Conservative columnist George Will says he's leaving GOP over Trump Washington (CNN)Conservative commentator and columnist George Will says he is leaving the Republican Party because of Donald Trump -- and he's advocating that others do the same. In a speech at a Federalist Society luncheon Friday, he told the audience, "This is not my party," according to PJ Media, a conservative news website. The Pulitzer Prize winner confirmed to PJM in an interview after his speech that he had left the party and was now "an unaffiliated voter in the state of Maryland" before switching the subject. PJM reported that Will cited House Speaker Paul Ryan's endorsement of Trump is one of the reasons why he decided to leave the party. Will didn't say whether he'd vote for either Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton or a third-party candidate, such as Libertarian Gary Johnson. Will, who worked on President Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign, also said at the luncheon that Trump as president with "no opposition" from a Republican-led Congress would be worse than Clinton as president with a Republican-led Congress. When asked by PJ Media about his message to conservatives regarding Trump, Will responded, "Make sure he loses. Grit their teeth for four years and win the White House."... http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/25/polit...-leaving-republican-party-election/index.html
Will is a fool, intoxicated by his own imagined self-importance. As president, Hillary in four years could conceivably appoint three or four leftwing Supreme Court judges who would make Sotomayor look like Scalia. She could let in enough bogus refugees and illegals to permanently alter our political landscape. I've enjoyed his columns for a long time but he seems to have entered the twilight zone. He can't even offer a reasoned explanation for his Trump derangement, except that Trump is a "vulgarian," no doubt a crushing insult at the Chevy Chase Club, but compared to the Clintons, Trump comes across like Thomas Jefferson.
More cracks in the GOP. You're right, George Will: GOP isn't your party ...Will is far from alone in setting aside his GOP identification, at least through November's election. ...Former state Rep. David Ramadan of Virginia, who supported Ted Cruz in the primary, stated recently on my SiriusXM radio show that he would not identify as a Republican as long as Trump remains either the presumptive or official GOP nominee.... ...Win or lose, Trump will come and go -- but his views truly represent a solid majority of today's Republican Party. The bigger question for Republicans like Rep. Love, Romney, Paulson, and others is: do they try to change the GOP from within or is time for them to find a new political party?... http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/27/opinions/trump-not-causing-gop-exodus-obeidallah/index.html
That is the key issue. When the Bushes, Doles, McCains and Romneys were the candidates, we were told to fall in line behind them, even if we found them or their views obnoxious. When the shoe is on the other foot however, suddenly they are too good for us. F them. Personally I would prefer to let them have their little impotent republican party and form a new party along the lines of Trump's nationalistic populism and Tea Party economics.
And how someone can listen to tRump and NOT realize that he is indeed a vulgarian, and a buffoon, and a shyster, and ignorant and just generally a complete asshole is truly a mystery. How can someone be that dumb and clueless. Please tell us oh dumb clueless bigoted one.
The Republican Party’s White Strategy Embracing white nativism in the 1990s turned the California GOP into a permanent minority. The same story may now be repeating itself nationally. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-white-strategy/485612/
Wrong. Unchecked immigration turned California into a democrat stronghold. Then crazy policies encouraged the sane to leave.