# Mitt Romney is not running for reelection next year **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 13, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066 "2023-09-13T18:42:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/41 "2023-09-14T14:28:26Z")
I’m pretty sure that was a reference to “binders of women”. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/42 "2023-09-14T14:42:04Z")
Whew, I glad someone got the reference. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/43 "2023-09-14T14:44:52Z")
I got it, I just wasn’t sure how to _explain_ it. Thankfully, I don’t have to do it, because the internet can do the work for me! [Binders full of women - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binders_full_of_women) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/44 "2023-09-14T14:48:30Z")
I suspect Bill Clinton may have been interested in such an idea but for different purposes… ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/45 "2023-09-14T14:48:35Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > If as he is stating, a large number of the Republicans are actually _truly_ in fear that the MAGA terrorists _will_ inflict violence on their families, I can see why he may not want to name names. But it just paints a picture of defeatist despair… Cowards, the lot of them. Most of us are stuck out here, powerless to do anything to fix this shit. These people have actual power, that could be used to stop this shit, but they choose to cower instead. They’d rather let the Republic fall than align with the Democrats to reign in the crazy part of their own party. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/46 "2023-09-14T14:59:38Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Wait until it gets to a public library, then read it for free. Hah. It will be one of the first to be banned. And weak sauce Mitt. You remorselessly screwed the people in the companies Bain Capital raped. Backed DJT and the Republicants every step of the way. Now you have a conscience? SAD, never a backbone. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/47 "2023-09-14T15:01:55Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I’m pretty sure that was a reference to “binders of women”. Oooh! Makes sense! I remember the binders, I’d just misread that. My bad! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/48 "2023-09-14T15:23:06Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > > > That said… COULD Romney have done more? He’s still got a year before he leaves, so can he take any meaningful action in that time? Can he do anything to restore what he sees as sanity in the Senate and politics overall? > > Well, he could publicly break with all the stupid shit the Republicans are doing, and be very vocal about it. Publicly denounce the sham impeachment inquiry, and vote against it if that mess somehow ends up in front of the Senate. Publicly back someone other that Trump for president. > > He could also publicly endorse a non-MAGA candidate to replace him as Senator. Back a non-MAGA in the primaries, and if the MAGA gets nominated anyways, endorse whatever candidate the Dems put up. > > I suspect he won’t do any of that, but these are things he _could_ do, that might make a difference. He could also leave the GOP, declare himself an Independent, and caucus with the Democrats. Eliminating the ludicrous quasi-co-majority leadership situation currently prevailing in the Senate could have numerous benefits. Of course, as **Horatius** points out, he won’t do that. #Its\_a\_Sin\_to\_Vote\_For\_a\_Republican ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/49 "2023-09-14T16:01:17Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Sorry Mitt, I’m just not buying it. If you were _so horrified_ by the things the other Republicans did, if you truly “believed in the constitution” unlike the other Republicans - why did you do so little to stop them? Why not openly come out against them until now? Agree completely. On top of that, he’s not going to do anything. He’s still a senator until January 2025. Plenty of time to do something of throw shade to reporters without naming names. Will he do anything meaningful? I doubt it. Here’s one more quote from the article that shows that he’s, at his core, a dogshit human being: > On the day of my first visit, he showed me his freezer, which was full of salmon fillets that had been given to him by Lisa Murkowski, the senator from Alaska. He didn’t especially like salmon but found that if he put it on a hamburger bun and smothered it in ketchup, it made for a serviceable meal. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/50 "2023-09-14T16:20:08Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > I’m sorry, but what a slimy little weasel. Sorry Mitt, I’m just not buying it. If you were _so horrified_ by the things the other Republicans did, if you truly “believed in the constitution” unlike the other Republicans - why did you do so little to stop them? Why not openly come out against them until now? I am reminded of the scene when Odysseus returned home and Leodes begged for mercy arguing that he’d tried to stop the rest of Penelope’s suitors. Odysseus was not impressed. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/51 "2023-09-14T16:58:38Z")
Romney is way too conservative for my tastes but he’s basically a moral and honorable person. The one exception that strikes out in my memory is how he said it was so hard for him to vote to convict a Republican. No Mitch, all of you Senators signed an oath to judge the case impartially. It should have been just as easy to convict a Republican as a Democrat. I think part of the equation is that men in his family do not tend to have long lives. So Mitch, go enjoy those grandkids and go out playing with one like Vito Corelone. Could he name names as to who feels contempt for Don the Con? Sure, but what would that do? His word is not trusted among the MAGA crowd, so he’d be preaching to the choir on one hand and speaking to the deaf on the other. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/52 "2023-09-14T17:05:03Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Romney is way too conservative for my tastes but he’s basically a moral and honorable person. If he was, why not do more to undermine and fight the MAAGA crowd? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/53 "2023-09-14T17:20:39Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Could he name names as to who feels contempt for Don the Con? Sure, but what would that do? His word is not trusted among the MAGA crowd, so he’d be preaching to the choir on one hand and speaking to the deaf on the other. We all know that if Trump weasels his way back into the presidency, he’s going to take personal revenge on everyone who is on his enemies list. So why not stick a few of these poltroons on the list? It’s put up or shut up time. If Trump knows they’re badmouthing him behind his back, then they know their days are numbered if Trump isn’t stopped. “Laughing at him behind his back” is the worst thing Trump can imagine, just take a look at how many times he’s used that line, to describe Biden or any other Democrat. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/54 "2023-09-14T17:25:21Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > “Laughing at him behind his back” is the worst thing Trump can imagine, He seems perfectly willing to overlook it if they come running back into the fold. See Christie, Graham, Cruz, Rubio and countless others. ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/55 "2023-09-14T17:30:55Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Mitch, all of you Senators signed an oath to judge the case impartially. It should have been just as easy to convict a Republican as a Democrat. > > I think part of the equation is that men in his family do not tend to have long lives. So Mitch Mitch? ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/56 "2023-09-14T17:31:35Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > Mitch Mittch McRomnell ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/57 "2023-09-14T17:31:47Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > See Christie, Graham, Cruz, Rubio and countless others. They were _publicly_ opposing him, and then came crawling to him on their bellies after he mopped the floor with them. That kind of craven public groveling feeds his ego. But if it turned out that, after they’d kissed both his ring and his ass, they kept snickering about him behind his back? That’s the kind of betrayal that will drive him insane. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/58 "2023-09-14T17:32:37Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Mittch McRomnell Wasn’t he one of Adoph Hitter’s generals? ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/59 "2023-09-14T17:37:22Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Wasn’t he one of Adoph Hitter’s generals Yeah, I believe he fought in [Weast](https://media.tenor.com/HuOkyK1bFLMAAAAC/spongebob-squarepants.gif) Paprika ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-romney-is-not-running-for-reelection-next-year/990066/60 "2023-09-14T17:38:55Z")
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