Trump's response to the news that Romney is not going to seek re-election.  Romney said it's due to his age, but favorability polls in Utah show Trump at 47% and Romney at 39%.  Romney just made the wrong decision about supporting impeachment of Trump.  He's finished as a Republican.

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...before posting your OP and coming off looking like a facile fool.  In fact, everyone should read the article which is an excerpt from a forthcoming book by McKay Coppins:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/mitt-romney-retiring-senate-trump-mcconnell/675306/

First, he doesn't need the job or the aggravation.  By 2024 he will be 77 closing in on 78.  He doesn't want to be a Grassley or Feinstein.  However, he would have run imho if the Republican Party wasn't a cult.  Which it is at this point.  As far as making the wrong decision about Trump, well, 81 million americans made the same decision.  I am not a big Romney fan.  But at least he makes his own decisions.  This damn cult is so scared of Trump, that decision making goes out the window.  Who wants to be part of that?

Unlike you righties, Romney did not choose party over country.

even win his own primary as the INCUMBENT.  All of the lip service about time to retire is just fluff to deflect from the ass-kicking he's going to get if he stays in the race.

Democrats don’t do that? Is that why they burned down half the country? Because they picked country over party?

Willy's original lie was "BLM burned down half the country." Now it's "Democrats" who did it.
Willy's Big Lie gets even bigger.
Please stop lying, Willy.

Again, imho, he would have run if the Republican Party has not turned into a cult.  I agree, he knows he can't win within the Republican Party.  Ronald Reagan couldn't win.  Neither could Eisenhower or any other Republican who was part of the Republican Party in years past.  U might as well call it the Trump  party.  Cuz Republicans who have any principles can't win within that party.

I think, what Willy is referring to is the way A LOT of Democrats supported BLM in their efforts. Remember your dear sweet diversity hire VP? In the middle of serious unrest, she was calling for it all to continue, If ya want a link I can get ya one but in this case? I don't think it's necessary.  

Now what efforts were BLM engaged in you ask? Let's see, extort money out of anyone and everyone they could. Was BLM specifically out setting fires? That would be an investigation no one is willing to undertake. I suspect that actual members of BLM did indeed set fires. BUT that is just my supposition.  

Now, that being said they sure as fuck were starting "protests"  that were absolutely turning into violent riots that did burn down many Many MANY businesses that injured and killed people. BLM being the race hucksters they are, then profited off this by going around to major corporations and saying "You got a nice business here, it would be terrible if something happened to it." THEN... their leadership stole large amounts of the donations to line their pockets. (BLM)  Buy Large Mansions absolutely did this.  

So did Democrats support the movement? Yes, absolutely they did. How many of you on this board were in favor of the "peaceful protests" that were turning into very destructive and injurious riots practically every time?

How many of you were for the full-blown fucking riot and attempt to BREACH the Whitehouse fences, WAIT I mean  "Peaceful Protest" outside the Whitehouse? T H A T  was much closer to an actual insurrection than January 6th was. And all of you called Trump a Pussy for the secret service following protocol and taking him to a secure bunker.  

P.S. Then the 5000% hypocrisy of "it is ok to gather in protest that, outweighs the danger of spreading COVID" proves your side didn't give two shits about preventing the spread of the disease.

…chose “country over party”.

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Nice reach-around for your little buddy.
PS: If Trump was really in any danger before he fled to his bunker, then how come it was so easy for the police to clear that park so Trump could walk over and thump on his bible?
Looooser really HATES facts.

in the riots of summer, 2020, Democrats outnumbered republicans in burning things down about 3235 to 1, or was it 4235 to one?  Not sure, but does it really make a difference?  Lol

in the riots of summer, 2020, Democrats outnumbered republicans in burning things down about 3235 to 1, or was it 4235 to one?  Not sure, but does it really make a difference?  Lol

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Because the trip across to the church was THE NEXT DAY! The few asshats that were left were easily removed by the Police and Secret Service. You know this and are just being intellectually dishonest as usual!  

The point of all this is you are ABSOLUTELY FINE that this happened to Trump at the white house but you Hypocriticaly call the Jan 6 riot an Insurrection and the worst thing to have happened to the nation in years.  

Nice dodge Icky, we accept your surrender of the point that your side was the side of Lawlessness, Arson, Rioting, and Murder at the behest of Race Hustlers.  

BTW, did you donate to BLM? I bet you didn't but told people you did.

I checked out the timing before I posted that you dimwit. The situation in the park across from the White House was the same on BOTH days. And there was ZERO threat to the White House when Trump fled, or the next day. What a pussy. Then he called in the cops and swept the park so he could do his pathetic bible-thumping photo op.
He's a chicken hawk. Like you.
PS: Trump is a REAL draft dodger who got a fake doctor's letter for non-existent bone spurs. Why don't you criticize him for that, chicken hawk? Hypocrite.

Zero threat to the White House my ass.  

 I’ve criticized both Trump and Biden for their lack of service. But neither of them  has bragged about being a draft dodger like you. And you know you have!  

No matter how many times Looooooser lies doesn't make it true.
He's been lying so often, about so much, he wouldn't know the truth if it bit him on the ass.

And that doesn't include Governors and other non-Congressional high ranking, high stature Republicans.
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I think that Jeff Flake was the first in 2017:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41743473
Jeff Flake: Republican senator quits with attack on Donald Trump
"A US Republican senator says he will not seek re-election, delivering a fierce attack on President Donald Trump. Arizona Senator Jeff Flake said "reckless, outrageous and undignified behaviour" at the top of the US government was dangerous to democracy.
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*****Mr Trump has previously called Mr Flake "toxic".*****
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The US president is already embroiled in a row with another Republican Senator, Bob Corker.
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Before confirming his decision in a speech to the Senate, Mr Flake told the Arizona Republic newspaper "there may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current Republican climate or the current Republican Party". "We must never regard as 'normal' the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals," he said. ****He lamented the "flagrant disregard for truth or decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons".****
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Jeff Flake, Bob Corker, Will Hurd, Justin Amash, Pat Toomey, Andy McKean, Joe Scarborough, Scott Tipton, Walter Jones, Rob Portman, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, ... Romney.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-republicans-voted-impeach-donald-trump/story?id=75235094
House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump
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http://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-trial-live-updates/2021/02/15/967878039/7-gop-senators-voted-to-convict-trump-only-1-faces-voters-next-year
7 GOP Senators Voted To Convict Trump. Only 1 Faces Voters Next Year
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Republicans_who_opposed_the_Donald_Trump_2016_presidential_campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Republicans_who_opposed_the_Donald_Trump_2020_presidential_campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Republicans_who_oppose_the_Donald_Trump_2024_presidential_campaign

Trump MAGA is a cult. Cult members --  from Jim Jones' Peoples Temple to Scientology to the Manson Family to many others -- do not realize or they even DENY that they are in a cult until they are dead or until it's too late.

You like to think it’s a cult, wouldn’t ya? Well that’s the left trying to be despairing. Now I will say this, The hard core trump supporters? They have gotten that way over the insane antics of the left. From the media to BLM AND ANTIFA, T H E N  BACK TO THE MEDIA these entities are what have created “HARD CORE MAGA” as a reaction. Sorry but Trump himself just isn’t that charismatic. Americans love an underdog and Trump was in the right place at the right time to fill that roll. THEN, when the media discovered that they were making money hand over fist attacking him, they leaned in full tilt. Where it went off the rails was they started believing the bullshit they were spewing (while getting filthy rich at the same time) and it was just insanity from there!  

Here’s a theory that All you lefties will reject out of hand but hear me out.

When Covid first became a threat in January 2020 everyone of you lefties has blamed Trump for miss handling Covid. Now the truth of the matter is no lockdown was ever going to keep the virus out and the idiocy of masking and by idiocy I mean letting people wear fucking T-shirts over their faces and calling that a mask… That right there proves they weren’t serious about actually protecting the public at large. Think about that for 10 seconds before your koolaid kicks in and you scream 😱 THATS NOT TRUE!!!

 So back to Jan 2020, The left-wing media attacked anyone even fellow reporters who was trying to make a big deal out of Covid calling them alarmists. If you lefties have all gotten amnesia about that time period, look it up. Remember Pelosi saying go eat in Chinatown and then she called Trump a racist for even suggesting travel bans. That handling of the situation by the media was an undue influence on government policy makers much wider than Trump. Anthony Fauci mean while was trying to figure out how to cover his ass because he knew for a fact what had happened and sure as fuck didn’t want the mob coming for him. Trump under pressure from the media not to act racist did not enact the bans (Even though they wouldn’t of done any good) in a time frame earlier than when he did.

This next part you’re going to scream like really scalded cats but the travel bans didn’t stop Covid at all and masks didn’t do much but make people feel like they were protected.  

And all this was the fault of the media! i’m sure right now Icky’s screen is covered with spittle and he’s bashing on his keyboard to respond. 😂😂😂

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