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Do we like Mitt Romney?

Bonafide

Bonafide

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Oct 11, 2018
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watching liberals fawn to any republican not named trump as if their donors, end goals, etc are different makes me sick tbh

i really believe that if trump new how to shut his mouth and 'show respect to the office' the so called resistance wouldnt exist and that a lot of people are just waiting for trump to be gone so they can "ignore politics" again

btw i hope romney trips and sprains his knee op
 
Kirblar

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He's going to be better than Hatch was. I'll take marginal improvements where I can get them.

If Dems regain the WH, it's worth considering tapping him for a some sort of (non-policy-making) foreign policy role as good lord we're gonna need all the elder statesmen and elder stateswomen we can get on deck in the wake of Trump, and Romney is almost certainly not going to be running for re-election in 2024 anyway.
 
Jobbs

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Widdle Puppy said:
I'm wondering because he seems like he isn't entirely bad and may actually be a swing vote in the senate against the hard right. I also remember he did some good things for healthcare in his state when he was governor. I would choose most democrats over him but what do people think of him here?
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Mitt Romney is an opportunist first and foremost. He'll take on whatever viewpoints he needs to that make him come off well in a given situation and he doesn't have a lot of serious convictions. He's a bit like Trump in that way (much less offensive and egregious, of course).

He was pro healthcare as governor of Massachusetts, but against it when running for president. He reversed himself on things countless times just during the 2012 campaign. He rebuked Trump when it seemed like the thing to do then went crawling to him for a job when that seemed like the thing to do.

He seems cuddly and nice, but he has no convictions or values to speak of. At least none that extend to policy.

He's a much better man in every way than Trump, of course, but that's not exactly a high bar.
 
Finny

Finny

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Oct 25, 2017
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A less terrible Republican and still terrible human being are not mutually exclusive descriptions.
 
anyprophet

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Kirblar said:
He's going to be better than Hatch was. I'll take marginal improvements where I can get them.

If Dems regain the WH, it's worth considering tapping him for a some sort of (non-policy-making) foreign policy role as good lord we're gonna need all the elder statesmen and elder stateswomen we can get on deck in the wake of Trump, and Romney is almost certainly not going to be running for re-election in 2024 anyway.
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lmao you're still a stupid motherfucker i see. no republican is a good, or useful, republican.
 
gutter_trash

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You guys are a bit harsh,
Lets wait and see how he acts as Senator.

If Romney is one of the few Republicans who decides to stand up to Trump
 
Funky Dude Sparks

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rjinaz

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Oct 25, 2017
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He's going to put up a slight fuss and then vote in line anyway. He's Flake, but with a religious moral angle he'll ultimately ignore anyway. I mean, could we have worse in the seat? Sure. But, I don't like the guy. We'd need about 10 Romneys in Republican seats for it to make any difference, until then, the one or two that like to pretend they are in the middle will just swing Republican in the end.
 
Funky Dude Sparks

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The people in this thread who really want Mitt Romney to stand up to Trump, are the type of people are who nostalgic for bush/cheney era. AKA people who are not equip to remember that Mitt Romney is a genuine psycho and his party would rather sacrifice lives for corporate greed.
 
Funky Dude Sparks

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Jobbs said:
Mitt Romney is an opportunist first and foremost. He'll take on whatever viewpoints he needs to that make him come off well in a given situation and he doesn't have a lot of serious convictions. He's a bit like Trump in that way (much less offensive and egregious, of course).

He was pro healthcare as governor of Massachusetts, but against it when running for president. He reversed himself on things countless times just during the 2012 campaign. He rebuked Trump when it seemed like the thing to do then went crawling to him for a job when that seemed like the thing to do.

He seems cuddly and nice, but he has no convictions or values to speak of. At least none that extend to policy.

He's a much better man in every way than Trump, of course, but that's not exactly a high bar.
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Jobbs you don't get it, we're trying to use respectability politics on republicans, surely the nevertrump camp will use respectability to rehabiliate the republican party /s
 
Nairume

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rjinaz said:
We'd need about 10 Romneys in Republican seats for it to make any difference, until then, the one or two that like to pretend they are in the middle will just swing Republican in the end.
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He'll just be like John McCain, only seemingly supporting good things when his image benefits but otherwise vote in line of the party of throwing children into prison camps.
 
Nairume

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Kirblar said:
Specifically, getting Hatch out of the line of Presidential succession is a plus.
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Romney replacing him as senator doesn't stop the party of putting children into prison camps putting somebody equally awful (like Romney or any other given member of the party of putting children into prison camps) into the line of succession as president pro tempore of the senate.
 

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That opportunistic, flip flopping, out of touch, Gordan Gekko imitating, unlikeable slimeball Mittens? The one who smiles like a dentist, ready to take your gullible 46% vote?

You think he actually cares about people beyond their voting capacity to select the ones with "R"s beside it?

If you have to ask, you clearly haven't been paying attention to his shtick.
 
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Pwnz

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Mittens starts Senate soon. If Trump is removed from office, I bet Mittens will be one of the swing votes to remove him.
 

Fanuilos

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He's better than Trump, but he's also the 47% believe they are victims and binders full of women guy. He's also the guy that embarrassed himself trying to become Trump's secretary of state after declaring Trump a fraud.
 
Ichthyosaurus

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Nairume

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Dr. Lucien Sanchez said:
We're setting the bar pretty low if we start to fawn over any person that said a negative thing about Trump.
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"Senator Romney may have voted along party lines to put children into prison camps, but he very eloquently said that Trump was not nice. What a wonderful statesman. We need more people like him in Washington."
 
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