Romney stepping down is the end of a political era.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/09/mitt-romney-stepping-down-represents.html

Personally, my own opinion of Mitt Romney as a politician got a huge boost on March 3, 2016. Driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, I heard his speech at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah warning the GOP about the danger of nominating Donald Trump as their candidate for President. Romney correctly, and with cited evidence, gave a credible attack on Trump's character and behavior, his business dealings and most of his political positions which were all over the place.

Romney said Trump was a "phony, a fraud. He's playing members of the American public for suckers. If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished."

[UTUSN]

1. An era barely noticeable on his account.

[bullimiami]

2. the best that can be said for Romney is that in these waning days of the Republican Party...

he is not the worst of them.

[lees1975]

3. He will always be the guy who got to the verge of being a great leader, and shrank back.

He had a chance to rise to the occasion, to set aside partisan division and set a new example, if not of bipartisan greatness and political innovation, at least to help get it started and he took that step on two notable occasions that will mark his legacy as the Republican who recognized Trump for the phony, fraudulent con artist that he is.

I had hoped for more. He just didn't have it in him to take the short step from where he was to where he could have been.

[Skittles]

4. fuck him

he may have had some minimal standards, but ultimately he was a fucking coward

fuck him

[Pachamama]

5. I will always remember Frog Legs