You Knew Who Trump Was When You Endorsed Him, Republican Leaders

[oreo]

You will never live down what you’ve done.

You knew. You all knew. You knew the whole time who and what Donald Trump is.

Mike Pence. Paul Ryan. Mitch McConnell. Ted Cruz. Chris Christie. Newt Gingrich. Orrin Hatch. John McCain. Marco Rubio. Virtually all of you.

You heard every terrible thing he said. You watched every inexcusable thing he did. You knew Trump is a race-baiting, xenophobic, misogynistic, authoritarian con man. You knew about his insatiable appetite for power, his bottomless need for affirmation, his dangerous impulsiveness and uncontrollable temper. You knew he was a huckster who ruined businesses and lives. You knew he debased your party, and you personally. You knew.

You knew he waged a racist campaign against the president’s legitimacy. You knew hecalled immigrants rapists. You knew he advocated forbidding Muslims from American soil. You knew he said a federal judge wasn’t qualified because Mexican blood flowed through his veins. You knew he besmirched the parents of a dead soldier. You knew hemocked prisoners of war. You knew he courted white supremacists. You knew headmires dictators. You knew he incited violence. You knew he lies ― blatantly, shamelessly, ceaselessly.

You knew all of that, and you asked Americans to elect him president anyway. Shame on you. You knew.

Your condemnations are and have always been empty. Your sudden rush to abandonTrump ― after what’s merely the most recently uncovered manifestation of his hatred for women ― is motivated by the same venal cowardice that led you to support him in the first place.

You knew Hillary Clinton isn’t the monstrous caricature you spent decades depicting. You knew she is ― like each and every one of you ― an ordinary politician, in all the ways that word has positive and negative connotations. You knew she would govern in a perfectly normal way.

You knew this, but you told voters she was more dangerous than Trump. More evil. A greater threat to the republic. And this, after so many of you spent the presidentialprimary campaign warning the U.S. that Trump is exactly who he appears to be. But you fell in line. You knew, and you endorsed him anyway.

You did all of this in service of ideology. You did this because you believe Trump will enact the policies you favor to allow businesses to pump more pollution into our air and water, to take away food and medicine from the neediest among us, to disenfranchise minority voters, to slash taxes for the rich.

Your voters elevated Trump nearly to the White House, and he may yet make it there, in spite of everything. They did so because you have primed them for Trump for more than half a century. Half a century of barely concealed appeals to racism, of fomenting fear and hatred and coaxing the worst instincts out of enough voters to gain power. Years of nurturing ― on AM radio and cable TV and the internet ― a propaganda machine that encourages ignorance, mistrust and anger.

You have lost control of the golem you created.

You made promises you knew you couldn’t keep, and your voters finally lost faith in you. Now, they’re turning on you.

They follow a man who doesn’t even share your beliefs. You’re learning just how little those voters cared about conservatism and how very much they cared about stomping their boots on the throats of people who don’t look like them or love like them or think like them. You made this possible by making villains out of African-Americans, Latinos, LGBTQ people, the poor.

When this is all over, you may win your own re-elections. You may retain control of Congress and of governors mansions, state legislatures, county councils and school boards all across the nation. You may sigh in relief that you survived. You may even ― and not terribly long from now ― regain the presidency and resume carrying out your agenda. Your own careers may be successful.

But history will condemn you. History won’t forget your callowness. Because you knew.

You Knew Who Trump Was When You Endorsed Him, Republican Leaders

Amen! Yes, they all knew. They may have destroyed the Republican Party.

Very True-- it doesn't matter that they are now withdrawing support, they should have known NEVER to have endorsed him. The ones who didn't will be the new hero's of the Republican party, the ones that did, well let's just say their political careers are over.

Add to that list Ted Cruz & Carly Fiorina--they endorsed him and now Carly Fiorina has un endorsed him.

However, I do not remember Marco Rubio endorsing Trump? Do you have a separate link for that, we are keeping a list.

Conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt told Donald Trump to drop out immediately. He says there's more coming if he doesn't drop out.
Hugh Hewitt calls on Trump to withdraw from race

rubio endorsed trump in July.

Rubio endorses Trump, blasts Clinton in RNC Appearance

Then he's DONE you can stick a fork in him. Rubio & Cruz live in states that are heavily populated with Hispanics. Texas has a 40% Hispanic voting population. They screwed themselves. It's doubtful they'll win their senate seats back.

 

[Lakhota]

You will never live down what you’ve done.

You knew. You all knew. You knew the whole time who and what Donald Trump is.

Mike Pence. Paul Ryan. Mitch McConnell. Ted Cruz. Chris Christie. Newt Gingrich. Orrin Hatch. John McCain. Marco Rubio. Virtually all of you.

You heard every terrible thing he said. You watched every inexcusable thing he did. You knew Trump is a race-baiting, xenophobic, misogynistic, authoritarian con man. You knew about his insatiable appetite for power, his bottomless need for affirmation, his dangerous impulsiveness and uncontrollable temper. You knew he was a huckster who ruined businesses and lives. You knew he debased your party, and you personally. You knew.

You knew he waged a racist campaign against the president’s legitimacy. You knew hecalled immigrants rapists. You knew he advocated forbidding Muslims from American soil. You knew he said a federal judge wasn’t qualified because Mexican blood flowed through his veins. You knew he besmirched the parents of a dead soldier. You knew hemocked prisoners of war. You knew he courted white supremacists. You knew headmires dictators. You knew he incited violence. You knew he lies ― blatantly, shamelessly, ceaselessly.

You knew all of that, and you asked Americans to elect him president anyway. Shame on you. You knew.

Your condemnations are and have always been empty. Your sudden rush to abandonTrump ― after what’s merely the most recently uncovered manifestation of his hatred for women ― is motivated by the same venal cowardice that led you to support him in the first place.

You knew Hillary Clinton isn’t the monstrous caricature you spent decades depicting. You knew she is ― like each and every one of you ― an ordinary politician, in all the ways that word has positive and negative connotations. You knew she would govern in a perfectly normal way.

You knew this, but you told voters she was more dangerous than Trump. More evil. A greater threat to the republic. And this, after so many of you spent the presidentialprimary campaign warning the U.S. that Trump is exactly who he appears to be. But you fell in line. You knew, and you endorsed him anyway.

You did all of this in service of ideology. You did this because you believe Trump will enact the policies you favor to allow businesses to pump more pollution into our air and water, to take away food and medicine from the neediest among us, to disenfranchise minority voters, to slash taxes for the rich.

Your voters elevated Trump nearly to the White House, and he may yet make it there, in spite of everything. They did so because you have primed them for Trump for more than half a century. Half a century of barely concealed appeals to racism, of fomenting fear and hatred and coaxing the worst instincts out of enough voters to gain power. Years of nurturing ― on AM radio and cable TV and the internet ― a propaganda machine that encourages ignorance, mistrust and anger.

You have lost control of the golem you created.

You made promises you knew you couldn’t keep, and your voters finally lost faith in you. Now, they’re turning on you.

They follow a man who doesn’t even share your beliefs. You’re learning just how little those voters cared about conservatism and how very much they cared about stomping their boots on the throats of people who don’t look like them or love like them or think like them. You made this possible by making villains out of African-Americans, Latinos, LGBTQ people, the poor.

When this is all over, you may win your own re-elections. You may retain control of Congress and of governors mansions, state legislatures, county councils and school boards all across the nation. You may sigh in relief that you survived. You may even ― and not terribly long from now ― regain the presidency and resume carrying out your agenda. Your own careers may be successful.

But history will condemn you. History won’t forget your callowness. Because you knew.

You Knew Who Trump Was When You Endorsed Him, Republican Leaders

Amen! Yes, they all knew. They may have destroyed the Republican Party.

Let's all hope it does destroy the party. Now we need to work on also destroying the Democratic Party. All of DC is corrupt as hell.

Are you a deranged anarchist - or just deranged?

It's strange that all you can do is hide under the skirts of other people's writings.

Well, that's better than just making shit up without any credible sources to back it up. Why try to reinvent the wheel when smarter people have already done it.

 

[Dana7360]

You will never live down what you’ve done.

You knew. You all knew. You knew the whole time who and what Donald Trump is.

Mike Pence. Paul Ryan. Mitch McConnell. Ted Cruz. Chris Christie. Newt Gingrich. Orrin Hatch. John McCain. Marco Rubio. Virtually all of you.

You heard every terrible thing he said. You watched every inexcusable thing he did. You knew Trump is a race-baiting, xenophobic, misogynistic, authoritarian con man. You knew about his insatiable appetite for power, his bottomless need for affirmation, his dangerous impulsiveness and uncontrollable temper. You knew he was a huckster who ruined businesses and lives. You knew he debased your party, and you personally. You knew.

You knew he waged a racist campaign against the president’s legitimacy. You knew hecalled immigrants rapists. You knew he advocated forbidding Muslims from American soil. You knew he said a federal judge wasn’t qualified because Mexican blood flowed through his veins. You knew he besmirched the parents of a dead soldier. You knew hemocked prisoners of war. You knew he courted white supremacists. You knew headmires dictators. You knew he incited violence. You knew he lies ― blatantly, shamelessly, ceaselessly.

You knew all of that, and you asked Americans to elect him president anyway. Shame on you. You knew.

Your condemnations are and have always been empty. Your sudden rush to abandonTrump ― after what’s merely the most recently uncovered manifestation of his hatred for women ― is motivated by the same venal cowardice that led you to support him in the first place.

You knew Hillary Clinton isn’t the monstrous caricature you spent decades depicting. You knew she is ― like each and every one of you ― an ordinary politician, in all the ways that word has positive and negative connotations. You knew she would govern in a perfectly normal way.

You knew this, but you told voters she was more dangerous than Trump. More evil. A greater threat to the republic. And this, after so many of you spent the presidentialprimary campaign warning the U.S. that Trump is exactly who he appears to be. But you fell in line. You knew, and you endorsed him anyway.

You did all of this in service of ideology. You did this because you believe Trump will enact the policies you favor to allow businesses to pump more pollution into our air and water, to take away food and medicine from the neediest among us, to disenfranchise minority voters, to slash taxes for the rich.

Your voters elevated Trump nearly to the White House, and he may yet make it there, in spite of everything. They did so because you have primed them for Trump for more than half a century. Half a century of barely concealed appeals to racism, of fomenting fear and hatred and coaxing the worst instincts out of enough voters to gain power. Years of nurturing ― on AM radio and cable TV and the internet ― a propaganda machine that encourages ignorance, mistrust and anger.

You have lost control of the golem you created.

You made promises you knew you couldn’t keep, and your voters finally lost faith in you. Now, they’re turning on you.

They follow a man who doesn’t even share your beliefs. You’re learning just how little those voters cared about conservatism and how very much they cared about stomping their boots on the throats of people who don’t look like them or love like them or think like them. You made this possible by making villains out of African-Americans, Latinos, LGBTQ people, the poor.

When this is all over, you may win your own re-elections. You may retain control of Congress and of governors mansions, state legislatures, county councils and school boards all across the nation. You may sigh in relief that you survived. You may even ― and not terribly long from now ― regain the presidency and resume carrying out your agenda. Your own careers may be successful.

But history will condemn you. History won’t forget your callowness. Because you knew.

You Knew Who Trump Was When You Endorsed Him, Republican Leaders

Amen! Yes, they all knew. They may have destroyed the Republican Party.

Very True-- it doesn't matter that they are now withdrawing support, they should have known NEVER to have endorsed him. The ones who didn't will be the new hero's of the Republican party, the ones that did, well let's just say their political careers are over.

Add to that list Ted Cruz & Carly Fiorina--they endorsed him and now Carly Fiorina has un endorsed him.

However, I do not remember Marco Rubio endorsing Trump? Do you have a separate link for that, we are keeping a list.

Conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt told Donald Trump to drop out immediately. He says there's more coming if he doesn't drop out.
Hugh Hewitt calls on Trump to withdraw from race

rubio endorsed trump in July.

Rubio endorses Trump, blasts Clinton in RNC Appearance

Then he's DONE you can stick a fork in him. Rubio & Cruz live in states that are heavily populated with Hispanics. Texas has a 40% Hispanic voting population. They screwed themselves. It's doubtful they'll win their senate seats back.

Great.

It couldn't happen to more deserving pieces of garbage.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

You will never live down what you’ve done.

You knew. You all knew. You knew the whole time who and what Donald Trump is.

Mike Pence. Paul Ryan. Mitch McConnell. Ted Cruz. Chris Christie. Newt Gingrich. Orrin Hatch. John McCain. Marco Rubio. Virtually all of you.

You heard every terrible thing he said. You watched every inexcusable thing he did. You knew Trump is a race-baiting, xenophobic, misogynistic, authoritarian con man. You knew about his insatiable appetite for power, his bottomless need for affirmation, his dangerous impulsiveness and uncontrollable temper. You knew he was a huckster who ruined businesses and lives. You knew he debased your party, and you personally. You knew.

You knew he waged a racist campaign against the president’s legitimacy. You knew hecalled immigrants rapists. You knew he advocated forbidding Muslims from American soil. You knew he said a federal judge wasn’t qualified because Mexican blood flowed through his veins. You knew he besmirched the parents of a dead soldier. You knew hemocked prisoners of war. You knew he courted white supremacists. You knew headmires dictators. You knew he incited violence. You knew he lies ― blatantly, shamelessly, ceaselessly.

You knew all of that, and you asked Americans to elect him president anyway. Shame on you. You knew.

Your condemnations are and have always been empty. Your sudden rush to abandonTrump ― after what’s merely the most recently uncovered manifestation of his hatred for women ― is motivated by the same venal cowardice that led you to support him in the first place.

You knew Hillary Clinton isn’t the monstrous caricature you spent decades depicting. You knew she is ― like each and every one of you ― an ordinary politician, in all the ways that word has positive and negative connotations. You knew she would govern in a perfectly normal way.

You knew this, but you told voters she was more dangerous than Trump. More evil. A greater threat to the republic. And this, after so many of you spent the presidentialprimary campaign warning the U.S. that Trump is exactly who he appears to be. But you fell in line. You knew, and you endorsed him anyway.

You did all of this in service of ideology. You did this because you believe Trump will enact the policies you favor to allow businesses to pump more pollution into our air and water, to take away food and medicine from the neediest among us, to disenfranchise minority voters, to slash taxes for the rich.

Your voters elevated Trump nearly to the White House, and he may yet make it there, in spite of everything. They did so because you have primed them for Trump for more than half a century. Half a century of barely concealed appeals to racism, of fomenting fear and hatred and coaxing the worst instincts out of enough voters to gain power. Years of nurturing ― on AM radio and cable TV and the internet ― a propaganda machine that encourages ignorance, mistrust and anger.

You have lost control of the golem you created.

You made promises you knew you couldn’t keep, and your voters finally lost faith in you. Now, they’re turning on you.

They follow a man who doesn’t even share your beliefs. You’re learning just how little those voters cared about conservatism and how very much they cared about stomping their boots on the throats of people who don’t look like them or love like them or think like them. You made this possible by making villains out of African-Americans, Latinos, LGBTQ people, the poor.

When this is all over, you may win your own re-elections. You may retain control of Congress and of governors mansions, state legislatures, county councils and school boards all across the nation. You may sigh in relief that you survived. You may even ― and not terribly long from now ― regain the presidency and resume carrying out your agenda. Your own careers may be successful.

But history will condemn you. History won’t forget your callowness. Because you knew.

You Knew Who Trump Was When You Endorsed Him, Republican Leaders

Amen! Yes, they all knew. They may have destroyed the Republican Party.

Let's all hope it does destroy the party. Now we need to work on also destroying the Democratic Party. All of DC is corrupt as hell.

Are you a deranged anarchist - or just deranged?

It's strange that all you can do is hide under the skirts of other people's writings.

Well, that's better than just making shit up without any credible sources to back it up. Why try to reinvent the wheel when smarter people have already done it.

Your sources are not credible.

Try again.

 

[ClosedCaption]

If you think Trump saying bad words is worse than Hillary selling political favors and lying about how she handled classified information and lying about Benghazi and completely screwing up and allowing ISIS to form and hitting the Russian reset button, you are simply an idiot.

Selling favors = Dinners
Handling classified info = nothing lost or hacked just that it was on a private server.
Lying about Benghazi = Ask him what lie and he'll talk for 2 paragraphs.
Isis = Iraq agreement before she took office
Russia = Putin acts like a thug and that's someone else's fault except Putin.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Lakota claims to use credible sources.

Far left rags.....

 

[Flopper]

I'm not a Republican but I think Bill Stein expressed the views of a lot of Republicans quite well when he said.

"Loyalty is sacred to me," but that release of a 2005 tape of the GOP nominee's sexually aggressive remarks about women and its fallout "is a nightmare. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth,"

"It's time for Donald Trump to go back to Trump Tower," he said. "Time for Mike Pence to move to the top of the ticket. Time for [Florida Sen.] Marco Rubio, or my favorite, [South Carolina Sen.] Lindsay Graham, to move to the Veep spot. " I’m not fickle. I have been a conservative in Hollywood for 40 years, and it’s cost me plenty… Loyalty is sacred to me."

"We are supposed to represent a high moral standard," he said. "We are the party of Dwight Eisenhower and of Ronald Reagan, whose charisma was based on dignity. We’re the party of George W. Bush, who made terrible mistakes, but whose fundamental decency was never in doubt. Now comes Donald Trump."

Discussing Bill Clinton's womanizing, he said "I wouldn’t want Bill Clinton to be leading the Republican Party, either, I want someone clean, after eight years of mess and lies and deceit. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth."

"I stood up for him on TV and in print because he was a force for change, and he was not afraid to be non-PC," he said. "But this latest is too much. "

"Donald Trump, for once do the right thing," he said. "Take your boasts and your swindles and your dirty jokes and your jet and go back home, and let our great party try to save itself and the nation."

Ben Stein Calls for Trump to Quit: 'I Want Someone Clean'

 

[Lakhota]

I'm not a Republican but I think Bill Stein expressed the views of a lot of Republicans quite well when he said.

"Loyalty is sacred to me," but that release of a 2005 tape of the GOP nominee's sexually aggressive remarks about women and its fallout "is a nightmare. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth,"

"It's time for Donald Trump to go back to Trump Tower," he said. "Time for Mike Pence to move to the top of the ticket. Time for [Florida Sen.] Marco Rubio, or my favorite, [South Carolina Sen.] Lindsay Graham, to move to the Veep spot. " I’m not fickle. I have been a conservative in Hollywood for 40 years, and it’s cost me plenty… Loyalty is sacred to me."

"We are supposed to represent a high moral standard," he said. "We are the party of Dwight Eisenhower and of Ronald Reagan, whose charisma was based on dignity. We’re the party of George W. Bush, who made terrible mistakes, but whose fundamental decency was never in doubt. Now comes Donald Trump."

Discussing Bill Clinton's womanizing, he said "I wouldn’t want Bill Clinton to be leading the Republican Party, either, I want someone clean, after eight years of mess and lies and deceit. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth."

"I stood up for him on TV and in print because he was a force for change, and he was not afraid to be non-PC," he said. "But this latest is too much. "

"Donald Trump, for once do the right thing," he said. "Take your boasts and your swindles and your dirty jokes and your jet and go back home, and let our great party try to save itself and the nation."

Ben Stein Calls for Trump to Quit: 'I Want Someone Clean'

I think Ben Stein is a deranged NaziCon - but I agree that Republicans need "someone clean". However, their base seems to like them really dirty.

 

[Flopper]

I'm not a Republican but I think Bill Stein expressed the views of a lot of Republicans quite well when he said.

"Loyalty is sacred to me," but that release of a 2005 tape of the GOP nominee's sexually aggressive remarks about women and its fallout "is a nightmare. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth,"

"It's time for Donald Trump to go back to Trump Tower," he said. "Time for Mike Pence to move to the top of the ticket. Time for [Florida Sen.] Marco Rubio, or my favorite, [South Carolina Sen.] Lindsay Graham, to move to the Veep spot. " I’m not fickle. I have been a conservative in Hollywood for 40 years, and it’s cost me plenty… Loyalty is sacred to me."

"We are supposed to represent a high moral standard," he said. "We are the party of Dwight Eisenhower and of Ronald Reagan, whose charisma was based on dignity. We’re the party of George W. Bush, who made terrible mistakes, but whose fundamental decency was never in doubt. Now comes Donald Trump."

Discussing Bill Clinton's womanizing, he said "I wouldn’t want Bill Clinton to be leading the Republican Party, either, I want someone clean, after eight years of mess and lies and deceit. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth."

"I stood up for him on TV and in print because he was a force for change, and he was not afraid to be non-PC," he said. "But this latest is too much. "

"Donald Trump, for once do the right thing," he said. "Take your boasts and your swindles and your dirty jokes and your jet and go back home, and let our great party try to save itself and the nation."

Ben Stein Calls for Trump to Quit: 'I Want Someone Clean'

I think Ben Stein is a deranged NaziCon - but I agree that Republicans need "someone clean". However, their base seems to like them really dirty.

I think Trump is the result of the party leadership embracing the far right, gun nuts, tea partyers, strict fiscal conservatives, turn back the clock reactionaries, and the religious right. My reasoning is that elected republicans simply could not possibly delivery what these people wanted because what they wanted was not doable. So eventually someone like Trump had to come along promising to throw the bastards out and fix everything. Republican party leadership brought this on themselves.

 

[Lakhota]

I'm not a Republican but I think Bill Stein expressed the views of a lot of Republicans quite well when he said.

"Loyalty is sacred to me," but that release of a 2005 tape of the GOP nominee's sexually aggressive remarks about women and its fallout "is a nightmare. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth,"

"It's time for Donald Trump to go back to Trump Tower," he said. "Time for Mike Pence to move to the top of the ticket. Time for [Florida Sen.] Marco Rubio, or my favorite, [South Carolina Sen.] Lindsay Graham, to move to the Veep spot. " I’m not fickle. I have been a conservative in Hollywood for 40 years, and it’s cost me plenty… Loyalty is sacred to me."

"We are supposed to represent a high moral standard," he said. "We are the party of Dwight Eisenhower and of Ronald Reagan, whose charisma was based on dignity. We’re the party of George W. Bush, who made terrible mistakes, but whose fundamental decency was never in doubt. Now comes Donald Trump."

Discussing Bill Clinton's womanizing, he said "I wouldn’t want Bill Clinton to be leading the Republican Party, either, I want someone clean, after eight years of mess and lies and deceit. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth."

"I stood up for him on TV and in print because he was a force for change, and he was not afraid to be non-PC," he said. "But this latest is too much. "

"Donald Trump, for once do the right thing," he said. "Take your boasts and your swindles and your dirty jokes and your jet and go back home, and let our great party try to save itself and the nation."

Ben Stein Calls for Trump to Quit: 'I Want Someone Clean'

I think Ben Stein is a deranged NaziCon - but I agree that Republicans need "someone clean". However, their base seems to like them really dirty.

I think Trump is the result of the party leadership embracing the far right, gun nuts, tea partyers, strict fiscal conservatives, turn back the clock reactionaries, and the religious right. My reasoning is that elected republicans simply could not possibly delivery what these people wanted because what they wanted was not doable. So eventually someone like Trump had to come along promising to throw the bastards out and fix everything. Republican party leadership brought this on themselves.

The GOP is heading down the road to anarchy - regardless of the election outcome.

 

[Flopper]

I'm not a Republican but I think Bill Stein expressed the views of a lot of Republicans quite well when he said.

"Loyalty is sacred to me," but that release of a 2005 tape of the GOP nominee's sexually aggressive remarks about women and its fallout "is a nightmare. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth,"

"It's time for Donald Trump to go back to Trump Tower," he said. "Time for Mike Pence to move to the top of the ticket. Time for [Florida Sen.] Marco Rubio, or my favorite, [South Carolina Sen.] Lindsay Graham, to move to the Veep spot. " I’m not fickle. I have been a conservative in Hollywood for 40 years, and it’s cost me plenty… Loyalty is sacred to me."

"We are supposed to represent a high moral standard," he said. "We are the party of Dwight Eisenhower and of Ronald Reagan, whose charisma was based on dignity. We’re the party of George W. Bush, who made terrible mistakes, but whose fundamental decency was never in doubt. Now comes Donald Trump."

Discussing Bill Clinton's womanizing, he said "I wouldn’t want Bill Clinton to be leading the Republican Party, either, I want someone clean, after eight years of mess and lies and deceit. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth."

"I stood up for him on TV and in print because he was a force for change, and he was not afraid to be non-PC," he said. "But this latest is too much. "

"Donald Trump, for once do the right thing," he said. "Take your boasts and your swindles and your dirty jokes and your jet and go back home, and let our great party try to save itself and the nation."

Ben Stein Calls for Trump to Quit: 'I Want Someone Clean'

I think Ben Stein is a deranged NaziCon - but I agree that Republicans need "someone clean". However, their base seems to like them really dirty.

I think Trump is the result of the party leadership embracing the far right, gun nuts, tea partyers, strict fiscal conservatives, turn back the clock reactionaries, and the religious right. My reasoning is that elected republicans simply could not possibly delivery what these people wanted because what they wanted was not doable. So eventually someone like Trump had to come along promising to throw the bastards out and fix everything. Republican party leadership brought this on themselves.

The GOP is heading down the road to anarchy - regardless of the election outcome.

Well after the election, you can bet there's going to be a close examination of how this happened and the future direction of the party. They actually did that after the Romney loss and came up with a plan for the party to become more inclusive and then along came Trump.

 

[Claudette]

You will never live down what you’ve done.

You knew. You all knew. You knew the whole time who and what Donald Trump is.

Mike Pence. Paul Ryan. Mitch McConnell. Ted Cruz. Chris Christie. Newt Gingrich. Orrin Hatch. John McCain. Marco Rubio. Virtually all of you.

You heard every terrible thing he said. You watched every inexcusable thing he did. You knew Trump is a race-baiting, xenophobic, misogynistic, authoritarian con man. You knew about his insatiable appetite for power, his bottomless need for affirmation, his dangerous impulsiveness and uncontrollable temper. You knew he was a huckster who ruined businesses and lives. You knew he debased your party, and you personally. You knew.

You knew he waged a racist campaign against the president’s legitimacy. You knew hecalled immigrants rapists. You knew he advocated forbidding Muslims from American soil. You knew he said a federal judge wasn’t qualified because Mexican blood flowed through his veins. You knew he besmirched the parents of a dead soldier. You knew hemocked prisoners of war. You knew he courted white supremacists. You knew headmires dictators. You knew he incited violence. You knew he lies ― blatantly, shamelessly, ceaselessly.

You knew all of that, and you asked Americans to elect him president anyway. Shame on you. You knew.

Your condemnations are and have always been empty. Your sudden rush to abandonTrump ― after what’s merely the most recently uncovered manifestation of his hatred for women ― is motivated by the same venal cowardice that led you to support him in the first place.

You knew Hillary Clinton isn’t the monstrous caricature you spent decades depicting. You knew she is ― like each and every one of you ― an ordinary politician, in all the ways that word has positive and negative connotations. You knew she would govern in a perfectly normal way.

You knew this, but you told voters she was more dangerous than Trump. More evil. A greater threat to the republic. And this, after so many of you spent the presidentialprimary campaign warning the U.S. that Trump is exactly who he appears to be. But you fell in line. You knew, and you endorsed him anyway.

You did all of this in service of ideology. You did this because you believe Trump will enact the policies you favor to allow businesses to pump more pollution into our air and water, to take away food and medicine from the neediest among us, to disenfranchise minority voters, to slash taxes for the rich.

Your voters elevated Trump nearly to the White House, and he may yet make it there, in spite of everything. They did so because you have primed them for Trump for more than half a century. Half a century of barely concealed appeals to racism, of fomenting fear and hatred and coaxing the worst instincts out of enough voters to gain power. Years of nurturing ― on AM radio and cable TV and the internet ― a propaganda machine that encourages ignorance, mistrust and anger.

You have lost control of the golem you created.

You made promises you knew you couldn’t keep, and your voters finally lost faith in you. Now, they’re turning on you.

They follow a man who doesn’t even share your beliefs. You’re learning just how little those voters cared about conservatism and how very much they cared about stomping their boots on the throats of people who don’t look like them or love like them or think like them. You made this possible by making villains out of African-Americans, Latinos, LGBTQ people, the poor.

When this is all over, you may win your own re-elections. You may retain control of Congress and of governors mansions, state legislatures, county councils and school boards all across the nation. You may sigh in relief that you survived. You may even ― and not terribly long from now ― regain the presidency and resume carrying out your agenda. Your own careers may be successful.

But history will condemn you. History won’t forget your callowness. Because you knew.

You Knew Who Trump Was When You Endorsed Him, Republican Leaders

Amen! Yes, they all knew. They may have destroyed the Republican Party.

LMAO This coming from someone who endorses a stupid, careless and incompetent asshole as POTUS.

You are a hoot fake Indian. LOL

 

[NYcarbineer]

I'm not a Republican but I think Bill Stein expressed the views of a lot of Republicans quite well when he said.

"Loyalty is sacred to me," but that release of a 2005 tape of the GOP nominee's sexually aggressive remarks about women and its fallout "is a nightmare. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth,"

"It's time for Donald Trump to go back to Trump Tower," he said. "Time for Mike Pence to move to the top of the ticket. Time for [Florida Sen.] Marco Rubio, or my favorite, [South Carolina Sen.] Lindsay Graham, to move to the Veep spot. " I’m not fickle. I have been a conservative in Hollywood for 40 years, and it’s cost me plenty… Loyalty is sacred to me."

"We are supposed to represent a high moral standard," he said. "We are the party of Dwight Eisenhower and of Ronald Reagan, whose charisma was based on dignity. We’re the party of George W. Bush, who made terrible mistakes, but whose fundamental decency was never in doubt. Now comes Donald Trump."

Discussing Bill Clinton's womanizing, he said "I wouldn’t want Bill Clinton to be leading the Republican Party, either, I want someone clean, after eight years of mess and lies and deceit. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth."

"I stood up for him on TV and in print because he was a force for change, and he was not afraid to be non-PC," he said. "But this latest is too much. "

"Donald Trump, for once do the right thing," he said. "Take your boasts and your swindles and your dirty jokes and your jet and go back home, and let our great party try to save itself and the nation."

Ben Stein Calls for Trump to Quit: 'I Want Someone Clean'

I think Ben Stein is a deranged NaziCon - but I agree that Republicans need "someone clean". However, their base seems to like them really dirty.

I think Trump is the result of the party leadership embracing the far right, gun nuts, tea partyers, strict fiscal conservatives, turn back the clock reactionaries, and the religious right. My reasoning is that elected republicans simply could not possibly delivery what these people wanted because what they wanted was not doable. So eventually someone like Trump had to come along promising to throw the bastards out and fix everything. Republican party leadership brought this on themselves.

The GOP is heading down the road to anarchy - regardless of the election outcome.

Well after the election, you can bet there's going to be a close examination of how this happened and the future direction of the party. They actually did that after the Romney loss and came up with a plan for the party to become more inclusive and then along came Trump.

After the election, Trump, in alliance with the alt-right media people, is going to form a rightwing media based movement that is going to effectively form a 3rd party in this country, opposed as much to the GOP establishment as it will be to the Democrats.

 

[Iceweasel]

You will never live down what you’ve done.

This from the party of corruption, bribes, sexual abuse, smears, lies and power grabbing lunatics.

Laugh out fucking loud.
Weak shit bro.

 

[NYcarbineer]

You will never live down what you’ve done.

This from the party of corruption, bribes, sexual abuse, smears, lies and power grabbing lunatics.

Laugh out fucking loud.
Weak shit bro.

Lakhota is not a Republican.

 

[Iceweasel]

You will never live down what you’ve done.

This from the party of corruption, bribes, sexual abuse, smears, lies and power grabbing lunatics.

Laugh out fucking loud.
Weak shit bro.

Lakhota is not a Republican.

Neither are Democrats. You are part of the corruption, nice try.

 

[Flopper]

I'm not a Republican but I think Bill Stein expressed the views of a lot of Republicans quite well when he said.

"Loyalty is sacred to me," but that release of a 2005 tape of the GOP nominee's sexually aggressive remarks about women and its fallout "is a nightmare. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth,"

"It's time for Donald Trump to go back to Trump Tower," he said. "Time for Mike Pence to move to the top of the ticket. Time for [Florida Sen.] Marco Rubio, or my favorite, [South Carolina Sen.] Lindsay Graham, to move to the Veep spot. " I’m not fickle. I have been a conservative in Hollywood for 40 years, and it’s cost me plenty… Loyalty is sacred to me."

"We are supposed to represent a high moral standard," he said. "We are the party of Dwight Eisenhower and of Ronald Reagan, whose charisma was based on dignity. We’re the party of George W. Bush, who made terrible mistakes, but whose fundamental decency was never in doubt. Now comes Donald Trump."

Discussing Bill Clinton's womanizing, he said "I wouldn’t want Bill Clinton to be leading the Republican Party, either, I want someone clean, after eight years of mess and lies and deceit. I don’t want someone who talks like a dirty-minded eighth-grader leading the greatest political party on Earth."

"I stood up for him on TV and in print because he was a force for change, and he was not afraid to be non-PC," he said. "But this latest is too much. "

"Donald Trump, for once do the right thing," he said. "Take your boasts and your swindles and your dirty jokes and your jet and go back home, and let our great party try to save itself and the nation."

Ben Stein Calls for Trump to Quit: 'I Want Someone Clean'

I think Ben Stein is a deranged NaziCon - but I agree that Republicans need "someone clean". However, their base seems to like them really dirty.

I think Trump is the result of the party leadership embracing the far right, gun nuts, tea partyers, strict fiscal conservatives, turn back the clock reactionaries, and the religious right. My reasoning is that elected republicans simply could not possibly delivery what these people wanted because what they wanted was not doable. So eventually someone like Trump had to come along promising to throw the bastards out and fix everything. Republican party leadership brought this on themselves.

The GOP is heading down the road to anarchy - regardless of the election outcome.

Well after the election, you can bet there's going to be a close examination of how this happened and the future direction of the party. They actually did that after the Romney loss and came up with a plan for the party to become more inclusive and then along came Trump.

After the election, Trump, in alliance with the alt-right media people, is going to form a rightwing media based movement that is going to effectively form a 3rd party in this country, opposed as much to the GOP establishment as it will be to the Democrats.

That does sound reasonable however, I doubt he will have the interest. He claims he dropped 100 million into this campaign and it looks like he's going to have a big loss. Trump may be naive when it comes to politics but he's also a realist when comes to money. However, if that happen, it would certain change the complexion of American politics.