Republican U.S. Senator Mitt Romney was the only republican in the U.S. Senate who voted guilty in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. The other 53 republican Senators voted to acquit. Romney displayed his character and courage with his vote, said he read all the sworn testimony of the witnesses, and that his oath of office and safeguarding the Constitution had no choice but to vote to convict.
Romney knew the backlash he would receive for his vote from the President, his own party and Trump's ditto head followers, but his character and courage ruled the day. And sure enough, after his vote Trump and his coward ditto heads attacked him personally to damage his political standing. But the people in Utah who Romney represents support his decision as Romney took the time to explain his vote. And Louisiana's republican State Central Committee, a committee of Trump's ditto heads voted to censure Senator Romney in a cowardly act. They think of themselves as elite but wallow in the gutter with the impeached President. Senator Romney is more of a man than all the republican ditto heads put together.
The republicans in congress don't think of Romney as a conservative, but he is more of a true conservative than they are because the party today is Newt Gingrich and Trump's party who represent an unAmerican extreme ideology. But in due time the impeachment of Trump and the vote to convict him will be stronger yet when other revelations come out. In fact Trump may become the only President to be impeached twice. Yes, he is that corrupted.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
