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Towlie

(5,328 posts)
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 01:35 PM Feb 2022

Mitt Romney: "Morons. I've got morons on my team."

I don't mean to imply that Mitt Romney is a good guy, but along with a handful of other Republican politicians he does occasionally say things that you wouldn't normally expect to hear from their party:

Two Republican members of Congress participated in a white nationalist’s conference. Mitt Romney called them ‘morons.’


Romney on Sunday called racist views “evil.”

“There’s no place in either political party for this white nationalism or racism. It’s simply wrong,” Romney told Bash. He added: “Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar — I don’t know them, but I’m reminded of that old line from the ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ movie where one character says, ‘Morons. I’ve got morons on my team.’ ”


Here's the quote Romney was referring to but I think this movie quote is much more appropriate.

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louis-t

(23,297 posts)
3. Maybe Mitt should look for a new team.
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 01:38 PM
Feb 2022

It ain't so much the morons, Mitt. It's the team that has failed.

Irish_Dem

(47,390 posts)
5. How much money has Romney taken from the Russian mob?
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 01:42 PM
Feb 2022

The Putin GOP and media has been bought off by Putin.
Probably Romney has as well?

Hekate

(90,793 posts)
12. There's never been a breath of that kind of dirt on Mittens. My Dem sis still appreciates ...
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 02:13 PM
Feb 2022

… what he did for Massachusetts in the form of Romneycare.

Irish_Dem

(47,390 posts)
13. Good. Maybe that is why he is free to speak out against the PutinGOP.
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 02:16 PM
Feb 2022

But I am still skeptical, most of the PutinGOP has taken Russian mob money in one form or the other.

Javaman

(62,534 posts)
9. here's the part that is left out...
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 01:46 PM
Feb 2022

"I think anybody who would sit down with a white nationalist at their conference is certainly missing a few IQ points"

I will now leave this here...

Ohio Joe

(21,761 posts)
10. That is not your problem Mitt...
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 01:47 PM
Feb 2022

I mean... Yes, there are plenty of morons in your party but your more immediate problem is that you have open white supremacists and open nazis... That, Mitt, is what you have on your team.

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