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I never thought this day would come, when members of the Republican Party \u2013 those who have swilled the snake oil peddled by a fraud \u2013 would turn on one of the party\u2019s truest believers and use his name as a cudgel to beat their opponents bloody.<\/p>\n

They would call them “Mitt Romney Republicans.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Believe this or not, but the Donald Trump cultists are now using Sen. Mitt Romney\u2019s name as an epithet. Yeah, that Mitt Romney, the junior senator from Utah, the 2012 GOP nominee for president who came quite close to defeating President Obama, the fellow who saved the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the son of a successful governor of Michigan.<\/p>\n

How in the world did Mitt earn the title of becoming a four-letter word in today\u2019s GOP politics?<\/p>\n

He voted to convict Donald Trump during the two impeachment trials that Trump faced during his term in office. That\u2019s it! He sided with the rule of law on both occasions. He delivered an impassioned and emotional floor speech in the Senate prior to announcing his decision to vote to convict Trump during the initial impeachment trial, which came after the House impeached Trump for soliciting a political favor from the president of Ukraine in that so-called \u201cperfect phone call.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitt became the sole Republican senator in that first trial to seek a conviction. The second impeachment trial \u2013 caused by Trump\u2019s inciting of the 1\/6 insurrection \u2013 saw nine more GOP senators join Mitt Romney in voting to convict Trump.<\/p>\n

All of this speaks so badly of a once-great political party, that its rabid followers of the ex-Narcissist in Chief would stoop so low as to label a one-time ideal Republican politician a pariah and a man worthy of political scorn among his fellow conservatives.<\/p>\n

Hey, I didn\u2019t vote for Sen. Romney when he ran against President Obama in 2012. However, my respect for him only has grown as he has remained loyal \u2013 along with a few of his GOP congressional colleagues \u2013 to the oath they took when they began their terms. It was an oath to protect the Constitution and to follow the law.<\/p>\n

What in the name of fealty to the founders’ intent is wrong with that? Someone has to explain it to me.<\/p>\n

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I never thought this day would come, when members of the Republican Party \u2013 those who have swilled the snake oil peddled by a fraud \u2013 would turn on one of the party\u2019s truest believers and use his name as a cudgel to beat their opponents bloody. They would call them “Mitt Romney Republicans.” Believe … Continue reading ‘Mitt’ becomes latest GOP four-letter word<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9843,1941,3101],"class_list":["post-52216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cultists","tag-gop","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52216"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52222,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52216\/revisions\/52222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}