Why NOT to vote Republican

[ApatheticNoMore]

Trump was far from my candidate in 2016, but to say he was unfit for office at the time seems like a big stretch

if unfit merely means unqualified then he was clearly obviously so. He had never held another position in government and was running for President.

[frugal-one]

Trump was far from my candidate in 2016, but to say he was unfit for office at the time seems like a big stretch. It's become obvious recently. I take it that the media attention he got from his comment was playing into his hand for attention and rabble rousing from his base. Realistically, none of his political conservatives are going to disavow the constitution. It's time for everyone to stop hanging on his every syllable, just like all of the attention he got from his endless tweets.

Not true. If you remember, I was bombasted for calling him a Hitler/dictator wannabe. It was obvious even then.

[Rogar]

Makes one wonder what parameters are required to make a candidate unfit to run for office, seeing as how we're talking about tossing the constitution.

[Rogar]

Ok, ok. So, Trump really didn't mean it anyway.

“The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People that I said I wanted to ‘terminate’ the Constitution. This is simply more DISINFORMATION & LIES, just like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, and all of their other HOAXES & SCAMS,” Trump wrote Monday afternoon, saying he meant that “steps must be immediately taken to RIGHT THE WRONG.”

[bae]

Ok, ok. So, Trump really didn't mean it anyway.

“The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People that I said I wanted to ‘terminate’ the Constitution. This is simply more DISINFORMATION & LIES, just like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, and all of their other HOAXES & SCAMS,” Trump wrote Monday afternoon, saying he meant that “steps must be immediately taken to RIGHT THE WRONG.”

[jp1]

Trump was far from my candidate in 2016, but to say he was unfit for office at the time seems like a big stretch. It's become obvious recently. I take it that the media attention he got from his comment was playing into his hand for attention and rabble rousing from his base. Realistically, none of his political conservatives are going to disavow the constitution. It's time for everyone to stop hanging on his every syllable, just like all of the attention he got from his endless tweets.

So you think it’s reasonable that people decided that ‘grab them by the pussy’ was no big deal? Or that a presidential candidate bragging about his dick size in a debate was acceptable? Or that his mocking a disabled reporter was acceptable? Name me another presidential candidate ever in our country’s history that would have survived any of those.

We’re not ‘hanging on his every syllable’. We’re pointing out that pretty much every syllable out of his ugly ugly mouth has been appalling from day one. And that we’re appalled by the people who didn’t care and voted for him anyway.

[Rogar]

jp1, the point has been made that Trump runs off at the mouth and says things that are ridiculous, offensive, and politically dangerous. It's a point that gets made over and over again. I guess anymore there are times to separate the grain from the shaft, if that is a correct way to put it, and to ignore his every day shockers. I get it and a lot of it is just minor BS anymore. Call it gas lighting or playing into his hand, or what ever you like. I would suspect that your reaction to his constitutional remark is exactly what he wants and I don't go there because it's just routine. He most likely is guilty of real true crimes and that is the grain that matters to me. With a little luck the sun is setting on Donald's political career and people are tired of his every day rants, just like I am.

[jp1]

Honestly I don't particularly care what he says. As you point out he's made it abundantly clear that he's just a shitty human being. What I care about are supposedly "moderate" republicans like the congressperson from Ohio that went on George Stephanopoulous this weekend and when pressed admitted that if trump becomes the nominee in 2024 that he would support trump's effort to become president again. That any member of one of our two main political parties would support a trump candidacy at this point is scary. That he is most assuredly not the only one by a long shot is downright terrifying.

[iris lilies]

So you think it’s reasonable that people decided that ‘grab them by the pussy’ was no big deal? Or that a presidential candidate bragging about his dick size in a debate was acceptable? Or that his mocking a disabled reporter was acceptable? Name me another presidential candidate ever in our country’s history that would have survived any of those.

We’re not ‘hanging on his every syllable’. We’re pointing out that pretty much every syllable out of his ugly ugly mouth has been appalling from day one. And that we’re appalled by the people who didn’t care and voted for him anyway.

I really doubt that Roger thinks the pussy comment is completely acceptable.

[Alan]

When Trump was a Democrat he probably admired Teddy Kennedy and Chris Dodd's adventures with waitress sandwiches, as well as their ability to not have it held against them.