If Mitt Romney runs and wins the Utah senatorial seat,

[no_hypocrisy]

do you believe he will attempt to challenge the soul of the republican party? To take it away from Trumpism? Does he have enough influence to change the priorities or the policies of republicans?

[jimlup]

1. No

He's not that strong of an individual. Remember, he's a Republican.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. Mr. 47 Percent?

He and Trump are soul brothers.

[brooklynite]

5. You can be conservative and hate Trump.

[dem4decades]

16. But they all vote for his initiatives and fold like cheap suits.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

39. They all feed from the same trough.

[LanternWaste]

42. You can be conservative and love Trump, as well.

You can be conservative and love Trump, as well. One side seems more weighted, though...

[GoCubsGo]

3. No.

They have no soul to challenge. They lost it a long, long time ago.

[PJMcK]

4. No

First, he has to win the nomination then the election.

Second, as a Senator, he'd be one of a hundred. Are there any individual Senators, on either side, that have the leadership power to challenge the White House?

Third, Mitt? Are you kidding? This is how Trump has bastardized our nation! He's normalized his weirdness so that we, on the left, can think that Romney represents moderation.

Damn, these are strange and dangerous times.

[Kablooie]

6. He will try

For a few days but soon will see the light and become a Trumpford wife.

[FM123]

22. Trumpford wife. This is exactly what happens to them - they try then they succumb.

[Hortensis]

7. No. Respectfully, of course not. The "soul" of the

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Republican Party has been taken over by ultraconservative plutocrats. Romney's not only one of them btw, (Romney subtype), he's far from the only religious extremist among them.

It is looking like Trump's backers are moving against a Romney candidacy in the primary, no doubt preferring a less supposedly "god-directed" ultraconservative. But in these dangerously destabilized times, all religious extremists in government are potentially very dangerous. The media don't warn of the Christian reconstructionist/dominionist movements growing in the shadows of the takeover of the Republican Party, but they really should.

As for Romney himself, those prone to zealotry, whether in pursuit of money and power for a new, more worthy ruling class or in god's service, don't look at things like most people do. They really don't, and their notions of high moral purpose should not be mistaken for what that means to others. Their righteousness also typically leads to very ruthless behaviors in pursuing their ends.

[lastlib]

21. I think Vlad Putin is holding the GOPee soul in escrow........

If Mr. 47% is going to be a senator, he will have to do likewise.

[Hortensis]

25. :) Vlad's just using/amplifying waves born here.

Remember, wealth quadrupled over the past 40 years, and none of it went in our pockets. Its concentration in the pockets of a few newly fabulously wealthy Americans is a huge "wave" that threatens to wipe away democracy as we know it.

[JHan]

33. +++++ Also....I thought we're supposed to scream at Mitt Romney to go away because..

he lost and Obama got re-elected. Just going by the principle of the thing.

This is what I was led to believe in 2017.....I mean that's how we're supposed to treat losing presidential candidates right?

[Ilsa]

8. What does this tell you about Mitt's leadership strength?

MITT ROMNEY EATS CROW AT THREE-STAR DINNER WITH DONALD TRUMP

The former Trump antagonist swallows his pride.

[VOX]

10. Trump makes an excellent Satan. That photo is proof.

[Ohiya]

12. You must be reading my mind!

[Raster]

17. This is just the public, published photo...

...I'm sure there's another photo where almost-Senator Mittens purposely plants his Rethuglican lips on Beezelbub's buttocks.

[VOX]

44. Mitt uses Super Glue for Chapstick just prior to puckering up.

Only a gallon of nail-polish remover will separate Mitt's enthusiastic lips from the Dotard's derriere.

[VOX]

9. Mitt is still a Republican. Trust none of them to do the right thing.

I don't like thinking this way, and I get even angrier at the chaos and worry that Trump and the Republicans have dumped onto the dissenting 65%-70% majority of Americans.

Remember Bob Corker's "heroic" anti-Trump stance? That melted faster than Greenland ice. Remember Lindsay Graham's protesting of Trump's attitude? That went with the wind as well.

Mitt was a jerk as a candidate for president. I can't envision any complete personality change in him.

[Hortensis]

18. 100%. These are not normal times and not normal Republicans.

[VOX]

43. Precisely. Dwight Eisenhower was the last decent (R) president.

And even at that, Nixon was his veep. Today's Republicans? Radical right-wing extremists, gambling and experimenting with peoples LIVES, and grabbing more ill-gotten personal wealth as it floats upstream.

[Joe941]

11. He did call out Russia as America's #1 threat

(Obama got that one wrong unfortunately)

[Va Lefty]

13. Wouldn't hold my breath. At the end of the day, he's a republican

[safeinOhio]

14. Every day, someone ask him....

...Who's going to pay for that wall......

[gordianot]

15. It is hard to use the words soul, Romney, Republican in one post.

An unfettered Romney in Utah does not even have to pretend to be progressive as he was in Massachusetts. Romney is for sale.

[tanyev]

19. He won't become the new GOP leader, but he may escalate the GOP civil war.

So go on with your bad self, Mittens!

[get the red out]

20. NO

He will get in line to kiss Trump's ring.

[Orangepeel]

23. No, but he cant be worse than Hatch.

So, at worst it’ll be a wash.

[spanone]

24. naw, romney went crawling to trump for a job

[LonePirate]

26. He will fall in line just like all of his fellow Republicans.

[all american girl]

27. Hey it a minute...I thought after running for president and losing

the only option was to STFU and knit...why do men get to do things and women can't...

Hillary was sounding the alarm bells, and told to sit in the corner, Romney, on the other hand, went and demeaned himself at the alter of Trump...do I think he will stand up to he, Oh hell no. He will act like every other republican and be complicit to this treasonous orange shitgobblin.

[crazycatlady]

28. R-Money has a soul?

[L. Coyote]

29. If Mitt Romney runs and loses the Utah senatorial seat, it will be glorious.

I think Rep. Bishop wants that seat. Outsider Romney might get his ass kicked in a primary.

[shanny]

30. Outsider? He's their golden boy,

their rider in a white horse. He beat Obama by almost a 50 point margin.

[L. Coyote]

31. He's that liberal governor from Mass. who hates Bush and Trump. A Bundy could beat him in UT.

[shanny]

32. They know him better than that.

He has a long- term residence in Park City. He "saved" the Olympics in 2002. And they are not Trump fans in UT; Trump's opposition to Mittens will provide even more of a boost. He 'll win in a walk.

Also too, last time I checked, the Bundys are from Nevada.

[muntrv]

34. Nope, he will kiss Orange Julius' ring.

[CanonRay]

35. No. He'll use the seat to deregulate and make more money

He a prick, just a different kind from Trump.

[Orsino]

36. He's been remarkably silent since his early agitation against Trump.

And let's not forget his romantic dinner with the president-elect. He's not going to run for the Senate on an anti-Trump platform.

The Revolution will not be Romneyized.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

41. +1

[NCTraveler]

37. That's not how Senators bring home the bacon. nt.

[dalton99a]

38. NO. Romney will vote as a Republican.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

40. Romney will not be any kind of savior for the GOP

He may be a bland, possibly slightly moderate Republican Senator, but I wouldn't expect any serious effort to challenge Trump(ism). I could be wrong but it's probably best to set our expectations way low on that.

[UTUSN]

45. What "soul"? He'll be next prez.

[JHB]

46. Will releasing tax returns be a thing? I see Mitt weaseling on that...

...so no, he won't "challenge the soul" of the Republicans, he'll try to do what they've done before, which amounts to letting the "respectable" plutocrats be the "hold their nose" vote for the foamers and do pretty much what Trump has done minus the crazy tweets.

[DavidDvorkin]

47. He'll run, he'll win, he'll have his finger constantly in the breeze

testing the wind direction.

[Tiggeroshii]

48. Probably not.

But then again i never expected Arlen Specter to switch parties, so i guess anything is possible.