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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs this a good thing - Romney replacing Orrin Hatch?
Like comparing a bite from a rattlesnake to a bite from a cobra - On the grand scale of things, I suppose this is somewhat good. Utah will never, in my lifetime, elect a Democrat, so I suppose this is somewhat better.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)The only thing that he is going to do is give disapproving soundbites and then vote with the crazies.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)exboyfil
(17,857 posts)We haven't seen the last of him.
Javaman
(62,439 posts)I just finished rereading an old article about mittens.
he is and always be a fucking pile of shit.
here's the article if you are interested...
Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-183291/
and on a side note, i'm convince that mittens is a sociopath.
Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)Romney, as right as he is, is far more moderate than Hatch, especially in the last decade.
Hatch is/was president pro tempore of the Senate, and thus in the line of presidential succession. I dont know who the next one will be Leahy?
On edit: looks like it will be a Repub. Darn.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_pro_tempore_of_the_United_States_Senate
Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)Much like the quaking Aspen.
unblock
(51,974 posts)i resent having to choose, but hatch is vile and partisan and slimey with no redeeming traits at all.
rmoney, at least, is not hatch.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)philf99
(238 posts)I bet he kisses Trump's ass like the rest of them
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)But, hey, the US is basically a giant asylum.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)to stand up to Trump.
Freethinker65
(9,932 posts)But he will not be a batshit crazy two faced partisan like Hatch became. Mitt wants a legacy seat he can pass onto his heirs.
Quixote1818
(28,903 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)But will he be really anti-Trump or anti-Trump like Flake and Collins?
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)He'll talk a great game, but he'll fall in line every single time.
Mitt is not a good guy. He let Trump endorse him in 2012 and didn't reject it. This was after Trump started his racist birther shit against Obama. I have not forgotten this. Fuck Mitt.
kurtcagle
(1,601 posts)it's worth remembering that Romney is also in line to eventually become the LDS president, which in Mormonism is considered to be the type of that hierarchy, and as such, expect him to hew fairly closely to what best promotes Mormon interests as a senator. The Mormons are evangelical, but not to the extremes of the fundamentalists, and the more urban Mormons in general are relatively "moderate".
Also, Trump was significantly weakened by this election, and he did not make a lot of allies even on the Republican side. I suspect that this is going to create a growing chasm between those Republicans that tended to align with McCain and the Trumpians.
Finally, I don't think Romney has abandoned his own presidential ambitions, and appearing as a Trump lapdog will not do him any favors in 2020 if he does run. Romney will still be an asshole (McCain was an asshole) but I think he'll try to be a voice of "moderation" in the Senate.