Fiery Fifty
Fifty – count ‘um, 50 – top GOP national security officials came out today and pitched a fit about Donald Trump ever being president.
Donald Trump’s effort to appeal to establishment Republicans suffered another setback on Monday as 50 senior GOP national security officials warned in a new letter that Trump would “risk our country’s national security and well-being.”
I dunno about you, but my well-being and non-headache state is seriously disturbed by the mere presence on Donald Trump on my teevee screen. I’m pretty much an expert in well-being because, you know, I do hair.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
The only hair I do is my own but, JJ, I am sick to death of Dumbo Donnie’s ugly mug on my TV, too!!
1I don’t have a TV. I never see Trump on my non-existent TV. It’s more relaxing that way. Am I missing something very important?
2An increasing number of relatively sane Republican officials are pleading with the public not to vote for Trump because he’s grossly unqualified to be President.
Yet he got the most votes in the GOP primaries and was nominated by their national convention.
The GOP needs to take a long, hard look at themselves to come to a rational conclusion as to why this happened and how they can prevent it from ever happening again.
I suggest that they start with their “Government and smart people are your enemies” schtick that they’ve been running with since 1980. Also their party motto of the same vintage but kept polished by continual use: “Reality is whatever we say it is, and we’ll suppress or slap down anybody who tries to present the facts.”
3Just had a thought: maybe Trump’s dark cloud DOES have a silver lining. Maybe he WILL make America great again. Maybe he WILL unite people. Because, seems like more and more folks from very different walks of life (democrats, republicans, progressives, conservatives, just name it) are starting to bang the very same drum, louder and louder: Trump and trumpism is NOT what we want.
4Do you think I’m overly optimistic? 🙂
For years I have wondered what it would take to make political Repubs set aside their rabid partisanship and be honest on an issue. Now I know.
Who knows, after Trump maybe honesty about global warming?
590 days from now will the only GOP left supporting Trump be Louie Gohmert, Carl Paladino & Steve King?
6The tRump’s narcissism is vast. sickening and why I don’t watch much if any commercial TV. But then Montag has a point soon only the brain dead will support him. I wonder, were they brain dead first, or did they get that way from too much trump?
7@LynnN: I wish I could believe that the “relatively sane” (as @Rhea described them) Rape-Public-CONs were more concerned with the likely damage to our country than with the potential damage to their party, but I’ve seen too much from them for too long to be able to believe that now.
I’ve long since been convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that with them, it’s always “party uber alles”. Eight years of refusing to consider ANY policy (even their own) that would involve them seeming to work with President Obama, regardless of the effect on our country and citizens? To the point of shutting down the government altogether more than once? (Just to cite one obvious example.) But now, I’m supposed to believe that they’re worried about America? Nope. Not falling for it. They won’t CON me, ever. Don’t get fooled again, as a former Presidunce once stammered.
These ‘defections’ are at best a sign of how much damage they fear their party’s nominutt for Presidunce might do to their party’s reputation and electibility, nothing more. Fark ’em.
I might sound bitter. Possibly because I am. Very very bitter.
8The only Scumpf ad I’ve seen is for Hillary. It’s a short collection of Scumpf videos showing what a complete and total jacka$$ he is while small children are watching. Pretty effective. Maybe the Scumpf rumps realize they don’t have a prayer in Minn.
9Pretzelogic, I find your use of the English language highly appropriate and entertaining.
10@montag I wish that were true, but Chris Collins, my congresscritter, appears to be a diehard Stumper for Trump, and shows no sign of common sense or decency, as of today.
11Yeah, but…there’s this other GOP thing, which maybe that GOP thing was supposed to disguise.
How’d you like an American Putin (former CIA agent involved in the kinds of things we hated Bush for) as President.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/us/politics/evan-mcmullin-independent-candidate.html?_r=0
Nice, white, Mormon, very conservative, quiet-spoken…but not Trump. Running as an “Independent” except he’s not independent, he’s bought and paid for at the highest level, and I would not trust someone who’d been involved in dark ops in the White House. We had that already (not that Cheney ever risked his own neck, but he sure approved rendition & torture.)
This is the quiet Trump-equivalent, the one who won’t sound crazy…just like the other candidates the GOP put up.
It’ll probably pull a lot of Republicans back from the brink of voting for Clinton or staying home.
12Do not get complacent, Democrats. Make sure all the sane people you know are registered, and that all of you VOTE.
13The former CIA official now running as an Independent should be asked why former CIA Director Morrell thinks so highly of Hillary. Lets see how close their responses match. Morrell was on TV the other day with only the highest praise for how Hillary handled emails from him and his agency. He had absolutely no respect for any executive agency and the sloppy way they did their job on electronic communications. No cover sheet that would have carried the classification. Maybe a small hand written c in the margin or somewhere in the text. Want to bet that one of the first things Hill does in the White House is get all the executive departments to function like executives?
14montag, don’t forget Pee in the Bush, who recently endorsed him.
15It’s good to know that some Repub’s are patriotic enough to think of their country first.
Note that they all have real jobs, with real responsibilities, instead of just being the feckless party shills that infest the legislative branch.
Though some of them are slowly coming around, too. Good on Susan Collins.
16Ellie :
Collins is mine as well. I sent him a tweet asking if he would follow the example of his smarter cousin Susan i the Senate.
maryelle : Considering his family’s views, Pee might change his mind at a later date.
17@montag Wish I’d thought of that! Next time.
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