With each witness Trump fires, Mitt Romney looks better...

[Skinner]

...while Susan Collins, Lamar Alexander, and Lisa Murkowski look even worse.

They should have known that Trump would immediately make them look like complete assholes.

[leftieNanner]

1. Moscos Mitch may wonder

If he pushed his luck too far this time. Hope so!

[OliverQ]

9. Why would you think that?

It's not going to hurt McConnell for Trump to go full dictator.

[leftieNanner]

10. Wishful thinking

[Corgigal]

17. We hate his guts.

I have no idea how he gets re-elected. Got 5 extra votes for No this time around.

Not holding my breath.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I'm sure that Sen. Collins is concerned.

[Zolorp]

12. She will furrow her brow until the firings stop.

[DENVERPOPS]

38. She should be

she just watched Trump trample Comey, who single handedly gave him his presidency............

[madaboutharry]

3. Trump didn't need to make them look like complete assholes.

Collins, Alexander, and Murkowski accomplished that all by themselves.

[Rebl2]

36. Amen to that

[Voltaire2]

4. I have to give Mittens credit for standing up.

[Iliyah]

7. He did right this time . . .

[greyl]

46. Yes, but why didn't he vote guilty on both counts? nt

[5X]

5. GOPnazis won't notice

[Peregrine Took]

6. Only decent rethug out there. n/t

[nolabear]

8. I won't lie. I have fantasies about him challenging 45 in the general.

Of COURSE I don’t want him as president, but the thought of people comparing them and 45 having a stroke over it gives me a thrill.

[DesertRat]

25. It wouldn't surprise me if Romney ran for POTUS again in 2024

[reACTIONary]

33. Willard is 72...

... I guess its possible, given Sanders is Running at 78. But most likely he's not going further than where he is.

[NJCher]

27. not so impossible

We know that whenever trump escapes accountability he has to gin up some new situation from which to escape. It's a psychological pattern with him. Either something will break (such as the tax returns) or his health will take a nose dive. A stroke is my preferred means. (Can you tell I think about this A LOT?)

Mittens is totally positioned to take over that leadership role. He will fall right into it because, for one thing, he "looks" presidential. He has gov't experience. He favors the elite, so there will be machinations to maneuver him into place.

The republicans are fools for putting their fate in such a shaky individual as trump. He is actually quite fragile, with scandals, lawsuits, behavioral problems, poor judgment, stupidity, and on and on. Just one little slip, either of fate or his own stupidity, and it could fall right into the hands of Mitt Rmoney.

People around this forum like to lament that Trunp gets away with everything. He doesn't. The price for one's disgraceful, immoral behavior is not always prison, although we all would like to see him behind bars.

He paid a huge price during impeachment--you could see it on his face and with his family.

Nobody and I mean nobody is immune to fate/karma/whatever you want to call it. His day will come.

[wnylib]

41. If Romney is the Pub nominee

he might "win" the election. The means to steal it will still be in place. But he might not need to do that.

He has made himself a hero with his vote, which is why I have not given him my praise for it. I do not believe his vote came from an altruistic stance for nation above party. It was no great risk for him. He knew Trump would be acquitted so he would not be blamed for convicting him with his vote. I believe his vote was a calculated act to get just what is happening -- praise and a positive image among Dems, Independents, and those Pubs who are embarrassed by and fed up with Trump's lack of decorum.

Romney is no John McCain. He is a totally self-serving individual painting himself as moral and religious for the sake of a future (near future) run. At the very least, for the sake of taking over party leadership and influencing/rescuing it.

[livetohike]

11. You should see the lovely e-mail I received from my

coward Senator Toomey. Talk about looking bad.

[robbob]

19. Post it!

[Skittles]

13. I thought that very same notion when I heard about Vindman

the idea of a five-time deferred, Putin-owned pussy grabber firing a decorated hero -

[hlthe2b]

14. Yup... I can only hope voters remember this

[cwydro]

15. Yup.

Wonder what he’s got planned for Mitt - or is planning.

[DesertRat]

26. I'm sure given his vindictive nature, he'll never stop going after Mitt

He continued to blast McCain even after he was dead and buried.

[cwydro]

42. Spot on.

He’s a nasty pos.

[boston bean]

16. They just don't and have never given a shit.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. The Purge is on

I'd bet this rolls all weekend long

[DENVERPOPS]

43. Amen to that BF......WASF

They are just warming up............believe me.......a huge number of people should be worried. Trump is a vengeful psychopath narcissist and sadist.

the next few days and weeks will be just he start. He and the Repubs now are justified in thinking they can do anything, illegal or not, and get away scott free........Think what they will accomplish with that kind of power. We have seen what they have done and controlled without that kind of power...........

it is rumored that Trump and Barr are working on Criminal Charges against Adam Schiff and a bunch of others including dems in the house and government employees who testified, charging them for false prosecution, and other ginned up Criminal Charges.
I am sure that the Wrath Of Hell is gonna rain down on Biden and Son from every gov't agency including the FBI & DOJ.
They can subpoena them and keep them in depositions and hearings non stop from now until the election.
Obviously that is the person the Repubs are worried about, not the others.

They will have a perp walk, with a huge bunch of handcuffed dems in front of fox news cameras to rally their pathetic crowd and voters.......

WASF

[MFM008]

20. Its killing maggot

He can only do so much to Mitt Romney...

[NJCher]

28. plus Romney has money

eom

[Coventina]

35. Way more money than Trump, which I'm sure really makes Trump even more livid.

Trump is only a pretender to the billionaire status.

[2naSalit]

21. Can't argue with that....nt

[ancianita]

22. Standing up to Trump is the common denominator of Constitutionalists across our government.

They're called Americans.

[CatMor]

23. trump has to be careful ....

about going too far insulting and harassing Romney. It backfired on Junior with his disgusting Twitter.

[NRaleighLiberal]

24. he is drastically overplaying his hand. Karma time long overdue

[NJCher]

29. hahah

see my post 27 above. I was probably writing it when you were posting.

[Warpy]

30. The Orange Turd looks petty and vindictive

and I imagine this purge will get to Stalinist proportions, every petty grudge among White House staff to be turned into telling him that others spoke to his enemies but refused to testify. I imagine George will get Kelly Ann fired, which might have been his aim all along.

The only difference is that the Orange Turd isn't having them executed.....yet.

[Beartracks]

49. But Trump's fans see petty and vindictive as strong and heroic. Because cult. n/t

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[FiveGoodMen]

50. Yup.

Can't get over how many people here post "Do they know what hypocrites they are? How bad they look?"

They don't care.

And we ALL need to understand that.

[Pepsidog]

31. Romney finally made a decision based on some core values. My biggest gripe on Romney was his lack of

core values. Now Romney does what best for Romney but he did show some courage.

[PatrickforO]

32. Well...better IS a relative thing. But I will say this:

As odious as I find Romney's politics, his 'corporations are people, my friend!' statements, and his predatory capitalism as an officer of Bain Capital, were he president instead of Trump, we could feel much more confident that he would put country above party when the chips were down, and that he'd govern in a sane kind of way.

With Trump now that he's been acquitted, all bets are off.

We've got to vote that man out of the White House in November. We've got to.

[doc03]

34. I assume he knows who the whistleblower is. I look for him to out the whistleblower and

make a public spectacle out of firing him.

[Blue_true]

39. My guess is they try to pin poor job performance on the whistle-blower first.

That is what supervisors that are bastards do. Trump has used that tactic before.

[Blue_true]

37. I totally agree. All republican Senators up for reelection this year must be defeated.

[Xolodno]

40. Each person that gets fired...

...should be interviewed and used in campaign commercials separate from the nominee's commercials.

Nominee runs on issues.

PAC's expose the asshole for who he is.

[Captain Stern]

44. So what? That will matter in the history books, but doesn't matter one bit right now.

Now, they'll just slather the orange dullard's ass to get back in his good graces.

[Liberal In Texas]

45. I suppose he does but...Don't be fooled.

Just because Martin Borman looked better that Adolph dosen't mean we wanted him as the next chancellor.

We are being taken over by the most insidious coup to our government in the history of governments being taken over. For the first time in history they have unlimited amounts of money and have purchased control of media (both broadcast and social) and by slow attrition the legislatures and courts. We are not in some sort of theoretical fascist state, we are living in one.

[ecstatic]

47. I wonder how long it took his staff to convince him

that Mitt could not be fired. Uggh.

[Mr.Bill]

56. No problem for Trump.

He'll just attack the entire state of Utah.

[Dennis Donovan]

48. I can't see a scenario in which Collins survives in Nov

She's become a parody, a national running joke, a punchline on SNL for JUST this reason - her exceedingly poor judgment and her cowardice.

[guillaumeb]

51. I disagree.

Collins et al make themselves look like exactly what they are.

[malaise]

52. Look like complete assholes?

Ahem Skinner??

[SWBTATTReg]

53. Wise words. And with the firings rump is running through now, even more so...

[greatauntoftriplets]

54. I tend to agree with never-drumpfer Max Boot's take on this mess.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/08/trumps-friday-night-massacre-is-just-beginning-i-fear-whats-come/

[Still Sensible]

55. I don't think they really care

They are all in with their dear leader and that's that. He probably could shoot somebody on fifth avenue--in broad daylight--and those fools would not flinch.