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26 Jan 2024, 3:58 am by SHG
It’s not that I dispute what he has to say, but just don’t know as it was never my party and, aside from its presidential candidates like Mitt Romney and John McCain, offered nothing to suggest that I would ever consider supporting it. [read post]
24 Jan 2024, 1:29 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  One bit of conventional wisdom is that he was setting himself up for future runs for President, for which there is at least some precedent, with the failed Republican primary challengers like John McCain in 2000 and Mitt Romney in 2008 becoming the failed general election candidates John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012 -- and also, to be sure, the failed George H.W. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
With the exception of Utah’s Mitt Romney, all of the Republican Senators voted to acquit Trump.Trump fared worse during his second impeachment (for incitement of the January 6 insurrection), this time losing seven Republican Senators. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 7:01 pm by Jeralyn
Rick Santorum won by a 34 vote margin over Mitt Romney. [read post]
11 Jan 2024, 7:22 am
 At 1:38, the words on screen are "Mitt Romney and the Republican Party... plan to Overturn Roe v. [read post]
28 Dec 2023, 5:00 am by Neil H. Buchanan
Note to readers: Given how frequently I've written this year about my relocation to Canada (a move that even made me a very minor one-day New York Times celebrity), it only makes sense in choosing a Classic column to reach back to when I began writing essays that were rather poorly disguised messages regarding my intention to bug out of the US. [read post]
5 Dec 2023, 4:14 am
Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who has urged Republican donors to coalesce around an alternative to Trump as early as possible in next year’s primary.I see "Betting odds show Haley now Trump’s top GOP challenger in 2024" (Las Vegas Review-Journal). [read post]
29 Nov 2023, 5:07 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  In October 2012, I wrote complementary Verdict and Dorf on Law columns in which I explained why the Republican Party by that time had clearly revealed its sociopathic foundations.In particular, I pointed out in the Verdict column that Republicans of the day -- most definitely including that year's Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney -- had "openly advocated policies that harm innocent people—and they have adopted methods to achieve those ends that… [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 7:03 am by Rick Hasen
Explosive claim (if true) via Mediaite: Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) revealed to biographer McKay Coppins that the threat of physical violence effectively kept many elected Republicans from voting to impeach or convict President Donald Trump, even though they wanted to. [read post]
24 Oct 2023, 12:54 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  Recently, for example, Republicans (with no objection from the supposedly reasonable Mitt Romney, by the way) were perfectly happy to "save" money -- and thus fight the scourge of public debt -- by allowing the expansion of the Child Tax Credit to lapse, resulting in three million additional children being sent back into poverty. [read post]
21 Oct 2023, 4:30 am
[Romney called Hannity, and Hannity] accused Romney of just trying to be liked by left-wing media. [read post]
18 Oct 2023, 8:04 am
"Mitt Romney texted Mitch McConnell on January 2, 2020, quoted in "The Juiciest Revelations From Mitt Romney’s Tell-All Biography" (NY Magazine).Romney wrote that he'd just heard "from Angus King, who said that he had spoken with a senior official at the Pentagon who reports that they are seeing very disturbing social media traffic regarding the protests planned on the 6th. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 4:21 am
 The Mitt Romney Christmas card is legendary in some niche circles in Washington. [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 11:28 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  The targets of intimidation change what they do without having been harmed because they believe the threats that Trump is inspiring his followers to make.A few weeks ago, Mitt Romney's announcement that he would not run for a second term in the US Senate was timed to coincide with the release of an authorized biography of Romney. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
At least in recent years, with a few notable exceptions (like former Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney and soon-to-retire Senator Mitt Romney), Republican elected officials have tended to stand by and even defend their fellow Republicans despite credible public evidence of serious wrongdoing. [read post]
17 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
It cows people into feigned agreement and produces frightened acquiescence.Trump is a master of this craft.The latest indication of his success came this week when The Atlantic published a long story about Mitt Romney. [read post]
15 Sep 2023, 4:17 am by SHG
Rolling out the announcement that he won’t run for re-election, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah has framed it as a passing of the torch. [read post]
13 Sep 2023, 11:05 am by Mary Chastain
The post Mitt Romney Not Running for Reelection in 2024: ‘New Generation of Leaders’ first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion. [read post]
31 Jul 2023, 5:00 am by Unknown
Mitt Romney (R-Utah), would require the U.S. to advocate in international organizations to which the U.S. and China belong to change China’s status from “developing nation” to “developed nation. [read post]