Media is busy canonizing Mittens

[thegoose]

Oh, for God's sake. He's still a Republican.

[rickford66]

1. He's still a Vulture Capitalist.

Causing untold misery among many working people.

[thegoose]

9. Says he mostly agrees with the thug

And voted with him 80 percent of the time.

And God, God, God... Piss off, Mittens.

[uponit7771]

2. K&R, he did the decent thing but its not like he was the first black president

[krissey]

3. You can bet it is pissing Trump off.

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. That's the only reason Rmoney did it.

He's still a blue-blood-wannabe who'd strap his dog on top of the car for 12 hours. Who profits by destroying the lives of working Americans. Who lined his pockets from Clear Channel by destroying the employment of thousands while smothering America's airwaves with the rightwing hatred that brought us where we now are.

He counted his profits while forcing employees to build the stage where Management announced their jobs were going to China.

He hypocritically claimed to be "pro-life" while Bain Capital owned and operated companies that profited from disposing of aborted fetusus

He writes off six-figure sums for his wife's fancy dancing horse as "medical expense" while denying health care to poor working Americans, and that stuck-up wife told Americans that "you people have seen all you need to see" of his taxes.

He's still a two-faced, perfectly-lubricated weathervane who wants to weasel his way into the presidency.

Yeah, he did the right thing on one count, but not for the right reason. And he voted to give MF45 a pass on blatant obstruction .

I say "Thanks Rmoney, now go fuck yourself, and the dancing horse you rode in on."

[RockRaven]

4. For God's sake he voted AGAINST the more obvious and well-proven article.

I suspect R-money thought it would be best for him to get some "I'm so principled" attention, but also to have it both ways by not going full "traitor to the GOP"... but thought the optics/impact were better if he split 1yes-2no rather than 1no-2yes. First article is voted on first, that sets the narrative.

[krissey]

6. That was crazy he didn't vote to obstruction of congress. So there for the nation to see.

[abqtommy]

7. I've been mildly amused and totally disgusted at the recent "rehabilitation" of Mitt here on DU,

what with accolades of support for his decision to vote guilty for tRUMP in the impeachment vote. I
just had to do a search on "Dirt On Mitt" to refresh my memory and yes, Mitt's history is a corrupt one.
No wonder he's a reTHUG and whatever good he might do has been carefully calculated, in my
opinion. Don't be a sucker, Mitt is a mother-________.

[not_the_one]

8. They will take the one republican who did one correct thing,

and tout him as THE viable alternative to any democrat.

[phleshdef]

10. I'm glad they are. That is bad for Trump.

We don't have to like Mitt Romney. There is no harm in sitting back and cheering him on for a few days though.

They went low, we went high.

They just kept going lower. So now lets kick them in the fucking face.

[Quixote1818]

11. Exactly! nt

[bdamomma]

23. sounds good to me

they have kicked us in the face many times. It's tit for tat or quid pro quo.

[spooky3]

28. And, it may encourage other Republicans to stand up

in the future.

[Hekate]

12. My gods all you people. Way to miss the point.

I'm really sorry for all those on our side who cannot recognize a profile in courage when they witness it. It says so much about the sad, sad state of our nation.

[Dem2theMax]

13. Thank you.

[nolabear]

14. True dat. It's a quick way to find yourself alone on that mountain.

[Coventina]

18. he did 1/2 of the right thing, big deal

That's the mark of a man who knows he ought to do better, but doesn't have the stones to commit to it.

[bullwinkle428]

19. I honestly wish Doug Jones received just as much credit, given

that he's probably going to lose either way, but wanted to be on the correct side of history.

[Coventina]

21. Agree completely. n/t

[spooky3]

29. His speech was excellent, too. Nt

[jcmaine72]

15. I've seen quite a few posts here lauding him as well.

Like you stated, he's still a Republican. It's just one snake biting another.

[scheming daemons]

16. If we don't praise political courage when it happens, we'll see less of it in the future

Be a grownup and give praise where it is due.

[lostnfound]

17. Democrats carried ball to the 20 yard line, mitt moved it last 5 inches.

And there it sits.
Glad to see that the GOP Senate is only 98% lazy traitors.

[BlueStater]

20. Just admit he did the right thing.

You don't have to like the guy (I don't), but he made the correct choice when it really counted and history will record it as such.

[Coventina]

22. No. He did 1/2 of the right thing. 1/2 the wrong thing. Wishy-washy to the end, that's Mitt.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

24. Meanwhile

Democrats: "Uh, hey. We impeached him and voted unanimously to convict."


But I get it, Mitch was a Republican "Unicorn" on one of the charges, so, of course, the media is going to pay more attention to him.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. He did similar to that when McCain did this--

(although McCain's vote was more immediately meaningful)

[TruckFump]

26. I for one am glad they are doing this.

Just keeps it in the news and irritates Trump.

[MaryMagdaline]

27. Mitt completely ruined Trump's victory parade

That’s worth a million points in my book. Among republican acquaintances, the mitt vote is spoiling their day.

THIS IS AS GOOD A MEDIA STORY AS WE ARE GOING TO GET. LET’S BE HAPPY.

Weeks ago we were worried trump would be acquitted before the SB interview (he wasn’t); that he would be acquitted before the SOTU (he wasn’t); that some Democrats would vote to acquit (they didn’t); and that republicans would all vote to acquit (they didn’t).

[FreepFryer]

30. This. (Nt)

[dajoki]

31. Yep n/t