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Romney reserved his harshest words for freshman Senate Republican J.D. Vance of Ohio, once a strong Trump critic like Romney who has refashioned himself as a MAGA warrior. 'I don't know that I can disrespect someone more than J.D. Vance,' Romney said in 2022. Romney said he imagined confronting Vance and telling him: 'It's like, really? You sell yourself so cheap?'
Close behind are Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), whose furthering of 2020 stolen-election claims Romney seems to regard with particular disdain. 'They know better!' he said. 'Josh Hawley is one of the smartest people in the Senate, if not the smartest, and Ted Cruz could give him a run for his money.' Romney said they made a 'calculation' that 'put politics above the interests of liberal democracy and the Constitution.'
Of former vice president Mike Pence, a man who like Romney wears his religiosity on his sleeve: No one has been 'more loyal, more willing to smile when he saw absurdities, more willing to ascribe God's will to things that were ungodly than Mike Pence.'
I live in Utah and lean left. Romney is a die-hard conservative, but he's not CRAZY. He believes in the Constitution and our Democracy. But now, with his retirement, Utah will get another MAGA whacko in his place. Damn. : (
