The first time endorsed by The Republican Party he challenged Barack Obama and lost. For his second time rise, Romney wants to unseat Donald Trump.
Looks like a temptation he cannot turn down
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> In order to understand Romney you have to understand his Mormon beliefs.
> In order to understand the Republican Party today, you have to understand religion.
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The New York Times
OPINION 11 OCTOBER 2019
Mormons to the Rescue?
The reddest faith in America is also the one most skeptical of Donald Trump
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[BLOOGER INSERT: VP Mike Pence, AZ Governor Doug Ducey, and AZ Senator Martha McSally all appeared together last week on a stage here in Arizona seeking Latino support
Vice President Mike Pence touted economic gains among Arizona's Latino community and defended President Trump at a Thursday morning roundtable event in Scottsdale.]
Image Credit: Ali Swenson taken from Phoenix New Times
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But the one religious faith that is the most heavily Republican is also somewhat disgusted with Trump. Barely half the members of the American-grown Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints approve of his presidency.
And therein lies the best chance, though it’s very much a long shot, to remove Trump from office.
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Wait! Mormons — forged from a polygamous theocracy in the Rocky Mountain West, tainted by decades of institutional racism and still very much opposed to marriage equality — to the rescue of the Republic? Maybe.
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. . . Playing to the larger moral issues is where the Mormon charge will be crucial.
> Another Mormon senator, Mike Crapo of Idaho, has kept an open mind thus far.
> An independent presidential candidate from 2016, Evan McMullin, has been a principled Mormon critic of Trump’s lawlessness.
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BLOGGER INSERT: Two years ago on November 17, 2017 there was an episode that foreshadowed and could have predicted Mitt's plans: using former AZ Senator Jeff Flake and current Mesa Mayor John Giles as stand-ins - who just happened somehow 'to get caught on open mic".______________________________________
Wait! Mormons — forged from a polygamous theocracy in the Rocky Mountain West, tainted by decades of institutional racism and still very much opposed to marriage equality — to the rescue of the Republic? Maybe.
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. . . Playing to the larger moral issues is where the Mormon charge will be crucial.
> Another Mormon senator, Mike Crapo of Idaho, has kept an open mind thus far.
> An independent presidential candidate from 2016, Evan McMullin, has been a principled Mormon critic of Trump’s lawlessness.
“Remember that Trump will tear down anyone who rightfully challenges him,” McMullin said this week. “Unable to lead with honor, all he has left is to make everyone seem as rotten as he is.”
The rot among the collaterally rotten is already deep.
White evangelicals — having looked the other way while the Stable Genius, showing his “great and unmatched wisdom,” put kids in cages, praised neo-Nazis, sucked up to murderous dictators and betrayed our beleaguered allies the Kurds — are gone, lost to the dark side.
Most despicable of all, the Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress has suggested that impeaching Trump could cause a “Civil War-like fracture” in the country.
Jeffress has also said terrible things about Jews, Mormons and Catholics — the kind of hate talk that has not kept him from being one of Trump’s closest evangelical advisers.
You have to believe that most Republicans in Congress know Trump has violated his oath of office. But most of them are also cowards.
That goes for some Mormon Republicans, such as Senator Mike Lee of Utah, a former Trump critic, now an enabler. For them, the old line from J.R. Ewing is apt:
“Once you give up your integrity, the rest is a piece of cake.”
With Trump’s Ukraine betrayals, Romney has signaled that he will be
a ballast of conscience for Republicans in the Senate.
His seat is safe till 2024.
He has nothing to lose.
At long last, he has a chance to make history — for his faith, and his country."
ABC15 at that time called them spontaneous remarks
Jeff Fake: The Flawed Imperfect "Foil" and
Stand-In For Saint Mitt, U.S. Senator Romney from Utah
Here in Mesa, Arizona in 2017 we had a fore-shadowing of sorts in an accidental revelation due to an open-microphone slip-up that was caught forever between Brother Jeff Flake and Brother John Giles, the mayor of Mesa - who always says he is "non-partisan" - where Giles said Flake could be a foil . . . at the same time calling Trump an idiot
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On Saturday October 5, 2019
Now-Senator Mitt Romney Has Plans For The Highest Office In-The-Land
It might be another opportunity for one more Mormon moment early in-the-game when he didn't land a job in Trump's Cabinet as the Secretary of State. Now Mitt says "he's sickened" by the Mueller report:
"Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said that while it’s “good news” there was “insufficient evidence” to charge President Trump with conspiracy or obstruction, he was dismayed by the “pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection” by Trump and those around him.
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Mesa Mayor John Giles Caught Prodding Jeff Flake On-Stage with Hot Open Mic
Here's our self-described "non-partisan" Mayor getting caught on an open mike pinned to Flake's lapel pin encouraging him to run for President . . . Couple of nice LDS dudes, huh??
Published on Nov 17, 2017
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ABC15's microphone picked up a conversation between Senator Flake and Mesa's major Giles joking about President Trump. uld now “move on.” “The alternative would have taken us through a wrenching process with the potential for constitutional crisis,” he wrote. “Even so, I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President. . .
Reading this report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations andprincipals of the founders,” he wrote
Reading this report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and
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