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| Romney positions himself for 2024 White House bid with Trump impeachment criticism |
| 2020-02-01 |
| [Washington Examiner] Mitt Romney is stoking suspicions that he is eyeing a third White House bid in 2024 after the Utah Republican broke with his party and insisted on witnesses at President Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate. He won't be re-elected in Utah. Loser Along with centrist Susan Collins of Maine, Romney was one of just two Senate Republicans to join the Democrats in a failed vote to subpoena fresh testimony. The 2012 Republican presidential nominee might yet acquit Trump on two articles alleging abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, but consistent criticism of Trump throughout impeachment, a GOP rarity, capped by support for witnesses has some Republicans convinced Romney is jockeying to reclaim the party. "Mitt Romney is a bitter, jealous man who looks at President Trump and wishes he could be him. This is about Romney’s ego, nothing else," said Jason Miller, a Republican strategist who advised Trump during the 2016 campaign and co-hosts a podcast with Steve Bannon, the president’s former White House counselor. A second Republican strategist neither affiliated with nor opposed to Trump agreed that Romney’s maneuvering during the four-month impeachment process was calculated. This veteran operative predicted the senator would be active after the November elections, trying to restore the internationalist, "Chamber of Commerce" Republicanism that dominated the GOP before the elevation of Trump, a populist and a nationalist. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #14 Coming out as the metrosexual Global Citizen, Pierrrrre DeLECTO!!!! |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-01 21:56 |
| #13 He can have his "Coming Out" party in MKE this coming July. |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2020-02-01 20:39 |
| #12 I'm not going to make the same mistake twice. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-02-01 17:27 |
| #11 #7 Doesn't look like he's positioning himself to run as a Republican. At this rate, he'll pull more votes from the Dems anyway. |
| Posted by: charger 2020-02-01 15:09 |
| #10 He won't be re-elected in Utah. Delecto couldn't care less. The Global Grifter Uniparty has no attachment to any American place or precinct or state or other jurisdiction. They place their car elevators and McMansions wherever they can find abundant private security forces and a local airport for their gulf streams. CA, NM, FL, WY, MT, NY, the Caribbean--wherever. Makes no difference. They represent only themselves and the other Global Grifters around the world. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-01 10:30 |
| #9 POTUS Nominee of the Global Grifter Uniparty |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-01 10:24 |
| #8 Exactly^^ He can only run as a dem or a independent. Any bets in two years when it looks like he will lose his seat he changes parties? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-02-01 10:22 |
| #7 Doesn't look like he's positioning himself to run as a Republican. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2020-02-01 10:09 |
| #6 Delecto doesn't get it: the Global Grifter Era is finished. Over. Done. Trump and Johnson put the final nails in the coffin. Remember Gingrich's cutting observation about Tomneys chances in 2012: "When has this country ever had a president with Swiss bank accounts?" The GOP is now the National Party. No more country club BS. No more stigmatizing half the country as "takers," "moochers," as losers who deserve to be replaced by "hardworking" shit-wage campesinos imported from abroad and who would do us all a favor if they'd just OD on their drugs and get out of the way. That Bret Stephens-Pierre Delecto-Bill Kristol view of the heartland has no place anymore in the new GOP. One Nation now. Global Grifters, GTFO. China welcomes you. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-01 09:27 |
| #5 /\ Link to b's VF article. Appears VF may be incorrect. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-02-01 08:48 |
| #4 The author: David M. Drucker | Vanity Fair [Search domain www.vanityfair.com/contributor/david-m-drucker] https://www.vanityfair.com/contributor/david-m-drucker After a long, hot summer of self-immolation, Trump's 2020 prospects look bleak. |
| Posted by: b 2020-02-01 08:43 |
| #3 Dude will be 76 years old four years from now and well over half of Republican voters will never support him again. Ain't happening, Mitt, and next time put Seamus inside the car! |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-02-01 07:50 |
| #2 Mitt Romney Is ‘Formally Not Invited’ To CPAC |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-02-01 05:17 |
| #1 et tu Brute [how did that work out in the end?] |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-02-01 04:57 |