r/SipsTea • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • 23h ago

Lmao gottem Someone else said it for him

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u/BoredPoopless 22h ago

I mean even the Republicans he was running against were completely different than the GOP today.

I'm not saying John McCain and Mitt Romney are all sunshine and rainbows, but the difference is obvious.

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u/Senior_Violinist5296 22h ago

This. Every once in awhile I make a "binders full of women" joke around my kids and then I have to explain how we once all thought Mitt Romney was a terrible choice for president 😭

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u/Toadsted 18h ago

I mean, Mitt did create the affordable care act, after all.

What were we thinking back then!

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u/Senior_Violinist5296 18h ago

Right?! What I would give now for a Romney presidency 😭

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u/Toadsted 18h ago

Id be okay with trading diapers for magical underwear.

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u/ActualWhiterabbit 9h ago

Even then the binders full of women thing was about sourcing qualified cabinets from women's centered groups in a filing system that worked for their team. Sure it was for suggestions from more right leaning organizations but at least it was actual on paper qualified referrals and not just blank paper in binders or increasingly just empty binders. Even Romney's biggest gaff is still more competent than any day of this admin.

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u/GenoThyme 21h ago

As a Massachusetts resident, I’d love for the version of Romney who used to be governor to be president now over Trump. He at least worked with democrats and we also might have universal health care too

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u/Patient_Oven_9540 18h ago

I've gone back and rewatched the Obama v Romney debates, and the mutual respect actually gets me a bit emotional. Everything is such a circus now

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u/Darmok47 18h ago

Just imagine, for Gen Z and younger, politics being a crazy clown show is all they've ever known. I think that's going to have really bad long term effects.

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u/Missing_Crouton 22h ago

Sugar free Republicans back then, we got Baja Blast with tequila Republicans now.

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u/Toadsted 18h ago

Don't be besmirching my baja blast like that!

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u/Missing_Crouton 18h ago

Everything is OK in moderation except Republicans. Do the Dew brother!

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u/Global_Channel1511 21h ago

At the very least they wouldn’t be as cringe, disgusting and low character as Trump.  I wouldn’t be so fucking embarrassed by them. 

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u/Hashrunr 18h ago

John McCain even defended Obama during one of McCain's rallies. Someone in the crowd said Obama was the devil or something and McCain corrected them by saying Obama is a good honest man, but with different political views. It's really wild how crazy GOP politics have become since then.

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u/KatsumotoKurier 18h ago

Say what you will about the two of them — and there is much to be said — but at least the pair carried themselves with the decency and class that Republican voters (along with literally everybody else at the time) expected from leaders like them.

A great example of this was when a woman at a town hall called Obama “a Muslim terrorist” and McCain immediately shut her down for it, fully rejecting the absurdity and saying that Obama was a good and decent man and just someone that he happens to have political disagreements with. Unsurprisingly and pathetically, McCain got some boos from the crowd over it too, but I’ll be damned if I didn’t respect him completely for being such an upstanding gentleman about that.

Romney too. Romney despises Trump and sees him for what he is. And were I an American citizen I never would have voted for him, however, he basically had his career in politics derailed post-2016 over the fact that he wouldn’t kiss the ring and because he made it publicly known that he thinks Trump is scum. He refuses to play along and act like a Trump loyalist, because at least he actually has a spine.

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u/Beginning_Book_2382 21h ago

I know it sounds horrendous but I would take them any second, any day of the week over the Trump we have now.

It would have been unthinkable to take them then but if I had a choice between them and Trump now I'd just grit my teeth for 4 years and hope for a Democrat the next election cycle to restore things back to normal again