Republicans, their own worst enemy.
So the convention has begun, followed by the DNC's next week.
I no longer identify as a Republican, and have told the callers as such, when asking for money. I fell for them in 2014, and that was the last straw. It is always just one thing more needed. Ya Basta!
Can I offer some advice to you Republicans?
If you are a member of the party, but not an elected official, it is simple. While you can vote for whomever you wish, if you want to continue to "be" a Republican, then your support needs to be there. You can't sit and complain. Not when the Presidency is at stake.
Mary Matalin, a long time GOP consultant and advisor to President H.W. Bush, recently announced that she is switching to the Libertarian party, and supporting Johnson. That is what one of those people need to do. You can't sit back and be a party "elder", diss the nominee, and try to change the rules. You set the rules. The candidates followed the rules, and now you are in Cleveland, trying to change them again. Stop it! Trump is the nominee. Go with it! It is all you have now.
Let me address those elected officials who are choosing not to attend the convention, and are openly questioning the nominee, and what will happen. These officials, whether governors, state legislators, Congressmen, Senators, or Dogcatchers. If you have an R next to your name, you need to get to Cleveland, and support your nominee. Don't give me any crap about how you have a right to go your way. When voting, you are right. When accepting money from the party, and using their infrastructure to get out the vote, they bought your public support for the nominee. If you are a coward, and don't want to be tarred by the Trump Train, then renounce the party, return the money, apologize to your constituents and move on.
Besides, I think that the train will run you over. We have seen all over the world how these kind of candidates succeed. Netanyahu won amid certain defeat, Cameron won in England, the French nationalists made significant gains, and now, Brexit. Trump has energized those that feel they have been ignored by the political class. Hillary will not pick up the Bernie people that feel big business has trampled the little guy. They will either go to Johnson or Trump, or more likely, sit it out.
For those that are sick of the two parties, and complain the system is rigged, well guess what. it is. This year, there is an alternative. Johnson/Weld are out campaigning, and with the rank and file of both parties disheartened by their nominees, they are a very viable alternative. Don't say you are throwing away your vote by voting Libertarian. You aren't. That is how they get you. Don't fall for it.
I no longer identify as a Republican, and have told the callers as such, when asking for money. I fell for them in 2014, and that was the last straw. It is always just one thing more needed. Ya Basta!
Can I offer some advice to you Republicans?
If you are a member of the party, but not an elected official, it is simple. While you can vote for whomever you wish, if you want to continue to "be" a Republican, then your support needs to be there. You can't sit and complain. Not when the Presidency is at stake.
Mary Matalin, a long time GOP consultant and advisor to President H.W. Bush, recently announced that she is switching to the Libertarian party, and supporting Johnson. That is what one of those people need to do. You can't sit back and be a party "elder", diss the nominee, and try to change the rules. You set the rules. The candidates followed the rules, and now you are in Cleveland, trying to change them again. Stop it! Trump is the nominee. Go with it! It is all you have now.
Let me address those elected officials who are choosing not to attend the convention, and are openly questioning the nominee, and what will happen. These officials, whether governors, state legislators, Congressmen, Senators, or Dogcatchers. If you have an R next to your name, you need to get to Cleveland, and support your nominee. Don't give me any crap about how you have a right to go your way. When voting, you are right. When accepting money from the party, and using their infrastructure to get out the vote, they bought your public support for the nominee. If you are a coward, and don't want to be tarred by the Trump Train, then renounce the party, return the money, apologize to your constituents and move on.
Besides, I think that the train will run you over. We have seen all over the world how these kind of candidates succeed. Netanyahu won amid certain defeat, Cameron won in England, the French nationalists made significant gains, and now, Brexit. Trump has energized those that feel they have been ignored by the political class. Hillary will not pick up the Bernie people that feel big business has trampled the little guy. They will either go to Johnson or Trump, or more likely, sit it out.
For those that are sick of the two parties, and complain the system is rigged, well guess what. it is. This year, there is an alternative. Johnson/Weld are out campaigning, and with the rank and file of both parties disheartened by their nominees, they are a very viable alternative. Don't say you are throwing away your vote by voting Libertarian. You aren't. That is how they get you. Don't fall for it.
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