Romney rejects Trump judicial pick who smeared Obama
Politico Magazine,
by
Burgess Everett
Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk,
5/14/2019 8:03:01 PM
Mitt Romney was the only Republican senator to vote against one of President Donald Trump´s judicial nominees on Tuesday. And he did so in part to defend former President Barack Obama. Romney cast the lone GOP "no" vote against Michael Truncale, who was confirmed 49-46 on Tuesday morning to the Eastern District of Texas. Truncale called Obama an "un-American imposter" in June 2011, and explained to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was "merely expressing frustration by what I perceived as a lack of overt patriotism on behalf of President Obama." He also said he believed Obama was born in
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/14/2019 8:07:21 PM (No. 64608)
Romney is a blind guide to the mentally disabled. Obama WAS an un-American imposter. Truncale was spot on. Everybody but Romney knew it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
iraengneer 5/14/2019 8:12:24 PM (No. 64606)
All the nasty words directed at Romney are quite correct, don´t go far enough in fact.
And yet, and perhaps because of it, this worthless lout is the darling of the Rockefeller Republican GOP-e RNC "wiser heads". A plague upon him and them as well.
I am sorry Ovomit won. I am glad that Romney lost.
And a "digitus impudicus" to the voters in Utah who voted for this creep.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 5/14/2019 8:26:18 PM (No. 64612)
I cannot believe I once crawled over broken glass to vote for this jerk. RINO Mitt and others are the reason I am once again a Gosh Dern Independent and ignore all cries from Rebublicans for money. As far as I am concern, live by the RINO, die by the RINO!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Falconer 5/14/2019 8:27:19 PM (No. 64570)
Romney is a clown.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chance_232 5/14/2019 8:31:53 PM (No. 64558)
Another vote I regret casting...........
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
southcarolina 5/14/2019 8:35:27 PM (No. 64593)
Speaking truth is not a smear. Romney should be recalled. He ran as a Republican. He is not representing Republican voters.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/14/2019 8:36:57 PM (No. 64576)
So, Mitt, how many disparaging remarks have you made about the current president? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/14/2019 8:37:01 PM (No. 64591)
A judge who has the courage to tell the truth is a welcome addition. Romney further proves that his idiocy is genuine.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Geoman 5/14/2019 8:44:22 PM (No. 64556)
Romney is trading in his Mormon bona fides for the more leftist hip and media-friendly Muslim cachet.
45 people like this.
Is this what his constituents were pushing him to do?
After all, you represent the people of Utah.
Nothing more.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/14/2019 8:46:53 PM (No. 64563)
Mitt is a hemorrhoid on the rectum of the Senate.
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Traitor hussein received $115,000,000 traveling around to financial centers after Trump´s inauguration. It was his cut of the $1.5 billion in cash he sent to Iran. I´m sure hussein is using some of those funds to buy off Romney, a deep-state dingbat. It won´t work. WWG1WGA! MAGA!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jimincalif 5/14/2019 9:04:14 PM (No. 64577)
In 1976 Ford lost to Carter - but it was worth 4 years of malaise to get Reagan, who probably would not have been president otherwise.
Same with Mittens, we had to endure another 4 years of 0bama, but the payoff was Trump. If Mitt had won in 2012, we´d either still have him, or we´d have Hillary. On balance it´s worked out for the better, certainly when it comes to judges and the RINOs Mitt would have nominated.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hisself 5/14/2019 9:19:24 PM (No. 64594)
The only things lower than pond scum are whale droppings, and mutt romney! At least the dems are honest about being anti-American.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Wendybird 5/14/2019 9:19:30 PM (No. 64598)
The word Romney is rapidly becoming a synonym for ”petty disloyal fool”.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bdog 5/14/2019 9:20:15 PM (No. 64605)
Actually Reagan was ahead in the delegate count when they went to the back room and told him he had to back off and let Ford get the nomination. He would have walked off as a winner all the way in the next election.
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Willard´s temple garments are still in a twist.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
viking diver 5/14/2019 9:31:58 PM (No. 64586)
romney was fostered on us by the mormon church, he wasn´t even a state resident but yet he was chosen and the people where told how to vote. So much for the 1st amendment that prohibits having a state run religion.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
pros7767 5/14/2019 9:46:13 PM (No. 64550)
POS! Period
Shame on Utah voters. They expected better.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/14/2019 9:47:47 PM (No. 64548)
He´s just tedious. Really tedious.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Nimby 5/14/2019 9:52:26 PM (No. 64560)
Mittens McCain!! No one will shed tears
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
janjan 5/14/2019 9:54:00 PM (No. 64604)
Hope he’s really impressing the voters in Utah. The rest of us think he’s a RINO who cares way too much about his image with the liberal media. Walking in someone else’s shoes...
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
NObama 5/14/2019 10:05:43 PM (No. 64600)
I´m seriously wondering if both he and McCain lost on purpose.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree 5/14/2019 10:56:28 PM (No. 64557)
Hilarious. Do Mormons have Cardinals like Catholics?
I was just wondering because Romney has at least as much self-righteous narcissism as Comey who was called by sneering co-workers, The Cardinal.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Foont 5/14/2019 11:20:15 PM (No. 64554)
Obama is not an "un-American imposter"
Obama is an "anti-American imposter". The distinction is important.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
vhs68 5/14/2019 11:21:51 PM (No. 64566)
Willard is just still trying to stay relevent. What a Loser.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Italiano 5/14/2019 11:24:54 PM (No. 64565)
You just know that Obama and his bro´s laugh their tails off behind closed doors at brown-nosing useful idiot crackers like Romney.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Golden Goose 5/15/2019 12:10:43 AM (No. 64580)
Sorry, #18. I too am incredibly frustrated with the fact that Romney got in and that Orrin Hatch had the arrogance to feel like he could choose his successor; but the Church does not endorse political candidates or political parties. Any statement to the contrary is simply not true.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/15/2019 12:19:01 AM (No. 64613)
The fact that the Church leadership tolerates the corruption of the mormons who represent them and the nation in congress tells me that they do indeed get involved with politics. They may not publicly say so, but they are indeed involved.
Mitt Romney is about as greasy and smarmy as they come. Or maybe we should start calling him Mitt McCain because I sure can´t see any difference. And bravo for pointing out his hypocrisy about all the criticisms he has made aimed at Trump.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/15/2019 1:02:23 AM (No. 64592)
Mitt doesn´t even try to hide his duplicity anymore. He hates Trump. What a creep. What a hypocrite.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Golden Goose 5/15/2019 1:12:19 AM (No. 64564)
The Church is very involved in politics, as it should be. It did not (and does not) endorse Romney; and it does not instruct its members with regard to whom they should elect to any national/state/local office or to which political party they should belong.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/15/2019 2:10:10 AM (No. 64585)
I wonder if Mitt would be able to come out clean if he were subjected to the kind of probe Trump has?
Maybe after Trump wins in 2020 that can be arranged.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
PChristopher 5/15/2019 2:19:16 AM (No. 64559)
He´s McCain 2.0. He´s furious he lost against Abu bin Bama...he´s furious that he lost against Trump, and he´s furious that he didn´t at least get the consolation prize of Secretary of State, a position from which he would´ve John-Kerry´d the country even more. Don´t let that smooth veneer fool you....he´s a snake
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 5/15/2019 2:41:21 AM (No. 64569)
Poster 29, how is it any different than what the catholic church has been doing for the past several years and still is? They knew how corrupt ted kennedy was and never said a word. I´ve often thought that kennedy was blackmailing them because he had to have known about the priests molesting little boys.
And just how many pro-abort ´rat politicians are catholic. My senator, patty murray is catholic and a few weeks ago she refused to speak out against the killing of babies already born. The catholic church has a lot to answer for.
Also, every single country in South America, Central America and Mexico are second or third world countries and they all have one single thing in common, the Catholic church.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
DVC 5/15/2019 3:06:25 AM (No. 64602)
I REALLY despise Romney.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/15/2019 5:53:43 AM (No. 64551)
I think most of us have learned our lesson about RINOs. Never, ever, ever again!!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Marjbaldwin 5/15/2019 7:07:22 AM (No. 64575)
Thank you, Mitt, for allowing dimbulb Lightworker to beat you in 2012. We wouldn´t have had MAGA and Our Favourite President Ever without that humiliating loss.
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I´m waiting for the headline that uses the word "SMEAR" for Obama´s "bitter clinger" comments or Hillary´s "deplorable" description of millions of Americans. Or Eric Holder´s statement that when it comes to race Americans are "moral cowards". Or the entire campaign to paint Chik-a-Filet as a hate group. Or Hobby Lobby, the Colorado Cake Baker, and on and on and on.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 5/15/2019 7:19:45 AM (No. 64561)
Mitt (McCain) Romney at it again. Is there anything that can be done immediately to expel these rinos from the Republican Party?
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Huh...maybe he did strap a dog to the roof of his car after all.
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Romney is such a ninny.
He probably thinks Church Lady skits on SNL are instructional videos.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/15/2019 8:33:17 AM (No. 64583)
Great comments. Definitely have Romney pinned. When I think of Romney, I think of the passage in the New Testament when Jesus likened the Pharisees to whited sepulchers filled dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. Romney has such an abundance of self-righteousness that he willfully refuses to see his own shortcomings but enthusiastically points them in others. He believes he is better than this President when, in fact, he is far beneath him. What he fails to see is that we see right through him. He is filled with animosity and venom, but his worst personality traits are envy and disloyalty.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 5/15/2019 8:39:55 AM (No. 64599)
If Mittens switches teams - - that means he´ll be one of us.
Do we really want that?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
bubby 5/15/2019 8:52:37 AM (No. 64607)
The moral preening of Mittens the Mormon is just despicable! The fact that he defended obama the most corrupt, Anti-American, Constitution destroying, white hating, bowing to foreign potentates, effeminate President ever is beyond justification and my comprehension! The truth is obama was and still is an "un-American imposter"!
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Muguy 5/15/2019 8:54:38 AM (No. 64609)
The Mittens/RYANO team sure has let us down.
It just goes to show you a pefect example of why you NEVER should vote for or support a RINO.
The problem is that they just sit around and let good challengers destroy each other in primaries and then swoop in for the kill with their massive war chests filled by associations with corrupt cronies to survive primary challengers in run-offs if it ever comes to that--
The ONLY solution to this is TERM LIMITS. This will be a HUGE step to ending the corruption in DC and in your state legislatures.
Then, maybe there would be a chance that the representatives would fight for the citizens instead of their own pocketbooks with shady deals!!
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 5/15/2019 8:59:08 AM (No. 64615)
Please #34, reveal unto us the location of your Church of the Holier Than Thou so that we, too, may belong to an earth-bound place of worship not headed by sinful men.
We should just give up and burn all the other churches down.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
walcb 5/15/2019 9:04:14 AM (No. 64562)
Too bad Trump didn´t give him some sort of position and then fired his A__ a couple months later.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/15/2019 9:04:18 AM (No. 64574)
In referring to Obie as "an un-American imposter", Judge Truncale was just calling it like it is.
Mittens, you are a lousy senator, sir.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/15/2019 9:15:35 AM (No. 64616)
Don´t go away angry, Mitt. Just go away. Switch parties and be done with it.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
AlpineLace 5/15/2019 9:33:24 AM (No. 64596)
Utah is most likely being over run by Californians fleeing all the problems in California. Only problem, they will be reproducing everything they left.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
Congar 5/15/2019 10:08:16 AM (No. 64567)
Loser Romney never was on our team, should have had a D after his name all along.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
tnorling 5/15/2019 10:13:02 AM (No. 64555)
To call him a well oiled weather vane as Hatch did is wrong. Weather vanes are at least accurate.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/15/2019 10:22:11 AM (No. 64552)
I agree with comments here.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
qr4j 5/15/2019 10:51:31 AM (No. 64588)
Feh.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
BigTimeTrumper 5/15/2019 11:20:22 AM (No. 64603)
Trade War must be threatening Mutts bank account!
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
radrelic 5/15/2019 11:27:14 AM (No. 64589)
Mitt lacks discernment and misuses his other gifts IMO.
Bringing shame on Utah and giving fodder to the anti-Mormons to chew on.
I have no clue as to his long game but I will vote for him again if he runs because he counts more for the GOP than a more vicious dem. He has that "R" by his name. But will vote first to primary him out. The people who tried to take out Orrin Hatch might help primary him out but knowing he is losing supporters of him personally the opportunists on the political scenes locally might give us a doozy. Such as Bo Gritetz, libertarian who beat Clinton the year that fellow came in third in Utah.
10 people like this.
Reply 57 - Posted by:
little guy 5/15/2019 11:28:23 AM (No. 64601)
I fully expect Romney to run third-party in 2020 to pull Never Trumper votes from The Donald. He´ll cut a deal with whomever the Dem nominee is and settle for Secretary of State.
Not since former U.S. President Tyler (number 10) joined the Confederacy have we seen such a traitor!
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
Jobe 5/15/2019 11:51:40 AM (No. 64597)
Mitt Romney was in the tank for Obama, which is why he went belly up when he had the goods to expose Obama for the fraud that he was. Mittens either lacked the guts, the character, or both to do what SHOULD have been done to that arrogant poseur, Obama, when he ran for president. Watching that house of cards crumble in the "debate" was a clue into the "character" of Romney. "Mittens" and the late John McCain could not have rolled over and gone belly up any faster than they did, even if they tried. Romney is showing his true colors by refusing to accept the copious amount of evidence, both then and now, that shows Obama to be the first president in our nation´s history to try to bring the country down. There isn´t enough money in print to make me cast a vote for Romney.
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/15/2019 11:58:15 AM (No. 64578)
Romney worshipped McCain. Twin losers identify with each other. Resentments anger and retaliation are their sole ambitions and getting even is their daily drive. It´s all they think about. Textbook symptoms of alcoholism. Who on earth cares if McRombamaney rejects Trumps pick? He´s a nobody and if he votes with the dems then vote with them. We dont need you. Switch parties and come out of the closet. You and Chuckie Schoomur can be best buddies and hit happy hour every day starting at noon.
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/15/2019 12:08:52 PM (No. 64573)
Luckily, we have moved beyond the point where the vote of one loser RINO matters. The judge was approved and once again, Romney´s opinion is appropriately meaningless.
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
NotaBene 5/15/2019 12:14:46 PM (No. 64572)
Romney is giving Mormons a bad name. Just to think I contributed so much $ to this U.N.-American imposter.
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
jorgecito 5/15/2019 12:32:14 PM (No. 64579)
By calling Obama "un-American," the judge may have been expressing a political opinion that many share ... without implying any opinion about Obama´s place of birth.
And speaking of which, I agree with the judge: Obama was probably born in Hawaii. But there is evidence that could reasonably be interpreted otherwise.
So Politico´s reporter is wrong to proclaim "´birtherism´"... a racist theory that the president was not an American citizen."
Racist? Not necessarily. And an honest journalist would not have assumed it.
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 5/15/2019 12:52:49 PM (No. 64595)
The proof in how far Mittens has fallen is how few Mormon Apologists on this site have come to his defense, unlike when they were attacking Sarah Palin when Romney was running against her to oppose Obama. Nearly every Mormon I´ve ever met has been an outstanding, unapologetic conservative, but their prominent politicians leave much to be desired (Harry Reid), but tribalism dies hard
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Reply 64 - Posted by:
rochow 5/15/2019 1:51:55 PM (No. 64587)
His switch to the dem party is long overdue!
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Romney/Ryan.....
The two most profane words I ever heard!
s/
Veterans for TRUMP 2020
No more traitors!
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Reply 66 - Posted by:
Tianne 5/15/2019 4:31:34 PM (No. 64584)
M. Romney explaining his vote against Michael Truncale: "This was not a matter of qualifications or politics".
Wasn´t his vote supposed to be exactly about qualifications?
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Mitty stop being suck a dik4
Duh whats a dik4...?
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#11 for the Win....!!!
Reply 11 - Posted by: lakerman1
Mitt is a hemorrhoid on the rectum of the Senate.
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Hopefully, Mitts will never be president, but that doesn´t stop him from filling the shoes of McCain in the Senate.