Senate wouldn't have to deal with another conservative like Mike Lee.
ANY OTHER potential candidate for Senate in Utah in 2018 (or that would have run if Romney wasn't tapped by Hatch) WOULD NOT have voted to convict Trump of in the impeachment trial or voted for Ketanji Brown Jackson, to provide just two examples.
The point was a to have a liberal Republican from a conservative state.
Yup...and now we have an ugly bull dyke as Governor.So we went from bad to worse.
someone is getting out of dodge before he is implicated in the biden fiasco.
She is a vile thing, isn’t she? I am surprised she hasn’t shown up at my house to put immigrants in the spare bedroom.
He just needs to go away…..but I have a feeling he won’t.
Nope, he wants to shed the Senate and go out on his own. Most certainly he will be another climate change cheerleader and GOP critic. He'll cash in again with less work.
The Obama-phone lady best summed up Romney many years ago: “Romney? He sux! Bad!” At the time, we had only an inkling of just how right she was.
Mitt’s ‘career’ ended long ago
I still think he is mixed up with the Ukrainian money train
An oldie but a goodie - Romney signing Romneycare.
What I would like to know is did Romneys offspring run Hunter Biden like operations?
Yes,America is in flames...but that's how forests grow."
Hey Mitt, how much did your son make with Hunter?
Was she one of those “Girls Gone Wild!” bimbos?
UpChuck should announce his retirement today.
now he can stay more in his home in La Jolla.
Mitt Romney had a political career?.
Guess that’s what they call seat warmers now days.
You have that right?
Bingo!
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