they are loyal to Dirty Donny* and his kremlin kontrollers. Sad.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

Short for megalodon. I couldn't resist.

It was kind of dopey.

a.k.a. Mike Pence

Keep writing those OpEd's though. LOL.

Typical R - she “balanced” the budget by not making required payments into the state employee pension fund to fund a 30% tax cut, leaving it for Jim McGreevy to clean up when he took office.

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/22/opinion/in-america-whitman-steals-the-future.html

She said the air quality in downtown Manhattan was fine just days after 9/11.

While governor, She ruined New Jersey with tax cuts and privatization.

She bought a lamb so she could get a tax cut on her property.

But at this point, if it’s tax cuts and privatization versus the end of democracy...well, it’s pretty easy to see what’s more important.

I’m looking forward to the good old says when we can argue about the old shit.

If this little gem is common knowledge to someone in the White House staff, I'd bet we'll see this show up in a tweet real soon.

when it comes to Republiguns.

the bar to be met for merely decent

is pretty damned



low

I’ll take it. I hate Gowdy’s guts but I’ll take it.

Whitman (I too lived in NJ while she served as Governor), we need more Republicans speaking up and out.

As Dems we're not going to like nor approve of any Republican's specific positions or policies. Anymore than they like ours. But we're in a moment when we must put that aside and encourage former and current serving Republicans to speak the truth about the Trumpster.

Donald Trump is unfit and compromised and acting against the interests of the United States. We as Dems have said that repeatedly, continuously, until our throats ache. However, for the Republican electorate resistant to that message, a Christine Todd Whitman's words have far more clout, a chance to break through. Because she is of the club, so to speak.

So, I wouldn't toss this OP-Ed out of hand. In fact, I give Whitman credit for speaking out because we're all Americans and there's simply too much to lose.

As much as I dislike her and her ilk, we will need some of them to get stuff done in the near future.

She’s right about this. It’s an emergency. We must encourage thinking like this.

we need every vote we can get

So it's good to encourage more Republicans to publicly oppose Trump, no matter how terrible they are otherwise.

I mean just wow. Then she acts like Democrats are irrelevant. July 27 is the 2 year anniversary of "Russia, if you're listening ...."

These few won't have the stain of treason on them. It's not easy to go against your own party. Not sure it'll have much effect, but it's another drop in the bucket.

I really don't care how awful she was as governor, of course she was- she is a puke. I really like hearing about pukes who are having enough of eating the vomit that spews out of that orange turd.

They don't listen to Schmidt, Navarro, Will, Wallace, Cupp, etc.
Why would they care Whitman adds her voice to the chorus?

It appears the vast majority of them don't care. They simply don't care. They've sucked up the pablum and it's gone straight to their heads.

I'm hoping we can get most of the independents. MAYBE a FEW on the GOP side will wake up and realize they've been CONNED and CONNED and CONNED some more and they're tired of being marks. But there aren't a lot of those.

Then again, maybe there's just enough of those that we can reach critical mass.

It's about WINNING.

We have to WIN.

And at this point, I don't care how.

That's why i'm in the "take off the gloves" category. They go lower, we get even. The "high/low" thing isn't working.

But DAMMIT, this is politics! Not a day at Ascot when the royals stroll by. Politics is dirty.

I love Michelle Obama! I admire and respect her and think she was a WONDERFUL First Lady - the likes of whom I wish we had now. But her sweet and compassionate and very moral endorsement "when they go low, we go high" just doesn't work in the dirty gritty real world. "When they go low, we go high" - and run straight over a cliff.

I WISH TO GOD it weren't that way, and that everybody on EVERY side played fair, and didn't cheat, and followed the rules, and didn't try to rig the game, and didn't engage in the black arts. But the other side won't. And when they don't, they win.

So I don't think we have much of a choice. I'm not interested in being the nice guy who finishes last. NOT when it comes to protecting our democracy and our rights and the country we love - AND the relationships with our allies that we've cultivated over many decades.

I think the most likely answer is yes. Hence her attitude about him.

and everyone down at ground zero, when you were in office, didn't you diss them and say that the air was just fucking fine..............while at the EPA........................and now you are coming out from under your republican enabling rock asking for help or warning the country about your malignant megalomaniac republican traitor taking this democratic country down .................you put party over country back in your time of office.........................your party, the republican party is nothing but a NRA Russian back traitors ..................do you remember this moment........................your right wing hypocrisy knows no bounds, and your book but it must have sucked........................just like you...................and for the life of me why the dog and pony media show brought you back on is absolutely amazing.............are they trying to have you explain your bull shit to plead for principles..........................go to hell...................

I guess she figures in comparison to Pruitt she's a real saint. She's not.

Having said that though, anyone who comes out stating they think Trump is off his rocker is fine by me. The more the merrier.

And here she is arguing for them even as she criticizes the fruit of her/their own labors.

🖕

Spread what Christie said far and wide and let the Freepers fight it out with the Never Trumpers.

Well said!

she can take her protestations of trump and shove them where the sun don't shine. His performance in Helsinki? How about his act of treason prior to Helsinki? How about his "performance" when it comes to Charlottesville? Or his attempt to demonize NFL payers. His degrading of a Gold Star dad? His repeated sexual assaults? His treatment of PR? His animal-like immigration policies and actions.To hell with these republicans. If it wasn't for trump's "performance" in Helsinki the rest of his abominable behavior would be just fine, including his known collusion with Putin to torpedo our elections, with these so called right wing concern trolls. I'll take no help from these right wing dogs. Let them all pay.

She has some vestiges of old Republicans going and is probably looking at the long haul. I don't know that people like her will make a difference these days, but we can hope.

She is speaking out against Trump. Yes, there are lots to dislike about her, but would you prefer she remain silent?

...but I find the thought of losing our Republic FAR MORE REPUGNANT.

With Nixon or Clinton we heard they did this or that, but "unfit" in the senses of suitability for the office, inability to put the country first, causing a lot of political damage at home and abroad, even mental stability - all together are quite something.

k&R

The more, the better

detrimental to the country?"

This is the problem, isn't it?

Seems like about a third of America just doesn't get this kind of news because they are hooked into sites like Breitbart and hate-talk radio.

And there's a bunch of white supremacist nazis and kluxers that have been crawling out from under their rocks and would swear the same oath to Trump that Hitler had Germans swear to him.

The rest of us...well, Trump cannot be removed from office quickly enough. Let's get the show on the road!

But the repigs that support this "business man" will not listen to reason.

just about declaring intent to go to war with Iran and other delusional breaks with reality

Clearly, cadet bone spurs is trying to distract attention away from the news about Cohen’s tape(s) and other stories that foreshadow his inevitable interview/interrogation with Mueller. And we all know that — when that exchange happens — the FBI already has the iron-clad evidence they need.

But the MAGAts are eating this up. Especially those who have never worn the uniform or stood a post under combat conditions. As if the US armed forces would accept such misfits into their ranks. It’s always somebody else’s sons and daughters, including — until recently — those who moved here from outside our borders, seeking freedom. How’s that for irony?