Full Mitt Romney: Trump’s Campaign One of ‘Retribution, Anger and Hate’

Dec 10, 2023 | Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) joins Meet the Press exclusively for a wide-ranging interview on former President Trump’s latest comments vowing to act as a dictator “on day one,” the recent Texas Supreme Court decision to temporarily block a pregnant woman from having an emergency abortion, and more.

Mitt Romney is right on the money in what he says about Donald Trump. But what’s with this “pro-life” bullshit? ALL sensible people are “pro-life”! But that doesn’t and should not mean that they should be anti-abortion! Sometimes abortions are necessary. They are necessary to save the mother’s life and necessary to save the child from a life of ongoing misery!

If US politicians are so “pro-life”, why don’t they ban the purchase of semi-automatic weapons by people who are ill-equipped and incapable of using them properly? People, indeed, who shouldn’t have access to them in the first place! Period! That would save lives. A hell of a lot of American lives.

So all this highfalutin nonsense about worrying about the life of a foetus is just that: highfalutin nonsense! In a word: Bullshit! – © Mark Alexander

Steve Schmidt Reacts to Mitt Romney Retiring and Excerpts from His Upcoming Book | The Warning

Sep 14, 2023 | Steve Schmidt breaks down Mitt Romney's decision to not run for senate in 2024. Steve discusses Mitt Romney's admitted frustration with Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and other MAGA Republicans.

$1 Trillion Infrastructure Deal Scales Senate Hurdle with Bipartisan Vote

Senator Mitt Romney of Utah and other Republicans who negotiated the deal urged their colleagues to support a measure they said would provide badly needed funding for infrastructure projects. Credit...T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The vote was a breakthrough after weeks of wrangling among White House officials and senators in both parties, clearing the way for action on a top priority for President Biden.

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Wednesday to take up a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that would make far-reaching investments in the nation’s public works system, as Republicans joined Democrats in clearing the way for action on a crucial piece of President Biden’s agenda.

The 67-to-32 vote, which included 17 Republicans in favor, came just hours after centrist senators in both parties and the White House reached a long-sought compromise on the bill, which would provide about $550 billion in new federal money for roads, bridges, rail, transit, water and other physical infrastructure programs.

Among those in support of moving forward was Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader and a longtime foil of major legislation pushed by Democratic presidents. Mr. McConnell’s backing signaled that his party was — at least for now — open to teaming with Democrats to enact the plan. » | Emily Cochrane and Jim Tankersley | Wednesday, July 28, 2021

A Look at What the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Would Do »

Mitt Romney Blasts Trump's Lack of Pandemic Leadership

Sen. Mitt Romney blasted President Donald Trump's leadership, or lack thereof, in the face of the deadly coronavirus pandemic as "a great human tragedy."

Romney, Breaking With Republicans, Will Vote to Convict Trump of Abuse of Power

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, grew emotional on the Senate floor as he pronounced President Trump “guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust.”

WASHINGTON — Senator Mitt Romney of Utah announced on Wednesday that he would vote to convict President Trump of abuse of power, making him the first Republican to support removing Mr. Trump for his bid to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.

“I think the case was made,” Mr. Romney said in an interview in his Senate office on Wednesday morning, ahead of an afternoon floor speech in which he grew emotional as he explained his decision. He declared Mr. Trump “guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust.”

Mr. Romney said he would vote against the second article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, arguing that House Democrats had failed to exhaust their legal options for securing testimony and other evidence they had sought. But the first-term senator said that Democrats had proved their first charge, that the president had misused his office for his own personal gain. » | Mark Leibovich | Wednesday, February 5, 2020

How Mitt Romney Plans to Take on Trump

CNN's Dana Bash reports on Mitt Romney's complex approach to President Trump as he runs for senate in Utah, saying he is ready to speak out against Trump if he disagrees, but recognizes it's Trump's Republican Party.

Trump Picks Elaine Chao as Transportation Secretary

President-elect Donald Trump has offered Elaine Chao the job of transportation secretary in his administration. Chao served as secretary of labor under President George W. Bush. The New York Times magazine's Mark Leibovich joins CBSN to discuss Trump's latest appointment and his leading contenders for secretary of state.

Judge Jeanine: Mitt Romney Awoke a Sleeping Giant

Romney Launches Extensive Attack On Trump: 'A Genius He Is Not'

THE GUARDIAN: Mitt Romney says Trump's 'third-grade theatrics' not worthy of presidency »

Buyer's Remorse? Poll Says Romney Would Be Better President

Jul. 03, 2014 - 4:39 - Voters believe country would be better off under former Republican challenger

Mitt Romney: Russia 'Playing Politically' against America

Mar. 25, 2014 - 10:39 - Former presidential candidate on how Obama is containing the crisis

Mitt Romney Calls Barack Obama 'Naive' on Russia and Vladimir Putin

THE GUARDIAN: • Losing 2012 candidate slams president for 'faulty judgment'
• Senator Durbin accuses Republican of 'political amnesia'

Mitt Romney said on Sunday that President Barack Obama is naive when it comes to Russia, has shown "faulty judgment" about Moscow's intentions and could have done more to try to deter its annexation of Crimea.

The 2012 Republican presidential nominee said Obama had not had the foresight to anticipate Russia's moves and should have been working earlier with allies to make clear the penalties that Russia would face if it moved into Ukraine. Romney did acknowledge that such steps might not have been enough though to hold back Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

"Had we communicated those things, there's always the potential that we could have kept them from invading a country and annexing it into their own," Romney said in an appearance on Face the Nation, on CBS. » | Associated Press in Washington | Sunday, March 23, 2014


Putin urged to make Transdniestria his next conquest »

US Power Failure: A Price of Obama's Failed Leadership?

Mar. 18, 2014 - 3:11 - Karl Rove on Mitt Romney's op-ed on the consequences of alleged Obama's missteps in handling of Putin and the Ukraine and other world crises

Was Mitt Romney Right to Warn about Russia?

Mar. 03, 2014 - 3:08 - Peter Johnson, Jr. weighs in

Exclusive: Mitt Romney Previews the State of the Union

Romney urges the president to find 'common ground' with Republicans

Fox News Exclusive: Mitt Romney on How He Would Re-open the Government

Former presidential candidate says Obama should engage in the 'job of governing'

Romney Breaks Silence in Bitter Broadside at Obama

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Mitt Romney, speaking for the first time since losing the US presidential election to Barack Obama, has blamed his defeat on "gifts" showered by the president on his female, young, African-American and Hispanic supporters.

Mr Romney accused Mr Obama of following the "old playbook" by bestowing favors on key Democratic constituencies in exchange for their support at the ballot box.

"In each case they were very generous in what they gave to those groups," the defeated Republican presidential nominee said during a phone call with his national finance committee.

"With regards to the young people, for instance, a forgiveness of college loan interest, was a big gift," Mr Romney said.

Mr Obama garnered 51 percent of the popular vote, while Mr Romney got 48 percent. The president's win was more decisive in the Electoral College, where he earned 332 votes against Mr Romney's 206.

Romney's remarks, reported by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, echoed controversial remarks made to donors at a private fundraiser, denigrating the "47 percent" of US voters who he said failed to pay income tax. » | Source: AFP | Thursday, November 15, 2012

Republican Right Weeps Over Obama's Victory – Then Begins Internal Civil War

THE OBSERVER: The clash between diehard conservatives and modernisers will dictate the fate of a party which increasingly seems to appeal only to angry, older white Americans

The town of Pella, Iowa, looks an almost too perfect vision of smalltown America. Surrounded by a chessboard of prosperous farmland and with a bustling town square, lined with shops bearing the surnames of its first Dutch settlers, Pella feels like a throwback to a different age.

But beneath its attractive exterior last week one could find some ugly sentiments on election day. "Obama is a Muslim," said Shirley Schutte, 75. Was she sure about that? "I am. I am not sure he even should have been there [in the White House]. He has been a disaster."

Such a fervent belief is not typical of most Republican voters, whether in Pella or anywhere else in America. But it is not hard to find. One poll in Mississippi even found some 52% of likely Republican voters suspected President Barack Obama was a follower of Islam. Neither has the party leadership done too much to discourage equally outlandish ideas, such as Obama being born in Kenya. From business mogul Donald Trump to top elected officials, Republicans have carefully crafted a message of Obama as a radical "other" hoping to transform America in some dangerous way.

Yet far from exiling Obama outside the US mainstream, many experts, now including leading conservative figures, believe the Republican party itself is being pushed into the political wilderness. The Republicans increasingly look like the party of angry, older white people. People like Schutte. And that does not work in America any more.

As Republicans sifted through the wreckage of the Mitt Romney campaign, they saw collapsing popularity among fast-emerging ethnic groups, such as Hispanics, and key social demographics, such as young people. In an economy struggling with 7.9% unemployment, where more than half of voters believed the country was heading in the wrong direction and against an unpopular incumbent, the once fiercely effective Republican party machine only managed to craft a devastating defeat. » | Paul Harris in Pella | Saturday, November 10, 2012

New Dawn? This Looks More Like a New Dusk

MAIL ONLINE: The next four years for America look bleak. It’s not so much a new dawn as a new dusk. And with 50 months left in power, President Obama, his hands tied by a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, is a lame duck already.

He was re-elected despite a majority of voters thinking the economy is on the wrong track. And with tax rises that could wreck recovery due on January 1 – the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ – experts fear a recession here in 2013.

The most sensible policy – which a Romney administration would have pursued – is deficit reduction. Instead, the second Obama term will increase the deficit, further diminishing America’s economic power and credibility.

Around $1trillion a year will be added to debt – bringing the total to $20trillion by 2016. This will drive up interest rates on US bonds, and hard-pressed Americans will have to pay more taxes to fund higher interest payments.

Meanwhile, the President is determined to push through his ‘Obamacare’ health insurance policy, which would account for a large part of that increase.

But the Democrats are well aware that the pumping of federal money into corporate bail-outs and infrastructure projects in declining regions is the key to creating a state clientele that keeps voting them back into office.

The administration is already devising stealth taxes to help pay for the bribes it wishes to offer the coalition of minorities that comprise its supporters. Some will corrode the core of American self-reliance, such as taxes on any substantial capital gains made from house sales. Others are simply opportunist, such as a tax on tanning salons.

These are all measures of how desperate the financial situation is – a reality apparently kept from most of the American electorate, so far. Read on and comment » | Simon Heffer | Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Bibi’s Bad Bet: Netanyahu Damaged Political Chances By Backing Romney