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Profile in Cowardice: Republican Establishment Flees Trump over 2005 Comments
Breitbart.com ^ | 8 Oct 2016 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 10/09/2016 2:36:37 PM PDT by Rockitz

In December 2010, I was a guest at a cocktail party in Washington, D.C. for incoming Republican members of the House of Representatives. I had lost my own congressional race in Illinois, but had made enough friends among fellow GOP candidates that they graciously allowed me to join the festivities.

Inside, there was excited talk about the new Tea Party class, about fixing Washington, about finding places to live in high-rent D.C. And there was also talk about women — that kind of talk.

Some of the new members, many of whom had spent the day surrounded by young, attractive, ingratiating, dressed-to-the-nines female would-be staffers, wondered aloud how they were going to avoid the temptations of being surrounded every day by such creatures.

The details do not matter: suffice it to say the language used was not that much better than the newly-surfaced lewd chat that Donald Trump had with Billy Bush on a live mic, eleven long years ago.

Not every man talks that way about women. But plenty do — in the locker room, on the golf course, and on Capitol Hill. I was once taken aback when one congressman praised my wife’s looks, in rather lurid terms.

Some of the same Republicans are beating a disgraceful retreat from Trump, acting as if they have never heard such language before.

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If they are willing to lose the country — for that is what may be at stake — over a decade-old joke, they might deserve to lose.

And if Trump wins regardless, look out: he will have done it on his own.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gope; trump; trumplandslidecoming
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Republicans need to get a grip. There’s a YOOOGE difference between crude locker room talk and a 30+ year streak of criminal activity by the Clintons.
1 posted on 10/09/2016 2:36:37 PM PDT by Rockitz
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To: sauropod

bkmk


2 posted on 10/09/2016 2:37:51 PM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: Rockitz

Those who fled just showed the American people their hand. They were all in on it!


3 posted on 10/09/2016 2:39:30 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (I)
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To: Rockitz

The were just looking for an excuse.


4 posted on 10/09/2016 2:39:33 PM PDT by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: Rockitz

Much of the current GOPee is toast as far as The Base is concerned. Trouble ahead Casey Jones.


5 posted on 10/09/2016 2:39:51 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Rockitz

There aren’t any Republicans anymore. The GOP is dead. They are all “progressive ‘RAT” liberals.


6 posted on 10/09/2016 2:40:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (From "a nation of immigrants" to a nation of illegal aliens?)
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To: Rockitz

If you speak out against Trump, I will not only note vote for you, I will vote for your opponent.


7 posted on 10/09/2016 2:40:19 PM PDT by heights
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Remind me again. Did Ted Cruz ever “endorse” Trump, or did he merely say Trump was horrible, but Clinton was somewhat worse?
8 posted on 10/09/2016 2:40:43 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Rockitz

9 posted on 10/09/2016 2:41:12 PM PDT by Voluntaryist
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To: Voluntaryist

There is an ad to push over the next weeks.


10 posted on 10/09/2016 2:42:26 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: deadrock

Agreed. The globalist elites (left and right) behind Hillary are pursuing a scorched earth policy from here on out. They see their gravy train vanishing on the horizon with a Trump victory. This was probably their last opportunity to throw a few more twigs on a small grass fire prior to the Trump landslide.


11 posted on 10/09/2016 2:43:11 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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And if Trump wins regardless, look out:

If that is the case there will be a reformation of the republican party.

12 posted on 10/09/2016 2:44:23 PM PDT by oldbrowser (Clinton Foundation donations must be turned over to the U.S. like any other gifts.)
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To: heights

Clear, concise and dead on. Hope they understand the jig is up.


13 posted on 10/09/2016 2:45:05 PM PDT by Kudsman (Hillary has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. DJTrump 6/22/16)
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To: Rockitz

We were told by EVERYONE in the 90’s that SEX didn’t matter when then President Clinton was outed for being a Rapist and Sexual Predator. So What’s changed??


14 posted on 10/09/2016 2:45:25 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: Rockitz

I think it’s more correct to say “Republican establishment types who never intended to vote Trump regardless of what they claimed seize on sad excuse to go public with their private plans”


15 posted on 10/09/2016 2:45:33 PM PDT by AzSteven ("War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." Jean Dutourd)
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To: Rockitz

Don’t let the door hit ya...


16 posted on 10/09/2016 2:46:30 PM PDT by madison10 (Proud to be a Deplorable)
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To: Rockitz
Perfect description:

Profile in Cowardice: Republican Establishment
17 posted on 10/09/2016 2:47:32 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Rockitz
Basket full of...


18 posted on 10/09/2016 2:47:56 PM PDT by Donglalinger
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...prior to the Trump landslide.

My 'concern troll' stomach ulcer is sending cryptic messages to my 'Trump in a landslide' brain.

19 posted on 10/09/2016 2:48:06 PM PDT by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: Rockitz

I had rather face an honest enemy than have a false friend behind me.


20 posted on 10/09/2016 2:48:21 PM PDT by Loyalist (Is the Pope Catholic? Less than Westboro Baptist!)
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