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ReTHUG Will Ritter on not attending Don the Con's convention - quoted by Rachel Maddow
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,681 posts)I am appalled.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Many GOP regulars are skipping Cleveland entirely. (I would rather attend the public hanging of a good friend, says Will Ritter, an up-and-coming Republican digital strategist who worked on the three previous conventions.) And among those who are making the trek, theres an overwhelming sense it wont be fun at all. At a time when many Republicans are deeply dissatisfied with their nominee, pessimistic about their prospects for victory in the fall and alarmed about the direction of their party, theres a reluctance about attending the convention more typically reserved for going to the DMV, being summoned for jury duty or undergoing a root canal.
This is the first year in the past two decades that Republicans arent excited about attending the convention. Normally, were all jazzed up about getting together and celebrating our nominee, said Chris Perkins, a GOP pollster who has attended every Republican convention since 1996. Theres nothing to celebrate this cycle. Im going because I have to, not because I want to.
Those who are going often say theyre doing so out of a sense of obligation to meet with clients or to hold meetings before making a beeline back to the airport. As the Republican Party prepares to nominate a figure who is registering historically high disapproval ratings, some dont want to advertise their presence in Cleveland. Dont use my name, said one senior party strategist. I dont want anyone to know Im there. (A few days after the interview, the strategist got back in touch, having decided not to go, after all.)
Whats there to celebrate? asked Jay Zeidman, a Texas health care executive whose family has been a major benefactor of the Republican Party. The party has hit rock bottom in terms of leadership.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/republican-convention-trump-operatives-225393#ixzz4EFb8enLU
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Read and laugh
NBachers
(17,135 posts)1. Republican Train Wreck in Cleveland, or:
2. REPUBLICANS UNITE! REPUBLICAN ELECTION MACHINE NOW UNBEATABLE!!
PNW_Dem
(119 posts)What a bunch of fake, disingenuous outrage (which got his name mentioned on the TV machine). After standing by silently and reaping the benefits of the Southern Strategy for fifty years, all of a sudden these Republican assholes are outraged. We like to say that not all Republicans are racists, but they all certainly try to gain from it.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)is there video of that?
ANNNNDDDD.... did you watch the culmination of tonight's unhingement in Indiana?
it was truly something to behold make sure you see it....start at ten or fifteen minutes in. check my thread on it for some highlights. I could NOT believe my eyes/ears. it was truly AWEsome. I do not exaggerate.
did you see that 50 year old rum clip I posted, btw?
zz-la
(224 posts)That is the message I would take away from this.
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)pnwmom
(108,990 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)that is the coldest line I have ever read and I cannot stop laughing.
malaise
(269,157 posts)A genuine ouch moment.
Hekate
(90,773 posts)May it spread so widely among Republicans that the majority curl up into the fetal position and don't even go out to vote in November.
Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... that they're treating this political morass as though some dog just crapped on the carpet ...
... instead of the absolute collapse of the actual, what-was-once-real Republican Party? ...
... oh, yeah ... I forgot their mantra ... "They did it." ...
malaise
(269,157 posts)<snip>
When people talk about white privilege, you have to think Bushs actions are a prime example. In an election when poor people around the country, a disproportionate number of whom are minorities, are being denied the right to vote thanks to voter ID and other laws pushed by Republican governors and legislatures in an effort to suppress mostly Democratic voters, here is a member of perhaps the most visible wealthy Republican family in America saying he will not vote in the election because his choices make him too sad.
But the big takeaway from this interview was this admission.
Conservatism is temporarily dead. I mean, if you look at it, we have two candidates. Donald Trump is barely a Republican. Hes certainly not a conservative.
No, Trump may not be a conservative in the sense that Bush thinks of the term. But he is a conservative as the word relates to the way the Republican Party has evolved over the last couple of decades, and particularly during the Obama administration. The GOP has become a white reactionary party, paranoid and delusional, jumping at the shadows of Muslim terrorists, gay activists, and angry black people it seems around every corner. Trump is the culmination of years of the party tolerating and even encouraging these sorts of fears
nikto
(3,284 posts)without eventually falling right in.
Mendocino
(7,504 posts)Trump's kids and Official Donald Lapdog Chris Christie perhaps. David Duke, Chuck Norris, Mike Tyson and Kid Rock? Maybe Clint Eastwood the renowned Furniture Whisperer?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)rant. The man seems to have zero percent humor and zero percent warmth. Even his pallor is scary.
I want entertainment. Bat shit crazy entertainment. The more the better.
Who is the funniest of all the VP choices.
Kid Rock is a repuke??
malaise
(269,157 posts)The Con and his family are there
JHB
(37,161 posts)...since his beloved party is hanging itself, with cameras rolling.