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Romney shocks GOP with vote to convict
2020-02-06
[The Hill] Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) shocked his fellow Republican senators and surprised much of the nation on Wednesday with a dramatic floor speech announcing he would vote to convict President Trump on the impeachment charge of abuse of power.

Romney announced his decision in a nearly empty Senate chamber just hours before the Senate voted to acquit Trump and after fellow GOP colleagues such as Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) had already announced they would not vote to convict Trump.

Just as surprising as his vote was the intensity of the 2012 Republican presidential nominee’s language.

While other Senate Republicans chided Trump for "inappropriate" conduct, Romney said "the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust" and "a flagrant assault on our electoral rights."

"The grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a ’high crime and misdemeanor.’ Yes, he did," he said.
Posted by:Besoeker

#25  From one Mormon (Donny O.) too another (Willard Defecto) -
GO AWAY, LITTLE GIRL:


Posted by: Lex   2020-02-06 20:34  

#24  Welcome to The Mittshow - rhymes with

... Asshole?
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-06 20:30  

#23  "Romney said 'the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust' that would be YOU, Pierre] and 'a flagrant assault on our electoral rights.'" [Read the Constitution, jack@ss, just like you swore you would when you took your oath of office. 'Waaahhh, my feewings are hurt,' is NOT a high crime or misdemeanor, no matter what you think.] IDIOT. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara   2020-02-06 20:11  

#22  
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2020-02-06 20:11  

#21  "He was just doing what God the DemoncRats told him to do."

FTFY #8 gorb - no charge.
Posted by: Barbara   2020-02-06 20:03  

#20  ^LOL
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2020-02-06 18:38  

#19  Libertarian party

= political equivalent of vanity publishing
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-06 18:18  

#18  I just heard that Romney is running for President on the Libertarian party.
Posted by: Solomon Brown7362   2020-02-06 17:32  

#17  Yeah 'shock' is not the right word, nor surprise, stuns, or anything else in that grocery aisle.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-02-06 17:02  

#16  #14 He hopes to take back the Republican party in 2024 for his kind

Agreed. But Pierre is so f---ing clueless, as usual.

Someone needs to tell this clown that his time is over.
Trump & Boris Johnson have put a stake through the heart of the Global Grifter Era.

It's behind us now. Rear-view mirror.

No turning back to the China-worship and private-equity financial-engineering and money-fiddler's economy that nearly destroyed our countries' working middle class. Gone. Not going back there.

[cue fellow Angel Moroni-fan Donny Osmond, crooning]
Go away, little girl.
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-06 16:46  

#15  I am more disgusted by his invoking his god than I am buy his vote. God does not require or support petty, selfish, childish vengeance. If yours does, lose him.
Posted by: Iblis   2020-02-06 15:13  

#14  He hopes to take back the Republican party in 2024 for his kind, thinking the current situation results only from the presence of The Donald. After all, everybody he respects loathes the man.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-02-06 15:10  

#13  There are a lot of similar personality traits which both Romney and Jim Comey have.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-02-06 11:28  

#12  I see pariah-hood for Pierre Defecto.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-02-06 11:26  

#11   He was just doing what God the Angel Moroni told him to do.

Posted by: Skidmark   2020-02-06 11:09  

#10  Een my crystal ball I see zee image uff a back bench seet forr heem.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-02-06 10:41  

#9  Shocked? Who is shocked? Does anyone still believe that putting an R next top your name is some kind of proof against bad character?
Posted by: Iblis   2020-02-06 09:49  

#8  He was just doing what God told him to do.
Posted by: gorb   2020-02-06 08:12  

#7  Remove him from all committees and responsibilities. Pierre Defecto can sit in the back row by himself

That's my initial reaction too. I think Cocaine Mitch is playing it perfectly by not mentioning these kinds of punishments, knowing that they could use the occasional Romney vote here and there. Otherwise Romney should just switch parties and get it over with.
Posted by: Raj   2020-02-06 08:10  

#6  #4 ...Quite frankly, if anyone was shocked they just weren't paying attention.

^
This.

The article is one of those "So brave!" puff pieces, like the ones about celebs who tie their own shoes or whatever.
Posted by: charger   2020-02-06 07:37  

#5  Remove him from all committees and responsibilities. Pierre Defecto can sit in the back row by himself
Posted by: Frank G   2020-02-06 05:22  

#4  ...Quite frankly, if anyone was shocked they just weren't paying attention.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2020-02-06 04:31  

#3  Looks like 2012 the voters were right and republicans wrong
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-02-06 03:21  

#2  Pierre Defunkt-o
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-06 03:11  

#1  Dodged one in 2012?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-02-06 03:02  

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