A Responsible Refusal From Trump (He Was Right To Withhold Judgment on Election Outcome)

US News & World Report ^ | October 24, 2016 | Peter Roff, Contributing Editor

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ignore the phony outrage over Trump saying he might question the election results – candidates and supporters cry foul over them all the time.

Invoking the spirit of Groucho Marx let me say the behavior of the mass media during this election has made it very uncomfortable for me to be a member of the club. For almost a week, the networks, the newspapers and the internet featured attacks on Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump over his answer to whether he would accept the results of the upcoming election.

It's a foolish question, one he rightly refused to answer with a simple "yes" or "no." Trump's refusal to endorse an outcome that has not yet occurred was not just politically smart – 41 percent of people now think the election is rigged – but an honest and ethical one. All he was saying, as more than one friend of mine observed throughout the week, is he recognized he has a responsibility to make sure the election is fair and that all votes were counted and accounted for.

That means no cheating, and we should all applaud him for his courage in saying it instead of mocking him or making him out to be an Americanized version of a third world tinpot. The lie here isn't that the system is rigged – the lie is that everyone who loses does so without for a moment questioning the outcome....

[2ndDivisionVet]

USN&WR no less.

[Lent]

Faux outrage #100 by the MSM rightly called out in this piece.

[Gaffer]

I’d like someone to show me an example of a past presidential election where any candidate had to pledge acceptance of the outcome of voting with no reservations.

This whole thing is nothing but horsesh!t because it is the only thing they have to combat their certain coming loss. I fully believe they are going to lose bigly.

[NEWwoman]

It is enough that the people know there was an election.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing.

The people who count the votes decide everything.

Joseph Stalin

Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/josephstal109571.html

[Trump_vs_Evil_Witch]

Trump put his finger on exactly what Hillary’s team of ORGANIZED POLITICAL CRIMINALS HAD PLANNED.....

FRAUDULENT polls followed by MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD....Soros is behind the whole scam.

[Trump_vs_Evil_Witch]

Trump put his finger on exactly what Hillary’s team of ORGANIZED POLITICAL CRIMINALS HAD PLANNED.....

FRAUDULENT polls followed by MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD....Soros is behind the whole scam.

http://www.infowars.com/trump-democrats-are-rigging-the-polls/

[FrankR]

You gotta know when to hold’m,
Know when to fold’m;
Know when to walk away,
And know when to run.

You never count your money,
While sittin’ at the table;
There’ll be time enough for countin’,
When the dealings done.

Trumps’s playing chess, with a poker face, while Hillary, and the media plays Chutes and Ladders with a $h/+ eatin’ grin.

[faucetman]

For those of you old enough to know who Groucho Marx even was, here is a joke he told on his TV show that has stuck with me all these years.

Old mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor daughter a dress
When she got there
The cupboard was bare
And so is her daughter I guess

[Brian Griffin]

I had a terrible nightmare about 16 years ago.

Some candidate named Al Gore questioned the election results in my state, Florida.

Since he was a Democrat and would never question an election result, it just had to be a bad dream.

I replaced the TV I had back then. It was possessed by demons for about a month, obviously.

[Chode]

the Beast sure as hell never said she wouldn't contest the outcome if she lost.

[Gaffer]

She never will.

[GreenHornet]

I think Rush had it exactly right. He said the mainstream media desperately wanted Donald Trump to say he would accept the results of the election if he lost. Had he done so, the headline the next day would have been: “Trump admits defeat is likely, will not challenge election results.”