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I hate Donald Trump. But he might get my vote.
The Washington Post ^ | June 28, 2016 | Jim Ruth

Posted on 06/28/2016 9:57:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

No Trump campaign buttons or bumper stickers for me. I’m part of the new silent majority: those who don’t like Donald Trump but might vote for him anyway. For many of us, Trump has only one redeeming quality: He isn’t Hillary Clinton. He doesn’t want to turn the United States into a politically correct, free-milk-and-cookies, European-style social democracy where every kid (and adult, too) gets a trophy just for showing up.

Members of this new silent majority, many of us front-wave baby boomers, value hard work and love the United States the way it was. We long for a bygone era when you didn’t need “safe spaces” on college campuses to shelter students from the atrocity of dissenting opinions, lest their sensibilities be offended. We have the reckless notion that college is the one place where sensibilities are supposed to be challenged and debated. Silly us....

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TOPICS: New York; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016endorsements; 2dv; districtofcolumbia; election2016; hillary; jimruth; newyork; secondshift; trump; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: caveat emptor
I don't hate Trump. And he won't get my vote. We survived Jimmuh Cahter. We'll survive Shrillery.

Whineth yet another #NeverTrump moron!

Your vote for David French or Gary Johnson or your failure to vote for DJT is simply a vote for Hillary Clinton!

You are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Please go away!

41 posted on 06/28/2016 11:56:05 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

Fuddle duddle.


42 posted on 06/29/2016 12:11:59 AM PDT by caveat emptor
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To: caveat emptor

“I don’t hate Trump. And he won’t get my vote.”

Aww, aint you special. Nice to hear you don’t hate Trump. You just don’t like him quite as much as you do Hillary. O.K. Gotcha. You do realize this is a conservative site don’t you? Most of us around here aren’t to fond of Hillary. If you prefer her, you might want to consider hanging out with different people.


43 posted on 06/29/2016 12:22:44 AM PDT by mbrfl
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To: mbrfl

If you think that because I won’t vote for Trump I’ll vote for Hilary you’re an idiot. Pfft.


44 posted on 06/29/2016 12:48:32 AM PDT by caveat emptor
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To: caveat emptor
If you think that because I won’t vote for Trump I’ll vote for Hilary you’re an idiot. Pfft.

To quote Hillary, "What difference does it make?"

If you stay home, or if you vote for anyone but the GOP candidate, you vote for the 'Rat. That's how it works, pure and simple!

It's a two-party system in this country.

45 posted on 06/29/2016 12:59:27 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: jpsb

He/she must be a Pierre Trudeau fan. /s


46 posted on 06/29/2016 1:03:22 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: caveat emptor

If you’re happy to not vote for the only candidate who can defeat Hillary, then you obviously prefer her to Trump.


47 posted on 06/29/2016 1:11:39 AM PDT by mbrfl
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To: cynwoody
It's a two-party system in this country.

No shiite Sherlock. What a brain!


48 posted on 06/29/2016 1:12:44 AM PDT by caveat emptor
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To: Just mythoughts
Trump got four Obama loving in-laws to vote for him in the MO primary.

Are they Hillary voters and voted for Trump because they think Hillary can beat him? The important vote is in November.
49 posted on 06/29/2016 1:37:14 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: mbrfl
If you’re happy to not vote for the only candidate who can defeat Hillary, then you obviously prefer her to Trump.

Huh? Recent polls at RCP and WaPo show Hilary ahead of Trump by double digits.
50 posted on 06/29/2016 1:37:15 AM PDT by caveat emptor
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To: wbarmy
Best I can tell they do not like Hillry...period. And will vote for Trump come November. I no longer engage in political discussions, it is like arguing with the devil.
51 posted on 06/29/2016 1:43:54 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: ParityErr

Sounds like he has severe psychological issues....


52 posted on 06/29/2016 2:01:09 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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To: caveat emptor

So, Trump can’t beat Hillary because some oversampled polls have her ahead, 5 months from the election? And that’s why you’re not voting for Trump? Cut the bullsh*t. You’re not voting for Trump because you prefer a Hillary win to a Trump win - not because you believe Trump can’t win.


53 posted on 06/29/2016 2:16:59 AM PDT by mbrfl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Jeff Bezos bought the bankrupt WAPO solely to trash Trump with. Amazon could have problems doing business as usual under Donald Trump. I had a subscribe and save account with them, but now I will NOT do business with this company. Buying a national newspaper to use for political propaganda is fraud in my opinion.

This is just another case of a greedy billionaire who's fleecing the American people. I refuse to click on WAPO to read their lies.

54 posted on 06/29/2016 2:57:38 AM PDT by beaglebabe
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To: caveat emptor

well, bye.


55 posted on 06/29/2016 2:59:23 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Chgogal

Pajama Boy Syndrome


56 posted on 06/29/2016 3:10:27 AM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverShrillary)
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To: BAW
I don’t care if you like it or not, vote Trump!

Trump is like some medicine, might not be the best tastin' but it'll cure what ails ya........

57 posted on 06/29/2016 4:17:59 AM PDT by varon (There's always room for one more on the hanging tree.....)
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To: freepersup
Donald Trump is not running for the presidency of Free Republic.

He is running for the presidency of the United States.

In order to win, he is going to have to attract millions of votes from people who "hate" him, or at least dislike him.

If he goes into election day with only the votes of those who are now diehard Trump supporters, he'll lose, and lose badly.

For that reason, I am not going to badmouth anyone who is at least a potential voter for Trump.

58 posted on 06/29/2016 5:02:45 AM PDT by David G. Hall
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To: caveat emptor

Trump will win 47 states.


59 posted on 06/29/2016 5:24:41 AM PDT by IC Ken
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To: caveat emptor
" We survived Jimmuh Cahter. We'll survive Shrillery"

Wrong on both accounts, and we're tired of "surviving" these liberals.


60 posted on 06/29/2016 5:33:06 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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