Mitt Romney’s failed presidential bid looks like the last days of polite politics. These days in Washington, it’s tit-for-tat time.
Sen. Mitt Romney speaks to reporters after announcing he would not seek reelection on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 13, 2023. Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee for president, made a historic break with his party when he voted to remove former President Donald Trump from office.
Compared with what came after his candidacy — Donald Trump’s victory for the GOP in 2016 — Romney’s failed bid looks like the last days of polite politics.
As scandals go, Hunter Biden’s sad saga hardly matches the scope of the four indictments lodged against Trump. Biden publicly has acknowledged struggles with addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol, along with trips in and out of rehab at the time of the gun purchase. But when you ask for the evidence of the president’s alleged wrongdoing, you get a standard Washington answer: Deflect, deflect, deflect.House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s dramatic announcement of an impeachment inquiry against President Biden contained more drama than evidence.
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