Hatch to Retire - Possible Senator Romney?

[Arenera]

Mitt Romney: On school shootings, immigration and when he’ll challenge Trump. A Q&A with Utah’s new Senate candidate.

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How do you respond to criticism from Utah Republican Party Chairman Rob Anderson and others that you’re running for a Senate seat from Utah where you haven’t lived most of your life?

“I think he raises questions that people want to have answered. After all, I was a governor of another state and Massachusetts was where I lived for a long time. And I’m proud of that state, proud of my record there. But [wife] Ann and I are proud to make Utah home. We moved here officially in 2014 and have lived here full time. Before then we were here for the Olympics and for college and love it and, of course, our family roots are here. But [Anderson] is raising good questions and those are ones that I’m glad to answer and pleased to answer. … People have legitimate questions and I plan on answering them. And by the way, with regard to process, I’ll be working it hard. I worked hard as a presidential candidate and I’ll work hard for the U.S. Senate from my state.”

[Fiannan]

So you prefer Romney to McMullin? Yet which one is the real one?

[Joel]

Trump endorses Romney for Senate

[Ezra]

Trump endorses Romney for Senate

I bet that makes arenera super excited to know trump supports Romney just like she does.

[Arenera]

Trump endorses Romney for Senate

I bet that makes arenera super excited to know trump supports Romney just like she does.

I don’t like King Trump, er President Trump. Neither does Melania...

Well, Utah should vote next week and put this to bed. Have mercy on the other candidates.

[Ezra]

Trump endorses Romney for Senate

I bet that makes arenera super excited to know trump supports Romney just like she does.

I don’t like King Trump, er President Trump. Neither does Melania...

Well, Utah should vote next week and put this to bed. Have mercy on the other candidates.

Trump loves Romney because they are so alike. But I imagine Romney is a bit jealous of trump. Since he did what Romney couldn’t do and got elected as president. Which also means more people like trump then Romney.

[Arenera]

What does a politician have for breakfast?

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President Donald Trump took to Twitter Monday night to offer surprising support for a longtime nemesis. The president endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for senator, a position the former Massachusetts governor hopes to inherit from retiring GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah.

The president tweeted, "He will make a great Senator and worthy successor to @OrrinHatch and has my full support and endorsement!"

Romney, who accepted Trump’s endorsement, announced his intention to run last week, but never mentioned Trump in a campaign video.

Romney bashed Trump during the 2016 election, including a March 2016 speech in which he meticulously outlined what he described as a minefield of problems Trump presented if elected. The former Massachusetts governor ripped Trump over foreign policy, his businesses and the economy, his temperament and dealings with Russia.

"Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud," Romney told an audience at the University of Utah last March. "His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat."

Trump, in turn, said Romney "choked like a dog" when he lost in 2012 to President Obama and called him a "mixed up man who doesn't have a clue."

But Romney accepted Trump's endorsement on Twitter late Monday, making no mention of his previous critical comments.

@MittRomney
Thank you Mr. President for the support. I hope that over the course of the campaign I also earn the support and endorsement of the people of Utah.

He’s on the same page policy-wise as Trump, Romney said in an interview with The Associated Press on the day of his campaign announcement Friday, though adding he wouldn't hesitate to speak out against the president if he disagreed with him. He mentioned an immigration plan similar to Trump's in an interview with the The Salt Lake Tribune, offering support for "a border fence or wall" and saying he agreed that chain migration and the lottery program should be fixed.

[Fiannan]

I don’t like King Trump, er President Trump. Neither does Melania...

Was that in the National Enquirer? Tell us more.

[Ezra]

What does a politician have for breakfast?

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President Donald Trump took to Twitter Monday night to offer surprising support for a longtime nemesis. The president endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for senator, a position the former Massachusetts governor hopes to inherit from retiring GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah.

The president tweeted, "He will make a great Senator and worthy successor to @OrrinHatch and has my full support and endorsement!"

Romney, who accepted Trump’s endorsement, announced his intention to run last week, but never mentioned Trump in a campaign video.

Romney bashed Trump during the 2016 election, including a March 2016 speech in which he meticulously outlined what he described as a minefield of problems Trump presented if elected. The former Massachusetts governor ripped Trump over foreign policy, his businesses and the economy, his temperament and dealings with Russia.

"Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud," Romney told an audience at the University of Utah last March. "His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat."

Trump, in turn, said Romney "choked like a dog" when he lost in 2012 to President Obama and called him a "mixed up man who doesn't have a clue."

But Romney accepted Trump's endorsement on Twitter late Monday, making no mention of his previous critical comments.

@MittRomney
Thank you Mr. President for the support. I hope that over the course of the campaign I also earn the support and endorsement of the people of Utah.

He’s on the same page policy-wise as Trump, Romney said in an interview with The Associated Press on the day of his campaign announcement Friday, though adding he wouldn't hesitate to speak out against the president if he disagreed with him. He mentioned an immigration plan similar to Trump's in an interview with the The Salt Lake Tribune, offering support for "a border fence or wall" and saying he agreed that chain migration and the lottery program should be fixed.

Arenera is falling in love with trump now that the realization that trump and Romney are so alike.

I can see Romney taking up tweeting like trump soon. With some practice of coarse.

[Fiannan]

I can see Romney taking up tweeting like trump soon. With some practice of coarse.

It would probably be more like him examining if he should get a "My Space" account set up. Obama slaughtered him in 2012 because he knew how to use social media.

[Arenera]

Imagine a junior senator having this kind of national exposure. A gift for Utah.

[Ezra]

Imagine a junior senator having this kind of national exposure. A gift for Utah.

There is an old saying I love.

It’s better to be thought a fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubts.

With mitt being so flip flop on his ideals based on what seems popular at the moment I don’t think that is the exposure Utah needs Or rather hope if the flip flop continues to be the case Utah is not judged by to be like him.

So if he is elected I hope he can manage to not be an idiot flip flopping around for the sake of Utah.

[Ezra]

I've always liked Mitt Romney and hope he wins the Senate seat.

He will work well with trump. They have a lot in common so it will be good if he wins.

[larsenb]

. . . . I can see Romney taking up tweeting like trump soon. With some practice of coarse.

Are you saying Romney needs to practice being coarse before he can tweet like Trump? That would be a waste of time. Romney's style will be rude/nasty tweets, not coarse ones.

[lundbaek]

Just a few questions about Mitt Romney:

Originalist Interpretation
Does he interpret the Founding Documents according to the meaning originally intended by the Founding Fathers? Does he believe that the Constitution of the United States was prepared and adopted by wise men acting under inspiration from the Lord, that the Lord established the Constitution of this land by the hands of those wise men whom He raised up unto that very purpose?

States’ Powers
Does he understand that everything not specifically delegated by the Constitution to the federal government, nor prohibited by the Constitution to the states, is reserved to the states or to the people?

Education
Does he realize that the Constitution grants the Federal Government no authority over Education, and that this includes funding?

Gun Rights
Does he accept that the 2nd Amendment provides that all U.S. citizens in good standing should be free to pack heat?

Defense, Foreign Policy & Terrorism
Would he be committed to the protection of the borders, trade, and common defense of Americans, with no entanglement in foreign alliances? Does he understand and accept all wars must be declared by Congress? Does he agree with the Constitution that no treaty or agreement with other countries should deprive our citizens of rights guaranteed them by the Constitution?

Veterans
Would he resist to any attempt by any government agency to nullify or reduce earned benefits to veterans and their survivors, including but not limited to, compensation, pensions, education, and health care?

Immigration
Does he realize that illegal immigration is fomented by certain Americans to alter voting demographics in order to advance socialism and global governance (a.k.a. the new world order), to provide a source of cheap labour, and/or because they fail to realize that humanitarianism at other people's expense is not charity; it relies on legal plunder?

Treaties & Trade Deals
Does he realize that so-called free trade deals and/or treaties that usurp American Sovereignty and/or the Constitution are unconstitutional and the U.S.A. should withdraw from them immediately? Does he agree that no treaty or agreement with other countries should deprive our citizens of rights guaranteed them by the Constitution?

United Nations, Agenda 21, & Global Organizations
Does he realize that the United Nations was established to ultimately create a single world government, and that we should part ways with the UN and any other global agency that attempts to subvert American Sovereignty? Does he oppose Agenda 21?

Religious Freedom
Does he concur that all Americans have equal right to worship according to their beliefs as long as their practices to not infringe on the inherent rights of others. Government must be kept out of the religious realm?

Healthcare, Welfare & Social Security
Will he ever agree that the privatization of Healthcare, Welfare and Social Security are unconstitutional and should be phased out? Might he ever promote and support discontinuing forcing people into the SS program and support leaving it to people to choose their own private savings arrangement.?

Judiciary
Does he reject the notion that the Supreme Court’s decisions are binding as law beyond those parties to whom the case pertained, that activist Judges should be impeached, as permissible by the Constitution, and that judges should be judging the constitutionality of laws, not basing their decisions on precedence?

Drugs
Does he understand that the federal government’s only authority in preventing drug abuse is to control our borders, thay drug abuse is a state issue?

Life
Does he really believe that life begins at conception?

Personal Liberty
Does he agree that the Federal Government must be restricted to its enumerated powers as such that it does not impede the Liberty of the People whom it serves, that it should secure to each individual the free exercise of conscience, the right and control of property, and the protection of life?

Property Rights
Does he really understand that each individual possesses the God-given, inalienable right to own and steward personal property without government burden, that It is a violation of the right of private property guaranteed under the Constitution for the Federal Government to forcibly deprive the citizens of this nation of their property through taxation or otherwise, and make a gift thereof to other citizens or to foreign governments and their citizens?

Does he realize that in the United States today we have been beset for over 100 years with a carefully and methodically executed conspiracy intent on destroying the constitutional government the American Founding Fathers gave us and making a shambles of the society and government established by the U.S. Constitution? Does he realize that goal of the NWO conspirators is to saddle the United States with a centralized socialist government and make our nation subservient to a single, world government, a.k.a. the New World Order? Does he realize that if he is to help America is to break free of this conspiracy ,he must learn the principles of the Constitution in the tradition of the Founding Fathers, and espouse, uphold, and abide by them?

[Arenera]

Mitt Romney jumps out to big lead in U.S. Senate race, poll shows

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SALT LAKE CITY — Mitt Romney became the instant front-runner when he announced his U.S. Senate campaign last week, as a new poll shows him with a commanding lead four days into the race.

A Utahpolicy.com poll released Tuesday shows 60 percent of Utahns would vote for the former Massachusetts governor among declared and possible candidates for the office. Only Democratic Salt Lake County Councilwoman Jenny Wilson polled in double digits, with a meager 14 percent.

Libertarian Craig Bowden and Rep. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, who has not entered the race, fared the best among the rest at 3 percent and 2 percent, respectively.

The Dan Jones & Associates poll surveyed 609 registered voters Feb. 9-16. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.

According to the poll, 59 percent of men and 61 percent of women say they would vote for Romney. He also garners 75 percent support among Republicans, 32 percent among Democrats and 59 percent with unaffiliated voters.

[Ezra]

Mitt Romney jumps out to big lead in U.S. Senate race, poll shows

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SALT LAKE CITY — Mitt Romney became the instant front-runner when he announced his U.S. Senate campaign last week, as a new poll shows him with a commanding lead four days into the race.

A Utahpolicy.com poll released Tuesday shows 60 percent of Utahns would vote for the former Massachusetts governor among declared and possible candidates for the office. Only Democratic Salt Lake County Councilwoman Jenny Wilson polled in double digits, with a meager 14 percent.

Libertarian Craig Bowden and Rep. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, who has not entered the race, fared the best among the rest at 3 percent and 2 percent, respectively.

The Dan Jones & Associates poll surveyed 609 registered voters Feb. 9-16. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.

According to the poll, 59 percent of men and 61 percent of women say they would vote for Romney. He also garners 75 percent support among Republicans, 32 percent among Democrats and 59 percent with unaffiliated voters.

Being endorsed by the president of the USA is always a game changer.

[lundbaek]

In Utah, having been a bishop and stake president impresses lots of LDS voters who haven't bothered to learn what past prophets have said about deciding whom to vote for.

[Arenera]

Leaders don't tell us who to vote for, but they do encourage us to read the Book of Mormon.

[Fiannan]

Imagine a junior senator having this kind of national exposure. A gift for Utah.

The world loves him. Nice to have the love of the world.

[lundbaek]

Our LDS Church leaders don't tell us who to vote for, but they have told us in years past how to decide whom to vote for. And Mitt Romney does not make the cut.

[Arenera]

Romney hires longtime aide, and Trump campaign treasurer, as his Senate organization’s accountant

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Washington • Mitt Romney has chosen a longtime aide, who is also the treasurer of President Donald Trump’s campaign, to head up financial accounting for his Senate bid in Utah, a new filing with the Federal Election Commission shows.
Romney, who had been sharply critical of Trump but has now welcomed his endorsement, tapped Brad Crate, based in Massachusetts, to serve as treasurer of his Utah campaign.

During the 2016 election, Crate was the treasurer of the Trump Victory Fund and the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, joint fundraising committees that backed Trump. He is the treasurer of Trump’s re-election campaign.

Crate has worked for Romney since he first ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and worked in his gubernatorial office after Romney won. He subsequently was the chief financial officer of Romney’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Crate’s brother, Darrell, was Romney’s treasurer during those bids as well.
Romney’s filing with the FEC is the first step in the federal campaign. It only lists basic details and does not cover how much the campaign has raised or spent thus far.

[lundbaek]

The following is from the World Affairs Brief of 2/23/2018 by Joel Skousen

Mitt Romney is as popular a politician as it gets in Utah, even though he’s hardly ever lived in the state—Popular, except with the constitutional conservative minority, which is well aware of the serious compromises Romney made as governor of Massachusetts. Obviously, you can’t win an election in a blue state like MA without making serious compromises—which Gregg Jackson lists here:

Mitt Romney announced his candidacy for the United States Senate yesterday. Having covered him closely as a radio talk show host on WRKO in Boston while Mr. Romney was governor of Massachusetts, I know his record inside and out. Mr. Romney claims to be a social and fiscal conservative. But his actual record demonstrates that he is nothing more than Ted Kennedy in a Ronald Reagan costume. Utah voters deserve to know the documented truth about Mr. Romney.

Mitt Romney was a Fiscal and Social Liberal:

1. Illegally & unconstitutionally instituted same-sex “marriage” falsely claiming the Massachusetts Supreme Court “ordered him to.”

2. Signed $50 tax-subsidized abortions into law (2 years AFTER his fake “pro-life conversion.”

3. Boosted funding for homosexual “education” starting in kindergarten.

4. Opposed the ban on homosexual scoutmasters.

5. Promised the homosexual Republican “Log Cabin Republicans” he wouldn’t oppose “gay marriage” in return for their endorsement.

6. Instituted a quasi-socialist healthcare plan endorsed by Hillary Clinton, Teddy Kennedy and Planned Parenthood that destroyed the Massachusetts’ economy.

7. Increased taxes and fees by close to a billion dollars which destroyed [harmed] the Massachusetts’ economy and opposed the Bush Tax Cuts.

8. Voted # 8 RINO by Human Events.

9. Passed over Republican lawyers for three quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he faced and nominated 2 open homosexuals.

10. Criticized Joint Chief of Staff, Peter Pace for saying that homosexual acts were “immoral.”

11. Supports passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act which would force churches and other religious organizations to hire homosexuals and transvestites or face criminal fines and prosecution.

12. Romney supported McCain-Feingold “campaign finance reform”, McCain-Kennedy “comprehensive immigration reform” (i.e. amnesty), and parts of the McCain-Lieberman “carbon cap and trade” bill and opposed the Bush Tax Cuts.

Proof of each of the above compromises is found in links in the quote. In reality, Romney actually is a generic conservative, but he wanted too badly to be elected and thus felt constrained to compromise on so many core values. Believe it or not, he still thinks he’s a conservative. That’s how convincing self-deception can be.

Despite all these flaws, Romney isn’t a knowing globalist conspirator. But that makes little difference when you bend over backward to please the CFR and hire them as your political advisors. But even his consistent efforts to please them were not enough to allow the PTB to let him win the White House. As we are seeing with Donald Trump, not having a compliant puppet in the White House is a full time hassle for the establishment—having to cajole, manipulate and convince Trump to go along. Romney would have been easier to control in some things and harder in others.

Romney will join the mainstream wing of the Republican party, just as Orrin Hatch did, so it won’t change the status quo in the Senate. But it’s no improvement either.

[Arenera]

Mitt Romney visits with Southern Utah University students

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CEDAR CITY (News4Utah) - Southern Utah University students had a visit from Mitt Romney Thursday who stopped by to speak to students and gather signatures.

He spoke to News4Utah about this campaign for U.S. Senate.

"Students can't quite believe it. They're lining up already," said Mary Bennett, Director of the Michael O. Leavitt Center for Politics and Public Service at SUU.

"Everybody's been here for a long time," said student Jacob Petersen.

"Kind of crazy to get a former presidential candidate down here," said Student Kenton Pope who helped plan the event.

Governor Mitt Romney, now Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate, made time to meet hundreds of students, which also meant taking hundreds of photographs.

"I'm going to be campaigning in every single county in Utah and I've got to try to meet with delegates and with mayors as well as with every-day Republican voters to make sure I get the support I need to get on the ballot and win in November so I can do a better job fighting for Utah," said Governor Romney.

"I think it's great that he's coming to rural Utah. I've grown up in rural Utah my entire life and I think it's great he's reaching out and getting to know students and getting their vote," said Pope.

And win the students votes- Romney must.

"Rattle his brain and ask him some questions ... and I'll decide later," said Petersen.

Romney took time to answer questions -- including his thoughts on gun control.

"Our kids shouldn't have to worry about their lives when they go to school. ... I think each State Legislature ought to look at the widest array of options from how to secure a school, to some kind of security patrols in schools, to intervention teams if a child poses a certain danger, to restrictions on purchases of weapons," said Romney.

Governor Romney along with former presidential candidate Ron Paul spoke Thursday evening at Iron County's GOP Lincoln Day Dinner.

[Arenera]

Intrigue in Utah Politics

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What is politics all about? It seems like you try to block others from getting what you want. Well, most people believe the fair way to do that is to have a vote, the winner gets the most votes. That would be getting on the ballot.

In Utah, the convention is the past way of getting on the ballot. The far-right republicans, the far conservatives, want to control the convention. This way, they can control that the far conservatives win and stay in power.

They are at it again, since Romney is running and has widespread support, they want to make it so Romney can’t get on the ballot.

Didn’t this happen a few years ago when Govenor Hebert didn’t win the convention, but got over 28,000 signatures to get on the ballot. Hebert won the election in a landslide.

What is politics all about!!!????