Traitor. Rat. Loser. Disgusting human. Vindictive. Petulant child. Bitter. Piece of shit.
Those are just a few of the adjectives Republicans are using to describe their former party leader, Sen. Mitt Romney, after he voted to convict Donald Trump earlier today.
“The president asked a foreign government to investigate his political rival,” Romney said in an emotional speech on the Senator floor before casting his vote. “What the president did was wrong. Grievously wrong.”
Sen. Mitt Romney just announced he will vote to convict President Trump in a scathing speech pic.twitter.com/5g08SWBheK
— VICE News (@VICENews) February 5, 2020
Romney was the only Republican to side with Democrats when he voted yes on Article 1 of impeachment, which found Trump guilty of Abuse of Power. (He voted no on Article 2, which found Trump guilty of Obstruction of Congress.)
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The backlash from members of his tribe who, just eight years ago, wanted him to be their president, was swift and damning…
Mitt Romney is forever bitter that he will never be POTUS. He was too weak to beat the Democrats then so he’s joining them now.
He’s now officially a member of the resistance & should be expelled from the @GOP.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1225168111290200065
https://twitter.com/eodgof/status/1225174780564910080
One lovely dividend from the Dem impeachment farce: Useful Idiot Willard M. Romney now finished in national politics.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 5, 2020
Mitt Romney just lost again. He never gets tired of losing
— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) February 5, 2020
BREAKING NEWS: President Trump has been acquitted.
AND
A Republican Utah lawmaker introduced a bill in the state’s legislature to recall U.S. senators like Mitt Romney.
The WINNING never stops!
— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) February 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/BuzzPatterson/status/1225168591076487168
https://twitter.com/MillerStream/status/1225174619512090624
Sorry, Mitt, this is what the Left will always think of you. “Car Elevators Are The Latest In Luxury — Just Ask Mitt Romney” https://t.co/J97WM8VpDA
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) February 5, 2020
There's a lot of votes you can take and still stay in the Republican party
The one vote that's not acceptable?
Being the sole Republican to vote to impeach a Republican President
Mitt Romney is a straight-up traitor
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) February 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/TexasTruckMan/status/1225146751222501376
Every Democrat in the Senate is a liar and has no respect for the Constitution.
Oh yeah, and Mitt Romney.
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 5, 2020
We never thought we’d say this, but… We actually feel kinda sorry for the guy!
While he may be hated within his own party, we have a feeling history will feel much differently. And that’s what really matters.
Related: Nancy Pelosi ripped up Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. And now, the memes…
Hussain-TheCanadian
I maynot like you Mit but you do have my respect. what you did here takes alot of balls; loyalty should be to the constitution and the rule of law, not a political party.
Here in Canada, the biggest critics of each political party are it’s own members; we recognize that alliegence is to our bill of human rights and constitution, the political parties are there to present, apply, and uphold the constitution and bill of human rights, not to undermine it in order to create a fascistic style loyalty to the leader above all else.
Besides, who in their right mind would want a toddler like donny boy to be their dictator??
Kieran
Romney groveled at President Trump’s feet when he wanted to be Secretary of State. Trump led him on and toyed with him publicly. Trump ultimately rejected him. Sour grapes had more to do with his vote than “principle”.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@ Kieran
I agree with you 100% – Romney is a sleazy politician who is “safe” in protesting trump, I have no illusions about it.
All I’m saying is, he didnt have to do it. He attacked trump and his cult publicly, that’s risky no matter how you slice it. I’m comparing him to Linsey Graham, who appearently cannot keep his sleaziness in check.
Josh447
Jr. said, “he’s now part of the resistance” I guess we’re now in a Star Wars movie. Seems democracy is over, Rs and Ds are now warring sects.
I’ve always thought of Romney as the tan man George Hamilton of the Republican Party.
I find his conviction refreshing.
chase_boston
” We never thought we’d say this, but… We actually feel kinda sorry for the guy! ”
LET HIM BE DEVOURED !!!
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any bit of scratching on the Surface with the Mormom Church and its Magic Under
wear or the Mitt Romney Family has left a trail of rape and death as control loyalty!
fake is.rael & love is not pretending.
Dwight
He might get primaried out next time but in Utah he may be okay. He won Utah when running for President in 2012 (as a resident of Massachusetts) with 73% of the vote.
In 2016 Trump got the most votes but all he could manage was 46%. They hated him so much an independent got over 20% of the vote.
Kangol2
Drumpf did not get the most votes. Drumpf received 3 million FEWER votes than Hillary Clinton. He won the Electoral College by a 70,000 vote margin in 3 key states, but he received fewer popular–i.e., direct–votes than Hillary Clinton, which is why, in a 2 person race, he only won 46% of the country. He should have governed the way he slipped into office, with a hell of a lot more grace, magnanimity, and outreach to the side that got more votes. Instead, he’s governed as if he’s the second coming of Benito Mussolini or Francisco Franco, but with even fewer scruples, ethics and morals, and Putin’s hand deep up his ***.
jckfmsincty
Unlike Mitch McConnell, Romney knows that he has a soul.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Mitt, I take my wig off to you. It took guts to say, in so many words, “no, I am not going to stand here and acquit a man who has done more to run our democracy into the ground and bury it than an invading army led by ruthless generals could have ever hoped to have accomplished. We are conquered thanks to the spineless men who grew up poor, got law degrees and got themselves elected in a party that once stood for something other than greed and separation of the classes. After a thorough investigation of the 2016 if the truth of those findings were revealed we would be in a civil war and with a directionless, uneducated populace that we allowed to become armed to the teeth its best it not revealed. Fault Reagan all you so desire under his leadership there is no way this tragic episode in the history of our great country would have reached this level. Reagan was a man who was hellbent to defeat communism and he did so even though its collapse occurred during the Bush (George H. Bush) administration. A young CIA intelligence officer, Vladimir Putin, vowed revenge and he succeeded. Putin saw a fool and knew how to manipulate him and did so. Yes, I am launching my bid for the presidency in hoping to purge these criminals from the GOP but rest assured that my purge will be interrupted by the left who too are led by Putin. We have entered a dangerous time where now a dictator is right around the corner and he has no doubt been picked by the Russians to take over. It may come in the form of a fool claiming to be on a mission ordered by God or a strongman claiming to restore law and order. We don’t know, but we can only hope for the best. Thank you and god bless.”
Ok, thats not exactly how he put it but thats how me and ol’ Bob LaBlah see it.
Kieran
History doesn’t look kindly on rats. Think Benedict Arnold.
Den
History looks very kindly on those with integrity (and Romney is displaying something that at least resembles integrity) and not at all kindly on quislings, as so many Republican politicians are these days, putting party and a corrupt leader above country in EVERY way possible.
The rats are the ones that scurry around the feet of Trump.
Kangol2
@Kieran, you sound so sad that Romney showed courage and voted against your beloved anti-gay fascist con man treasonous psychopath Drumpf. Can’t people do the right thing for a change? I mean, given that Romney is a devout, right-wing politician, it seems he’s actually doing what he was elected to do.
Parkside
Romney is the only republican in senate today who has any self respect. Trolls are hard at work trying to create doubts. Trump should have been convicted as most republican senators know and Romney is the only one out them who acted on principle, courage and sense of duty. Shame.
Kangol2
I disagree with most of Mitt Romney’s politics, but I tip my hat to him on this. What was most impressive to me was his speech, which not only broke down the specious arguments from the Don the Con Drumpf gang, but then he appealed to the very thing all those fake pious clowns in the GOP love to cite, their “faith,” which is just code for a cover to do the bidding of the superrich, corporations, and increasingly, a hostile foreign power, in support of a man, Don the Con, whose own top advisor Steve Bannon called his and his son’s behavior “treasonous.” When Romney got choked up after mentioning his faith, it was clear to me that he meant every single word he was saying. Among the Repugs only Romney had the guts to stand up against the “treasonous” menace in the White House. If he never does anything else in life, he still will have outshone those 52 other moral and ethical cowards and the lazy criminal thug in the White House more than he ever could have imagined.
Aires the Ram
I am no fan of Mitt Romney, I didn’t vote for him in 2012. I would never vote for a Mormon.
That being said, seems many of you have tragically short memories. In 2012, when Romney was running for President on the Republican ticket, all you assholes could do was trash him; animal abuser, frat boy, Mormon homophobe, the list was LONG and it went on and on during the campaign in 2011. But you have forgotten that haven’t you? And now, he’s your fu*ki^%g hero for voting for the impeachment proceedings against Trump. How hypocritical of all of you. It’s kind of like the old saying: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Politics makes strange bedfellows, now doesn’t it???
Ask yourself this: If Romney runs for President again, on the Republican ticket, in 2024, will you be voting for him????? Naw, I didn’t think so. The current news about him is just another way for you to bash the President of the United States of America who was duly elected by the people.
greybat
Some of us remember all of those things.
Perhaps praise for one ethical action may lead to more in the future?
Parkside
2012 is so different from 2020. We didn’t have Trump as the president and republicans as gaveling enablers to a con dictator. If the choice came down to Trump or Romney, rest assured we would vote for Romney.