If they want to win Florida they should run Pat Sajak
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Thatâs the face of a man that would change party registration for the good of his bank balance
Heâd put it all on a Service Merchandise gift certificate.
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Mitt Romney will not run for re-election in 2024.
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Massive loss in VORP.
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What policies does Romney support that his replacement wouldnât? Getting rid of him makes it harder to pretend there is such a thing as a reasonable Republican.
He voted for KBJ and both Trump impeachments.
Your second sentence does have some merit.
His vote wasnât needed on KBJ and there were never enough votes to impeach Trump. Was he ever a threat to cross party lines if he could be the deciding vote on something substantive?
Not sure the situation ever came up. The big test for this would have been Kavanaugh, but Romney wasnât there yet.
Hereâs the profile of Romney. He does drop some inside knowledge about Republicans in the Senate but nothing you wouldnât know if you were deeply cynical. That theyâre mostly duplicitous with Trump, privately mocking him but publicly praising him because of mix of ambition and fear of their base.
But it was hard to dispute that the battle for the GOPâs soul had been lost. And Romney had his own soul to think about. He was all too familiar with the incentive structure in which the partyâs leaders were operating. He knew what it would take to keep winning, the things he would have to rationalize.
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Really bad way to look at VORP.
Nobody is saying there are âreasonable republicansâ but there are clearly degrees of unreasonableness. Romney is much less unreasonable than his likely derpy replacement.
A really good way to look at VORP is if there is any meaningful difference if he is replaced. âReasonableâ Republican is a fiction used by journalists to prop up centrist narratives.
Mitt speaking out against Trump had a tangible effect on the Mormon vote. Probably did enough to hand Biden AZ.
any R yelling at Josh Hawley instead of joining him is the best R you can get at this point.
anyway above map looks right to me, Iâd guess within 5 points, TX/FL/WI/MI/AZ/NV/maybe PA. FL is zero chance but within 5 points. Donât think OH/MT/WV are at all but maybe brown stays within 5 idk.
From the back of his yacht!
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So many people cheering âbecause heâs a republicanâ anyway, sure he was the most conservative dem, but also his votes were closer to markey than capito (the other WV senator). He wasnât going to win but it wouldâve been single digits instead of at least 30+ probably 40+. He was annoying but without him and that meaningless but pissed everyone here off Kavanaugh vote he doesnât get re elected in 2018.
Heâll float the idea of president but bail when he sees that even though everyone hates both parties, the appetite for a third one is closer to 80 or 96 than 92.
Dems really canât afford to punt a seat though the margin is too small. Even 49 is way better than 48. Collins or Murk step out of R line once in awhile.
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