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Opinion: I'm a 'Never Trump' conservative who voted third-party in 2016. Here's why I won't make that mistake this time (barf)
LA Times via MSN ^ | Oct 1,2024 | John J. Pitney Jr.

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 ...


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Conservative my a$$
1 posted on 10/01/2024 10:49:23 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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BUT-—VERY ILL-INFORMED


2 posted on 10/01/2024 10:50:51 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Right, liar is more like it.


3 posted on 10/01/2024 10:51:48 AM PDT by Dave911
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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.


4 posted on 10/01/2024 10:52:59 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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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.


5 posted on 10/01/2024 10:53:23 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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synopsis - I am a traitor


6 posted on 10/01/2024 10:53:24 AM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, black Trump supporter, executed in the street in broad daylight 2020.)
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NOPE,it’s just fakes and gaslighting.


7 posted on 10/01/2024 10:53:25 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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It is all lies, all the left does anymore is spout off propaganda for low info fools...


8 posted on 10/01/2024 10:53:52 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Seminar columnist?


9 posted on 10/01/2024 10:54:00 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: ridesthemiles

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.


10 posted on 10/01/2024 10:54:47 AM PDT by DarrellZero (.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

This is about as credible as most Amazon reviews.


11 posted on 10/01/2024 10:54:49 AM PDT by workerbee (==)
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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


12 posted on 10/01/2024 10:55:55 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump 2024)
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This author is an incompetent.


13 posted on 10/01/2024 10:56:14 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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I think someone meant ‘liberal assclown’. Fidiot!


14 posted on 10/01/2024 10:56:45 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from withinE? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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Dumbass votes for Hairass. So?

Trump 2024!


15 posted on 10/01/2024 10:58:08 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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Democrat Lite.


16 posted on 10/01/2024 10:59:15 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: DarrellZero

Ya just can’t fix stupid.


17 posted on 10/01/2024 11:00:42 AM PDT by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Why bother with LA Times/MSN bullcrap. Why even post


18 posted on 10/01/2024 11:00:42 AM PDT by Vaquero (In Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This article is hilarious


19 posted on 10/01/2024 11:01:07 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump 2024)
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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.


20 posted on 10/01/2024 11:01:31 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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