Mitt Romney: My Conscience Won't Allow Me to Vote for Trump or Clinton

[brooklynite]

Source: The Atlantic

Before the 1964 Presidential election, Governor George Romney was part of an effort to stop Senator Barry Goldwater from winning the Republican Party’s nomination.

Today, his son Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 nominee for the presidency, has emerged as a leading establishment critic of Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee. On Wednesday, he reiterated that he will not vote Trump due to defects in Trump’s character and a belief that Trump is destroying the GOP’s future with women, Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans, and millenials. Neither will Romney vote for Hillary Clinton.

“It’s a matter of personal conscience,” he said. “I can’t vote for either of those two people.” He suggested that he would write in his wife’s name––she would be “an ideal president,” he said––or he would cast his ballot for a third-party candidate.

And he reaffirmed that he will not be that candidate.

Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/mitt-romney-my-conscience-wont-allow-me-to-vote-for-donald-trump-or-hillary-clinton/489473/

[Itchinjim]

1. Which begs the question:

"Who gives a shit who you're going to vote for, Mittens?"

[yurbud]

13. there's that. Not even most Republicans care. They want a blood-thirsty Bush or

willfully ignorant Palin or Trump, not a Latte libertarian like Mittens.

[Chemisse]

2. Good plan, Romney.

Let's hope many others follow your lead.

[rug]

3. But his conscience allowed him to make a fortune buying and looting corporations.

[Botany]

4. " Mitt Romney: My Conscience Won't Allow Me to Vote for Trump or Clinton"

But Mitt's conscience isn't bothered by his using borrowwed money to buy up a
business then loading that business up with debt, selling off the parts of the business,
outsourcing the products the business made to China, laying off the employees,
looting the pension funds of that business' employees, and turning the health care
costs of the former employees over to the government. So what if that ruins people's
lives at least Mitt and his other wealthy friends make some money.

[mountain grammy]

5. Conscience? Really, Mittens?

Your found it?

[geek tragedy]

6. Ann Romney as an ideal president?

LMAO.

But, he's actually showing some principle in rejecting Trump, unlike the blatant sycophants or cowards in his party.

[yellowcanine]

7. Shut up Mitt. No one cares about your conscience.

[fasttense]

8. This from a man who believes corporations are people? n/t

[tavernier]

9. He is only worried that Frump might win

when he, Mitt the Mighty, didn't. That would be mucho embarrassing, being beaten by a man with an IQ of 30, next to his 80.

[Person 2713]

10. Speared it around LDS mitt thanks

[Coventina]

11. Mittens has a conscience now? Wish he'd had one for the poor dog.

[The Second Stone]

12. And my conscience wouldn't let me vote for Romney due to his

vulture capitalism and contempt for Americans. I'd have no problem voting for his wife's horse if that was the choice in such an election.

[onehandle]

14. Good. One less vote for Trump is one more vote for Hillary.

But you are still a major dick.

[chapdrum]

15. Boy, he's really principled.

[TacoD]

16. Sometime between now and November, he'll fall in line behind Trump.

They always do.

[Third Doctor]

17. He has a conscience?

[Nitram]

18. His conscience? What conscience?

[Festivito]

19. Yeah, stay at home, homes, all your homes at the same time.

It'll only cost you and arm and leg, and an arm and a leg, and a foot or two and possibly leave you ahead.

[Ash_F]

20. What does Romney even do for living now?

[ileus]

21. Poor mitt....a non trump vote is a vote for our Hillary.

They have no chance of winning without every mitt in the country, and a bunch of I's...


We've got this one sealed up tighter than richards hatband.

[closeupready]

22. Keep Mitt busy - aren't there any pension funds begging to be raided?

He should be spending his silver years doing what he does best - bloodsucking assets from cash-poor but viable companies.

[StraightRazor]

23. No one cared what he thought four years ago and no one cares now...

What pisses me off most about this idiot is that once losing the election he went right back to doing what he was doing prior to running - making himself more and more wealthy - did absolutely nothing with regard to public service, and then 'almost' ran again as if he's some kind of respected elder statesman.

There ought to be a law that says if you want to be President you should have to show some actual proof that you give a shit about making this country a better place for everyone, and not just a personal desire to milk it for all it's worth and then hand it back to the adults once you've taken as much as you can for you and your pals.

If so, we'd never have a Republican President.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

24. R-Money has a conscience??

[LeftRant]

25. I heard his conscience has an elevator in it.

He can go from floor to floor, depending on whether he wants an endorsement from Trump or wants to distance himself from him!

[milestogo]

26. His conscience allowed him to put a caged dog on top of his car

during a family vacation.

[NanceGreggs]

27. Another also-ran weighs in ...

... as though he is still relevant.

There's been a lot of that going around lately.

[MFM008]

28. who?

[JHB]

29. You built that, Mitt

Have fun in a better Amercia