{"id":56657,"date":"2024-03-01T00:40:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T00:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56657"},"modified":"2024-03-01T00:40:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T00:40:51","slug":"wait-for-rino-epithet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56657","title":{"rendered":"Wait for &#8216;RINO!&#8217; epithet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Mitt Romney, the Republican junior senator from Utah, has made his choice for president clear &#8230; which is that he will &#8220;absolutely not&#8221; vote for the presumptive GOP nominee this year.<\/p>\n<p>Romney famously called the former POTUS a &#8220;phony and a fraud&#8221; in 2016. Then he became the first senator to vote to convict a president from his own party when the former Liar in Chief stood trial in the first of two impeachments.<\/p>\n<p>Romney says &#8220;character counts&#8221; for his vote. Thus, he cannot vote for the party&#8217;s nominee if it happens to be the idiot who stands ready to accept the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The fans of the ex-POTUS are going to proclaim Romney to be a Republican In Name Only. Why? Because he isn&#8217;t loyal to the moron who once held the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, Sen. Mitt Romney is much more of a Republican than the guy he opposes.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney, the Republican junior senator from Utah, has made his choice for president clear &#8230; which is that he will &#8220;absolutely not&#8221; vote for the presumptive GOP nominee this year. Romney famously called the former POTUS a &#8220;phony and a fraud&#8221; in 2016. Then he became the first senator to vote to convict a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wait for &#8216;RINO!&#8217; epithet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[9543,1941,3101],"class_list":["post-56657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2024-election","tag-gop","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56657","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=56657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56658,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56657\/revisions\/56658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}