Some things never change.
Posted on 09/26/2016 10:34:31 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Party Loyalty Can’t Make Me Vote for Clinton
A lifelong Democrat, I’m backing Trump because he can shake up our politics and revive the economy.
Andrew Stein
I have been steeped in the Democratic Party all my life. My father, Jerry, was a New York City Democratic chairman and power broker, and I grew up in and around the Democratic Party. When I was a young man, former senators and Democratic presidential and vice-presidential nominees Hubert Humphrey and Estes Kefauver stayed at my apartment and we would proudly discuss the great traditions of the Democratic Party.
My father was a pallbearer at St. Patrick’s for Bobby Kennedy’s funeral. When I was young, Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy were (and remain) my political heroes. Four years ago, former New York Gov. and liberal lion Mario Cuomo spoke at my father’s funeral. I think his son, current Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is a very effective leader.
I was elected five times to the New York state Assembly as a Democrat. In 1977, I beat David Dinkins and Robert Wagner Jr. in the election for borough president of Manhattan, and then was elected twice as City Council president.
With this background it is very hard for me not to support the Democratic nominee for president this year. But I believe my party has become the party of the elites and moneyed class and has deserted its historic mission as the party of the working class and disadvantaged.
Given my level of discomfort with the current leftist orientation of the Democratic Party, I am now supporting Republican nominee Donald Trump for president. I urge my fellow Democrats to vote for Mr. Trump. I have known him since the early 1970s and have seen his deep concern for people, and how effective he ..
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It’s shocking, but the most surprising part of it,m is that he has made it public knowledge that he is going to vote for Trump!
Remember PUMA from Hillary’s 2008 campaign?
Michael Savage is right now calling out the ABC NY management that just preempted his today’s show, because they knew he would be discussing the debate tonight and want no criticism of Hillary before the debate.
They are having some Hillary talking heads replacing Savage today.
http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/
Isn’t that interesting?..
They discussed the great traditions of the party, like what? Slavery?
Some things never change.
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