In other words: I’m too tired to keep fighting the MAGA extremists. Someone else needs to step up.
Unfortunately for our country, I’m not sure such a person with credibility on the right still exists.
And also unfortunately for our country, the MAGA extremists don’t get tired. They relish the chaos and destruction.
By not running again Mitt has made another seat available for another MAGA extremist.
If there are no reasonable Republican candidates, or if the reasonable candidates are disliked by the constituents, then this is just what the GOP is now. This is their new face, or their old face with the mask off, or whatever. I wish there was a spot somewhere in-between the two extremes for ordinary people, but this is what the failed system has produced.
I don’t agree with most of his positions but I can almost guarantee whoever takes his seat is going to be far worse
Much more thorough article from WaPo (gift link)
I think the important takeaway here is that he’s not the person to fight the MAGA-wing, but he wants to fight it.
Good to hear he’s discouraging Manchin’s “No Labels” run, but we’ll see if anyone can change Manchin’s mind
Mitt Romney earned some respect in my eyes.
The man was the worst of the worst in business, he pretty much popularized Vulture Capitalism with Bain Capital.
And while he was a GOP politician expressing plenty of political positions I don’t agree with, setup social healthcare in his state, was the only one to vote to Impeach Trump and before J6, he messaged Mitch McConnel telling him he was concerned with what he heard the far right element was planning for J6 on social media and hoped that Mitch was doing something about it, BECAUSE HE WAS CONCERNED TRUMP WOULDN’T AND WOULD INSTEAD SPUR THEM ON.
While his politics weren’t my thing, he did do his best to stand on the side of good and decent, in a party where those are entirely alien concepts.
There…see? Republicans can be smart when they really want to be.
Much like a flushed turd, his departure will be celebrated
Good for him ig
Mitt’s dad can be proud that Mitt refused to fossilize politically as a governor. And that he stood up as best he could to a political maelstrom whose end game that Mitt seemed to disbelieve could really be dictatorship, white supremacy, and tyranny.
He was my governor in Massachusetts for the first modern GOP moral panic, so I won’t claim to be his number one fan but I appreciated his principled stances in recent years.
Utah could be gettable for the Dems with the right candidate.
