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Opinion: I'm a 'Never Trump' conservative who voted third-party in 2016. Here's why I won't make that mistake this time (barf)
LA Times via MSN ^ | Oct 1,2024 | John J. Pitney Jr.

Posted on 10/01/2024 10:49:23 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

Some right-leaning voters who oppose Donald Trump are thinking of voting neither for him nor Kamala Harris.

I understand how they feel. In 2016, I published an article urging Never Trump conservatives to consider casting their ballot for a third-party candidate. In the election that year, I did just that.

regret writing that column. I regret casting that vote.

To people like me, Trump represented a repudiation of everything that Ronald Reagan stood for. But as a conservative and former GOP staffer who had never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, I harbored reservations about Hillary Clinton.

Voting for neither Trump nor Clinton seemed to be a “safe” way to express disapproval of both. Most polls at the time showed her on track to win comfortably. It seemed reasonable to argue that a significant tally for a third-party candidate might check her liberal ambitions. After all, the number of votes for Independent candidate Ross Perot in 1992 may have nudged Bill Clinton to accept bigger budget cuts than he wanted.......

We do know what happened because he won. He blew up the federal debt. His incompetent handling of COVID-19 caused tens of thousands of needless deaths. He finished his term by trying to overturn an election he lost and instigating a violent rebellion against the government he had sworn to protect.

Trump turned out to be a catastrophe for our country. Hillary Clinton just was a candidate with whom I disagreed, I wish I had voted for her and encouraged others to do the same.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Yeah barf


21 posted on 10/01/2024 11:02:07 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Trump turned out to be a catastrophe for our country.

This person lives in the DC bubble and can't see past the tidal pool..................

22 posted on 10/01/2024 11:02:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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He worked for Dick Cheney and left the Republican Party when Trump won.
He is a war mongering 70 year old white man.


23 posted on 10/01/2024 11:02:31 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Vaquero

Know your enemy.

We don’t discourage posting liberal article here, for discussion.

How do you know what they are saying if you censor them?

We don’t like censorship


24 posted on 10/01/2024 11:02:36 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump 2024)
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To: All

With this article, John J. Pitney Jr. proves beyond any doubt that he is a liar, or a complete blithering idiot, unable to grasp the simplest logical thought.

Or both.

I hope that John J. Pitney Sr. is no longer around to see his namesake’s failure as a rational being.


25 posted on 10/01/2024 11:03:15 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

What’s kinda comical about this is that before Trump, I had been a “Reagan” republican until I left the party in dubya’s second term.

I now consider Trump to be the best president in the last 100 years or more. I don’t judge politicians by what they say. I judge them by what they do.

Why would this author vote for Kamala? Why would he NOT vote for Trump?


26 posted on 10/01/2024 11:03:32 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Pitney


27 posted on 10/01/2024 11:03:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ridesthemiles

28 posted on 10/01/2024 11:04:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Mr. K

Couldn’t have said it better.


29 posted on 10/01/2024 11:05:34 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: Democrat = party of treason

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/author/john-pitney/


30 posted on 10/01/2024 11:06:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: stevio
There is a billboard with a middle-aged white man who supposedly voted for Trump last time but is voting for Cameltoe now. And under his picture is the word “Patriot”. How pathetic.

KamaLOL was on the podcast 'All The Smoke' yesterday.

The airhead couldn't explain how a bill becomes law.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4268106/posts

31 posted on 10/01/2024 11:06:50 AM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Red Badger

check his basement for missing kids...


32 posted on 10/01/2024 11:07:33 AM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Red Badger

Wasn’t he on the original Star Trek? (hint: he wasn’t on the Enterprise)


33 posted on 10/01/2024 11:07:49 AM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon ("Carthago Delenda Est")
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Looking at the Trump 45 record, I would say Reagan would approve.
Lower Taxes, stopping immigration (Yes, Reagan was also trying to do that), No to Obamacare, appoint conservative judges.
Take a leading role in NATO, solve Israel conflict (Trump got pretty close, the best anybody before).
Quickly and decisively crushed Islamic state.
Scared all our enemies.

Can somebody tell me what would Reagan NOT approve?


34 posted on 10/01/2024 11:08:08 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

A Kamala voter. Still a Never Trumper.


35 posted on 10/01/2024 11:08:24 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Mr. K

The msm has the podium everywhere everyday. They are heard….unfortunately.


36 posted on 10/01/2024 11:09:05 AM PDT by Vaquero (In Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Red Badger

“Pitney was born in 1955, the son of a milkman and a homemaker.”

I guess his father was OK with the milkman “taking care of business” for him...


37 posted on 10/01/2024 11:09:42 AM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Mr. K

Not sure, but by his picture, did not look like the kind of “guy” that would vote for Trump let alone be a patriot.


38 posted on 10/01/2024 11:10:18 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: LegendHasIt
I hope that John J. Pitney Sr. is no longer around to see his namesake’s failure as a rational being.

"Pitney was born in 1955, the son of a milkman and a homemaker."

The milkman might still be alive...

39 posted on 10/01/2024 11:11:11 AM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I guess Mr. Pitney forgot ‘tens’ of thousands of people died of Covid under Trump, after China left us with no PPE, but over 700 thousand died under Biden in spite of the fact Trump left Biden better equipped to prevent deaths.
And, Clinton Still claims she won the election 8 years after her defeat.
And, the federal debt when Trump left office was $21T, up from $14T, or an increase of $7T, but the federal debt under Biden has ballooned to $34 Trillion dollars, an increase of $13 Trillion dollars, or almost two times the increase under Trump.

What an idiot.


40 posted on 10/01/2024 11:11:39 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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