Posted on 09/27/2020 5:35:02 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
---SNIP--- I actually consider it a point of personal pride that I’m recognized for being among the first Republicans to reject Donald Trump. It was way back in December 2015. I told NBC’s Chuck Todd that day that I could never support Trump. I said then that he was an embarrassment to the Republican Party and our country. I said he belittles, demeans, and ridicules people who disagree with him, and that I’ve never thought that loud, obnoxious, and simpleminded solutions to complex problems are the kind of qualities we want in a president. I believe that earned me my first of several Trump tweets of indignation.
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Yes I believe TSA was his deal and he forbid any profiling. So a 78 Nun gets the same treatment as five 20 year old muzzies with one way tickets. This punk would rather have a Alzheimer patient and a left wing radical in the White House then Trump because he doesn’t like Trumps style.
And Bushy-Wushy Dummy made this idiot Ridge the first head of Homeland Security after 911
I am disgraced and ashamed that I went full defensive posture to defend the Bush era Administration. I always stuck to the GOP brand especially in PA with Ridge and equally hapless Corbett. The NeverTrumpers are the most vile political swamp scum besides the American left and DNC. The pure hatred for one man in Trump overriding the fact that we are voting for our nation’s future is just sickening.
What was the alternative at the time?
He obviously did not vote for Trump in 2016 so he is no net loss.
We won’t lose many Patriots with that news... I’m sure he had a
I’m with Her ->H
button.
Not for much longer.
Guess we now know who the embarrassments to the Republican Party really are.
Re: 123 - Great post.
Here is what I don’t understand. Ridge and others of his ilk claims they are for conservative principles. So they are going to vote for a liberal Democrat and a very liberal VP to advance conservative principles?
Some questions:
1) Did Ridge advocate for any one attempting to primary President Trump?
2) Why did Ridge just say that he’s not voting for anyone for President? Instead he’s voting for the Democratic candidate?
President Trump has done a great service by forcing “conservatives” to show who they stand for. Guys like Will, Boot, Kagan, Kristol, several over at NR, Patterico, et al have permanently burned their bridges back to the Republican party. Most people will never take them seriously any more.
I went to Patterico’s site for the first time in 5-6 months. Just unreadable due to the TDS. Discouraging because he used to be an engaging blogger. Now he’s just hateful. The blog quality went down as well when he farmed out a lot of the blogging to others. That’s one reason why I like Althouse - she doesn’t farm out any of the blogging and has posted every day since ~2004.
Wow, this guy is really on the money take. Paging Tom Donahue...paging Tom Donahue...Mr. Donahue, please, somebody wants his 3 pieces of silver.
“I said then that he was an embarrassment to the Republican Party and our country. I said he belittles, demeans, and ridicules people who disagree with him, and that I’ve never thought that loud, obnoxious, and simpleminded solutions...”
Tom Ridge justifies his reasoning by now being the one that belittles, demeans, and ridicules people who disagree with him... in a loud, obnoxious, and simpleminded way by voting for Joe Biden.
Tom...you are an embarrassment and a traitor to our country.
So allowing the Twin Towers to be attacked wasn’t ‘embarrassing’, Tom? I mean how does that happen? Bush was in power for nine months, plenty of time to fix things, so it wouldn’t happen.
RINO Ridge
So he’s voting for the proven-on-video child molester.
The propaganda from GOP HQ back when Ridge ran for governor here in PA was that he was an “economic conservative” or a “fiscal conservative” etc. etc.
Regardless I voted Peg Luksik third party pro-life candidate both times Ridge ran in 1994 and 1998.
At least my conscience is clear on the matter of Mr. Ridge.
Ridge was a unitary establishment republican... the folks they Trump threatened from day one.. if ridge thinks he’s influencing voters, particularly conservative voters to vote for biden he’s deliusional
Tom Ridge, a paleo never-Trumper.
Republican governor of Pa. gets new car and a bag of freezer money to speak.
Cheap and easy are the democrats prime target.
I’ll tell you what bubble anus. You vote for who you want and I will vote for who I want. Neither one of us cares who each other votes for.
What are you now? Who’s your daddy?
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