But no, he just resisted and replied, “The dog likes fresh air.”
The campaign progressed. And I got a little desperate. I’m sure you’ve already blocked it from your memory, but Romney really was a sleep-inducing candidate. It was kind of a high point when he said he desperately cared about “Americans” except, er, not “the poorest.”
This was after a big primary win in Florida, when he added that “it’s no doubt good to be poor.”
Okay, that was a very long time ago. Since then, Donald Trump has been elected president and those of us who laugh at politicians for a living have moved to a land of eternal opportunity. Nine million times pointing out that Trump had sent me a copy of one of my columns at an earlier stage in his career, in which he had scribbled “a dog with a pig’s face” next to my photo and also included it in it. misspelled the word “too”.
He’s not president now, of course, but Trump still walks on, claiming the election was stolen, dancing a merry dance for NRA congressmen and bragging that on his watch, Putin “would have never, ever entered Ukraine.” Romney is now in the Senate, where he was the only Republican to vote to remove Trump from office during both of his impeachments and most recently, he was the only Republican to vote against revoking Joe Biden’s mask mandate.
Of course he also supports Mitch McConnell and his party’s agenda. If you don’t agree, it’s hard to get nostalgic about what could have been. But the only lesson I take from my Seamus period is that there are things that are much worse than boring.
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