Romney was absolutely enemy number one at the time, and liberals were making fun of him because he called Russia a threat to the USA, if any younger folks reading this can believe it.
this is super true, every time an article about him is posted on r/politics (which i still look at occasionally when i want to read 17 straight "trump is finished for real this time" op eds) there's always at least one comment talking about how he tried to warn us about putler