Not to mention, Mike Lee, Mark Kirk, Ron Johnson, and Ben Sasse.
ETA:
And now John McCain. This is, as always, good news for John McCain!
These cowards dumped your guy in his hour of need now it’s up to you to dump them
Dumping Trump at this point doesn’t make up for supporting him for the past several months. Supporting him made you a bigot, because it was clear to anyone who cared to look that he was an amoral scumbag. Dumping him makes you a cowardly bigot who would rather fake surprise than take responsibility for your actions.
"Roy Blunt Stands with Trump": Go get him, Democrats!
"Ayotte and Heck Abandon Trump": Go get 'em, Centipedes!
Can we all just agree that no matter what happens, we will not let the GOP pass off this whole Trump debacle as some one-off perfect storm nonsense that they can just dismiss with the wave of a hand?
This election is a goddamn embarrassment to the United States of America, and it did not happen this way by accident. This, like so many problems in recent years, is a GOP creation, pure and simple. Now they think they can just wash their hands of their nominee? You can’t put the feces back in the tube after you’ve brushed your teeth with it.
Unfortunately, it’s not up to us. The political coalition of the GOP has been motivated to varying degrees by conspiracies and bile at least for 30 years, from the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to Swift Boaters to Birthers to Trump. Reasonable people have seen it.
There is a tendency to remember Romney’s campaign fondly in comparison to Trump, but people apparently forget how aggressively dishonest and deluded it was, from the original round of Benghazi conspiracy nutting, to lies about Medicare, to the very same disputes with auto companies over outsourcing that Trump is having, to the “skewed polls”. It’s not just that Trump shouldn’t be forgiven, but neither should any of that.
Fortunately, I don’t think this will be forgotten. If Trump loses (knock on all the wood), he’s probably going to finally accomplish what Beck and Palin couldn’t with an online subscription service, and take Hannity with him. The media probably won’t be as passive about the GOP obstructing Clinton as they’ve come to accept in the Obama Administration, at least at first. And the GOP will retreat further into their own id and the rage will consume them even more. This probably isn’t rock bottom for the Republican Party.
The TPM List: Trumpsters Who Have Abandoned Donald Trump
“No pussy for you, you bunch of losers!”
Setting aside the question of what’s actually different today vs. the Trump we’ve known all along, I notice they’re all lining up behind Pence. What’s the logic there? I mean, Trump hand-picked him. If all of a sudden you realize your nominee is a monster, why rally behind the monster’s choice?
Weird to see him rewarded for being Trump’s single closest ally.
Probably the least offensive logical choice. On paper it would seem like one might make a case for Ted Cruz.
Too bad that in real life, nearly everybody in Congress hates him.
To those Republicans who are jumping the good ship Trump – was this latest bit of slime truly a surprise, with respect to his character? Either way, it says a lot about the Republican Party.
Bummer for Ted, he’s on record as supporting the fellow who implied his father was implicated in JFK’s assassination, and who insulted his, Ted’s, wife. Couldn’t happen to a nicer fellow
“Generic Republican that can get through a sentence without seeming crazy” is all the establishment ever wanted anyway. Remember how elated they were when they had wrestled Trump into picking him in the first place (and how disgruntled Trump was),
A few weeks isn’t enough to litigate Pence and the Dems haven’t even really tried, but the polls suggest he would only do a bit better than Trump (and quite probably would do a lot worse once Trump burns the campaign down behind him if he was forced out). But this particular line isn’t about winning the election by making Trump step down. Pence is a name they’re comfortable losing with and by citing him, they have a figleaf that they didn’t abandon the ticket entirely…
They tried to walk the cynical “I support the nominee of my party.” tightrope gambling that the Trump earthquake wouldn’t throw them off.
Now comes the fall.
Well deserved.
No matter what happens, the GOP is basically in tatters now. Assuming a Clinton victory, 2018 is going be rough for Dems unless they finally crack the code of how to get their voters excited to vote (a genuinely progressive Presidency that does battle every day on the right issues could do it, but unfortunately it seems a Clinton administration is going to be bogged down with Syria and could end up cracking the delicate anti-war/modestly-pro-interventionist balance in the party). But I don’t see how the GOP comes out of this process “normal”. There’s a new normal.
lets find out…
only if they get reminded of it…
he’s a hero to them.
there is more to come. they are in a world of hurt.
"Supporting him made you a bigot, because it was clear to anyone who cared to look that he was an amoral scumbag. "
Supporting him didn’t make them bigots, it just revealed them as bigots