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Dozens of Republicans to urge RNC to cut off funds for Trump
Politico ^ | Aug 11, 2016 | Anna Palmer

Posted on 08/11/2016 4:00:21 PM PDT by Albion Wilde

More than 70 Republicans have signed an open letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus urging him to stop spending any money to help Donald Trump win in November and shift those contributions to Senate and House races.

The letter comes as a number of Republican senators and high-profile GOP national security officials have come forward saying they cannot vote for Trump.

“We believe that Donald Trump’s divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide, and only the immediate shift of all available RNC resources to vulnerable Senate and House races will prevent the GOP from drowning with a Trump-emblazoned anchor around its neck,” states a draft of the letter obtained by POLITICO. “This should not be a difficult decision, as Donald Trump’s chances of being elected president are evaporating by the day.”...

Republican Andrew Weinstein, a vocal anti-Trump Republican, is one of the operatives organizing the letter, which began circulating earlier this week and is expected to be sent next week.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


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KEYWORDS: antitrump; bush; cruz; gop; handwringers; republican; romney; teambush; teamcruz; teamromney; trump
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To: Albion Wilde

Do these idiots really think there is going to be ticket splitting in November


141 posted on 08/11/2016 7:48:11 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: Theodore R.
Originally a liberal, Humphrey said he converted to conservatism because of "the force of my own logic"

Maybe Humphrey wasn't ever really a conservative. At this point he was a Kasich supporter, and now says he might vote for Hillary.

Sounds like he has made a full circle from liberal to conservative to idiotic leftist fool. That can happen if you have no actual solid core of values.

142 posted on 08/11/2016 7:53:20 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Albion Wilde

Well, no jobs for them in the Trump administration.


143 posted on 08/11/2016 7:53:47 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: old curmudgeon
If you are eally a Trump supporter, you will vote for republican senators and reps so that he will have the support he needs in congress.

It is not that simple. We have seen that some of the other Republican candidates will do anything they can to undercut and work against Trump. Like the people signing the letter we are discussing, or the politicians who reneged on their vow to endorse and support the party's candidate. There is no point in re-electing a bunch of people who will be working, like the Democrats, against President Trump, should his campaign succeed in November.

In some cases it is better to have your enemy be obvious, and from another party, than be saddled with enemies within your own party.

144 posted on 08/11/2016 7:59:07 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

Apparently you do not understand how the congress works.

If you have a majority, you have the speaker of the house and the majprioty leader in the senate.

Each of whom have almost total power of what legislation is brought to the floor.

Lose the majority and the dims decide on the music.

The set the rules and they determine what legislation will come up for votes.


145 posted on 08/11/2016 8:09:21 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: silverleaf

If everyone changes before the election, they’ll just claim that so many people are switching party affliation in protest of Trump.


146 posted on 08/11/2016 8:17:12 PM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: wastedyears; TexasFreeper2009
The videos on dihydrogen monoxide are great.

I use dihydrogen dioxide to sanitize the dihydrogen monoxide in my swimming pool. Wouldn't want anyone getting sick if they were to get some of that awful dihydrogen monoxide stuff in their mouth.

147 posted on 08/11/2016 9:05:53 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: wastedyears
The videos on dihydrogen monoxide are great.

Laughter.
148 posted on 08/11/2016 9:05:53 PM PDT by Howard.Smith
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To: Albion Wilde

Someone organized this. Probably Romney or Jeb or Mike Murphy.


149 posted on 08/12/2016 4:16:57 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: freeandfreezing

I didn’t know Gordon Humphrey was a liberal in youth; he must have never been a committed conservative; Bob Smith replaced him, I believe.


150 posted on 08/12/2016 7:58:30 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, Kelli Ward 2016)
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To: FenwickBabbitt

There’s no way to “change” registration in TX: one has to wait to March 2018 and vote in the other party’s primary.


151 posted on 08/12/2016 7:59:48 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, Kelli Ward 2016)
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To: old curmudgeon
I know exactly how congress works. And the various tactics involved in moving legislation forward. I also understand that more broadly having a legislative majority means absolutely nothing if your own party won't do what they should do.

Right now I am sure you would agree that the Republicans have a majority in both the House and the Senate. But their actions in many cases are far from what the people that voted for them would like. Just a couple of examples - what have our Republican majorities done to restrain government spending? Have they even brought a budget to the floor to be voted on? How about real reform and a replacement for Obamacare? How about serious hearings into what is going on at the IRS, or the DOJ, or the State Department.

So having a majority doesn't do much good when that majority is made up of politicians who are really more intent on preserving their positions of power and personal interests than advancing the agenda of the voters that elected them.

152 posted on 08/12/2016 8:01:29 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: wastedyears

di-hydrogen monoxide suffocation has caused more deaths than any other compound in nature.


153 posted on 08/12/2016 8:08:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Albion Wilde

“urging him to stop spending any money to help Donald Trump”

I wonder, once Trump is President, if their is some way to cut off these 70 “Republicans” money?


154 posted on 08/12/2016 8:09:21 AM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: central_va
di-hydrogen monoxide suffocation has caused more deaths than any other compound in nature.

Some people even drink the stuff.

155 posted on 08/12/2016 8:11:07 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Priebus is allowing this to happen.

Priebus came out today and gave a rousing, enthusiastic speech and introduction to Donald Trump at Trump's Erie, PA rally. Priebus hadn't previously been scheduled, so it looks like he did it specifically to show support for the candidate and to shore up the party.

Those signers are a bunch of has-beens; think Karl Rove only a tenthof one percent as influential. The real story is how far down the media is willing to dig to try to discredit Trump.

156 posted on 08/12/2016 8:37:06 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Americanism, not globalism, will be our new future. --Donald Trump)
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To: M. Thatcher
Chris Shays! Remember him? The original RINO. These retreads are all from Loser Central. This is a D-List of has-beens and never-beens ginned up for the headline only.

I didn't remember him so I looked him up. Indeed, too much of a RINO to support Trump wholeheartedly, in spite of the things they have in common (both have the MBA; both had grandmothers born in Scotland; both are not classically conservative, etc). This election is really shaking out the differences between the labels of various individuals and realities.

157 posted on 08/16/2016 8:13:05 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("She has destroyed more emails than I have ever written. But then, I donÂ’t do yoga." --Rudy Giulian)
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