Mitt Romney Flips The Switch To Trump!

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) joins Republicans in supporting Trump's Supreme Court nominee.

Donald J. Trump will nominate a woman.

Republicans can lose up to three votes and still be able to confirm a Trump nominee with Mike Pence as the tiebreaker.

The former 2012 Republican nominee has proven how much of a flip-flopper he is. The one time governor from Massachusetts who lived in California at one time decided to move to Utah to run for the Senate after Orin Hatch retired. I guess Hatch got on the phone and talked to "The Flipper."

Or was it Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the most unpopular lawmaker in Washington. The Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate denied Barack Obama's third pick of Merrick Garland. He claimed that the "people should decide" when it comes to the Supreme Court and the president of the next term should nominate that person. He spent nine months denying Obama his pick because it would have swayed the Court. Now we're in an election year and Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. Trump and McConnell abandon their stance. Now they're more concerned about the Supreme Court.

They have no concern for the coronavirus pandemic which killed over 240,000 Americans. This pandemic has affected over 8 million Americans and there's no sign of it dying down. With the seasonal flu approaching, it could become a deadlier pandemic. Wearing face mask and social distancing is now a political weapon. Folks are chasticizing one another over facial mask wearing.

They have no concern about the economic uncertainty thanks to Trump's fucked up trade wars with Canada, the European Union, China and Mexico.

They have no concern for the civil unrest thanks to gun violence and police killings of Black people.

They have no concern for the climate. We have deadlier wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes and heat.

The flipper dances.

They have no concern for the economy. Folks are losing their jobs and the CARES Act is not being extended. Americans are struggling to feed their families because of the costs of goods going up thanks to the coronavirus. People are working in environments where the coronavirus could spread and infect workers. Folks are starting to get numb to this.

We can thank the Republican Party and their radical base of white nationalists for this.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) said they'll back Trump's Supreme Court nominee.

Romney issued a press release.

"My decision regarding a Supreme Court nomination is not the result of a subjective test of 'fairness' which, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder," Romney, R-Utah, said in a statement. "It is based on the immutable fairness of following the law, which in this case is the Constitution and precedent. The historical precedent of election year nominations is that the Senate generally does not confirm an opposing party’s nominee but does confirm a nominee of its own."

Folks were expecting Romney to oppose this decision. Turns out that the shameless flipper is fully on board with replacing Ginsburg.

My statement regarding the current Supreme Court vacancy: pic.twitter.com/6YO0dPWWXc

— Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) September 22, 2020

"We may have a court that has a more conservative bent," than it has had in recent decades, Romney said after his announcement. "But my liberal friends have over many decades gotten used to the idea of having a liberal court. And that's not written in the stars."

He added: "It's also appropriate for a nation that's if you will center-right to have a court which reflects center-right points of view. Which again are not changing the law from what it states but instead following the law and following the Constitution."

Romney also said that the timing of a vote on a Trump nominee would not influence his decision-making, indicating that if the confirmation vote is delayed until after the presidential election, and Romney judges that the Trump Supreme Court nominee is qualified for the bench, that he would support nominee even if the Republican Senate and Trump are lame ducks.

The shameless party of Trump continues to prove that hypocrisy, divisiveness, power, racism and greed are the only ways to win elections and political arguments.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) might as well join them as well.

They're so quick to ram through a Supreme Court nominee before the election.

There's a reason for it. This may be their Waterloo .... being the party in power with an unpopular president is toxic. Republicans are fending off a lot of seats. Some are competitive states.

With both sides polarized by this, I am expecting that Democrats and Republicans will turnout in droves to vote. But who knows?

Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) are raking in donations but they're not getting the attention because of Trump sucking the air out of the room. Trump still continues these rallies despite the danger of spreading the coronavirus.

We want to be enthusiastic about our chances but not squander our chances based on purity tests.

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