Mitt Romney canāt stop making Republicans regret him.
The former GOP presidential nominee, who should know better than most how a biased establishment media reflexively attacks conservatives, has been going out of his way to court mainstream media attention as he nears the end of his single Senate term.
And in the process, heās proving why so many Republicans donāt trust him.
In an interview Sunday on NBCās āMeet the Press,ā the lifelong Republican ā a Massachusetts governor before he was a presidential candidate before he was a Utah senator ā reiterated that he would not rule out voting for Democratic President Joe Bidenās re-election, despite the obvious damage Bidenās presidency is doing to the country.
An ongoing invasion over the southern border, inflation eating the wages of working Americans, and a disastrous foreign policy thatās witnessed the United States humiliated on a global scale is apparently nothing to Romney compared to his personal distaste for former President Donald Trump.
Romney was the only Republican to vote to convict Trump in his 2020 Impeachment. He was one of seven Republicans to vote to convict in Trumpās 2021 Impeachment.
In both cases, the legal cases against Trump were paper-thin, but they were enough for Romney.
Yet he sees no grounds for an Impeachment inquiry into Biden ā despite the mounting evidence that Biden and his family have profited enormously from the sale of Bidenās influence during his vice presidential days.
āHave you seen any evidence that President Biden has committed high crimes and misdemeanors,ā host Kristen Welker asked.
āNo, I donāt see any evidence of that at all,ā Romney answered. āI think before you begin an Impeachment inquiry you have to have some evidence, some inclination, that thereās been wrongdoing.
āAnd so far, thereās nothing of that nature thatās been provided.ā
Romney allowed that Bidenās son, the notorious Hunter Biden, is not exactly a national role model, but āweāre not going to impeach someone because of the sins of their kids.ā
Thatās just deliberate dishonesty ā and anyone paying attention to the news knows it.
Yet Mitt Romney, a man who could somehow discern a reason to convict Trump of ginned-up, partisan charges involving Ukraine (a country the Bidens have enormous interest in) and do the same thing the following year on an equally baseless charge of āincitement to insurrection,ā can find no reason to even begin an Impeachment inquiry into Biden?
His comments were not well received. Hereās a fair sample of comments on X.
But this one summed it up perfectly:
As a candidate in the 2012 Republican primary, then as the standard-bearer in the general election, Romney appeared to be the best hope of ending the administration of then-President Barack Obama in one term, which could well have cut off some of the countryās most pressing current problems.
Since then, however, heās shown himself to be a party of one ā a man more interested in public preening than benefitting his own party.
His one-term Senate career is forgettable except for his twin betrayals of his party and its voters on the altar of his own self-esteem. He was willing to cast Donald Trump from office twice on charges that were either imagined or exaggerated. He canāt see one reason to bring up the question when it comes to Joe Biden ā āthe big guyā himself.
The disappointment in Romney isnāt just that he lost in 2012 ā though even a RINO would have been better in the office than Barack Obama. The real disappointment is that Romney has spent the years since proving to be utterly disloyal to the party that once chose him to lead ā and the voters who supported him.
Republicans have many things to regret about the first quarter of the 20th century ā but when it comes to their own, Mitt Romney is at the very top of the list.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
