Posted on 10/01/2024 10:49:23 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Some right-leaning voters who oppose Donald Trump are thinking of voting neither for him nor Kamala Harris.
I understand how they feel. In 2016, I published an article urging Never Trump conservatives to consider casting their ballot for a third-party candidate. In the election that year, I did just that.
regret writing that column. I regret casting that vote.
To people like me, Trump represented a repudiation of everything that Ronald Reagan stood for. But as a conservative and former GOP staffer who had never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, I harbored reservations about Hillary Clinton.
Voting for neither Trump nor Clinton seemed to be a “safe” way to express disapproval of both. Most polls at the time showed her on track to win comfortably. It seemed reasonable to argue that a significant tally for a third-party candidate might check her liberal ambitions. After all, the number of votes for Independent candidate Ross Perot in 1992 may have nudged Bill Clinton to accept bigger budget cuts than he wanted.......
We do know what happened because he won. He blew up the federal debt. His incompetent handling of COVID-19 caused tens of thousands of needless deaths. He finished his term by trying to overturn an election he lost and instigating a violent rebellion against the government he had sworn to protect.
Trump turned out to be a catastrophe for our country. Hillary Clinton just was a candidate with whom I disagreed, I wish I had voted for her and encouraged others to do the same.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
BUT-—VERY ILL-INFORMED
Right, liar is more like it.
The GOP House and Senate blew up the budget, and the Dem control in various ways under Obama and Biden started and have continued it.
We don’t have “budgets.” We have “continuing resolutions” at an incredible level of spending on “whatever.”
Our debt is incredibly huge, and growing at a terrible rate. This is on our current GOP House and the Dem Senate.
There is a billboard with a middle-aged white man who supposedly voted for Trump last time but is voting for Cameltoe now. And under his picture is the word “Patriot”. How pathetic.
synopsis - I am a traitor
NOPE,it’s just fakes and gaslighting.
It is all lies, all the left does anymore is spout off propaganda for low info fools...
Seminar columnist?
There is no such thing as a conservative who votes for Kamala.
You can withhold your vote as a protest against the deficit.
But to cast it in favor of someone who will throw gasoline on the fire? BS.
This is about as credible as most Amazon reviews.
Was that the one that was just proven to be a hired actor?
No one who is a real Trump supporter is switching for Harris, so their target audience is wrong
This author is an incompetent.
I think someone meant ‘liberal assclown’. Fidiot!
Dumbass votes for Hairass. So?
Trump 2024!
Democrat Lite.
Ya just can’t fix stupid.
Why bother with LA Times/MSN bullcrap. Why even post
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This article is hilarious
They always give themselves away when they call out the issues that keep them from voting for him. And put zero weight on the issues that would cause a conservative to vote for him with gusto.
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