At 1:38 p.m. on Wednesday, Sen. Mitt Romney officially declared his political career dead. Despite multiple attempts to resuscitate it in 2012 and 2018, Romney’s tenure as a pompous D.C. partisan is done.
The Utah Republican clearly desires to leave a political legacy that is hailed by the corporate media and the Washington uniparty. In his retirement announcement, Romney hinged the success of his first and only Senate term on the “particularly productive” performance he’s made in passing several key pieces of President Joe Biden’s legislative wish list.
But exacerbating record-high inflation and trampling on Americans’ Second Amendment rights aren’t the only things the senator’s career will be remembered for.
The contempt Romney holds for Republican voters, his congressional GOP colleagues, and former President Donald Trump leaves a stain on his career that conservatives won’t easily forget.
Romney: “Trump is the leader of the greatest portion of the Republican Party. It’s a populist, demagogue portion of the party. I represent a small wing of the party. I call it the wise wing of the Republican Party. I don’t believe we’re going away.” pic.twitter.com/p7qUADi9qU
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 13, 2023 A Tainted Track Record
Despite spending the last two decades deeply rooted in politics, the candidate who had to move states to get elected only pulled off one gubernatorial term in Massachusetts — where he laid the groundwork for the destructive health-care policy we know as Obamacare and helped undermine Catholic hospitals in his
