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2023-11-01 Home Front: Politix

[Federalist] 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.)

When that doesn’t stave off the boredom, he invites over a reporter who will keep him company late into the evenings while he "nurse[s] a morbid fascination with his own death, suspecting that it might assert itself one day suddenly and violently," brags about how his compulsive exercise habits are superior to those of his colleagues in the Senate, and breathlessly recites a litany of petty grievances about his fellow Republicans.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 Nor did we care to.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-01 00:11|| 2023-11-01 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 ...there would naturally be a forceful attempt to shape his legacy as something other than a failure.

I wouldn't call it a failed political career; I'll just call it a lame / weak one, AKA typically RINO. Thanks for Romneycare in Massachusetts, dickhead!

Posted by Raj 2023-11-01 01:02|| 2023-11-01 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 His wife doesn’t even want to be with him, sounds like he has no friends and the only people who stop by are paid journalists looking for a clickbait quote from the stooge for the left. And his sudden death prediction sounds more like a veiled threat of self inflicted harm.

Posted by Airandee 2023-11-01 04:58|| 2023-11-01 04:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Should read:

"Acute narcissism and fractured ego prevents actual retirement and Walleye fishing trip to Wisconsin."

Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-01 05:02|| 2023-11-01 05:02|| Front Page Top

#5 "Acute narcissism and fractured ego prevents actual retirement and Walleye fishing trip to Wisconsin."

Yeah, the press powerboats and kayaks full of stringers would pretty much spoil any decent Walleye fishing grounds.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-11-01 07:19|| 2023-11-01 07:19|| Front Page Top

#6 A better lede reference might have been from
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"

Posted by Mercutio 2023-11-01 09:48|| 2023-11-01 09:48|| Front Page Top

#7 He can get together with Cheney and Kinzinger to reminisce.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-11-01 12:24|| 2023-11-01 12:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Zelensky will send a fruit basket to his retirement ceremony.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-11-01 13:05|| 2023-11-01 13:05|| Front Page Top

#9 GOPe Retirement:

Isnt that when their true RINO colors come out?

The book deal - democrats never get book deals to trash all the other democrats. He probably has a CNN political commentator job lined up.

You know the game.

Posted by mossomo 2023-11-01 13:53|| 2023-11-01 13:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Ken Buck (RINO-CO) just announced he won't seek re-election. Rumors also say Kay Granger (R-TX) will not run for re-election. Both opposed Jordan for speaker.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-01 14:06|| 2023-11-01 14:06|| Front Page Top

#11 I think ketchup on salmon is a sure indication of him being Mad as a Hatter.

"One pill makes you Romney, and one pill, Delecto. And the pills that binders give you, don't do anything at all."

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-11-01 14:08|| 2023-11-01 14:08|| Front Page Top

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