Mitt Romney booed and called 'traitor' at Utah Republican convention

[Soph0571]

Mitt Romney was loudly booed at the Utah Republican party convention on Saturday – and called a “traitor” and a “communist” as he tried to speak.

“Aren’t you embarrassed?” the Salt Lake City Tribune reported the Utah senator asking the crowd of 2,100 delegates at the Maverik Center in West Valley City. “I’m a man who says what he means, and you know I was not a fan of our last president’s character issues.”
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“You can boo all you like,” Romney told a crowd the Tribune said spat insults “like so many poison darts”.

“I’ve been a Republican all my life. My dad was the governor of Michigan and I was the Republican nominee for president in 2012.”

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/02/mitt-romney-booed-and-called-traitor-at-utah-republican-convention|]

Of course they booed him. Because of course they did... Just like in the UK where the Tory party has been taken over by the far right racist nationalist underbelly of a supposedly liberal progressive nation as it is in America with the GOP. The hostile takeover is complete, but with such nasty comes conflict and chaos as these types live in a world of paranoia and delusion. They will start eating their own very soon.

[Grokenstein]

1. Republicans: "Speak truth to power!"

"...is something we say a lot!"

[betsuni]

2. Well, it's not like John Lewis and other Democrats being booed at the Democratic convention.

That was really disgusting. Or Hillary Clinton booed, called horrible names, dollar bills thrown at her when going to a fundraiser at George Clooney's house. Disgusting and massively stupid. I expect Republicans to be stupid.

[Cosmo Blues]

9. John Lewis wasn't booed at the Democratic Convention

[betsuni]

17. Yes he was.

http://splinternews.com/congressman-and-civil-rights-icon-john-lewis-gets-heckl-1793860654

[Cosmo Blues]

21. The Bernie Bros don't count

A lot of them being Republicans who wanted to run against socialist

[Maru Kitteh]

12. You are thinking of Elijah Cummings and the nutjobs in 2016 that brought us Trump

Useful idiots for Putin, and I would wager a bet that many of them have still never come to terms with the farcical obscenity they participated in. A truly unfortunate share of them will likely go to their graves never undergoing the kind of self-reflection required for growth or accepting even the smallest share of accountability for their behavior and resulting consequences.

[betsuni]

18. No, Lewis was booed and heckled.

Why don't people know this? We saw it.

[abqtommy]

3. This little drama does nothing to make me think better of Mitt. His history shows that

he's the worst kind of person and doesn't belong near any governmental position.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=mitt+romney+and+bain+capital&ia=web

My desire is to see Mitt Romney and the reTHUGS all disappear into the dustbin of
history. If the U.K.'s Tories and other fascists around the world disappear too so much the
better.

[malaise]

6. THIS

[Cosmo Blues]

10. Agreed

[BlueStater]

4. LOL. I do like how Mitt tries to shame these idiots.

Unfortunately for him, they have zero shame to speak of.

[FelineOverlord]

5. Mitt Romney booed and called 'traitor' at Utah Republican convention

I give Mittens credit for not bowing down to those jerks. They call him a traitor while worshiping the former Traitor-In-Chief.

Anyway, an interesting response from a progressive (Helen Armstrong):

Link to tweet

[multigraincracker]

7. Wait until Pence gives a public talk.

They will chant, Hang Pence.

[Bristlecone]

8. "Show some respect" was shouted from the crowd

I find that the most pathetic thing I’ve heard in a long time. Today’s R party shows zero respect for anyone or anything other than their own selfishness. In fact, they relish in the outright and conscious disrespect of others. They laughed and jeered anytime the former guy spewed insults and broke all rules of normalcy.

They do not know what respect is, nor deserve an ounce of it. In fact, the second I understand - through conversation, clothing, bumper sticker or flag flying truck - that someone is even R leaning, I lose immediate respect for them.

I have more respect for Mitt than just about any R out there, ironically.

[Cosmo Blues]

11. I would have booed too

For completely different reasons

[not fooled]

13. Yes, there are many reasons to boo Willard

just not for pointing out red don's moral depravity.

More evidence of the addled brains of red don supporters.

[Iggo]

14. Good!

He’s the only one people around here seem to like.

Watch out, though. Liz Cheney’s making a charge.

[Andy823]

15. Just another example

of how crazy the trump cults really is.

The "republican party" is now divided between the batshit crazies, and those republicans that still think their party can come together, but it won't as long as trump is spewing his BS to those crazy enough to believe is BS!

[SwannieK]

19. I would say this is unbelievable, but....

No longer are they a basket of deplorables...they are a bucket of "defecationables"

[ansible]

20. The mormon cult backing Romney is pretty bad too

It's a fucking theocratic state inside the US!

[struggle4progress]

16. The GQP just loves its Russian agent