Writes Mollie Hemingway (at The Federalist)(relying on the new book "Romney: A Reckoning")
[At the time of Trump's first impeachment,] “Sean Hannity accused Romney of ‘morphing’ into a ‘weak, sanctimonious Washington, swamp politician,’ and suggested the senator was simply ‘jealous’ of Trump’s myriad successes.”...
[Romney called Hannity, and Hannity] accused Romney of just trying to be liked by left-wing media. Then he asked why Romney wasn’t more outraged by the Burisma scandal, the entire issue that was at the heart of the Ukraine impeachment scandal....
Romney admits to Hannity that even though he’s been signaling his support of the Democrat impeachment efforts, he actually has no idea what Burisma is. “How do you not know what Burisma is?” Hannity reportedly asks....
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This "man" worked to destroy the President of the United States. WHY? people asked:
..“How do you not know what Burisma is?”
well..
the senator was simply ‘jealous’ of Trump’s myriad successes.
Envy is a Mortal Sin, even magic underwear won't protect you
You had one job to do!!! Worthless RINO
If true, nothing about this surprises me.
I’m ashamed to say I once liked Romney in 2008.
He’s fallen far.
Romney, John McCain, and the establishment Republicans with eyes on power hated Trump for cutting into line and becoming president with no experience as much as the left. Trump made no friends with his "Drain the swamp" and "Lock her up" stuff. He was extremely (fatally) naive about the tricks of the swap creatures in 2016.
They just want Trump and his supporters gone and the swamp to be filled and masked-up once again.
Don’t know? Don’t care to know? Or don’t want to know?
This is also how Romney was bested by Candy Crowley. The issues that outrage conservatives don't register for him.
Hannity's evaluation is much too high.
did you all now that Biden just approved 13 billion or million whatever.. for southern Border.
For more asylum agents.
"“How do you not know what Burisma is?” Hannity reportedly asks"
Perhaps because he only listened to "respectable" news sources, and they suppressed the story. Which would put him in the same position as millions of other people who also thought they were well-informed, but weren't.
Mitt Romney is John McCain 2.0. He thinks the press are his friends, just like McCain. He campaigned as a conservative, just like McCain did, but then stabs his voters in the back. RINOs never change. They are the Democrats' lackeys and lap dogs. Always eager to keep the graft rolling out of the Federal treasury. RINOs and Dems are the uniparty. Keep the graft rolling! Screw the citizens when their graft causes runaway inflation and flows to progressive NGOs.
A friend went to Harvard B School when Romney was there. He reports that Romney was always impeccably, formidably, well-prepared. Then of course Romney went on to bigger things at, I think, Bain Capital, and made a ton of money: presumably he wasn’t loafing or unable to spot opportunity. He would have had to prepare and execute information-heavy plans based on massive datasets and intense creative financial engineering. Then he entered politics and had a credible shot at the WH —again, meticulously preparing for the challenge with “binders of women”— before settling for a sinecure in the Senate.
But now he sits alone in his DC town house, watching soap opera reruns on his big screen and drowning chunks of salmon in Heinz 57.
Something is wrong with this picture.
Yes indeedy--how does any high-level government official not know about Burisma? Guess they don't read the New York Post. Or any right-of-center sources, at all---how do you be Mitt Romney and you (or your staff) don't even read freaking National Review?
Could've put a period after "Anything."
I quit listening to Hannity around 2008. That said, his quoted assessment of Romney seems spot on except maybe the lefty media part. For something as serious as an impeachment, was it too much to ask that Romney educate himself on the subject at hand? Yes, yes it was.
I understand not liking Trump for be boorish and insulting. But you are the asshole when you use the weight of the US Congress to punish an individual for his boorish behavior and using an unrelated issue of which you are totally ignorant. Romney deserves full ridicule.
Ignorant, and proud of his ignorance.
Romney is a "good" Republican. He plays well with Democrats. He's a schmuck.
I can't imagine how that's possible. But then, we read of people claiming there is "no evidence" of Biden's corruption and if you take them at their word you just have to step back and say 'Wow'.
I like Mollie Hemingway a lot and I trust her, but I wish we had more quotes from the book. Did Coppins write it that way?
Romney advisor Cofer Black was on the board of Burisma at the same time as Hunter. Coincidence?
Does it mean Romney was taking money from Burisma? No. I think that's unlikely. Romney has plenty of money. But it does make it much harder to believe Romney had no idea what Burisma was.
Which is a worse reflection on Romney, lying about knowing about Burisma or actually not knowing when he's voting to impeach a President from his own party?
gilbar, what is “magic underwear”?
“ Hannity reportedly asks....”
Well, that’s all the evidence we need isn’t it? Since we live in a post-evidence world now apparently. Near assertions become fact as soon as they reach air.
The article and book paint a picture of Romney as an obsequious, passive-aggressive, which explains his paper-thin support of the conservative agenda when the going gets tough.
[Romney] tells Coppins he is quite supportive of the conservative agenda advanced by Trump, but that he doesn’t like Trump because the former president is boorish and insults other people. It is absolutely true that Trump insults people he feels have betrayed him or who otherwise don’t support him. It is unclear why Romney, who has just used a friendly reporter to overload a book with similar insults, is so bothered by Trump doing it in a less passive-aggressive fashion than Romney does.
Biden's family corruption is clear as day. Tons of evidence.
Our corrupt press refuse to acknowledge.
gilbar, what is “magic underwear”?
It’s what those Morgans wear.
As a terrified officer candidate in the Marine Corps, I got the laugh-out-loud of a lifetime (for which I paid handsomely) when the E5 Sargent found magic underwear and the Pearl of Great Price during a locker inspection. The fellow officer candidate offender quietly explained that they were part of his religious practice. The Sargent loudly announced to the E6 Platoon Sargent at the other end of the squad bay that “these Morgans sure are weird!”
I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night, but I’ll never forget that.
- Krumhorn
Romney is lying about not knowing anything about Burisma. It is necessary to lie today about his knowledge because he did vote to convict Trump in 2020. The thing that has changed is that Joe Biden is President today and is being investigated by Congress for precisely the Burisma matter and other things. Romney doesn't want to have to explain his conviction vote if he did know anything about Burisma- far easier to just plead ignorance of the matter.
TreeJoe at 725. Same for me, but it started in 2002 when he ran and won for MA gov.
I will never forget a "debate" between Romney and D nominee hosted by Tim Russert.
I thought Russert was very fair. Romney, and Russert, IMO, made the D look bad when they contrasted MA's tight restrictions on a minor getting their ear pierced vs the restrictions on a minor obtaining an abortion.
I thought then that Romney would be the R Pres nominee in 2008. Just has that look. He is a good looking man. I say that as a staunch heterosexual.
Romney did a good job holding the Mccain Chair. They will eagerly fight to take his place…
Blogger Owen said...
Something is wrong with this picture.
Yeah - and my speculation is that pretty much everyone who gets to the higher offices in DC has been... compromised. The Soviets used to do it with honey traps - the target 'spontaneously' meets an attractive man or woman, they go off and have some adult fun, and a few weeks to a few years later the handler appears and shows the target the evidence they've got that will completely wreck the target's political and personal life if released.
But it doesn't have to, as long as they vote as they're told. They do what they're told, they'll keep advancing in the party and maybe get a shot at being President some day. If that requires completely ignoring certain evidence, then they'll ignore it. It doesn't exist as far as they're concerned.
That Romney isolated himself like he did - I think he got compromised and now he's not taking a chance on more of it. He knows the system's buggered all to hell, but he can't reveal it or a shitstorm will hit his personal/political life. So he hunkered down, waited for his time to run out - and did/does what he's told.
That's why Trump was such a threat - there wasn't any way to compromise him in that manner, so no way to control him.
Quayle said...
gilbar, what is “magic underwear”?
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=what+is+%E2%80%9Cmagic+underwear%E2%80%9D%3F&ia=web
Temple garments are sometimes derided as "magic underwear" by non-Mormons, but Mormons view this terminology to be both misleading and offensive.
You know! the stuff you wear;
while you're sitting by yourself, watching your 98" TV and eating your Catsup and Salmon sandwiches
Did you know Bebe and Romney are big buddies? Its seems they were both hired by Bain Captial at the same time in the 70s, and were considered the "Young High Flyers". They forged a lifelong friendship, which is probably why Romney flew to Israel with Chuck Schumer right after the Hamas attack.
As for Romney, he seems to have this reputation as a "Nice Guy" and a "Family man and devote Christian" but his attitude toward others is often one of arrogant Contempt. He didn't get along with the Massachutes state legislators, only dealt with the top leaders, didn't bother to learn anyone else's name, and held them in contempt. He vetoed over 600 bills most of which were overriden. By the end, even R legislators disliked him.
Its astounding how many of these Pols are driven by ego, petty jealousy and selfish ambition. Their true motivation is usually personal, but they present it to the public as concern for some principle, or whats good for the party or country.
McCain, for example, just wanted to give the middle finger to Trump, so he voted against repealing obamacare. And before that he withdrew his endorsement of Trump in Oct 2016, supposedly due to his outrage over Trump's disgusting comments about women blah blah. In fact, as McCain later told Trump, it was because Trump had attacked Muslims.
McCain's books detail numerous times where he'd publically attack some other Pol and then tell them privately to ignore it, because McCain had to throw some red meat to "The crazy right". Or he'd take a stand on some issue for "The good of the country" when in fact, as told his aides, he just disliked some other Pol and wanted to sabotage him.
Romney's cut from the same cloth.
many are calling Romney empty suit | Q: how life long has it been empty?
Nice bigotry, gilbar. I’ve always thought there was something fishy (fishier than fish) about you.
His campaign manager sure did.
I talked to a Biden supporter, I didn't bring up politics, but out of the blue he starts talking about "Trump corruption," and so naturally, I bring up the laptop and Biden taking millions from Ukraine, Congress has presented evidence of it. He returns that "It's all lies, and Hunter was estranged from Joe when he did all of that stuff on the laptop, and I don't want to talk about it anymore."
Of course the laptop shows The Big Guy himself doing business with Hunter's clients, but he was "estranged at the time."
I talked to a Biden supporter, I didn't bring up politics, but out of the blue he starts talking about "Trump corruption," and so naturally, I bring up the laptop and Biden taking millions from Ukraine, Congress has presented evidence of it. He returns that "It's all lies, and Hunter was estranged from Joe when he did all of that stuff on the laptop, and I don't want to talk about it anymore."
Of course the laptop shows The Big Guy himself doing business with Hunter's clients, but he was "estranged at the time."
Well ! You see what happens when you sit at home all alone every night, in your Washington DC mansion, watching your 79" Big Screen TV?
What else is new? Since when did Mittens ever know and internalize anything that was important in the political sphere. Romney was an accomplished business person. As a politician--not so much.
As much as I dislike Romney now, I still think my vote for him in 2012 was my only real option. As bad as he has become, he was still a better choice than giving Obama another four years to “fundamentally transform” the United States.
Bob Boyd wrote the comment I wanted to write.
Romney is lying here. His ex foreign policy aide who worked for the CIA got hired by Burisma to be the GOP version of Hunter Biden, and he doesn't know about it?
Politics is all about networking. He doesn't know about Burisma?
McCain Institute almost took Burisma money to "train Ukrainian prosecutors in America" too....
I'm ashamed that I voted for Romney and he's either willing to lie about what he knows or he's willing to admit seriously being a lightweight and uninterested in deeper issues.
I'm pretty sure he's lying.
That's very sad.
Bob Boyd nails it.
BTW, did you know Romney put his dog on the roof of his car?
Romney knew that Democrats and the MSM considered even asking about Burisma to be a high crime and misdemeanor. That's all he needed to know.
Blogger Yancey Ward said..."Romney is lying about not knowing anything about Burisma."
I'm so gullible, it didn't even occur to me. That makes much more sense.
It has occurred to me that the "no evidence" of Biden's corruption people are lying.
Question: What exactly did Burisma have to do with Trump's attempts to get Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to dig up lies he could use against Joe Biden in the upcoming 2020 election as a condition to releasing congressionally appropriated funds to the former Soviet Union member?
His attempted bribery was heard, recorded, and admitted but MAGA Republicans controlling the Senate refused to impeach TFG.
"What exactly did Burisma have to do with Trump's attempts to get Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to dig up lies"
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Nanoparticles crossed Jabfly's BBB. This gaslighting is the result.
Meanwhile, Joementia is on record doing the bribing.
"Son of a bitch!"
why is it everytime the news story is Mitt Romney making some vicious attack on a fellow Republican, or suporting some leftwing position or helping the D's, people all start talking about who they voted for in 2012.
This Endless discussion of "I voted for/against Mitt Romney in 2012 and now i feel it was..." seems to be a way to avoid talking about what Mitt Romney is doing and saying. Why not comment on THAT? People need to stop talking about themselves - the subject is Romney. what he is doing or saying.
This reminds me of intertube discussions on McCain. He'd do one of his constant backstabs or assists to the D's, and then instead of talking about what McCain was doing right NOW, everyone would derail to "McCain was a war hero, yes or no? ". With the 1000th mention of his heroism, or his singing like a canary or his "Wet-start" on some A/C in 1966.
why is it everytime the news story is Mitt Romney making some vicious attack on a fellow Republican, or suporting some leftwing position or helping the D's, people all start talking about who they voted for in 2012.
This Endless discussion of "I voted for/against Mitt Romney in 2012 and now i feel it was..." seems to be a way to avoid talking about what Mitt Romney is doing and saying. Why not comment on THAT? People need to stop talking about themselves - the subject is Romney. what he is doing or saying.
This reminds me of intertube discussions on McCain. He'd do one of his constant backstabs or assists to the D's, and then instead of talking about what McCain was doing right NOW, everyone would derail to "McCain was a war hero, yes or no? ". With the 1000th mention of his heroism, or his singing like a canary or his "Wet-start" on some A/C in 1966.
At this point I trust very few Republican politicians. However, I cannot vote for any Democrat because their agenda is part slush fund legislation or America last or "green" nonsense. I hold my nose and pull the lever for Romney types. May God have mercy on my soul.
"What exactly did Burisma have to do with Trump's attempts to get Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to dig up lies…"
Dig up lies? What does that even mean?
Mitt Romney is Mormon royalty. His rise in business is as much a product of that as his rise in politics. I lived in Utah for five years and those guys stick together like Orthodox Jews or something. Anyone can see he's well put-together (in the Mormon tradition) and he's well-connected (in the Mormon tradition) but he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer (in the Mormon tradition). I totally accept he impeached Trump without knowing what Burisma is. That's Mitt Romney. He misses things - like black people. And he's another slippery one with investments in supplements and so-called alternative medicines. They're the salmon and ketchup sandwiches of medicine.
That Romney isolated himself like he did - I think he got compromised
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hopefully it was an enchanted space where Romney got out of Magic Underwear!
That Romney isolated himself like he did - I think he got compromised
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hopefully it was an enchanted space where Romney got out of Magic Underwear! before putting on emptysuit
watching your 98" TV
watching your 79" Big Screen TV?
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Gilbar says: “ I got the laugh-out-loud of a lifetime (for which I paid handsomely) when the E5 Sargent found magic underwear and the Pearl of Great Price during a locker inspection. The fellow officer candidate offender quietly explained that they were part of his religious practice. The Sargent loudly announced to the E6 Platoon Sargent at the other end of the squad bay that “these Morgans sure are weird!”
Yeah, I can picture you laughing. Oh, it’s so funny. And then that ‘Morgan’ went and spilled his blood next to his fellow Marines, right? Or did you forget that too, gilbar?
"Romney is lying about not knowing anything about Burisma. It is necessary to lie today about his knowledge because he did vote to convict Trump in 2020. "
I don't follow that. Ignorance makes his conviction vote worse. Why would Romney admit that?
But on the other hand, why didn't Hannity run with the story that Romney didn't know about Burisma? I think that would have played very well to Trump supporters at the time.
None of this makes sense.
Trump.
What else do I have to say?
"I don't follow that. Ignorance makes his conviction vote worse. Why would Romney admit that?"
Knowing about Burisma makes the conviction vote far worse because it was precisely the Burisma scandal Trump was asking Zelensky about. If Romney knew Hunter was on Burisma's payroll and that Biden had the prosecutor that was investigating Burisma fired, then Trump was within his rights to ask Zelensky to look into the details. It is impossible to defend that conviction vote in such a circumstance as anything other than just wanting to get Trump by any means necessary.
Blogger Narayanan said...
That Romney isolated himself like he did - I think he got compromised
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hopefully it was an enchanted space where Romney got out of Magic Underwear!
10/21/23, 5:24 PM
Likely at least as classy as a Hilton. As far as the underwear goes - he could have been out of it in seconds with one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/LINE2design-LevelOne-62175-4-Emergency-Portable/dp/B01IL9NRQK
The mainstream media is reporting on Burisma now.
Sarah Palin was my candidate in 2012. I still think she would have won. The Democrats were terrified of her, and went after her kids hard. She decided she loved her family more than the American people, so she didn't run.
That's why we got this soft cheese in 2012.
Contrast the media treatment of Bristol Palin with Hunter Biden. Mock any "feminist" reporters and contrast their coverage of the single mom with the runaway dad. Embarrassing.
Bob Boyd hits the nail on the head -- Cofer Black ties Romney to Hunter and Joe Biden and Burisma. Romney's once top foreign intelligence aide held an "advisory" board job with Burisma while Hunter was still on the same board, but didn't know 'nuthin? Black is a top, lifelong intelligence officer. He surely knew more than anyone that Hunter and his father were taking bribes. It's not credible that Romney didn't know about Burisma, and it's not credible that Black didn't know about the Bidens' treasonous behavior, and it's impossible to imagine that Romney and Black didn't discuss any of this. It's looking worse and worse for Biden, Hunter, Romney, and Black.
Peter Schweizer had plenty on Biden, Inc long before Humper's laptop became known.
Beware of geeks baring grifts.
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