Former RNC Chair Dumps Trump

[BlackAsCoal]

Michael Steele said he was “damn near puking during the debates.”

The former head of the Republican Party won’t be voting for Donald Trump in November, BuzzFeed reports.

Michael Steele, who chaired the party from 2009 to 2011, said at an event this week that he was “damn near puking during the debates,” according to the publication. Steele added that he also wouldn’t vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

The former chairman is the latest high-profile conservative to disavow Trump. After giving the GOP nominee’s racist and sexist comments a pass for almost his entire campaign, a slew of Republican leaders abandoned ship this month amid growing accusations of sexual assault.

Among those disavowing Trump are 2008 GOP nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.). Some, including GOP mega-fundraiser Meg Whitman and (reportedly) former President George H.W. Bush, are voting for Clinton instead.

 

[tinydancer]

With all due respect, mainstream RINO's were never expected to back Trump.

John McCain for example put Carly Fiorina into the primary race and she tried to run as an outsider. Pfffffffffft. Her resume showed she was an inside the beltway candidate and got properly dumped.

The Bush family are so bloody close to the Clintons that the Bush twins call the Clintons Aunt Hillary and Uncle Bill. The only reason that Jeb got into the race was to siphon off all the money from the other candidates. That would help Hillary.

GW regards Bill Clinton as a brother. No one gives a rats ass in the Trump camp that the inside the Beltway elites don't back him at all.

 

[Mac1958]

There are traditional Republicans (now known as RINOs, commies, Marxists, Stalinists, socialists, communists and progressives) who feel morally obligated to put their country over their party, even if will hurt them, and that takes some real character.

They haven't bought into the talk radio/conservative internet narrative that has created this bizarre echo chamber.

Anyone who seriously looks at Jeb or Kasich or Rubio and truly sees a RINO has completely divorced themselves from Reagan and his 80% Rule, and are simply not thinking clearly.

Nice to see people from either end exercising that kind of intellectual honesty.
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[tinydancer]

There are traditional Republicans (now known as RINOs, commies, Marxists, Stalinists, socialists, communists and progressives) who feel morally obligated to put their country over their party, even if will hurt them, and that takes some real character.

They haven't bought into the talk radio/conservative internet narrative that has created this bizarre echo chamber.

Anyone who seriously looks at Jeb or Kasich or Rubio and truly sees a RINO has completely divorced themselves from Reagan and his 80% Rule, and are simply not thinking clearly.

Nice to see people from either end exercising that kind of intellectual honesty.
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Good grief Mac. First take Rubio out of that RINO mix because I don't believe he is at all. He's definitely center right. And he gave it a good go in the primaries but he really just needs another term or two under his belt and he will be awesome Presidential material.

Or a fabulous Secretary of State.

Neither Jeb nor John could have taken Clinton. It's just that simple.

 

[tinydancer]

Re: talkers. Bullshit. I listen 24/7 because all I have is radio. No one with the exception of the pro Cruz talkers called any of these candidates names.

And the talkers certainly did not need to charge up anyone who was against the inside the beltway RINO Republicans. Those R's pissed off the voters all on their own.

Now Rush was straight up the middle not siding with anyone of the primary candidates. Hannity was awesome because he had on all of the candidates many times and never committed to a winner UNTIL Trump won.

Hannity took a lot of heat for not committing but he felt he should give everyone a fair shot but when the winner was chosen he was going to go all out for the winner.

Savage was always for Trump. Levin was for Cruz as was Beck and they insulted the other candidates to the point I couldn't listen to them anymore. AND they specifically came after Trump with guns a blazing.

Now that's all fine and dandy but then Levin and Beck started going after Trump supporters. Not a swell idea. People just started changing the channel. Beck is on the path of financial ruin and Levin is trying to come back from the brink of sinking badly in the ratings and now over the Supreme Court he's backing Trump.

But to blame talkers for the current mood of the conservative voters is ludicrous. In 2012 R voters gave Republicans the House. R's said they needed the Senate. In 2014 Republicans said we can't do anything with out the Senate. Voters put them in. Next up R's said they can't get anything done because they didn't have the White House.

People are pissed. And righteously so all on their own. No one had to fire them up.

 

[Mac1958]

There are traditional Republicans (now known as RINOs, commies, Marxists, Stalinists, socialists, communists and progressives) who feel morally obligated to put their country over their party, even if will hurt them, and that takes some real character.

They haven't bought into the talk radio/conservative internet narrative that has created this bizarre echo chamber.

Anyone who seriously looks at Jeb or Kasich or Rubio and truly sees a RINO has completely divorced themselves from Reagan and his 80% Rule, and are simply not thinking clearly.

Nice to see people from either end exercising that kind of intellectual honesty.
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Good grief Mac. First take Rubio out of that RINO mix because I don't believe he is at all. He's definitely center right. And he gave it a good go in the primaries but he really just needs another term or two under his belt and he will be awesome Presidential material.

Or a fabulous Secretary of State.

Neither Jeb nor John could have taken Clinton. It's just that simple.

Kasich/Rubio certainly would have - Perfect combination of age & experience and youth & ethnicity, two critical swing states, and neither one of them is a national embarrassment.

They would have gotten my vote, and that of many other independents who are put off by Hillary.

Hey, Trump voters have to think he was their only chance, otherwise there would be no reason to put up with his embarrassing behaviors.
.

 

[tinydancer]

There are traditional Republicans (now known as RINOs, commies, Marxists, Stalinists, socialists, communists and progressives) who feel morally obligated to put their country over their party, even if will hurt them, and that takes some real character.

They haven't bought into the talk radio/conservative internet narrative that has created this bizarre echo chamber.

Anyone who seriously looks at Jeb or Kasich or Rubio and truly sees a RINO has completely divorced themselves from Reagan and his 80% Rule, and are simply not thinking clearly.

Nice to see people from either end exercising that kind of intellectual honesty.
.

Good grief Mac. First take Rubio out of that RINO mix because I don't believe he is at all. He's definitely center right. And he gave it a good go in the primaries but he really just needs another term or two under his belt and he will be awesome Presidential material.

Or a fabulous Secretary of State.

Neither Jeb nor John could have taken Clinton. It's just that simple.

Kasich/Rubio certainly would have - Perfect combination of age & experience and youth & ethnicity, two critical swing states, and neither one of them is a national embarrassment.

They would have gotten my vote, and that of many other independents who are put off by Hillary.

Hey, Trump voters have to think he was their only chance, otherwise there would be no reason to put up with his embarrassing behaviors.
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The anti Washington movement led to his wild number of crowds and voters. His crowds are insane the way he draws.

Trump's embarrassing behaviors? You've got to be kidding me. He's been in the public eye so long the National Enquirer had him vetted better than anyone going in.

 

[Iceweasel]

The same Michael Steele that was fired for fucking up the procedure for delegates that would have cost them huge losses?

Also, how did he dump Trump if he was never onboard? Is thinking THAT hard?