Discussion: Trump Names GOPer Who Refuses To Endorse Him As Possible SCOTUS Nom

Pander Bear. Will the rubes fall for it?

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Is this the liver-spotted and deft but sticky hand of ultra right wing sex criminal Roger Ailes?

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Dear Senator Lee.

If you are still waiting for Donald Trump to say the ā€œright things,ā€ I do not have the words to describe the depth and width of your stupidity.

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Itā€™s about as subtle as walking into a courthouse carrying a bagful of money with a big dollar sign written on it like in a cartoon and loudly asking everyone where the bribe department is.

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Ailes has discovered that subtleties are lost on his victimsā€¦

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Wow, some real losers in that list of SC nominees.

Trump is following in the foot steps of Senate & House Republicans in assigning important committee seats to the dumbest chairs or the most ardent opposers of what those committees are supposed to represent. Energy chairs totally in the tank for Big Oil, SEC oversight by a chair who opposes Dodd/Frank and the CPSC. HHS to be dismantled by the Republicsum chairā€¦good God, the list is endless!

I do hope that those uncommitted voters see the tragedy that will unfold if Trump can name any SC nominee!

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Trump could give two shits about Mike Lee for anything. This is about messaging past him to his tribe of tea party/liberty wing folks that Trumpā€™s ā€œwith themā€. Itā€™s a crass grab for votes is all. Iā€™ll bet most tea party voters donā€™t even hear about Lee refusing to endorse the cheese puff.

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The list of ten names, which comes after the campaign put out a list of 11 possible nominees in May, includes three federal appeals court judges, two federal district court judges and four state supreme court judges, along with Lee.

Trump's a bit remiss in leaving Texas and Georgia off his list, since apparently it's going to eventually number in the thousands. Why not just start listing states, instead of bothering with individual names?

There are good reasons why candidates with any pretension to seriousness donā€™t do this. Starting with the absence of any vetting of the people heā€™s named.

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The only judge Drumpf should be worried about is the Honorable Judge Curielā€¦

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Tymkovich recently authored an opinion giving religious conservatives sweeping ability to ignore laws they object to on religious grounds. His opinion not only would allow such conservatives the ability to deny birth control coverage to their employees, it even includes some language suggesting that religious employers could object to laws ensuring ā€œgender equality.ā€

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Look, Trump pandering? Trying to get people who have reasonable objections to come around with naked graft? Thatā€™s not news. I think weā€™re all missing the real news in this story. The kind of shocking stuff that should have been the ledeā€¦

ā€œWe can get into the fact that he accused my best friendā€™s father of conspiring to kill JFK,ā€ Lee said, as quoted by Politico.

Ted Cruz has friends???

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Oh, god. That unctuous turd? Sounds like The Donald is pretty desperate for the Moroni Voteā„¢.

Well we all have seen by his campaign hires that vetting isnā€™t how Trump rollsā€¦

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Old ā€œMr Empty Promisesā€ strikes again!

He is trying to ā€˜buyā€™ the dissenters. Cā€™mon mediaā€¦POINT IT OUT.

I have two words for Lee: Lucy and football.

Why is Trump even going there?

See heā€™s willing to work with people on the other side, bribe them with money and jobs to get them to cooperate and such.