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An open letter to GOP politicians who might back Trump
wash examiner ^ | 3/2/2016

Posted on 03/03/2016 6:56:30 AM PST by dirtboy

If you are an elected Republican officeholder, think long and hard before jumping on the Donald Trump bandwagon.

It's a presidential election year. Naturally you're thinking of your political career. That's a given. You have principles, but you also measure the political winds. You care about your position within the Republican Party. You watch who is rising and who is falling.

You might not admit it in public, but at times you imagine yourself as a future cabinet secretary or vice president, or even as a president someday.

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To: dirtboy

Well, if they did nothing wrong, they have nothing to hide, right?
If they did something wrong, voters have a right to know.
Time we press our Critters on Trump support to find out.


21 posted on 03/03/2016 7:20:21 AM PST by mabelkitty (Trump/Cruz 2016!)
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To: scooby321

I still think that Donald Trump can win and actually take over the Republican Party. But we will see.

This election appears to have more Divine Intervention than most. Haven’t you noticed that no weapon formed against Donald Trump has prospered? Why would that be?

Isaiah 54
17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the LORD.

Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 717). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

Every time Donald Trump says, “I love you!” to a crowd, I am reminded when Jesus said:
John 13
34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 1047). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.


22 posted on 03/03/2016 7:22:00 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: dirtboy

They’re not attacking Trump they are attacking those who support him and wish to deny us our RIGHT to vote for the person we choose.

Revolution is in the air.


23 posted on 03/03/2016 7:22:09 AM PST by stockpirate (GOPe wants to defeat it's own voters....UNLEASH THE TRUMPIAN!!!)
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To: patq

I believe Washington Examiner is owned by the same people who own the Weekly Standard.


24 posted on 03/03/2016 7:26:35 AM PST by dlt
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To: dirtboy
You care about your position within the Republican Party.

Ah, I think I've located the problem.

25 posted on 03/03/2016 7:29:51 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: dirtboy

Washington Examiner. Washington, as in DC. As in Trump isn’t one of them so they hate him. Vote Trump! He isn’t a DC insider!


26 posted on 03/03/2016 7:30:11 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: dirtboy

The Fear from both sides of the aisle is telling.

I like it when elitists fear.


27 posted on 03/03/2016 7:44:56 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (What to do? Vote for a Dominionist or an Atheist?)
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To: dirtboy

Media goons gonna hate, do they think Trump hasn’t dealt with mafioso tactics before?


28 posted on 03/03/2016 7:45:27 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: vetvetdoug

Just wait though, President Trump would not let them print such.


29 posted on 03/03/2016 7:56:29 AM PST by libbylu (Cruz: The truth with a smile.)
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To: vetvetdoug

The establishment and the media are desperate to hold on to the control they’ve had ...


30 posted on 03/03/2016 7:58:13 AM PST by HangingTuff
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To: euram
When insurgents attack and a group of people, some are thinking...wow, what happened? What did WE do to trigger this? We have a similar analogy with the GOPe. What did WE do to set off the insurgents (Trump and other 'outsiders')?

Except in this case, the GOPe sent many so-called conservatives to Congress, then they folded like a cheap tent and/or incumbent Republicans did not support them - or even attacked them. Leadership caved (Boehner, McConnell, and recently Ryan) to Obama, Reid, and Pelosi. The people revolted and attacked the GOPe via the TEA Party and the Trump Tidalwave.

But, the GOPe refuse to answer the issue of “Hey, what did WE do to trigger this?”. The GOPe needs some introspection - a concept which they absolutely cannot grasp. They are genetically incapable of understanding the anger of "the great unwashed" whom they failed.

Trump is a symptom, not the illness.

Romney was - and still is - a dismal failure, not a just-in-time Super Hero.

If Romney had attacked Obama then like he is attacking Trump now, things may have been different.

31 posted on 03/03/2016 7:59:44 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: vetvetdoug

The GOP aint called the stupid party for nothing. Here we have a great chance to take the White House and we see the old boys club trying to sink Trump. Wonder why they are so scared of Trump? I think they are afraid they might get knocked off the gravy train and be found out for the thieves that they are. Instead of Never Trump I am thinking Never the GOP.


32 posted on 03/03/2016 8:00:09 AM PST by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Remember Eric Cantor.


33 posted on 03/03/2016 8:09:01 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

Perhaps Trump really is an honest man and trustworthy. Perhaps he is very sick of the corrupt politicians he has had to deal with over the years, and he knows the skeletons in their closets. Perhaps he really intends to clean out those closets. Perhaps the misgivings of the Cruz people are misplaced.


34 posted on 03/03/2016 9:38:44 AM PST by erkelly
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To: dirtboy

Oooops!


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Please be aware that content from wire services (i.e. The Associated Press) is only available on this site for 30 days following its original date of publication.

35 posted on 03/03/2016 11:02:45 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: central_va

and Vince Foster; too.


36 posted on 03/03/2016 11:03:50 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: vetvetdoug

This sounds like a threat that any politician that supports Trump can say goodbye to his/her future in politics. The GOPe is pulling out all of the stops aren’t they? Reading this just angers me, a supposedly neutral MSM outlet threatening the future of those supporting Trump.


I’m getting that too. A lot of bullying from MSM and donors not to endorse Trump.


37 posted on 03/04/2016 5:45:15 AM PST by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: stockpirate

This sounds like a threat that any politician that supports Trump can say goodbye to his/her future in politics. The GOPe is pulling out all of the stops aren’t they? Reading this just angers me, a supposedly neutral MSM outlet threatening the future of those supporting Trump.


That’s what these out of touch plutocrats GOP don’t get. When you call Trump a racist you call his supporters racists. At this point that is about half the GOP base. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. LOL.


38 posted on 03/04/2016 6:13:15 AM PST by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: HangingTuff

The establishment and the media are desperate to hold on to the control they’ve had ...


Yep. Both Dem & GOP party bases are rejecting the political class and the chattering classes are desperate to hold on to there jobs. Trump is the best sunshine we’ve ever had into the uniparty corruption.


39 posted on 03/04/2016 6:15:32 AM PST by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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