There is a difference between folks who tend to vote Republican and folks who belong to, volunteer for and contribute to the Republican Party itself. Those of us who belong to our local Republican units aren’t just motivated by “rules” which encourage us to support the nominee. We understand the essential principle that primaries are the opportunity to fight for our principles and our factions within the party. Once we have a nominee, the only way that nominee defeats their Democrat opponent is if we all unite behind them. I know that in Virginia’s historic 1st District, that is exactly what we have done with regard to Donald Trump. Our Unit Chairmen and State Central Committee representatives have all come together to help organize events, to door knock, to help get people who want yard signs and bumper stickers and buttons all that they desire. Our 1st District Republican Party has chosen to support the nominee. As I understand it, we’re not unique in this regard.
After the release of the Trump audio and video yesterday, Republicans around the country absorbed the news in sheer disgust. It’s not that any of us are perfect, holier than thou or prude. Our disgust and disappoint exist because Donald Trump is our standard bearer and nominee; he represents the Republican Party to the American people. We are disgusted and dismayed that his words and actions reflect so poorly upon us. As Jeanine documented earlier this morning, many Republican Party leaders are withdrawing their endorsements in light of Trump’s 2005 remarks. The Washington Post ran with Congresswoman Barbara Comstock’s call for Donald Trump to drop out and to allow the Republican Party to nominate Governor Mike Pence. That’s a great idea, but I think everyone knows (including Congresswoman Comstock) that this is unlikely to happen.
It is an unhappy time for many of us who vigorously opposed Donald Trump in the primaries, but who “came around” to support the nominee. However, let us not pretend that who Donald Trump is, as a man, is somehow worse than who Hillary Clinton is as a woman or that the Republican Party is somehow now degraded and less than the Democrat Establishment. Let us not pretend as though any of us are free of immorality and our own share of disgusting remarks. We could all use a little more of God and a little less of ourselves in this regard. Let us not add hypocrisy to the long list of things which have made us so unhappy this year.
Those looking for an excuse to bail on Donald Trump have it; and those for whom nothing can dissuade their support will spend the next media cycle righteously defending Trump.
Congressional Republican leadership and the folks at the RNC have created the conditions that led to the nomination of Donald Trump. It would be a petty response for party members to use this 10 year old video as an excuse to bail on the Donald now. First, if you are worried that others will judge you for having voted for Donald Trump and seek to find favor in withdrawing your endorsements and support before the election; you’re an idiot. No one will forget the endorsements or the promises of our votes. We didn’t learn anything new about Donald Trump yesterday. We all knew who this man was when we took our various positions after his coronation in Cleveland. Pretending we’re shocked today is disingenuous.
There will always be reasons not to vote for our nominee and the one we’ll hear most often in the future is, “You didn’t support Trump, so I don’t have to support whomever”. As distasteful as it is, Trump is currently the nominee of the Republican Party and it is the job of the Republican Party to support the nominee.
Now, the overwhelming majority of Republican voters do not belong to their local Republican party. There are no rules governing whom they must support or what they can and cannot say on behalf of the nominee. These voters vote their checkbooks, their children’s education and future, their liberty and security. They aren’t looking to the Republican Party, to members of the Republican Party or to bloggers to determine how they are going to vote. Many of them will absorb this information and apply it to their calculus.
Is Donald Trump, in light of this new revolting audio, worse than Hillary Clinton? Do Americans want continued Democrat leadership over the United States military and foreign policy, over the bureaucracy and dozens of out of control agencies, and appointing our cabinet, our department heads and our justices in the courts?
It is sad that we are having to choose between Donald Trump and Secretary Hillary Clinton. Politicos were turning off election coverage last night because their children were in the room. The polls reveal that the American people despise each of these candidates. I suspect voter turnout will be greatly suppressed by the sheer disgust folks feel over the fact that these two candidates were apparently the best we could do.
I’m not going to tell anyone what they should or shouldn’t do in November. Whatever you choose, I know you’re making the best of a rotten situation. I would, however, encourage people not to vote for Hillary Clinton, whose corruption overshadows just about anything we’ve ever seen in American history. Democrats will slowly deprive you of your rights, your liberty, your property and your prosperity. The Democrat Party is the single greatest threat we face as Americans. I know that this fact alone may not be enough to force everyone to vote for Donald Trump, but it should be a variable in your calculus.
After this election, there will be a reckoning. We will have to reevaluate where we stand and deal with what took place in our primary. We will need to form new alliances and set aside old grudges. What we are going through today, as a party, we must never go through again.
You may watch Donald Trump’s apology here.
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Trump would have done well to heed the advice about being nice to people on your way up, because, you’ll need them when you are on your way down.
Must be lonely in Trump Tower and it will get much worse.
FDR IKE LBJ JFK Clinton Trump all powerful men and all had mistresses or numerous sexual conquests. Only Clinton was a rapist and molester. Presidents and candidates are leaders, not perfect human beings.
Number of times FDR, Ike, JFK, and Clinton combined told national media that their status empowered them to abuse others?
Zero.
It”s not about mistresses. It’s about him celebrating his ability to abuse, to a total stranger.
Lame, particularly with Clinton who just openly lied. Trump wasn’t in the presidency in 2005. He was a divorcée of great wealth who was constantly involved with liberal women willing to
do most anything to advance themselves. Miss Venezuela is a perfect example.
Yes, blame it on the women. Very new age.
I do ascribe some blame to women. The gold digger, trophy wife aren’t Imaginary they are real. In addition, the enablers like Hillary are more than
willing to sell out and
destroy other women for power. Last time I checked, there were as many sleazy women as there are men.
But you realize you have chosen without information to assign all possible blame to a woman, in support of a person who is on record saying things only a liar (his deposition in lawsuit against Washington Post) and a sleaze (this weekend’s controversy) would say? How many more incidents will come to light before you start to consider that his appearance on record is a fair indication of who he is?
ANY other Republican would easily be beating Clinton, the most corrupt politician to ever have run for the Presidency. We all know what she will bring to the country. It’s likely to be even more destructive than Obama and yet we cannot beat her because of the clown we nominated. I rejoice when I hear Trumpsters say they are leaving the Republican party. This disaster is all on them.
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.”
“What we are going through today, as a party, we must never go through again.” Will we have a party after this election? If so, it must be very different, unrecognizable.
Well, if the Republican party actually stood for something, that would be a breath of fresh air. Democrat-lite is not a way to excite the base.
The chickens have come home to roost.
“What we are going through today, as a party, we must never go through again.” Will we have a party after this election? If so, it must be very different, unrecognizable.
So — after you kick out:
— Southern Jim Crow republicans
— gunnuts
— militia
— biblethumpers
— the Bundy crowd
— the Oathkeepers and III Percenters
— the Sandy Hook truthers
— the JADE HELM, chemtrail, and AGENDA 21 loons
— the Tea Baggers
— what do you have left????????????????
Unlike the Democrat Party, Americans will remain to pick up the pieces – assuming a nation remains.
Trump is meeting with his senior advisors: Giuliani and Gingrich.
Trump, Giuliani, Gingrich: Among them they have NINE wives and countless incidents of adultery.
Now we see the REAL republican family values.
Do you have a link to that? I can find no evidence of any such meeting. Perhaps you’re making it up, as liberals are prone to do.
Of course no democrats ever get divorces or cheat on their spouses. Oh. Wait. One of them became President and continued to lie and cheat. And now his enabler-in-chief is headed back to the White House. Pathetic.
Pull your head out of rectal defilade, turn off Fox, and pay attention. CNN, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS all reported Trump, Gingrich, Giluliani, Priebus meeting yesterday at Trump Tower.
Meanwhile . . . please drop the sanctimonious crap about how you never chose Trump. Here’s a link to the results of the March 1, 2016, republican Presidential primary. Check it out, get back to me and tell me who won.
http://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2016%20March%20Republican%20Presidential%20Primary/Site/Presidential.html
Need I point out to you that, at the time the republicans were trying to impeach Bill Clinton, his approval ratings climbed as did republican disapproval ratings. As for your ridiculous claim that Hillary enabled him. I guess you’ve never heard of a couple working through things. Maybe you need to track down the pastor of Foundry United Methodist Church at the time and talk with him about the Clinton’s.
This revelation about Trump should surprise no one. It does, however, shine a much brighter light on the Clintons. Should be a quite interesting next debate.
What about the reckoning to come if he is elected and abuses the power of the office to do something truly bad? All of the cautions about what Hillary Would have done will not matter.
The shame is that we are not in the current moment as upset with the Clintons, In my book, the Clinton rape and looting of America, the trail of suspicious deaths from Arkansas to Washington, these and more are every bit as foul and damnable as any of the utterance coming from such upscale trash as may be inhabiting the upper reaches of the Trump Tower.
If there is anything deplorable in this current presidential election cycle, it is that once again we are being asked to choose between trash and trash. And once again, we are being asked to pick the trash which smells the least when the choice should be between Liberty or Death.
As to the above, “Congressional Republican leadership and the folks at the RNC have
created the conditions that led to the nomination of Donald Trump.” This says much, but the real Pin the Tail on the Donkey is really all of us, and for many generations. We have over many decades permitted the Culture of Decay to arise among us without effective resistance. And yes, folks! We do reap what we sow.
Rather than the precious emotional reactions I’ve been seeing from some quarters, we all need to be weighing things out on a much larger scale. And the scales start at the local committees where feet need to be held against hot coals.
Brodie #1
From the outside looking in, if the object is to win elections, you must come to the realization that you need more than just the Party to win. People from outside the Party could give a crap about Party unity, loyalty oaths, or your good old ol boy networks. Stop patting each other on the back and being in constant defense mode by getting out of the Republican bubble to develop a real, viable platform that brings undecided voters to want to vote for your candidate regardless of their party affiliation.. A platform of “he ain’t her” doesn’t resonate w the average voter.
Conservatism can win. You remember conservatism right? Principled, fiscally responsible, small gov’t. The Republican Party today isn’t that at all. The Party mantra of today is basically “but they do it too”. You should have grown out of that around 2nd grade. Hold your supposed leaders to higher standard than the “bad guys”. Hillary is a very flawed candidate but right now Democrats are the adults in the room and that’s the way undecideds are voting.
You allowed this to become an election of personality not substance by wallowing in the gutter with them. They do it better and now you are reaping what you sowed.
Don’t confuse republicans by presenting them with the truth of what they have done for the past 30 years. They won’t listen.
Get real. Now that you republicans are wondering what to do with Trump, I’m about to puke because of your phony horror at your candidate.
Republican lawmakers are trickling
out with their outrage on Donald Trump’s bragging about his sexual
assault habits. A few are even withdrawing their endorsements of Trump. People like you clowns at the Bullshit Elephant are joining the chorus, wringing your hands.
Big f’ing deal, guys. You’re outraged now? Sorry, but you’re way more
than a day late and way more than a dollar short on this one.
Donald Trump opened his campaign by calling Mexicans drug dealers and
rapists. You didn’t know then?
He is the candidate of white supremacists, and it’s not just that they like him. He likes them back, if his retweets are anything to go by. Hell, his campaign is being run
by a white nationalist. That didn’t clue you in?
At the very first Republican presidential primary debate, Megyn Kelly asked Trump about
his record of insulting women—so it’s not like that was a secret. He
responded by saying she had “blood coming out of her wherever.” That
wasn’t a hint you might have a problem?
Khizr and Ghazala Khan. Judge Gonzalo Curiel. Alicia Machado. New York Times reporter
Serge Kovaleski. Trump has based his campaign around the lowest, most
personal attacks he could muster, all based around people not being rich
white men like him.
You gutless republicans have squirmed, you’ve pretended not to hear, you’ve occasionally disavowed specific comments, but you have stuck with Trump. And that’s on you.
You endorsed him, you own him, “grab them by the pussy” and all.
Drown in your crocodile tears.
Here’s your hat:
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Save your gleeful and all-knowing admonitions. Most of us Republicans have despised Donald Trump from the beginning.
So perhaps you can explain why there is a Trump-Pence sign every 1/4 mile along the highways in Northumberland and Lancaster counties. Maybe you can explain why the Montross, 99th District, Mechanicsville, Henrico, and Peninsulas Tea Parties have endorsed him.
Because between him & Hillary, he is marginally better. That doesn’t mean that we want him, just don’t want Hillary.
Since I work at HQ from 10 to 6 today, will find out first hand what real people think about all of this.
Oh and WikiLeaks has released a bunch of info today. Great timin https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/086cea40fa621db9e4f5e9277be7b1a8948b0be8c89fe89a53481133389d67b4.jpg g by the democrats on this one..
OMG, what a day I have had…Hurricane Matthew is about 100 miles south of here. Being blasted by that right now. Usual hurricane stuff. Been raining here since this morning. I have been working Saturdays for awhile now and today was the busiest day that I have seen so far.Lots of new people learning how to do door knocking and the telephone banks. And so many Trump hats and t-shirts felt like I was at a Trump rally.Except for one person, people today could care less about the so called scandal, people may not be happy with what the Donald said. but they are still going to vote for him..
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Yes, to a large extent this “scandal” has already been baked into Trump’s numbers. If people support him after all the other stuff he’s said, this is unlikely to change their minds. The key is whether this joint effort by the media and Hillary will change the minds of the few percentage points of the electorate who will decide the outcome.
I disagree… Trump’s support is more like 60 to 65%…
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