Mitt Romney may vote Libertarian, as GOP criticism of Trump deepens

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/The Guardian

The former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has said he will consider voting for the Libertarian party in the presidential election instead of Donald Trump, in a stark example of how far the GOP establishment is from accepting the billionaire leading its bid for the White House.

Romney, who lost to Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, even said that the decision to vote against his party would be “very easy” if Bill Weld, another former Massachusetts governor who has fundraised for Romney, was at the top of the Libertarian ticket.

“If Bill Weld were at the top of the ticket, it would be very easy for me to vote for Bill Weld for president,” Romney told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Friday. The Libertarian nominee is currently former Republican governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson, with Weld as his vice-presidential pick.

Romney, who is hosting his annual ideas retreat in Utah, where speaker of the house Paul Ryan and Republican national committee chair Reince Priebus among the attendees, added that he was going to try to “get to know Gary Johnson better and see if he’s someone who I could end up voting for. That’s something which I’ll evaluate over the coming weeks and months”.

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If Romney was not so vindictive and did not himself go totally anti-immigrant to win the 2012 Republican primary, I might believe him. But, substantively, is there much difference between Romney's policies and Trump's? Only difference is that the racism is more overt.

[rurallib]

1. hope when Romney goes to vote they challenge his residency

and force him to vote provisional.

[skepticscott]

2. Policy aside, Romney at least has some clue

about what it takes to actually govern, and is smart enough to see that Trump not only doesn't, but doesn't particularly care.

[IronLionZion]

3. Libertarians might pose a record showing this year

in important libertarian-leaning swing states like New Hampshire, New Mexico and others.

Trump's nomination is evidence of a lot of anti-establishment backlash on the right, but he's such an asshole that many can't stand to vote for him in the general election.