Five years ago today Mitt Romney announced that he would vote to convict President Trump in his first Senate impeachment trial. I've watched a lot of Senate speeches in my time, and this was one of the best. Worth taking a few minutes to read it or watch it. www.politico.com/news/2020/02... - ThreadSky

ericcolumbus.bsky.social • 17 days ago

Five years ago today Mitt Romney announced that he would vote to convict President Trump in his first Senate impeachment trial.

I've watched a lot of Senate speeches in my time, and this was one of the best. Worth taking a few minutes to read it or watch it.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/05/mitt-romney-impeachment-vote-speech-transcript-110849

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letsleveluplisa.swifties.social•17 days ago

Really beautiful and so honorable. Thank you for sharing.

cafealait.bsky.social•17 days ago

Senator Romney was heckled for suggesting cutting a Nixon like deal to Orange 💩. Wise man.

m813.bsky.social•17 days ago

Where is he now?

sudgr8.bsky.social•17 days ago

Where is he now?

theglobalvc.bsky.social•17 days ago

The failure of Mitch "Power Uber Alles" McConnell and the GOP to impeach him for insurrection should have put them in the minority for years. Instead, 4 years later, they're back in control of all 3 branches of government.

ericcolumbus.bsky.social•17 days ago

Mitt Romney, five years ago today

bodo1016.bsky.social•17 days ago

Where are you now, Mittens?!

larkraf.bsky.social•17 days ago

and , what happened to that ? cue: crickets and sound of balloon deflating

elizabethpearce.bsky.social•17 days ago

This was a good speech, and I also remember Adam Schiff’s closing argument in Trump’s first impeachment. “He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again. He will not change, and you know it.”

beachydee.bsky.social•17 days ago

The only republican with a soul

blake105.bsky.social•17 days ago

Mmmkay.

hobbesjosh.bsky.social•17 days ago

I am sure he has learned his lesson from his first impeachment, right Susie?

cheddargram.bsky.social•17 days ago

And yet it meant nothing to the GOP members of Congress and the felon and adjudicated rapist was elected again.

krazy1.bsky.social•17 days ago

Did anything change?
No!

nekcarolyn.bsky.social•17 days ago

Come on Mit do it again

ericcolumbus.bsky.social•17 days ago

Alas he did not run for reelection.

nekcarolyn.bsky.social•17 days ago

ridder.bsky.social•17 days ago

It is a very good speech. The kind we need today. Unfortunately while it's necessary, it's not by itself sufficient. He needed to seize that moment to lead, but he chose against the opportunity that destiny offered.

messinmynest.bsky.social•17 days ago

📌

onlyme25.bsky.social•17 days ago

And how did that work out? Five fucking years ago doesn't mean anything today!!! It's no longer relevant or important...especially since Romney is gone! Nothing anyone says or does is going to change The Dictatorship!! We're all in the Twilight Zone now!

anneeliot.bsky.social•17 days ago

The last Republican Senator.

badjohnbrown.bsky.social•17 days ago

He's one of the least heroic people from the last decade, but sure, puff him up.

abeverhausen.bsky.social•17 days ago

And then he was fired.

aquariusjosie.bsky.social•17 days ago

He’s a true Republican and he had the balls. All these Republicans now should stop calling themselves that and rename themselves to what the party is really now, MAGA. Absolutely pathetic and disgraceful.

davinco007.bsky.social•17 days ago

Can we stop celebrating quitters? Mitt Romney decided to quit his responsibilities as a senator because he was going to have a difficult election.

He did so knowing his replacement would be a puppet.

He engaged in theatrical politics as they suited him. That’s all it was.

ogsaigonbond.bsky.social•17 days ago

anneeliot.bsky.social•17 days ago

These lying fascist R traitors lied about AZ and PA and voted to throw out our votes.

bunnycora.bsky.social•16 days ago

I can understand why he left the senate, when he talked about the threats against him and his family. Seeing Trump in action with his tyranny of retribution, he knows he made the right decision. Biden also knows he made the right decision in pardoning his son and family.

wohio.bsky.social•17 days ago

...and then he wouldn't come out against Trump's reelection bid. 🤷‍♂️

rebjreed.bsky.social•17 days ago

Too bad he quit.

mosnow65.bsky.social•17 days ago

watching is very powerful.

mshannonm.bsky.social•17 days ago

Mitt Romney was to rational & had to much integrity for the GOP to give him the support he deserved. GOP’s biggest mistake was not endorsing Romney for president in 2016.

philipskipper.bsky.social•17 days ago

My question is: why has he disappeared?

danielwbrody.bsky.social•17 days ago

Has Mitt said anything recently

loveupstateny.bsky.social•16 days ago

Where is he now?????

spookybutkind.bsky.social•17 days ago

The last dying gasp of Republican respectability.

labradog.bsky.social•17 days ago

Damned slack vision of "respectability".

hayes77519.bsky.social•17 days ago

This was the closest we came to a better timeline. Just a couple more joining him would have done it.

labradog.bsky.social•17 days ago

The best? You need to read more speeches.

This golden oldie bullshit will get us nowhere.

fuckallautocrats.bsky.social•17 days ago

Well, that feels like last century....

thenakedvine.bsky.social•17 days ago

Alas, it was an utterly empty gesture, as he has voted to grant Trump and his enablers whatever they've wanted since. Wonder where his principles went?

darwinwoodka.bsky.social•17 days ago

If only a few more in the GOP had given a fuck about our country.

upnorthgramma.bsky.social•17 days ago

Nice speech but he must do more!!!! Get out there and call out his party, work against this stupidity. He might be able to afford this mess but a whole lot of others can’t!

bstinky.bsky.social•17 days ago

Was a great speech were is he now?
He admitted he's afraid. We don't need chicken shit people in government we already have enough
Dem and republicans
To fill that slot

psychobob4q2.bsky.social•17 days ago

A lot of effing good that did considering the outcome.

floridadab.bsky.social•17 days ago

Say what you want about Romney, but the call out in the 2012 debate that Russia is the biggest threat to the US and Obama’s smartass, the 1980’s called and want their foreign policy back response is a very underestimated stain on Obama’s legacy.

hobbesjosh.bsky.social•17 days ago

Actually Obama wasn't wrong. China was and still is the biggest threat

floridadab.bsky.social•17 days ago

Agree to disagree on that one. I mean china is awful but the damage Russia has done to the US through Trump and Trumpism and winning the misinformation game from so many traitors is incalculable.

talouie.bsky.social•17 days ago

True Moral Character

cosmiccowgirltarot.bsky.social•17 days ago

I would actually consider voting for him this time. At this point it's less about the party and more about sanity.

jackjonesoak.bsky.social•17 days ago

Water under the bridge. All the other cuckholds knelt and opened their mouths to receive the mango shower.

spartaladysusan.bsky.social•17 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/live/Wxzo02UoF30?si=2U5cVO-MwsaprghI

steverodgers1.bsky.social•17 days ago

The speech was so powerful and had such a profound impact they elected him president again…

texasgeologist.bsky.social•17 days ago

YouTube links to when most Republican politicians were still telling the truth about Trump, in 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y6WL3pmSxk

https://youtu.be/P43wDpKQxaM?si=yXxNXSz07Kw--6ZY

yarnlover.bsky.social•16 days ago

We'll look at where the cowardly, craven, self-serving Trump a$$lickers are today.
Follow the money and look for the total absence of integrity.

labradog.bsky.social•17 days ago

Only because they believed it furthered their own corrupt, greedy aganda.

texasgeologist.bsky.social•17 days ago

As you noted, with a handful of honorable exceptions, the Republican Senators, led by McConnell showed profound cowardice after the J6 assault on the Capitol and the resulting impeachment trial:

dasquires1.bsky.social•17 days ago

Cannot reread. He met that moment, but failed miserably ever after. I had hoped he would lead enough R's to convict him, but realized that would have taken an act of God. So then looked to him to stand up to maga at every opportunity. He was weak, half-hearted, and not able to stand firmly opposed.

kevindukes.bsky.social•16 days ago

The saddest thing about that speech is the abject shock and disappointment. He truly didn’t see it coming and he’s one of the brightest guys up there. Not confidence instilling.

ericcolumbus.bsky.social•16 days ago

Well he didn’t endorse Trump in 2016, so he had pretty low expectations of his presidency.

ravenna321.bsky.social•17 days ago

Those were days, Republicans were Republican, now they're just Republic Annihilators

zackattack17.bsky.social•17 days ago

One cannot have loyalty to a person and a party over the constitution and America

tmorrow66.bsky.social•17 days ago

I’m sure there were some speeches during the Weimar times.

g-r-m.bsky.social•17 days ago

Name a current Senate republican to take up the mantle. How about Tommy Dufusville?

chrisamy7.bsky.social•17 days ago

If they all had balls they would impeach and remove him from office. Vance might be better ? Not sure but we can go down the line until we get someone that cares about America!

margaretweant.bsky.social•17 days ago

Remember the days when we thought Romney was too far right? #memories

accessoriesgirl.bsky.social•17 days ago

Agree this was outstanding. Too bad Romney voted with trump too many times.

graditude.bsky.social•16 days ago

📌

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