Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) encouraged former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), who topped the ticked that rivaled Biden and President Obama in the 2012 campaign, to run for Senate in a closed-door event with donors, Politico reported.
Biden was appearing at Romney’s annual E2 Summit in Deer Valley, Utah, and the two were leading a discussion in front of the summit’s attendees Friday evening. Politico’s report is based on two unnamed sources who were at the event.
There has been speculation that Romney could run for the seat currently held by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), the longest-serving Republican in the Senate. Hatch has suggested he has decided to run again, only to later walk back those remarks by saying “it’s just too early to make a decision.”
According to the Politico report, Romney responded to Biden’s recommendations with merely a smile. Biden’s spokesperson did not respond to Politico’s request for comment.
Meh. It’s Utah. OTOH Hatch is really, really old, looked like he was having a McCain-level senior moment when Claire McCaskill called him out for GOP partisanship and secrecy on their “health care” plan. [Note: quotes to designate it’s really an upward wealth transfer plan. The rich really, really don’t like subsidizing health care for the poors.]
I did love you, Uncle Joe, I really did, but it’s time for you to go away–you and Bill Clinton, who advised Trump to run for president.
This is why Democrats lose. They should offer no legitimacy to any Republican ever again. Republicans are ALL crooks and liars.
Biden’s old school politics don’t work any more.
Paging all reasonably sane Republicans…
Clean up in Aisle 2018…
Get the fuck out of here, Joe!
Combine this with the remarks about “knowing” Hillary would lose one month before the election, and I’m seeing the marks of and old, senile coot yelling “Get the hell back ON my lawn!!! I have things to say!!”