More than 120 Republicans tell RNC to cut off funds to Donald Trump

CBS News ^ | 8/16/2016 | Rebecca Shabad

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

A letter that urges the Republican National Committee to cut off funds to Donald Trump has collected more than 120 signatures from current and former elected officials, according to the final version obtained by CBS News.

The letter, which will be delivered to RNC Chairman Reince Priebus Tuesday, includes two sitting members of Congress and 27 former RNC staffers, among many others.

"Given the catastrophic impact that Donald Trump's losing presidential campaign will have on down-ballot Senate and House races, we urge you to immediately suspend all discretionary RNC support for Trump and focus the entirety of the RNC's available resources on preserving the GOP's congressional majorities," says the letter, whose draft CBS reported on last week when there were already 70 signatures.

It adds that Trump's chances of winning in November are "evaporating by the day."

Reps. Reid Ribble, Wisconsin and Scott Rigell, R-Virginia, have signed the letter. Both lawmakers are retiring from Congress at the end of the year and Ribble had endorsed Ted Cruz for president during the primaries and Rigell recently endorsed Libertarian Gary Johnson.

The letter was signed by Republicans who have served in every GOP administration since President Ronald Reagan, nine advisers on the last nine GOP presidential campaigns as well as former congressional aides.

They warn that Trump is a threat to House and Senate Republicans up for re-election and that the RNC should only focus on those down-ballot races instead.

"We believe that Donald Trump's divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide, and only the immediate shift of all available RNC resources to vulnerable Senate and House races will prevent the GOP from drowning with a Trump-emblazoned anchor around its neck," the letter says.

[DEEP_e]

who to this date refuse to cut off funds to o’zero

“republicans,” yeah right

[NorthMountain]

Pat McGeehan is good, for sure, but he's hardly the only one. At least one of my representatives in the legislature is directly responsible for passing 'constitutional carry' this year. For example.

Now, if I were to oppose these individuals, who would be stabbing whom in the back? And why would any sane West Virginian want to give the Legislature back to the demonicRATS, and lose what we've gained over the last few years? I can appreciate opposing true dirtbags like Turtleface McConnell, and squishy morons like Shelley Moore Capito. These people need to be replaced.

[20yearsofinternet]

I’m gonna vote for Trump, and that’s it. The GOP is dead to me. Traitors make me sick.

[sport]

And on another note, How many Republicans have you heard say,”I don’t trust obama”, vs. Republicans saying, “I don’t trust Trump”?

[dware]

sane West Virginian

You lost me with this statement. :D

At least one of my representatives in the legislature is directly responsible for passing 'constitutional carry' this year. For example.

My question is, why was such legislation needed? Is not the 2nd Amendment enough? I realize that some states suggest they have a right to limit the 2A, but they are wrong. The only reason they get away with it because we bow down to them and accept what they say.

"But, dware, what if I got caught carrying a concealed firearms BEFORE they passed 'Constitutional Carry'?"

Are you not willing to fight - and die, if necessary - to protect your RIGHTS?

[NorthMountain]

Son, you get in a shootout with the cops, you die. And nothing changes. And everybody (even on this forum) swears you’re evil, and a cop-killer, and you deserved to die.

And you’re still dead.

And nothing has changed.

We got rid of a bad law. And nobody had to die.

I call that a win.

You can call it what you like.

Say “hi” (and FXXK YOU!!!) to Gobernador Chickenpooper for me.

[kanawa]

OMG...120 ‘Republicans’!!! /scoff

Recalls the 100 looters in Milwaukee reported to compromise an ‘uprising’.

[vpintheak]

120 out of how many? Idiot globalists.
Now how about the rate that won’t support shrillary?

[dware]

And nothing has changed.

Not one soul would be able to say I lived my life as anything other than a free man.

I call that a win.

I can agree that it was indeed a win, but again, it shouldn't have been needed in the first place, and therein lies my issue with most the legislators in WV. After 4 years of living there, I realized that, as with a lot of other place (Colorado included), the "R"s just couldn't help themselves but fall over each other to pass as much legislation as possible.

I tend to subscribe to the school of thought that, "The government that governs least, governs best"

Say “hi” (and FXXK YOU!!!) to Gobernador Chickenpooper for me.

Last time I ran into that chickensh!t waste of DNA, myself and the rest of us protestors were armed, and he made a point to leave his venue by the backdoor, attempting to avoid us.

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

Their fear of course, is that when Trump wins, he becomes the the defacto leader of the RNC, and can basically dictate who gets backing and who doesn’t.

Sounds like they don’t think he is going to back them as well as the dems would in their presumed gerrymandered districts.

[Lazamataz]

The word that appears the most on that document, is "Former".

Bunch of loser has-beens.

[NorthMountain]

I can agree that it was indeed a win, but again, it shouldn't have been needed in the first place,

No, it shouldn't. WV passed "shall issue carry" in 1989. Again, even that improvement shouldn't have been necessary, but the right to bear arms was severely restricted in almost every State in 1986. The change from severe restriction to "shall issue" to unrestricted has been driven by a generation or two of Republican state legislators pushing the improvements they thought they could actually pass. It has been a nice, bloodless revolution. Here's a history lesson in pictorial form:

I don't know when your 4 years in WV were. I can tell you we had a big legislative turnover in 2012 and a huge turnover in 2014. These guys passed 'constitutional carry' and some other good things by overwhelming margins, and then shoved Rat-Face Tomblin's vetoes down his throat. No way do I want to see the democRATs take over again.

[NorthMountain]

I tend to subscribe to the school of thought that, "The government that governs least, governs best"

I want to deal with that comment separately. Elsewhere on this forum and in the real world, I regularly argue in favor of restoring constitutional (state and federal) restrictions on the size, scope, cost, and power of government. The single biggest failure of the Republican Party has been ignoring the Constitution. Arguing about whether some new government program or regulatory agency or whatever is or is not a good idea is missing the more fundamental queston: "Does the government even have the authority to do this?" The answer is usually "NO", but the question is never asked. We need to start raising this question regarding not only new programs, but old and established ones as well. The government (state and federal) needs a serious reduction in size, scope, cost, and power.

[dware]

Arguing about whether some new government program or regulatory agency or whatever is or is not a good idea is missing the more fundamental queston: "Does the government even have the authority to do this?" The answer is usually "NO", but the question is never asked.

The dumbing down of America is more or less complete. We don't ask these questions anymore because we don't know we have the power to. We have gone from a small, centralized government that was ruled by the people to an overblown, bloated runaway government that rules the people, and we're ok with it.

[FenwickBabbitt]

“That wing WANTS to lose this cycle, and bury the nationalist-inclined voting block forever.”

I agree, but I think there’s a real likelihood that it will bury them too. They may not mind being out of power for a while, but permanently? They’re so used to controlling everything, I don’t think they really understand the potential repercussions. It’s hubris for the establishment to think it can fight its own voters so openly and get away with it.

[Cboldt]

-- They may not mind being out of power for a while, but permanently? They're so used to controlling everything, I don't think they really understand the potential repercussions. --

The GOP hasn't controlled anything, really (other than advancing the globalist agenda) for 30 years. They are indifferent about losing the country, they see that as a fait accompli. Their goal is personal, to be in the elite class so they can live high on the hog. The opposition party (necessary to maintain a public illusion of "choice in government") lives a fine life.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Cheap Labor Express is determined that the citizens will not reverse 30 years of paid-for bipartisan policy of non-enforcement of immigration laws.
They own most of the GOP.
Trump must win.
We must clean House and Senate.

[Lurkinanloomin]

There is a North Mountain that forms part of the border between VA and WV. Are you in the eastern part of WV?

[Toughluck_freeper]

Morons..

They couldn’t get anyone to sign, only two congressmen and 27 FORMER staffers (so, good-for-nothing nobodies) the rest of the 120 is just good for nothing slackers.

This is good, smoke out the former staffers that will be begging for a job later and blacklist them.

[Nebr FAL owner]

I was thinking Judas myself.