5882

Let me guess, two old fat white guys with mustaches?

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Christine Whitman, former Republican governor of new jersey, has trashed Christie, endorsed Kasich, and said she will vote for Clinton if Trump is nominated.

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Hey now, us fifty something guys with mustaches (maybe not fat but not skinny, for sure) resent that! We’re not all buffoons! Well, not all the time, anyhow.

5885

Hey, they are a subset of the old white guys with mustaches, not the whole group.

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Gov. Whitman wrote a powerful opEd for Politico

All that is in peril by candidates appealing to the worst, rather than the best, of human nature. It is tempting, as Neville Chamberlain did in the face of Hitler’s rise, for polite people to respond to bombastic fascists by quietly ignoring them and hoping they will go away like reasonable people. But people like Donald Trump are neither polite nor reasonable. At times like this, good people must rise up, call out evil for what it is and stand against it.
We must heed the wise admonition most commonly attributed to Edmund Burke: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Now is the time for good men and women, particularly in the Republican Party, to get engaged in the presidential primary process. As I have been saying for a decade now, for too long, sensible members of both parties have ceded the candidate selection process to the fringes of their parties. This year, Republicans cannot sit idly by while the very foundational values on which our party and our nation were built are threatened.
As conservatives, we do not believe in silencing ideas that are viewed as offensive. This is not about muzzling one man, but rather about defeating the ideas he espouses. To those who are following him, we must give hope for their own lives and a greater vision for American than the xenophobic slurry with which Trump has stained our party and our national discourse.

Republicans, now is the time to defeat this scourge of our party. We can make America great again by defeating the selfishness, arrogance and bigotry of Donald Trump.

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That’s a very good piece, and Republicans need to read it.

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Let me be very clear: This is not the Republican Party, but this is how we are being defined right now. Ours is the party that fought to end slavery and desegregate the White House and public schools. Our 150-year history of fighting for justice and economic opportunity for all Americans hangs in the balance.

I would say 110/120 year history of fighting for social justice and economic opportunity. And Trump is a very direct result of Republican rhetoric and strategy over the last 40+ years. You don’t pander to intellectual bottom feeders, reactionaries, anti-govt kooks, religious fundamentalists, stoke their every fear and anxiety, while implementing policies that directly undercut their very standard of living while redirecting their rage against a host of existential enemies without producing a candidate like Trump.

He’s your fucking Frankenstein. You created him. Own it. Take responsibility for your decades of divisive rhetoric, your constant fear mongering. But whether or not you can defeat your monster remains to be seen.

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Sadly, that got published two and a half months ago and this is still the result we’re looking at.

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Nah, the best thing to happen to the Republican Party is Trump. They don’t want a day of reckoning, they want to bury Trump and go back to business as usual. But the thing is business is usual is balancing a dozen spinning plates with the thinnest of margins. Demographically and culturally, and clearly politically, the Republicans are a motley collection of self serving short sighted compromises for power, pure and simple, where a single small shift can cause a seismic collapse of their power. Such “conservative” principles they espouse are only as sacred as the current election. Things like women’s rights and climate change are they appealing only to the most religious, the basest and/or the least informed. The current party isn’t going to reimagine itself. If all Republican preconceptions, think-tanks, and Super PACs are blown out of the water by a populist Trump there will be much bloodshed and attrition among the mediocrities that pass for Republicans today, and then a rebuilding with new blood for a new period of history. I like Whitman, but she’s not just talking about Trump here. Trump is just the oozing puss of a much, much deeper infection.

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I couldn’t agree more. Last election cycle we had Mitt Romney who peeled back the mask on the absurdly regressive economic policies of the Republican party by saying out loud things that are supposed to hidden behind false populist rhetoric and this time around we have Trump peeling back the mask on the rest on the ugliness that the party has been cynically dog whistling and fomenting in the name of drumming up support by appealing to the worst of our baser instincts.

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This was tweeted by a Trump supporter in a totally non-ironic way.

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I like to imagine the sea is closing, not parting.

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Are you sure it wasn’t tweeted in a super subtle ironic way? I refuse to believe people would post that image for reals!

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Look at the woman just over his left shoulder, the one with dark hair. Perfect facial expression for the occasion.

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All that is necessary for the triumph of Trump is for good men to stand by and assume that most of the population is into irony.

5897

Republicans, your serious, mainstream candidate just made a penis length joke on national tv. Even trump hasn’t sunk to that level. This is just embarrassing behaviour.

Marco is officially trump’s long lost son.

5898

… maybe that’s why Trump calls him “Little Marco,” perhaps?

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Making fun of Trump’s hands has a long history, and apparently gets under his skin bad.

Also, lulz at saying “trump hasn’t sunk to that level” about anything.

Look at the woman just over his left shoulder, the one with dark hair. Perfect facial expression for the occasion.

This is totally the facial expression that tons of these people have at his rallies. They are absolutely fanatical, like girls at a boyband concert, or Hitler’s followers.

Everyone should be fighting to destroy Trump at this point. You can hate the other republican candidates all you want, but put that shit under your hat for the time being. Save it until Trump is done, THEN attack whoever the republicans put up.

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So there’s this new CNN Poll out that has Trump at 49% nationally in the GOP, which is pretty terrible.

However, looking at the methodology, I’m forced to think that this poll is pretty much garbage.

Now, they say that they weight the results by national demographics, which is fine… but when you look at the actual demographics of those who were polled, you see that they would effectively prohibit weighting for major demographic groups, because they contained NONE of them.

For instance, every single person polled on the republican side was white… but more importantly, EVERY SINGLE PERSON POLLED WAS OVER 50 YEARS OLD. Seriously, they polled ZERO people who were under 50. Now, I’m not a statistician, but doesn’t this prohibit this poll from accounting for anyone under 50 years old, in any possible way? It basically assumes that they have no impact at all.

Further, those polled were 100% from the south, and 100% from suburbia.

So… that’s pretty much a joke, right?

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Yes, but it’s CNN, that’s to be expected.
However, individual state polls have Trump up in most of the states where there is polling data. And here’s the thing: Trump needs just 30% of the vote tomorrow (aggregate) to gain 50% of the delegates.