Mitt Romney receives standing ovation in Denver for impeachment vote.
Mitt Romney receives standing ovation in Denver for impeachment voteThree weeks after becoming the first U.S. senator in history to vote to convict a president of his own party, Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah stopped in Denver on Friday night to discuss the state of democracies around the world.
Romney was joined by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former prime minister of Denmark, for a conversation at the University of Denver’s School of International Studies. The event was hosted by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, a non-profit founded by Rasmussen to advance democracies and free markets.
“I am so honored to be on stage with what I would say is a true profile in courage,” Rasmussen said of Romney during his opening remarks, prompting a standing ovation from the crowd of about 300 people in a packed university auditorium.
“There are a couple of times I have said things or taken positions that were more expedient than they were based upon conviction. I remember those things precisely and I regret them enormously,” Romney said. “And I said, ‘I’m not doing that again.’ I’ve reached a point in my life where I look back and I say of all the things I’ve done in my life, I think those couple of things really stand out and they really bother me. Years, decades later, and I’m not going to do that anymore.”
I think just being a member of the Trump party should be enough to bring on regrets, personally. But considering the sycophancy of the rest of the party, this counts for courage.
His reception may spell some trouble for Cory Gardner, champion Trump bootlicker. I have to assume that many of the people who went out to see Mitt Romney speak could be Republicans or Independents.