Posted on 10/20/2016 9:17:11 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Donald Trump's stunning refusal to say whether he will accept the outcome of the presidential election has created chasms in an already fractured Republican Party.
When asked during Wednesday's final presidential debate whether he would accept the results of an election that he has repeatedly claimed is "rigged," Trump replied that he would "keep you in suspense."
"I will look at it at the time. I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time," Trump told moderator Fox News' Chris Wallace.
Related: Election Officials Say 'Rigged' Election Unlikely
If Trump loses and doesn't concede, it would break from an American tradition dating back to the Civil War — and some Republicans have been swift to condemn him for it.
Trump "saying that he might not accept election results is beyond the pale," Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake tweeted Wednesday.
.@realDonaldTrump saying that he might not accept election results is beyond the pale — Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) October 20, 2016 South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said in a statement that he, like most Americans, has "confidence in our democracy and election system."
"During this debate Mr. Trump is doing the party and country a great disservice by continuing to suggest the outcome of this election is out of his hands and 'rigged' against him. If he loses, it will not be because the system is "rigged" but because he failed as a candidate." Graham said.
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Correction
What if we, The American People, refuse to accept the results of a rigged system?
Pearl clutchers unite!
Trump meant what he said and he said what he meant. Izat too tuf?
Keep opening your mouth, Lindsey. . .you are going down in history as a man who lost his way.
We’ll just be polite and call it Genius Envy.
One word: algore.
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Of course the GOP thinks it’s beyond the pale. The losers have all ready conceded the election.
Morons.
I said a month ago that Trump should re-brand himself as an “Independent Conservative running on the GOP ticket”.
Donald Trump is TRULY the first “third party candidate” in modern history who has a chance to win.
Here is one way to pivot away from the "whipped cur" narrative of the sanctimonious twits:
That a woman who has been politically active, all her entire adult life, among a people with the most successful history of economic achievement over their first century and a quarter, of any people on earth, under a Constitutional Government designed to protect that people from a bureaucratic pestilence, which has been the bain of most nations; that such a woman has so missed the essential point of the American achievement, is staggering in its implications.
Mrs. Clinton claimed that a Clinton Government woujld rebuild the "Middle Class." Was she tottally unaware that the American Middle Class clearly built itself? That the American Middle Class resulted from naturally energized individuals, aspiring to achieve the good life, who risked everything to first clear a wilderness, work hard, generation to generation, to save & accumulate the attributes of the good life; with the result that by 1913--the year that a graduated income tax first became Constitutional, this Settler built Federation of newly settled States, had already surpassed every one of the great powers of Europe in industrial strength.
To "rebuild" the "Middle Class," Mrs. Clinton vowed to make the most successful Americans--those who had achieved the most-- pay increased taxes; she called it "paying their 'fair' share." But it was clearly to be a tax on success--a tax to fund a raft of new programs (a cancer or pestilence of an expanded bureaucracy). She was obviously indifferent to the fact that the biggest impediment to any poor person with ambition, actually launching a small business to improve his status, is an almost incomprehensible explosion in bureaucratic regulations, most of which premised on the same flawed understanding of how people actually advance, which Mrs. Clinton displayed, last night.
Americans used to learn by experience. What were the experience based lessons of what transpired from the drafting of our written Constitution in 1787, until the passage of the income tax amendment in 1913? Are they instructive or not, for what actually works for human advancement?
The Constitution prior to 1913, absolutely interdicted a tax driven war on the accumulation of individual wealth. Article I, Section 9, which Mrs. Clinton should have remembered from Law School, provided that no direct tax on individual Americans could be applied in any way but pro-capita. (That is Warren Buffet would pay the same tax--not the same percentage tax--but the same tax as Joe the Plumber. The Founders had no desire to limit individual success. They sought only to encourage it.
Under there experience based philosophy, there were almost certainly not even 1% of the bureaucratic regulations, with which Americans seeking to improve their lot, must face today. In place of today's pursuit of grievances, real or imagined, there was universal admiration for the high achievers! And the growth rate of a people freed to achieve, was the economic phenomenon of human history.
We do not pretend to know whether it was in her indoctrination by Marxist Pied Pipers, in her late teens, or pure confusion in whatever she is struggling with today. But Mrs. Clinton is utterly clueless on how a dynamic economy works; as she is utterly unaware of the dynamic, interactive factors, that drive or stagnate any human aspiration or achievement. What is absolutely clear, even if one ignores her lack of a moral compass in her political dealings; the woman is absolutely unqualified to be President of the United States.
This is one more reason why we must win this election for Donald Trump.
William Flax
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GOPe = Democrat Operative
This isn’t news, this is a tiny distraction because Trump mopped the debate floor with Hillary and they need to find anything they can to NOT discuss the actual debate.
Hey MSM, did you fact check the Foundation lie that Hillary mentioned regarding 90% going to charity??????
It is an amazing election, in some good ways and in some bad ways.
But above all, at least for me is MAN, OH MAN, DO I EVER HATE, HATE, HAAAAAAAAATE THE GOP.
I can’t stand them.
I can’t even write what I really think of them, because I would no doubt be arrested.
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I totally agree :)
This is not projection. It is transference. A criminal will always accuse their victim of crime, typically the very crime they have committed. Hillary plays this perfectly.
Hillary is in a constant state of accusation, all based on transferring her crimes onto her accusers. When caught red handed she will feign shock and sacrifice an underling. This is mafia in its purest form. Look for Huma to go down hard in an effort to save her highness.
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The GOPe is beyond stupid.
Hah!
I love your handle! Couldn’t be more perfect!
Boy, do those guys SUCK!
After seeing the second Project Veritas video, it would be “beyond the pale” (whatever that means) NOT to question results if a Dem wins. It wold be downright lunacy. We KNOW they cheat. They even explained in detail how they cheat.
Are our GOPEs so ball-less they’d roll over and say nothing knowing absolutely that fraud is going on? Oh, wait...
Not accepting results that make Hillary Commander in Chief isn't "Beyond the Pale", it's patriots exercising their God given right to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with traitorous, anti-Christian, Satanic, globalist, scum who are dedicated to destroying our nation.
JMHo
Republican capons clutching their pearls again: heaven forbid that they don’t get re-elected, and they can no longer belly-up to the taxpayer-funded all-you-can scarf caviar bar at all those posh D.C. parties. Because that’s all Republican capons are good for: scarfing “free” caviar.
Yeah, I wish that creep Lindsey would catch AIDS from his boyfriend and expire sooner than later.
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