I`ve seen things like that at a local high school game back in the day, it's pathetic, plus I have been to games at Alabama and there are some racist mofo`s there just like anywhere else. When people get so mad and they have no real argument for what they are watching the racist ones always revert to racist name calling, no matter how much they try and hide it, when they get mad it just flows out of them like **** through a sewer
I was expecting some n words with the hard er and calling them monkeys…those are the usual go-to’s for these racists
OPINION DAVID BROOKS Mitt Romney Has Given Us a Gift Sept. 14, 2023 Sometimes you do things that make you feel ashamed. It was the first day of the Republican convention in 2012, and I had nothing to write about, so I wrote a humor column mocking the Romney family for being perfect in every way. It was a hit with readers, but the afternoon it was published, I crossed paths with two of Mitt Romney’s sons, and they looked at me with hurt in their eyes, which pierced me. I’d ridiculed people for the sin of being admirable. A few years later, before he was a senator, Romney asked me to come out to Utah to give a talk to a group he was convening. It’s a pain to write a speech and get on a plane, but I did it in penance for my sins. Of course, all the Romneys were lovely to me, as is their nature. And I learned a lesson: The partisans may applaud if you ridicule those you admire, of any political stripe, but stay faithful to them. We all struggle to be the best version of ourselves we can be, and Romney’s struggle is now taking him into retirement and out of the Senate. On the way he gave us a gift, in the form of a series of conversations with The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins, who has written a book on him, excerpted in the magazine. Romney puts on the record what so many of us have been hearing for years off the record — that the Republican Party has become a party of fakers, that its congressional leaders laugh at Donald Trump contemptuously behind his back while swooning over him before the cameras. The third problem is that if you ally yourself with a con artist, you have to become part of the con yourself. You have to become Ted Cruz, who went to Princeton and Harvard Law and is married to an employee of Goldman Sachs, popping a brewski live on TV — an elite nerd’s attempt to appear populist. Over the Trump years, we’ve learned how easy it is to anesthetize one’s moral circuits. John McCain kept his moral compass, and so did Romney, but they are the exceptions. Many others joined the general fakery. You start by lying about yourself, and pretty soon you’re lying to yourself. The pivotal moment for Romney seems to have come on Jan. 6 — not what the insurrectionists did to get into the Capitol but what the Republican legislators did in the chambers after the rioters had been cleared out, continuing their efforts to negate the election. This is where five years of negotiating with narcissism had brought the party. Romney’s retirement, which goes into effect in 2025, will mark the end of an era, the end of the Republican Party that once featured people like Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and more recently George Romney, Mitt’s father, and George H.W. Bush. Realistically, Romney will have little role in trying to produce a better G.O.P. future. What replaces Trumpism will be different from what came before. I admire him for deciding to step down at the senatorially young age of 76. As we’ve all come to see, the hunger for continued relevance is the corroding lust that devours the very old. Romney stands for the valuable idea that there are things more important in life than politics and winning elections. The G.O.P. needed to change and become more in touch with the working class — but not in the vicious way Trump has championed. As long as Trump is leading it, the Republican Party cannot be reformed. It can only be deprived of power. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/opinion/mitt-romney-senate-trump-mcconnell.html
Section of Sanders' SOTU rebuttal February 07, 2023 “We can’t stand still in the face of great challenges. You and I were put on this earth for such a time as this to charge boldly ahead. “I’ll be the first to admit, President Biden and I don’t have a lot in common. “I’m for freedom. He’s for government control. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs law restricting release of her travel, security records LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law Thursday restricting release of her travel and security records after the Legislature wrapped up a special session marked by a fight to more broadly scale back the state Freedom of Information Act. The law, which took effect immediately, allows the state to wall off details about the security provided the GOP governor and other constitutional officers, including who travels on the State Police airplane and the cost of individual trips. Proposed changes to the 1967 law protecting the public’s access to government records were among several items Sanders had placed on the agenda for a session that met this week. Sanders has argued the restrictions are needed to protect her and her family, citing threats she’s faced since taking office and going back to her time as White House press secretary for former President Donald Trump. “We protected the police officers who protect our constitutional officers and my family in keeping their security information and tactics exempt from Freedom of Information Act disclosure,” Sanders said before signing the measure, about two hours after lawmakers gave it final it approval. Sanders and Republicans in the Legislature had initially pushed for more widespread exemptions to the open-records law, but backed off after facing growing criticism that it would erode government transparency. sued by an attorney and blogger who accused the agency of illegally withholding records about the governor’s travel and security. But Matthew Campbell, who runs the Blue Hog Report website, asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit after Campbell said he tested positive for COVID-19 and would be unable to attend a hearing that had been scheduled for Thursday. Campbell posted on X, formerly Twitter, that he may refile the suit. The new law requires the state to file a quarterly report with the Legislature listing the monthly costs of protecting the governor by category. The law is also retroactive to June 1, 2022, a provision State Police said was needed to protect preparation made for whoever became the next governor after the party primaries that year. Supporters of the bill said the governor’s higher profile has raised the security risk she and her family faces. “With no offense to any of our previous governors, I can’t think of one at least in recent memory that was a household name the way our current governor is,” Republican Rep. David Ray told House members before the vote. The broader exemptions originally sought prompted an outcry from media groups, transparency advocates and some conservatives who said it would create massive holes in the state’s open records law. Sanders left open the possibility of later seeking the other changes, which she has said is needed to improve government efficiency. “We’re not going to stop continuing to fight for more government efficiency and effectiveness, and I think this is just the beginning of this process,” Sanders said. David Couch, an attorney who who has spearheaded successful ballot initiatives on medical mar1juana and the minimum wage, said he’s looking at the possibility of one that would enshrine the state’s open-records law in the constitution. “I think it would be overwhelmingly popular,” Couch said. Sanders signed other measures from the session, including legislation cutting the state’s top individual income tax rate from 4.7% to 4.4% and the corporate rate from 5.1% to 4.8%. The legislation also creates a one-time nonrefundable tax credit of up to $150 for individuals and up to $300 for married couples making less than $90,000 a year. The reductions are estimated to cost the state more than $248 million in the first year. Sanders also signed legislation prohibiting state and local governments from requiring someone to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The measure reinstates a similar 2021 law that expired last month. Any public entities that would require someone to be vaccinated in order to receive federal funding would have to seek approval from the Legislative Council to receive an exemption under the law. https://apnews.com/article/huckabee...nsas-records-320300ea14af98adf88e2a2d39647a94
Romney is a man of principle who has always been a good man. Certainly disagree with him on some of his positions but never got the feeling he was acting out of corruption or malice. It’s sad that people of conscience like him, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, Justin Amash, etc. have left office or have been forced out. Instead we have a party largely bereft of principles and filled with cowards, hucksters or both.
Yes, it disturbs me that a man like Romney has decided to retire. We need men, and women, like him in the Senate. Like you, I disagree with Mitt about more than a few issues, but I respect the man. He see's the Republican Party for what it is, a party of "fakers" who treat the Constitution with contempt, and he hasn't been afraid to speak his mind. I hope Romney doesn't leave the political scene entirely. The country needs his voice. It's a voice we will rarely see on that side of the aisle. It will be missed.
Romney always seems to understand that while there were differences in issues like taxation, abortion, foreign policy, and etc. that there were greater principles that bound the country together. That fealty to democratic and constitutional principles was what was most important. So while you could argue and disagree on issues like the size of government it was important to do so within the bounds of our Constitutional government. I think for both him and John McCain this was very much on display when they ran against Obama. Both men didn’t agree with Obama but they respected him and the process of democratic government. The feeling was mutual and it Obama respected them too. Romney’s though real party over country moment though was when he voted to convict in the first impeachment and I think this speech should be upheld in US history
A moving, superb speech. Thank you for the post. I remember watching Romney give his vote, and his vote deserves being watched again, and by many.
Thats the difference between people like Romney and McCain VS MTG and Gaetz, they can disagree about an issue, but they still treat the constitution. as sacred, the extreme right treats has no interest in upholding what's right or whats best for the country...........its all about power and nothing shall come before that
She is a walking talking joke of the current gop............she literally does nothing more than b**** and moan about everything and doesn't even try to fake that she isn't there to pass any laws or help her district. Why are people voting for this POS?
