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2019-08-22 Home Front: Politix
Romney Says He's No Longer 'Part of The Republican Establishment'
Astute of him to notice, but then astute is kind of his brand thingy.
[KUER.ORG] Seven years after running for president as the GOP standard bearer, U.S. Sen. Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a senator from Utah, a member of the Never Trump Party...
 on Monday described himself as a "renegade Republican" and said that he is "not part of the Republican establishment these days."
"Courageous, I'm like the pasty Spartacus"
In a wide-ranging speech at the Sutherland Institute, a conservative think tank in Salt Lake City, Utah’s junior senator argued against "socialist" proposals being discussed on the Democratic presidential debate stage such as "Medicare for All" and free college tuition. He also lamented that "neither party is interested in talking about the debt and the deficit."
Posted by Fred 2019-08-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 Wants to be the new McCain. Very sad.
Posted by ruprecht 2019-08-22 00:12||   2019-08-22 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Poor bugger never was part of the republican establishment.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-22 00:23||   2019-08-22 00:23|| Front Page Top

#3 He's joining the Dem establishment?
Posted by Glenmore 2019-08-22 00:32||   2019-08-22 00:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Republicans moving away from uniparty is great news.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-08-22 05:44||   2019-08-22 05:44|| Front Page Top

#5 i can almost hear the MSM articles being written, describing him in his mavericky maverickness
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2019-08-22 07:11||   2019-08-22 07:11|| Front Page Top

#6 He has always been part of the leftist, globalist, RINO establishment. He is just butthurt that Trump ruined his boy-band.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-08-22 09:05||   2019-08-22 09:05|| Front Page Top

#7 "In fact, I'm a Libupblican !"
Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-22 09:24||   2019-08-22 09:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Et tu, Brute?

..Brutus is an honorable man.

Hopefully, the electorate in Utah will remember the duplicitous behavior unlike their Arizona counterparts.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-22 09:33||   2019-08-22 09:33|| Front Page Top

#9 So tragic, always the last to know.
Posted by Cesare 2019-08-22 10:09||   2019-08-22 10:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Part of Mitt fading away.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2019-08-22 10:11||   2019-08-22 10:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Odd that he was governor of Massachusetts, then he bought a big, fancy place in La Jolla (wealthy community in San Diego) and now he's the junior senator from Utah. I understand about the Mormon connection but still, I didn't think the people of Utah would cotton to carpet baggers.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-08-22 10:37||   2019-08-22 10:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Especially when this particular carpet bagger is a sniveling weasel.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-08-22 10:38||   2019-08-22 10:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Squishy Mitt Romney is a RINO as is Paul Ryan. These NeverTrumpers may have moved from RINO to full blown Dem.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-08-22 11:44||   2019-08-22 11:44|| Front Page Top

#14 I would like to think that the Republican establishment has changed that much. Romney hasn't. But the truth is that he is very much still one of them, and they are very much still around.
Posted by Iblis 2019-08-22 12:00||   2019-08-22 12:00|| Front Page Top

#15 I am embarrassed that I voted for this establishment drone.
Posted by warthogswife 2019-08-22 17:45||   2019-08-22 17:45|| Front Page Top

#16 warthogswife, I too voted for Romney. Well, not so much FOR Romney as AGAINST Obama.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-08-22 18:23||   2019-08-22 18:23|| Front Page Top

#17 He would have been better for the country — and the world —than a second Obama term.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-22 18:31||   2019-08-22 18:31|| Front Page Top

#18 Did we really elect Obama president? I was hoping I just dreamed that.
Posted by SteveS 2019-08-22 20:20||   2019-08-22 20:20|| Front Page Top

#19 Actually, his problem is that he is part of the Republican establishment.

The real one, not the Fake Opposition Washington Generals one.
Posted by charger 2019-08-22 20:21||   2019-08-22 20:21|| Front Page Top

#20 Speaking of Obama, did anyone think it interesting that the first film he produced for Netflix was about a Chinese company owning and running a US factory in the US?

Granted I haven't seen the thing, just heard synopsis but I thought it was interesting.
Posted by ruprecht 2019-08-22 23:48||   2019-08-22 23:48|| Front Page Top

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