Posted on 10/30/2023 5:56:20 PM PDT by CFW
Last month, Mitt Romney announced he will retire from the Senate after one term. Romney, who is 76, cited his age. That was undoubtedly a major consideration for a guy with a platoon of grandchildren.
It’s also true that Romney is unpopular with Utah voters and had no real chance of reelection after becoming the most prominent elected Republican antagonist of Donald Trump. With Romney’s 30-year political career ending with a whimper, there would naturally be a forceful attempt to shape his legacy as something other than a failure.
Fortunately, Romney already made plans for this. The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins, also a practicing Mormon, was already beavering away on a Romney biography that was sure to be sympathetic. Sure enough, very soon after Romney’s retirement announcement, The Atlantic ran a juicy excerpt adapted from the prologue of the forthcoming book. While the excerpt was sympathetic to Romney, in some ways it defied expectations.
The tableau it paints of Romney is something of a caricature. A luxury condo in the Watergate was too painful a commute to the Capitol, and Ann Romney doesn’t like spending time in D.C., so he’s living alone in a $2.4 million townhouse on Capitol Hill. He passes the time by watching Ted Lasso reruns on his 98-inch television while eating salmon sandwiches slathered in ketchup because he doesn’t like salmon. (When it comes to food, the septuagenarian Romney, who has declared his favorite meat is “hot dog,” seems to have the maturity of a 7-year-old.)
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Truly bizarre that their are people out there who voted for Mitt Romney and Donald Trump for president; MAGA vs globalist votes within 4 years. Not only did people vote for Romney, but millions voted for him and McCain.
He did the same when he was Gov of MASS...
he was such a lousy Gov that he couldnt win re-election so he didnt run...
Do you forget when it was the choice between him and Øbowel?
Talk about s a shiite sandwich.
Always look at who they were running against. Romney and McCain were better than Obama, marginally, so, yes, the same people who voted for them could also vote for Trump against Hillary.
Take your magic underwear and carpet bag and crawl away.
Romney would always attack Republicans but never Democrats.
We know him all too well now. As a RINO supreme and backstabber. Worse than nothing.
He will go down with W and Cheney’s offspring as Benedict Arnolds.
During the 12 campaign, Willard came to S FL.
I went to see him at Wings n Things in Coral Springs.
Willard doesn’t look you in the eye when he shakes your hand.
Willard’s a slimeball. Good riddance.
Also, his buddy John McCain isn’t around to schmooze with any more.
Romney is a financial pirate, with no compunction for the lives he destroyed in order to gain wealth and power. It's all in the article.
And, as far as Mister Romney's feeling toward Mister Trump, consider that Trump accomplished what Romney could not, there's Willard's envy and knowledge that he'd been bested by someone that just appeared on the scene. (A fair analysis, from a two-time Trump voter who does not happen to support Trump in the current primary.)
Actually, I think I knew him quite well which is why I didn’t vote for him in 2012.
His hair is always perfect. Like a vampire.
kind of an asshole.
Impertinent but accurate
He refused to examine Obama’s ineligibility as a natural born citizen.
what's wrong with hot dogs?!?
You've made Oscar Meyer cry!
Romney was born into the Establishment, milked it all his life, will defend it, and attack its enemies as he fades away.
He’s never been a true Conservative and was called that only as part of the disguise his type employs to benefit themselves. He’s made himself a pile of money milking the system (created by the Establishment for their own benefit), and will continue to be a favored commentator when the left/establishment needs one.
Romney’s choice of the GOP was opportnistic, not from principals.
He wanted to run for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts and new he could not defeat Ed Kennedu in a Dim primary, so he re-registered form Independent to Republican. Had he not had a formidable political opponent as a Kennedy, he would have registered as Democrat.
No doubt, he's as fake as they come.
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