Posted on 12/19/2016 12:34:06 AM PST by Trump20162020
Dear Republican Electors:
Ok, if you've read this far, knowing that it's me, Michael Moore, writing to you -- well, thank you for having an open mind and the willingness to listen to someone you don't agree with.
I am writing you not as a card-carrying Democrat (I'm not) who voted for Hillary (I did), but simply because I am an American who, like you, deeply loves this country and its people.
Tomorrow is the day you are supposed to gather with your fellow electors and choose the next President of the United States. I am not going to ask you to vote for the person who got the most votes (although I will not be upset should you chose to side with the majority of your fellow Americans and do so!).
No, I'm simply asking you to vote your conscience and PLEASE do not put our nation in danger by choosing Donald J. Trump.
I know you HAVE to be full of worry and consternation over the way Russia hacked into our election in order to help Trump. Shouldn't we all wait until the investigation ordered by the president is finished before the Electoral College votes? If Trump did know or was involved in this unprecedented assault on our electoral process, wouldn't that be enough for you to exercise your constitutional power to stop a man like this from taking office?
Or just the fact that he has refused to attend nearly all the daily national security briefings -- doesn't this give you some pause? Do we want a Commander-in-Chief who is too busy or too disinterested to protect us on a daily basis?
Or how about the fact that Donald Trump bragged and admitted during the campaign that his people were in touch with the Russians? How much more do you need before you get a sick feeling about all of this?
I think you know something is wrong with this man. He just doesn't seem "right." One crazy comment or action after another. He may not be well. Don't you have a responsibility to protect us from someone who might be mentally unstable?
You have more power than you realize -- and you have an American conscience I hope you will follow. Please consider there four points:
1. Although it may ultimately have to be decided by the courts, right now you have the duty to do what you feel is right. One reason the founders set up the Electoral College was to make sure there was one final protection should someone who is a danger to the country slip through. We've established the national security danger that is Donald Trump and the possibility he had knowledge of the Russians hacking our election while it was taking place. If I were an elector for Hillary and learned she MIGHT have received helped from the Russians or the North Koreans or the Saudis, how do you think I'd be voting tomorrow? I assure you, it would not be for Hillary. You need to do the same thing.
2. But some states have made it "illegal" for you to vote any other way than for Trump. If you don't vote for him, your state will fine you $1,000. So here's my offer to you: I obviously can't and won't give you money to vote tomorrow, but if you do vote your conscience and you are punished for it, I will personally step up pay your fine which is my legal right to do.
3. If you are still worried about the legality of you voting your conscience and would like free legal advice and help, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig has offered to be your lawyer.
4. Trump, as I'm sure deep down in your heart you know, is never going to last the four years. He doesn't care about the law or following the rules and this will eventually trip him up. You know how dangerous it is when any politician, Democrat or Republican, who's a super narcissist is elected to office, they start making decisions that personally benefit themselves -- and before you know it, they're being hauled off to jail. Why not vote tomorrow for someone who's going to finish her/his term? Why risk the volatile presence of Donald Trump in the White House -- and help to guarantee another generation of Dems in the Oval Office?!
Republican electors, you have a chance tomorrow to fix this, to make it right, for yourselves as Republicans and for the country. Please find the courage to seize this historic moment where you put country over party. Set an example to our young people that conscience supersedes politics, and that morality -- yes, answering the quite legitimate question, "what would Jesus do?" -- is still the most important consideration. You are bound to God and not to Vladimir Putin. Your loyalty is to your fellow Americans, the vast majority of whom didn't vote for Donald J. Trump. But you won the Electoral College and so you get to decide. You can vote for the actual winner as decided by the American people, or you can pick another Republican who isn't Trump.
Why not choose a president who won't try to please Moscow, someone who believes the threat of terrorism is real and demands to be briefed on it daily? Why not let history record your moment of true courage and patriotism? Only 38 of you have to stand up and say, "I love my country and I cannot in good conscience vote for a man who, whether he means to or not, may put our nation in jeopardy. I love my country more than I love this job as an elector."
Thank you for listening to my plea. I promise to return the favor someday. A lot more listening to each other, regardless of our political positions, could go a long way to truly making America great again.
Most sincerely,
Michael Moore
That Moore cant see his own massive narcissistic ego and hypocrisy,....
FUMM #movetoworkersparadisealready
The EC should vote to send MM to Gitmo’.
that fat f0&* hasn’t seen his feet since the Carter Administration
That Michael Moore is crapping in public again. He needs a porta-potty in that limousine.
Moore is delusional. So many falsehoods and lies.
Reason #3,432,356 of “Thats How You Got Trump”. I suspect the number will continue to increase.
“If I were an elector for Hillary and learned she MIGHT have received helped from the Russians or the North Koreans or the Saudis, how do you think I’d be voting tomorrow? I assure you, it would not be for Hillary.”
But she DID receive help from the Russians and Saudis and you DID vote for her. So shut up
>> Moore: I’m simply asking you to vote your conscience and PLEASE do not put our nation in danger by choosing Donald J. Trump
“Vote your conscience by doing what I say.”
Moore is an idiot.
Muck you Fichael.
Michael has more chins than a Chinese phone book.
Dollar to a doughnut there’s something else he’s not seen in an age... :)
Michael Moore has the unmitigated gall to ask “What would Jesus do?” And of course, he presumes to know what Jesus would do, which would be to install Hillary Clinton into the Presidency against the will of the American people. The majority of Americans did not vote for Hillary Clinton. That’s the real “popular vote,” not that there’s any such thing in this country.
Wow, the arrogance.
Vote your conscience?
That’s not what they were put in position to do. They are to vote for the candidate their state elected.
So many people need to learn what the electoral college is all about.
When our self-appointed betters are reduced to pathetic begging, I have one thing to say: enjoy the early Christmas present and welcome Donald j. Trump, president!!!
Details, details.
Don’t you know that for liberals reality is what they want it to be, not what it really is?
>>> If I were an elector for Hillary and learned she MIGHT have received helped from the Russians or the North Koreans or the Saudis, how do you think I’d be voting tomorrow? I assure you, it would not be for Hillary.<<<<
Didn’t the Saudis give to the Clinton Foundation?
Sort of nullifies his logic.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-clinton-foundation-224287
Sure, like Jesus would support the pro-abortion platform.
I absolutely despise it when people presume to invoke Jesus’ name to support their point as if by doing so, they can manipulate true believers into agreeing with them.
The mindset is that the minute a believer hears someone claim something is from Scripture or Jesus might have thought it, a believer will capitulate and agree with them. It’s manipulation, plain and simple.
More than $10 million according to the New York Times, of all people.
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