As he widely telegraphed several weeks ago, on Friday morning Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, formally announced he will run for Senate in Utah: “I am running for United States Senate to serve the people of Utah and bring Utah’s values to Washington” he tweeted.
I am running for United States Senate to serve the people of Utah and bring Utah's values to Washington. pic.twitter.com/TDkas6gD2p
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) February 16, 2018
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Today, Governor Mitt Romney announced his candidacy to represent Utah in the United States Senate.
“Utahns are known for hard work, innovation, and our can-do pioneering spirit. I am running for United States Senate because in these trying times there is no better moment to bring Utah’s values to Washington. Utah’s economic and political success is a model for our nation; I am ready to fight for this great state and advocate for solutions that improve the lives of Utahns,” said Romney.
In the coming months, Romney plans to visit each of the state’s 29 counties to talk with Utahns about their priorities, issues, and concerns. Utah’s dual-track nomination process includes gathering signatures for a June primary and participating in the caucus and convention system. Romney plans to participate in both the signature gathering process and the state GOP convention in April.
As NBC notes, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee will aim to replace 83-year-old Sen. Orrin Hatch in November’s election. The longtime senator announced his retirement in January even as Trump pushed him to run again.
Romney, 70, has a a strong chance to win the seat later this year. Though not a consistent Utah resident in years past, he has strong name recognition and is considered popular in the state. Romney is a Mormon who helped to reorganize the scandal-plagued 2002 Olympics Games in Salt Lake City.
The former governor would bring strong name recognition and influence as a first-term senator. While former aides expect Romney to push for conservative policies in the Senate, they also believe he will rebuke the president when necessary and potentially clash with him on some policies.
Romney likely would have backed the Republican tax law passed in December. But he may break with Trump on topics like relations with Russia and immigration.
Romney heavily criticized then-candidate Trump in a 2016 speech, calling him a “phony” and a “fraud.” He warned that Trump would cause economic instability and endanger Americans abroad.
Later, Romney unsuccessfully interviewed to be Trump’s secretary of State. Since, he has publicly rebuked Trump when he supported Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate accused of sexually abusing teenagers, and when the president reportedly questioned why the U.S. needed immigrants from “s—hole” African countries.
If he wins the seat and criticizes Trump while in office, he would mark a stark shift from Hatch. Hatch has heaped praise on the president in recent months, calling him a “heck of a leader” after the GOP passed its tax plan in December. Trump reportedly begged the 83-year old Hatch to run for re-election one more time.
Before entering politics, Romney led investment firm Bain Capital, a spin-off of Bain & Company. After his role in the Utah Olympics, he served as Massachusetts governor from 2003 to 2007
Romney unsuccessfully ran for president in 2008 before winning the GOP nomination in 2012.
I wonder if he got permission to run from the angel Moroni?
I see that professional carpetbagging has made a big comeback in the past few years.
Yes, but that’s not all of it. The RINOs want him in the Senate, and the state Repub party likes him, so they are pushing for him. To summarize and echo some others, we see:
The power is in two specific units: the LDS Church and the Republican Party. If the Church wants it, it gets it, which can lead to some pretty weird things: mixed drinks cannot be observed in construction in public restaurants, apparently because that might encourage alcoholism, or something; so there’s a partition, the “Zion Curtain”, between restaurant patrons and the person mixing the drinks. The state runs the liquor stores, and certain things (such as miniatures, like you could get on an airline) are not available. And various other irregularities, such as having a church seminar (“Institute of Religion”) across the street from nearly every high school, so the youth can be de-corrupted after classes. And so on and so forth, which goes hand in hand with:
The Republican Party, which has nearly every state office in Utah sewn up. Because the Party wants Mittens to run for Senator (thinking he’s a shoo-in) he is running, and because he’s Mormon he will win. Unless they catch him with a live girl or dead boy in his bed, that is. It really doesn’t matter who the Dems put up to try, the Repubs want Mittens and the Church will support him, so he will win. The Mormon faithful will vote as their bishops and apostles tell them to, it’s God’s will, don’t you know. The fact Mittens has only tenuous Utah roots (he did organize the successful 2002 Olympics, that’s true) but spent most of his years in Michigan and Massachutsetts won’t matter either. Nor will his Swamp creature globalist traits, which you’d think would be a negative, be enough to turn the sheep against him. And Bain Capital is a SELLING point to most of the business-friendly Mormon types around here.
So we are being pushed to vote for an out-of-state crony capitalist globalist for Senator so that Kentucky can have another representative in Congress. So the faithful will be told, so they will vote. It’s enough to make you despair for the future, if you understand what the globalists (like Soros, the Bushes, the Kennedys) have in store for us, if they can. And we do have a choice, but the word will be stifled as much as possible. We need some memes, like:
Mitt Romney’s RomneyCare led to ObamaCare nationwide. Do you really want to risk that again?
Why isn’t Mitt running in Massachutsetts? Wasn’t he Governor there?
Doesn’t Kentucky already have two Senators? Why give them three? (over a picture of Mitt / Mitch)
Since he was a Governor, but replaced by another now, he has recently had the support of the majority of voters, I’d say he stands a good chance of winning.
He will probably have the support of the Republican establishment as well, and any opposition from the Democrats will be a party based one, not an idealistic one. He should be quite acceptable to the Democrats and Republicans alike.
Another phony fraud masking as a conservative. The entitled silver spoon set stepping up to lead the country, really! The elite are truly apoplectic that Trump, like him or hate him, has the ear of the people, has unsettled their foundation and shown it is not a party affiliation issue. Similar to any other form of take over, the play book never changes; take from within. Romney is yet another play to destroy or neutralize Trump until the “Club” regains control. Whether you despise him or not, everyone should hope for Trump’s continued involvement. Destabilizing the embedded elite is job one. The country will survive in spite of Trump, we survived the Obama assault, and perhaps this stranglehold of leftist lunacy will fall into check. The middle is not a bad place to be.
He’s gonna need sooper dooper strength magic underwear if he wins and has to deal with President Trump. “Bend the knee motherfucker”, because unlike Barry, the God Emperor bows to no one except the First Lady.
Recent Democrat electoral trends indicate he may not have to deal with Trump for very long, maybe mostly just in helping to remove him.
Dream on.
Between Mc Cain and Romney–the 2 biggest voting mistakes of my life- and I consider myself a tired and true conservative. What phonies. I heard him on the radio this morning railing against Trump. He is so out of touch it is pathetic. Out.
His ego is bigger than his brain. Trump took him to the woodshed once. Guess he wants another trip there. The people of Utah deserve better.
To be determined. If they vote for this piece of shit – which they almost certainly will, they’ll deserve everything they get – not only as Utahans, but as Mormons. If they make this asshole the face of Mormonism – voting for him mainly because of his Mormonism, then it’s their own fault that people will RIGHTLY hate Mormons.
Should I RIGHTLY hate Catholics for voting in piece of shit Ted Kennedy for decades?
No, just kennedy’s.
Anyone with ‘Bain Capital’ in their resume should be in prison not the US Senate but the Mormons will elect this corrupt phony because he belongs to their church.
Be nice though if Trump, as head of the party, put some people in the RNC with the cajones to expel creeps like Romney so he’d have to run as an independent and struggle to get on the ballot.
Romney’s tracked record at Bain overall was poor, he had a few big wins ( made stupid money) but the overwhelming majority of his deals were bad bets
He should wear a carpetbagger crown. Of course Utah will elect him, that state will join with Arizona to vote stupid.
Romney didn’t have enough satisfaction destroying companies and peoples lives with his Bain Capital pirate equity and vulture capital firm I suppose.
You are absolutely correct on that one. Bain Capital are nothing more than carpetbaggers who take over a company, strip the assets, and layoff thousands of workers and cut the salaries of those remaining. And Romney was a big part of that. He is exhibit A as Douchebag of the year. I will lose all respect for Utah if they let a carpetbagger like this win the election.
The only reason he’s doing this is to be a huge thorn in Trump’s. Romney is a vindictive prick. Fuck Romney a million times over and fuck Utah if they install this prick.
He is going to run against Trump in the primaries for the 2020 presidential election, and when he fails to win the Republican slot, Romney will run as an independent to dilute the Republican vote – in the hope of throwing the election in favor of the Democrat candidate of the Uniparty.
Hmmm…AC that could be prophetic…I hope not.
Remember how he was kissing up to Trump after the election to get the Sec/State position?
Just when McCain is almost out the door, this shit.
Romney = McCain.
No info on if he’s running unopposed. What a hoot it would be if the carpetbagging asshole got primaried.
Oh, whose afraid of the big, bad Romney? Eye roll…
The Senate race for Utah has such a low threshold for being interesting a 40-year old Baptist who campaigns on a platform of raising the alcohol content in beer containers from 3% to 4% and proclaims Mormon underwear have no magical powers of witchcraft would shock the Utah establishment.
Why does anybody care about a 70-year old Presidential loser is running for a Senate seat that’s being vacated by 83-year old whose retiring? If anybody thinks Romney has any relevance or is a power hitter in politics these days let me refer them to videos of the 2012 debates so they can snooze off the delusion.
The balance of power in the Senate, each State has only two so that makes them very, very powerful people with the ability to change the course and future of the nation with their single vote on very close votes.
Well if you think a Sen Romney is going to be irrelevant, just keep in mind what a royal pain in the ass McCain has been.
He had his chance and dropped it in the dirt when he would not fight back against obammmma….screw him…..
+100 musket–
i didn’t care for him but he would have been many x better than obama–
As a Utah resident, I was afraid this fucker would run. He’ll win too.
Problem is, if you’re not in the Magic Underpants Club, you don’t have a chance here; unless it’s a highly localized office in SLC.
Maybe that weird Evan McMullin dude will run against him.
Oh boy. Here we go again. Doggygate part deux:
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It would be a shame if any harm came to him while campaigning in his ‘home’ state. I hope no resident of Utah would even think it.
I hope Q has some dirt on Robot Romney to drop. Fuck that terd. If the Morons in Utah vote for him, they deserve everything they get. I hope the media spends a long, long, detailed time covering their fucked-up religion just for shits and giggles.
Ha. “Fucked-up religion”? Pot, meet kettle.
Oh hold up. Your is the “true” way, no doubt.
I got a white salamander for ’em…
Ugh. I have been reading the local news online. People are positively orgasmic over Mittens’ running.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
More of the same. I wrote a letter to Orrin-cocksucker-Hatch back when Loretta Lynch was nominated for AG. The boiler-plate I got back patiently explained to me – dirt person dumb-shit – that Ms. Lynch was a fine jurist and even finer human being and well just fuck off.
Stupid Utah.
Oh boy, good ‘ol Mittens. They put this pussy up there to challenge Trump?
Romney showed already he lacks fortitude, charisma and leadership. I can’t believe that Utahans would support his candy-assed, carpet-bagging, silver-spoon-gagging candidacy. Hopefully grass roots common sense will win out over “pro establishment” inertia.
Romney showed already he lacks fortitude, charisma and leadership. I can’t believe that Utahans would support his candy-assed, carpet-bagging, silver-spoon-gagging candidacy. Hopefully grass roots common sense will win out over “pro establisment” inertia.
He will caucus with the Democrats just like McCain and Bernie.