Utah Voters Find Romney Smarmy, Self-Righteous, Self-Promoting and Self-Serving, For Some Crazy Reason I Just Couldn't Even Guess At

Pierre is no delecto, Utah Republicans say.

NBC tries to make this self-serving coward the hero here, unappreciated by people who just aren't smart enough to understand how good he is.

[The impeachment controversy] has renewed speculation among GOP critics in Washington and in Utah that Romney has ulterior motives -- jealousy, retribution, Oval Office ambition or some potent mix of all three. After all, Romney ran for president twice and lost before Trump won the job, and then Trump made him publicly audition for secretary of state before passing him over.

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In Utah, many of the more than two dozen Republican voters interviewed by NBC News last week also expressed disapproval at Romney's digs at Trump and his generally receptive approach to the House investigation into the administration's Ukraine affair.

About Romney's shots at Trump, most had harsh words for their junior senator, with many accusing him of harboring feelings of resentment and envy stemming from his failed 2012 bid and the Trump State Department saga.

"It feels an awful lot like a personal vendetta to me," said Dan Roehm, an engineer from conservative Davis County, just to the north of Salt Lake City. "Because other than that, I really don't see what Romney's issues with him could be. I think they agree on like 80 percent of policy issues."

"Romney is not representing us," added Roehm, who voted for Romney in 2018 but says he no longer supports him. "I've written him a letter letting him know I'm disgusted with how he's acted on impeachment. He's been small."

Diane Bankratz, a 76-year-old retiree from Box Elder County in the northwest corner of the state, said, "Mitt is a good-hearted person. I just don't think he's very conservative. He's leaning toward the Democratic side on this, and I guess I don't understand why.”

"He has the right to say how he feels," she added. "And it's hard for people to say something that’s not popular. I do admire that. But we should support our president."

Recent polling in Utah bolsters the idea that Romney -- who cruised to victory in 2018 with 63 percent of the vote and still receives plaudits among many residents for rescuing the troubled 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City -- has seen his reputation suffer as he's increased his criticism of the president.

More than half of respondents (51 percent) to a UtahPolicy.com/Y2 Analytics poll last week said they "strongly" or "somewhat" disapproved of the job Romney was doing as senator. Respondents who identified as "strong Republicans" overwhelmingly disapproved of him.

Isn't it strange that "strong Republicans" approve of Trump, and "weak Republicans" are, of course, NeverTrumpers?

It's almost like a claque of liberal-leaning urban liberals -- very well-funded, as they're connected to big-money liberals -- took this party captive around 1992 and have been claiming to represent conservatism while actually fighting to undermine it and turn conservatism into "Democrat Party liberal policies and open borders mixed with low taxes on corporations and the very wealthy."

posted by Ace of Spades at 03:37 PM

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