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Swamp Creatures are Fleeing to the Democratic Party
Townhall.com ^ | August 21, 2020 | Joe DiGenova

Posted on 08/21/2020 4:20:54 AM PDT by Kaslin

President Trump has clearly kept his pledge to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. — desperate for a new home, former Republican swamp creatures are seeking refuge in the Democratic Party. 

During the first night of the Democratic National Convention, four so-called “Republicans” publicly voiced their opposition to President Trump, abandoning the principles they once purported to believe in and fully embracing the Democratic Party ticket and its radical agenda. 

One of them was former Ohio Governor John Kasich, who has never gotten over his humiliating repudiation by GOP voters in the 2016 presidential primaries and has spent the intervening years launching dirty smears against Donald Trump and his administration in a desperate bid for relevance, or at least attention. It hasn’t worked out especially well, so Kasich removed his GOP mask and went all-in for Biden, finally garnering him the headlines he’s been seeking.

“Joe Biden is a man for our times, times that call for all of us to take off our partisan hats and put our nation first for ourselves and, of course, for our children,” Kasich said at the convention, clearly reveling in the chance to claim the spotlight for a few moments. 

Like other establishment politicians, Kasich was careful to stick to meaningless platitudes. But he’s obviously inexperienced when it comes to addressing lefties because his reference to putting our nation first undoubtedly drew groans from liberals all over the country who recognized it for what it was: a blatant ripoff of Donald Trump’s “America First” brand. The difference between Kasich and Trump is that whereas “America First” language is just something Kasich sprinkles into his speeches to give them a patriotic flavor, it’s the fundamental guiding principle behind President Trump’s entire administration.

Former New York Representative Susan Molinari was another swamp creature who traded principles for publicity by addressing the DNC.

“I’ve also gotten to know and work with Joe Biden on issues related to women that are so important to all of us — women in business, violence against women,” she said at the event. 

Let’s start with the obvious — it's impossible to objectively discuss Biden’s record on women’s issues without first addressing his long history of disturbing behavior around women. It’s important to remember that the former vice president currently faces multiple accusations of sexual misconduct from women accusing him of touching them inappropriately. Some of these women are even committed Democrats with absolutely no partisan loyalties to the GOP. 

"My brain couldn't process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused," Lucy Flores, a Democratic politician from Nevada, wrote last year while recalling her terrifying encounter with predatory Biden. "The vice-president of the United States of America had just touched me in an intimate way reserved for close friends, family, or romantic partners — and I felt powerless to do anything about it.”

Neither Molinari nor any of the other “Republican” women put on display at the DNC — including former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman — mentioned anything about the troubling accusations against Biden. Instead, the Whitmans chose to expend their credibility by indulging liberal fantasies, attacking the president’s strongest electoral attribute — his monumental record of economic accomplishments. 

“This isn’t about [being] a Republican or a Democrat — it's about a person. A person decent enough, stable enough, strong enough, to get our economy back on track,” said Christine Todd Whitman, ignoring the fact that President Trump already engineered one historic economic recovery by elevating us from the torpor of the Obama-Biden years to the record-setting prosperity we achieved until the coronavirus pandemic emerged from China, and is currently in the process of making history again by presiding over the “V-shaped” post-pandemic rebound. 

Just last month our country added a whopping 1.8 million jobs, exceeding expectations for the third straight month. And since May, the U.S. economy has managed to regain more than 9 million jobs — the fastest rate of sustained job creation in American history. 

Meg Whitman made a similarly ludicrous accusation, claiming that Donald Trump “has no clue” how to run the U.S. economy, yet Joe Biden does. As a successful businesswoman, Whitman is certainly aware that Biden’s big-government agenda of massive tax hikes and overbearing regulations would strangle our nascent economic recovery in its cradle. As a reasonably well-informed American citizen, she is certainly aware that our country’s experience over the past 20 years directly contradicts her thesis. As a swamp creature, she has no compunctions about ignoring all of that and saying whatever she thinks her audience wants to hear.

President Trump has clearly kept his word — swamp creatures are abandoning the GOP en masse and flocking to the Democratic Party. Now, the American people can finally see these so-called “Republicans” for what they truly are — sleazy political opportunists willing to say and do anything to advance their own interests.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dncconvention2020; johnkasich; nevertrump; swamp
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1 posted on 08/21/2020 4:20:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

These Republican “leaders” have no followers.


2 posted on 08/21/2020 4:22:06 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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To: Kaslin
Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome
3 posted on 08/21/2020 4:24:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Jim Noble

They sure don’t.


4 posted on 08/21/2020 4:24:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
abandoning the principles they once purported to believe in

I seriously doubt they ever "believed in" the conservative platform. Like the libertarian trash that infests conservative forums. They are merely there to push an agenda and get the attention they desperately crave.

We don't need them in the first place.

5 posted on 08/21/2020 4:42:15 AM PDT by LouAvul ("..it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps..")
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To: Kaslin

Because it’s the party of Big Government. The more government, the more people reliant on it. They give the poor chump change and skim the cream off the top for themselves.


6 posted on 08/21/2020 4:42:33 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

Speaking of swamp creatures, the ardent Never Trumper, Rich Lowry of the once great National Review, was gushing on Twitter about Biden’s horrid speech:

“Forceful, energetic delivery, strongest when portraying his program as all about jobs, speech lost focus in the second half—but overall, probably helped himself”


7 posted on 08/21/2020 4:47:12 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: littleharbour

Eff the NRO and eff the GOP. The GOP doesn’t stand for anything but big government, globalism, and war profiteering. After Trump the GOP, and likely America itself, is dead.


8 posted on 08/21/2020 4:58:41 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Kaslin

More marxists unmasked


9 posted on 08/21/2020 5:09:58 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: littleharbour

Perhaps Lowry can name 4 things Biden plans on doing to help America. That was the same speech we have heard for 40 years, lots of platitudes and no specifics. He blew the final line.


10 posted on 08/21/2020 5:12:12 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: TTFlyer

The GOP died when Ryan stabbed conservatives in the back. Trump is what is saving the traitors from the horrors of a Marxist hell. Think the war profiteers won’t be in the front of the line to have their wealth taxed out of existence to raise the marxists to be head pigs in the trough.


11 posted on 08/21/2020 5:13:13 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: TTFlyer

“After Trump the GOP, and likely America itself, is dead.”

Did you watch Hannity last night? I don’t always but did catch a portion last night when he had Levine on. Hannity basicall cut Levine loose to read some of the high points of the DNC platform. Hannity didn’t interrupt Levine...actually told Levine “You have an extra minute.” and Levine continued.

Bottom line, if the Dems win this election, this country IS dead. Their policies will be so destructive, this country will over.


12 posted on 08/21/2020 5:20:53 AM PDT by moovova (https://therealjoe.com/)
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To: Jim Noble

When Trump is gone so is the Republican Party. There are a handful of Republicans I like but I certainly don’t trust them to run the country. Right now the only Republican I’m 100% sure won’t sell us out is Don Jr. Jr. has the backbone and belly to deal with Satan’s assembled forces on the left. Jr. won’t f up his dad’s legacy either. I certainly hope the Trump dynasty exceeds that of the Kennedys.


13 posted on 08/21/2020 5:24:34 AM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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To: Kaslin

Trump is what Americans wanted, not Democrat lite Republicans. That is why we voted for Donald J. Trump, not any GOPe mush!


14 posted on 08/21/2020 5:30:43 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-) Trump 2020)
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To: Kaslin

Add Charlie Dent former Pa. congressman to the list of swamp critters to openly trash Trump and will vote for slow joe.


15 posted on 08/21/2020 5:34:26 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
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To: Kaslin

Should Trump win in November, during his inauguration speech he should declare he’s leaving the Republican Party and starting a new Conservative-Liberty Party, inviting all like-minded Republicans to join.

He could finally destroy the uni-party structure and put those fence-sitters on notice: Join or Die.


16 posted on 08/21/2020 5:39:39 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Kaslin

These SWAMP creatures have come out and shown their Red Monkey Asses for all to see!!


17 posted on 08/21/2020 5:43:04 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

swamp creatures are abandoning the GOP en masse and flocking to the Democratic Party

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Four down and a lot more to go. Good riddance to bad rubbish.


18 posted on 08/21/2020 5:46:06 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: moovova

...I could not (with great sadness...) agree with you more!
a headline from another site today:
“More than 70 Republican former national security officials come out in support of Biden”
Pray that Trump prevails in November; based on what (little) I saw of the DNC’s anti-Trump hate-fest, if Slow Joe wins in November, our great country will soon cease to exist as we now know and love it.....


19 posted on 08/21/2020 5:53:51 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: Kaslin

Some day, at a future DNC convention, I would not be surprised to see Nikki Haley making the same sort of speech Molinari and Whitman made.


20 posted on 08/21/2020 6:03:07 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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