[the_daug]

The Republican party has ineffectual leadership in congress who pander to the media and do nothing except get along. The media portrays Republican leadership going after the conservative wing of their party. Trump comes along and doesn’t care if the media is friendly. Goes after his enemies. Rush been saying for years media is not our friend and I agree. Boner n Mitch are pissing the win in the election away. Trump might be the devil but he acts like a leader and Republicans really need a leader. I’ll ride it out through the primary and if Trump wins well I’m trying the devil I don’t know cause the Democratic party is going where I don’t want to be.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

"...September 6, 2012....I was addressing this Democratic crowd the same night the pres­ident was. My slot was after Caroline Kennedy and just before John Kerry and Joe Biden. The big addresses from Michelle and Barack Obama were coming right after that. You’d have to look long and hard in the annals of American politics to find a fish more out of water than I was that night.

I’d even joked with my wife, Carole, when I first got the call from Jim Messina, who was managing the president’s reelection cam­paign: “Didn’t anyone do a background check?”

I wasn’t even invited when Republican delegates gathered August 27 to 30 for their national convention in Tampa, just a short drive from my rented condo in St. Petersburg. Why would I be? I wasn’t one of theirs anymore. They were brimming with Tea Party fervor and anti‑Obama zeal. I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have enjoyed what I had to say.

“What an honor to be here with you to stand with President Barack Obama,” I told the Democratic crowd.

A small fan was whirring at my feet. I always like a fan at the podium when I give a big speech. You have no idea how hot those TV lights can be. But I could still feel tiny beads of sweat forming on my forehead. I don’t usually get nervous giving speeches. My heart was pumping now.

Before I got to the business at hand, I wanted to address the ele­phant in the room. Never before, I thought, had that old expression been quite so apt.

“Half a century ago,” I began, “Ronald Reagan, the man whose optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn’t leave the Democratic Party, but the party left him. Well, listen, I can relate. I didn’t leave the Republican Party. It left me.”...........An excerpt from Charlie Crist’s The Party’s Over How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat

Dec 11, 2009
Reception@ The Mar-A-Lago Club
Beneficiaries: Charlie Crist
Hosted by: Donald Trump
Contribution: $4,800 Individual VIP; $1,000 Individual