False Equivalency:
Hillary’s emails
Trump’s destroying of Representative Government
Maybe the gated communities cause too many editors to be loath to unleash their reporters. Good journalists abound in the United States. It’s always who signs their paychecks.**
**and those of the editors
“Pizza face lost bigly in the primaries, couldn’t even get out of the kiddies table debates. Now trying to attack me. I will carry Ohio so much your head will spin. Believe me. Sad!”
The more Republicans, especially those in swing states, lash out at Trump, the more I think they’re up to something and are afraid Trump’s accusations will blow it for them.
No doubt. Even on this subject, where a lot of serious-minded GOPers would talk in concerned tones about bedrock and cornerstones and legitimacy and peaceful transfer and such, he’s all “Ahhhhh, whattaya nuts or what? Gimme a break jeeze” and so forth. Ohioans seem to like him, though, so maybe with enough contortions he could have gotten through the primaries and into the general by skillful use of whatever’s working for him there.
I was thinking to add that this is fun to idly speculate on as a counterfactual, but realized this exact conversation is probably happening right now among GOP people at country-club bars across the land. Heh.
Exactly. Disproving evidence only demonstrates the conspiracy is grander, deeper, more absolute.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich ® joined a growing chorus of Republican voices
denouncing Donald Trump’s conspiratorial claims that the presidential
election would be “rigged.”
When Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, World Net Daily, Matt Drudge, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh denounce these claims, then we’ll be getting somewhere.
In the meantime, the lunatics who believe such things will continue to assume that people such as John Kasich and Paul Ryan are simply part of the conspiracy.
I think Kasich’s most relatable campaign moment was when he was given way too much delicious Italian food and got the food-sweats. Been there. However there’s a big canyon between “relatable” and “presidential.” Sure glad no cameras are there when I overdose on linguini and garlic bread.
A “Big Fat Joke”.
Exactly like Trump is.
“I don’t believe we have any massive fraud. One of my great friends here is the head of the board of elections.”
There might be a logical cause and effect element in that statement if you define “massive fraud” as too many non-white, non-Xtian voters. Otherwise, it makes me think of Gov. Jeb Bush and SoS Katherine Harris in 2000.
There has been “rigging” for quite some time …
R Muse’s commentary … which I agree with —
a spokesperson for House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-OH) said
Tim Ryan (D) is from Ohio. Paul Ryan ® is from Wisconsin. It’s bad enough that Jim Jordon and John Boehner are from Ohio, don’t stick us with Paul Ryan as well.
I can’t wait for President Trump to announce that the official language of the United States is now Swedish.
Profiles in Selective Pseudo-Courage. Kasich acknowledges how dangerous and destructive Trump already is, and how much more so he would be if he won the Presidency, and he says he won’t vote for him. At the same time, he knows, but lacks the intestinal fortitude to acknowledge, how much more safe and stable the country would be under Clinton. And I choose “safe” and “stable” because those dimensions take us beyond specific policy disputes Kasich may have with Clinton. He could believe that Hillary would be a lousy president, a terrible one even, and yet still acknowledge that in light of the existential threat that a potential Trump presidency presents to the country, the only responsible way to vote – especially in a swing state like Ohio – is to vote for the one person who can defeat Trump and keep him out of the Oval Office, and that person is Hillary. If Kasich had a functioning moral compass, and cared more about the well-being of the country and the world than about his own political career, then at a minimum, that should be the argument he’s making.
In other words, at the most basic level, putting an emotionally unstable, thin-skinned, hair-trigger, revenge-obsessed sociopath into what is arguably the most powerful elected position in the world – that is irresponsibility taken to a breathtaking, almost unimaginable extreme. And Kasich knows it. Perhaps when he goes into the voting booth, he will act on it, and vote for Clinton But he clearly believes that it is vital to his future political viability that he never publicly utters the words “I will vote for Hillary.”. So he makes jokes about writing in the name of whoever is interviewing him, Pathetic.
In short, he’s a miserable self-serving lowlife coward. And of course exactly the same can be said about most of his selectively pseudo-courageous colleagues in the disheveled and shambolic NeverTrump camp. Gutless equivocating ass-coverers.
Trump suffers from “Electile Dysfunction”.
Hard to tell, but I think he was referring to SoS Jon Husted. With all of the voter suppression gimmicks here, Husted doesn’t need anybody else looking over his shoulder.
Just because he is not completely insane does not make him any less of a Republican and conservative extremist. He’d rather hack is right hand off then use it to pull the lever for Hillary.
Trumpet put out the call for poll watchers but nobody’s answering.
there are no signs of a wave of Trump poll watchers building. Like much else about his campaign, his call to “get everybody to go out and watch” the polls seems to be a Potemkin effort, with little or no organization behind it.
"There’s a real disconnect between the intensity of the buzz at the national level and anything we’ve seen on the ground,” said Al Schmidt, a Republican who is the vice chairman of Philadelphia’s election board. “We haven’t received a single call from somebody outside of Philadelphia looking to be a poll watcher. ”His call to monitor polling places betrays an ignorance of election laws in most states, which require poll watchers to be registered in the county or precinct where they operate.
Even though Mr. Trump’s website includes a form to sign up as a poll watcher and “help me stop Crooked Hillary from rigging this election,” local officials in battleground states said they had seen no surge by Trump supporters seeking to be certified poll watchers.
“The numbers this year are on par with the numbers we saw in 2012,” said Katie Eagan, the executive director of the Ohio Republican Party, which is handling the appointment of poll watchers for the Trump campaign throughout the state.
True the Vote, a group dedicated to policing voter fraud that is popular on the political right, said sign-ups for an online training course it offers on how to be a poll watcher were about equal to 2012, some 200 people a day.
At least if he did that, I might entertain the possibility that he sincerely believes Clinton would be just as bad as Trump. But he doesn’t believe that. He just doesn’t care.
That was an awesome smackdown of Scott. Well done.
I like your upgraded avatar —