And By Loyal, I Meant Everybody for Himself, Dammit!
Well, well, well, that didn’t take long.
All three remaining Republican presidential candidates are backing off from their promised loyalty oath.
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) backed away from honoring the loyalty oath to support the eventual Republican nominee on Tuesday night.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Trump during a town hall if he plans to continue to support the GOP nominee if it isn’t himself.
Trump replied, “No, I don’t anymore.”
Cruz says (use your nasally whiny head-voice when reading this) “I’m not in the habit of supporting someone who attacks my wife and my family.”
Kasich said the candidates shouldn’t have signed the pledge.
“All of us shouldn’t even have answered that question,” he said told CNN.
Hey, Kasich, answering that question is just one in a long list of things y’all shouldn’t have done.
Wow, so taking an oath means that you can break it. Therefore any promises you make the American people, hell the WORLD, is pretty much a “meh” oath. Once you are held to it you can “meh, not today”
Mind boggling and incredible scary
1WOW! Talk about there being no honor among thieves! There is no honor amongst these nacilbupeR cons either. Damn.
2Does any sane person really believe either of these goons can be believed when they promise anything?
3And we thought pRick Perry was st00pid for saying OOPS during a debate. These 3 clowns are at OOPS months after a debate.
Loathsome Ted Crooze is supposed to be a lawyer. Guess instead of caveat emptor he thought they said empty corpse and proceeded to become one. Donnie Drumpf initially had the correct instinct, but he buckled and signed. Some “tough” dealer there. While Ksuchasheis, is the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing. Samantha Bee best describes that ‘moderate.’
***** WARNING Mama please do not open the following link. For those at work and surrounded by snacilbupeR, this link is not work safe. The video is about mid way down the page.
http://www.towleroad.com/2016/02/samantha-bee-john-kasich/
4The whole oath thing cracks me up. The GOP came up with it to prevent Trump from scuttling off and making a third-party run, and then they end up with the probability of everyone else having pledged to support Trump. Karma!
And here’s a delightful article from the WashPost about the GOP rift between the Big Business and Big Church wings that I’ve been awaiting for several decades:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/stands-on-social-issues-tear-conservative-bases/2016/03/29/a565d1ce-f5e0-11e5-8b23-538270a1ca31_story.html
Best comment: “The greedy wing of the Republican party is at war with the hateful wing of the republican party?
5::Runs to kitchen to make more popcorn::”
Gosh, we sure didn’t see that coming.
6How exactly does a WaPo writer expect to make a distinction between the “greedy” wing, the “hateful” wing, and any other “wing” of the nacilbupeR partay? In my experience, limited though it may be, snacilbupeR are as a group, greedy, hateful and whatever.
7I remember laughing out loud back when Trump originally signed his loyalty pledge. That’s because there was no way the GOP could enforce it, so it all rested on Trump’s integrity. Giggle. Snort.
And these people think they can govern? Governing requires the ability to set up rational (or at least mostly-rational) systems. To do that it helps to be rational.
8Not only all that, but the Repuke convention rules committee is fixing to maybe rescind the ‘Eight State Win minimum’ rule that it wrote in the 2012 election, in order to assure Mittens wasn’t trashed out by Ron Paul.
Today, tRump is the only ‘Puke who meets that criteria (having already won 8), and there is doubt that DetesTED Crooze will meet it by winning enough additional states.
We all just luvs watching the Rescummie internecine bloodbath, but remember that when the dust settles, there is still a very good chance that they all kisskiss and make up enough to “Get Out The Vote” more better than the sorry Democrats ever do…
9@LynnN
It gobsmacks me that you found a grammatically kowreckt way to use “integrity” and Hair Drumpf name in the same sentence. Amazingly well done.
10If I eat much more popcorn watching all this, the next bathroom trip is gonna hurt.
11I read this morning that Perry did not vote in the primary because that would have prevented him from being on the ballot in Texas as an independent this cycle . So does this affect Cruz?
12I get baked sugar snap peas instead of popcorn, because it’s gettiing to be too much, however I may switch to roasted peanuts in the shell, if this goes on much longer.
13Follow up question to each of the candidates:
Are there any other oaths or promises made during your campaign which you don’t intend to fulfill?
14Wow! I’ve been right before but now that I am even older than dirt I am finally super right! I predicted Trump would do this the minute he took the oath. Its just like it was with my kids when they were little scrappers. If its not their idea, then to heck with it! And now there is added seasoning: the other two leftovers are also disavowing any such oath! Could this get any better????? I mean, really!
15As I recall the “Loyalty Oath” was something that the Reince-man cooked up when he was afraid that Trump would bolt and run as a 3rd party candidate. Since then he has been reduced to sending out tweets about the tremendous field of well-qualified candidates that the Republican party has been blessed with. I’m pretty sure that the sky is yellow and the sun is blue in Priebus World.
16Must lay in more popcorn and beer. Maybe some JD, beer may not be strong enough.
17Cleveland is setting up to be a spectacular Repuglican fail!
18Third party, heck, there might end up being 4 or 5 party runs.
My snack of choice will be sliced apples and pepper jack cheese, with way more apple than cheese.
Did they swear these oaths on the state book of Tennessee? Or did they all have their fingers crossed behind their backs? Way back at the start of this silly season, I recall Rachel Maddow commenting on what a deep field the Republicans had. Must have indulged in a little of the Reince Priebus kool-ade. Now I want to see her eat her words, but it will probably take a gallon of booze to get them down!
19Hollyanna, I wish they were all like the galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field photograph: millions of light-years away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field#/media/File:HubbleDeepField.800px.jpg
20Micr, it is possible to use all kinds of noble words in conjunction with ignoble Repubs. Of course, it creates an oxymoron. You know, like “Trump’s integrity.”
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