In something so shocking that it could run the whole state of Utah and Alaska for a week, Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski announced that they absolutely adored Mattis comments yesterday criticizing Trump.
First Romney:
DC EXAMINER – Sen. Mitt Romney broke with most Republican lawmakers and praised former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis after he issued a rebuke of President Trump’s response to the protests over the death of George Floyd.
The Utah Republican and frequent Trump critic called Mattis, who served under Trump for two years before his resignation, a “wonderful man.”
“Gen. Mattis’s letter was stunning and powerful. Gen. Mattis is a man of extraordinary sacrifice. He’s an American patriot. He’s an individual whose judgment I respect, and I think the world of him,” Romney said Thursday outside the Republican luncheon.
“If I ever had to choose somebody to be in a foxhole with, it would be with Gen. Mattis. What a wonderful, wonderful man,” he added.
Romney 💕loves 💕 Mattis so much for his comments that he’s already fantasizing about being in a foxhole with him!
Now Murkowski:
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who has broken with her party at times, including a vote against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, also praised Mattis’s letter on Thursday.
“When I saw Gen. Mattis’s comments yesterday, I felt like perhaps we are getting to a point where we can be more honest with the concerns that we might hold internally and have the courage of our own convictions to speak up,” Murkowski said on Thursday, according to CNN.
“I was really thankful. I thought Gen. Mattis’s words were true and honest and necessary and overdue.”
“I have been struggling for the right words, and I was encouraged a couple of nights ago when I was able to read what President Bush had written. And I found that to be empowering for me as one leader,” she said in reference to former President George W. Bush, who issued a statement about Floyd’s death this week that said those silencing protesters “do not understand the meaning of America.”
Murkowski’s so thankful that I bet she stood up and gave him a standing ovation with several old lady fist pumps in the air when she read his letter.
She’s also now ready to admit she doesn’t know if she can support Trump in November:
Murkowski said she is “struggling” with whether she will support Trump’s reelection this year. She also said questions about who she is going to vote for this year are a distraction.
“I am struggling with it. I have struggled with it for a long time. I think you know that. I didn’t support the president in the initial election, and I work hard to try to make sure that I’m able to represent my state well, that I’m able to work with any administration and any president,” she said.
Clearly the lone Republican who voted to impeach Trump and the lone Republican who voted to impeach Kavanaugh are the two WORST Republicans in the Senate, perhaps in the history of the Senate.