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2020-09-20 Home Front: Politix
'Grossly false': Romney throws cold water on claim he won't vote on SCOTUS nominee until next year
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Posted by Fred 2020-09-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Redeem yourself, Pierre. Before you get caught in flagrante Delecto yet again
Posted by Tarzan Lover of the Weak1320 2020-09-20 01:05||   2020-09-20 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course he won't pass up a chance to vote against Trump this year...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-09-20 05:23||   2020-09-20 05:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Sort of found you like being a Senator? How are the polls in Utah?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-09-20 08:03||   2020-09-20 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Seems like there always has to be a jerk McCain-like "maverick".
Posted by Clem 2020-09-20 08:40||   2020-09-20 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 ...but strangely, never on the other side of the aisle.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-09-20 09:43||   2020-09-20 09:43|| Front Page Top

#6  What happens if a justice dies during or retires in an election year.

During the 2000 Gore vs. Bush election, recall that SCOTUS decided the election outcome as the result of the manufactured "hanging chad" brouhaha. In today's climate, this would be Hanging Chad X 1000 of created chaos.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-09-20 09:44||   2020-09-20 09:44|| Front Page Top

#7 @Pro -- Indeed, I thought about that, too. Quite strange.
Posted by Clem 2020-09-20 09:48||   2020-09-20 09:48|| Front Page Top

#8 OK, so he'll vote. But how will he vote?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-09-20 10:18||   2020-09-20 10:18|| Front Page Top

#9 He knows his job is on the line. Still, in the end he’s still a scorpion.
Posted by Speng Snaviting6874 2020-09-20 10:21||   2020-09-20 10:21|| Front Page Top

#10 More like a chameleon.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-09-20 11:09||   2020-09-20 11:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, everything else about him is grossly false so why not this as well.
Posted by Cesare 2020-09-20 11:41||   2020-09-20 11:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Pierre not as popular as Trump in Utah
Posted by Bobby 2020-09-20 12:38||   2020-09-20 12:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Mitt is all about being noticed and displaying a high moral sense above all things, despite much of that being hubris.
I suspect he is signaling willingness to be a team player and present Mitch with a seeming pathway to confirmation. But as has been stated, on the national stage, he will remember he hates Trump and will be the scorpion again claiming divine guidance after prayer and revelation that decency cannot be ignored or some such drivel. Do not trust him!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-09-20 13:11||   2020-09-20 13:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Pierre's logic is simple.

If I can advance my interests - money above all, political power as well - without hurting Trump, then advance my interests.

If advancing those interests requires hurting Trump, then I will hurt Trump - unless he can hurt me, by reducing my ability to add to my fortune or stymie my political career.

Based on the above, Pierre's likely path will be to delay as much as possible and see where Trump stands on Nov. 4. If Trump wins handily, Pierre will tie the line. If Trump does not win handily, he'll pull his "maverick" BS and become a de facto (Delecto?) Independent.

In short he'll blow with the prevailing political winds and delay, delay, delay.
Posted by Thonter McCoy9874 2020-09-20 13:27||   2020-09-20 13:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Trump should quote RBG/Obama/Biden’s wisdom about it being their job to push forward during an election year.
Posted by Rjschwarz 2020-09-20 15:44||   2020-09-20 15:44|| Front Page Top

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