Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012 against then-president Barack Obama, said Wednesday that he will not seek a second term in the U.S. Senate, citing his old age and a demand for younger leadership.
Of course, the Bee nails it:
The Democratic Party was left scrambling for a replacement today, as long-time faithful Senator Mitt Romney of Utah announced he would not be seeking re-election.
“This is a huge blow for the Democratic Party,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “Romney has been one of our most reliable senators. He will be sorely missed.”
And the best part:
According to sources in the Romney camp, the Senator plans to retire to the plains of Namibia to spend more time with his fellow rhinoceros family.
Shitt Onmee
Mitt is a loser
Alleged conservative Republican.
Supported abortion and signed an anti rights anti gun bill as Governor of Massachusetts.
Then he carpet bagged his ass to Utah and the fucktarded Morman’s there elected his lying ass.
He’s rich. That’s about it. Without money he’d be a poor loser.
And on younger leadership. It’s NOT AGE THAT MATTERS. I’m in my late 30’s. I don’t think 75 is too old to be President or Senator. I think it matters if you are sane and have some brain function.
Look at AOC. 30’s. Dumb as a pile of fucking rocks. People who vote for her are even dumber.
Or the weebles wobble midget Jerry Nadler.
Younger people are great. But we need relevant experience, charisma and sanity no matter the age. Either 21 or 81.
Finally. RELEVANT experience. Aka not a community organizer or a lifelong child molester with a crack addict kid.
Mittens was such a disappointment in MA and DC. Can’t he leave now?
JQ
Romney can’t be a Democrat – he’s retiring before he’s 80. And probably before he’s senile, although given his record, how could we tell?
Coffeeman is right, it’s not the age but the condition that matters, and not the intelligence, but whether they use it to think or to rationalize whatever stupidity they want to impose on us. The last time I saw my great-grandmother, she was 93 and barely hanging on so she could meet my baby son, the first of the 5th generation. She died three weeks later. She had been confined to her wheelchair for 20 years by hip bones too fragile to bear her 90 pounds weight; no matter how much metal reinforcement the doctors implanted, it just ripped from the bone at the slightest stress. But in that last meeting, she was mentally sharp as ever, much smarter than Biden ever was…