Posted on 06/17/2016 8:00:50 PM PDT by Enchante
John Kasich and two other prominent Republicans said on the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s announcement speech that they won’t endorse him for president.
Kasich, who ran against Trump in the primary, was asked on MSNBC Thursday about the pledge he signed saying he would support the eventual nominee. “It’s painful,” the Ohio governor said, NPR reports. “Look I’m sorry that this has happened. We’ll see where it ends up. I’m not making any final decision yet, but at this point, I just can’t do it.’
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Captain Quisling
Sorry, you tell me I’m a piece of XXXX, it doesn’t really matter what kind of pledge I made, I won’t be doing much to back you.
A phrase that has been going around alot recently here on Freerepublic.com is you are dead to me.
I think a few or the Republican Primary Candidates have taken it to heart. You blame them and try to hold them to their pledge, and I understand where you’really coming from.
I on the other hand feel like, (and I may be projecting here a bit). If you think so little of me to treat me thusly 1 why would you care if I support you, and 2 what kind of man am I if I’m meekly taking it just to avoid upsetting the apple cart.
Isn’t that one of the qualities that has engendered so many to Mr. Trump not taking it?
How Cottonball how? He’s the nominee, he’s a few weeks from the Convention, I like most here at Freerepublic.com pay more attention than most of the rest of the electorate and I can’t tell you what his proposals are to do everything you just listed, that’s what I meant by the policy arena.
I just wonder if it will work in the general?
The Cheap Labor Express Republicans won’t endorse the candidate who threatens to shut down the Cheap Labor Express.........you don’t say......
Yep. I’ve got a feeling a lot of this opposition to Trump is coming from the big donor networks. Romney and others have worked hard to keep them on the sidelines to the benefit of Hillary Rotten Criminal.
When you go personal you run the risk of burning your bridges.
Nope. Opposition to Trump is policy based. Trade and immigration. Billions are at stake with TPP and amnesty. Fabulous fortunes will be made if Trump is kept out of the White House. So naturally they fight Trump like they never fought Obama.
OTOH, The Dems “went personal” on Romney. Accused him of causing cancer, IIRC. Now he happily plays for Team Hillary Rotten Criminal. Rubio & Cruz duked it out. Now they are besties because their big donors want the same thing.
Sorry, you tell me I’m a piece of XXXX, it doesn’t really matter what kind of pledge I made, I won’t be doing much to back you.
Ted Cruz called me a “low info” POS. He personally insulted millions of Trump supporters. Something Trump never did of Cruz supporters, BTW. Why should millions of “low info” Trump voters ever support Cruz again? The primary was a two way street. Don’t forget that fact, FRiend.
It would be unusual for the party VP candidate not to endorse his or her running mate.
Who’s asking you to?
I thought the point was to get Trump elected!
I don’t think many of us here expect them to “do much” beyond keeping their word. Personally, I don’t care if they campaign for him — most of the losers I don’t even want near the campaign. But I do expect them to keep their word and endorse. Trump should win without them, but they are showing their low-life squalid characters.
Well, after all, isn't the word "democrat," a synonym for GOPe RINO?
Yup.
Or uniparty works.
yes, these weasels who never fought Obama are now working to keep Trump out of the White House. They would rather help to elect Hillary.
If that were the only way to make a fortune, can you imagine Trump and his boys on their own boat in Deadliest Catch? If that was where the green was, hell yes, they would make it happen. Now imagine the other candidates just became candidates of their own boats. They'd be coming home with a hangnail in 24hrs with a book of excuses in hundred dollar words. Accusing Captain Trump of being a "dangerous candidate" because he didn't surrender monkey with the rest of them. When Trump came in with a loaded boat, the song of the neuteted would shift to tunes like "He's So Greedy" and "Did He Pay His Taxes?" and "Only NeoNazis force the downtrodden to work in that environment." NeverTrumpers are genderless twats that couldn't get a flag up a pole without two nurses and a blue pill washed down with Ensure. ;) Girly man candidates attract voters who can't face the dark without a mommy state, GOPe nightlight and a bedtime story before they fall asleep on bribery-stuffed pillows.
Who’s asking you to?
I thought the point was to get Trump elected!
You said Trump “got personal”. I reminded you Cruz “got personal”. That’s all.
A lot of people misuse the term “in denial.” “Denial” is an involuntary psychological process. It does not mean “denying.” E.g., Obama is not “in denial” about the fact that he is a Muslim terrorist. He denies it.
I think with the Kasichs and Ryans and Romneys, “in denial” is appropriate. They have no base, and no power, but they truly do not realize it yet.
They cannot stop Trump, and there is little or nothing they can do even to slow him down.
Kasich is a uniter, not a divider. He can bring us together to solve our nation’s problems. And his dad was a mailman.
also, there should not be anything complicated about this
for decent honest honorable people a pledge is a simple matter: if you take a pledge, then you keep the pledge
it’s not complicated
You are forgetting the fact that in everyone of those instances where Trump “bludgeoned his opponents” — those opponents started the fight, they attacked him first, over and over and over. Since the Barry Goldwater/LBJ contest, I never saw anything as wicked and as twisted as the attacks on Trump by his own party! Trump just finished the fights they started, Trump just reacted to the vicious attacks from every quarter. Trump is not the bad guy here — THEY ARE, they started as nasty slanderous backstabbers, every last one of them, and they finished as nasty slanderous backstabbers.
And by the way, while Trump is not an orator, he has a way about him that appeals to people and he gets his points across. Furthermore, his published position papers are well thought out and on point, so I don’t see how you can say he is not strong in the policy realm.
You could not be more wrong, Trump’s defense against these lying corrupt opportunists, is a good offense. Who cares whether these puny self-serving corrupt aslo-rans endorse him or not.
You are mixing Trump with Romney. Romney is the one who turned on his opponents, who had not slandered him or attacked him, and “bludgeoned” them into non-viability, not Trump.
These dishonorable liars, who picked the fights with Trump in the first place, deserved what they got. And I hope with all my heart their political careers are over!
John Kasich isn’t a Republican.
It's pretty easy to check.
The Demmies pulled the same crap in Wisconsin, and tried it in Indiana.
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