- So what has he really stood for? Well, the first thing he did when he got to town was write an oped for The Washington Post attacking Donald Trump — the only Republican president elected in the past 16 years and a political foe of the previous two candidates, including Romney.
- He’s always operated as though the existential threat of the left doesn’t exist and the current course is just fine with a little tweaking.” “Norms, of course, are sacrosanct.” “He went to Washington to do this,” a former longtime Senate communicator said, referring to the impeachment vote.
- When he launched his Senate bid two years ago this month, Romney touted his experience from the Winter Olympics, called Utah beautiful, lauded its character, touted an open-armed embrace of immigrants, and made a promise: “If you give me this opportunity, I will owe the Senate seat to no one but the people of Utah.” But the games were a long time ago.
- Later in his campaign for Senate, Romney claimed to be “more of a hawk on immigration” than Trump, though he’s since voted against funding for the border wall.
- On abortion, he went after nuns for opposing it in Massachusetts (once again, before Obama made that policy popular), but voted against federal funding for abortion when he came to D.C. He’s gone back and forth on guns as well, and was actually against Ronald Reagan before he was for him.
- It’s a serious question: What motivates Mitt? Why did the junior Republican from Utah come to Washington? Was it for the military? Families? Business? Abortion? Guns? The old Reagan Republican way? It’s truly hard to say.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/06/what-does-mitt-romney-even-stand-for-an-investigation/
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