Posted on 10/10/2016 1:14:18 PM PDT by pissant
The Access Hollywood tape that broke Friday afternoon sent GOP elected officials fleeing from the Republican nominee over the weekend in a truly historic rupture. Trumps odds of winning the presidency were already long before the airing of the tape. With a swath of the party now in open revolt, they are longer still.
We understand the calls for Trump to step aside. Almost any other Republican would have a better chance of defeating Hillary Clinton, a dreary and corrupt statist who is the Walter Mondale or Michael Dukakis of our time, yet is beating her desperately flawed opponent. But this would require Trump acting the statesman, which clearly isnt going to happen (he has said he will never leave). Nor are House speaker Paul Ryan, vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence, or RNC chairman Reince Priebus going to mount the hard-ball pressure campaign that might make Trump consider the matter differently. Pence praised Trumps debate performance last night to the hilt and Priebus has been eager all year to bend a knee to Trump. Finally, even if Trump wanted to step aside, the process of choosing a new nominee and negotiating ballot access for the partys designee this late in the campaign would be unprecedented and perilous in the best-case scenario.
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It is well past time for the NR clowns to stop honking their horns and traipse away into the mist.
I was troubled when NR kept selling my name and other personal info which they had to various vendors. I didn’t bitch, but I resented it. Somewhere along the way I recognized that the thinking there was not in accord with my own.
I ended my subscription years ago, 5 or 7 probably. I can not recall precisely.
Arthur, you've been here posting longer than I have, by a bit. Don't you remember the stories about Condit and his little group of S&Mers, from both Houses, who were members of his orgy club and who knew all about Chandra Levy's murder?
Goodness gracious, Arthur, I don't joke about such things; I am REPULSED by them!
I cancelled mine even longer ago than that. NR hasn’t been the same in decades. :-(
Never heard that about Condit. And never connected Condit with Goldwater.
I thought you were saying that Goldwater and Reagan participated in orgies. And I thought you must be joking.
No way Reagan did ANYTHING like that; though he was a real ladies' man in Hollywood. He was far too strait to do S&M and orgies! Goldwater? I don't know.
Gary Condit
Joe Scarborough
John Kasich
There were a few more in that group, but those were the top three.
Do you mean that they are merely similar characters, or that they are literally involved in orgies together?
It was purportedly a group effort.
My zot has been rescinded. 5 years in purgatory cleansed me soul
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