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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Mon Aug 28, 2017, 11:43 PM Aug 2017

"From a personal standpoint, I think this president f*cking sucks. Hes not even a Republican."



Speaking with Vanity Fair’s David Drucker, conservative pollsters and GOP consultants privately admitted that they loathe President Donald Trump but are stuck with him and have no choice but to make the best of a bad situation.

Among the two dozen strategists and consultants who make a living advising GOP candidates, Drucker found few who like due Trump to his bombast and lack of discipline, with one frustrated consultant admitting, “From a personal standpoint, I think this president f*cking sucks. He’s not even a Republican.”

The dilemma for the consultant class is that they have to advise office-holders and potential candidates on how to shape their message when they have Trump as not only the face of the party, but as the leader of a small but rabid following.

“Your heart tells you that he’s bad for the country. Your head looks at polling data among Republican primary voters and sees how popular he is,” explained a Republican strategist who requested anonymity. “It would be malpractice not to advise clients to attach themselves to that popularity.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/your-heart-tells-you-that-hes-bad-for-the-country-gop-consultants-reveal-how-much-they-loathe-trump/
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"From a personal standpoint, I think this president f*cking sucks. Hes not even a Republican." (Original Post) Miles Archer Aug 2017 OP
And that's exactly why Trump needs to be hung on the necks of the GOP in '18! Docreed2003 Aug 2017 #1
Sorry, Republicans. You OWN this one. He is on board with Ryan, Mulvaney, WinkyDink Aug 2017 #2
Wow ProudLib72 Aug 2017 #3
Hell FUCK NAW !!! Benedict Donald is a republican PERIOD uponit7771 Aug 2017 #4
The GOP silence is confirmation that they are in his back pocket. BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #5
party over country.... dhill926 Aug 2017 #6
Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea randr Aug 2017 #7
Oh he's a Republican alright RhodeIslandOne Aug 2017 #8
But the approval numbers show he's NOT that popular among Repub voters. Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #9
"From a personal standpoint, I think this president f*cking sucks. He's not even a Republican." area51 Aug 2017 #10
Oh, yes, he is, too, a Republican DFW Aug 2017 #11
He's YOURS, Dr. Frankenstein. You built that. JHB Aug 2017 #12
Fuck you! maxrandb Aug 2017 #13
 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
2. Sorry, Republicans. You OWN this one. He is on board with Ryan, Mulvaney,
Mon Aug 28, 2017, 11:51 PM
Aug 2017

and all the other evil Republicans, pardon the redundancy.

 

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
8. Oh he's a Republican alright
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 01:16 AM
Aug 2017

One thing about Trump you can say for him is he's an upfront asshole unlike sneaky bastards such as Ryan and Cruz.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
9. But the approval numbers show he's NOT that popular among Repub voters.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 01:37 AM
Aug 2017

So much for that excuse. Sounds to me like they're attached to the one who brought them to the dance because they're going to get money out of it, the country be damned. But they have to have a legit excuse for rubberstamping the insanity, so they came up with, "He's so popular with Republican voters." But he's not.

area51

(11,909 posts)
10. "From a personal standpoint, I think this president f*cking sucks. He's not even a Republican."
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 03:07 AM
Aug 2017

OH YES, HE'S A REPUB!

DFW

(54,379 posts)
11. Oh, yes, he is, too, a Republican
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 03:31 AM
Aug 2017

I will not fall for this phony buyer's remorse from them now that their man has revealed his true colors in office. he revealed his true colors during the primaries and during the election campaign. He did nothing to conceal his character. They voted for him with zeal and enthusiasm. Trump is the epitome of today's Republican. Their old guard may throw up their hands in horror, but the times they are not only a-changing, they HAVE changed, and Republicans enabled it. "Die ich rief, die Geister...." (Goethe's Sorcerer's Apprentice: "The spirits I have summoned, I know not how to be rid of them" )

Twenty years of Fox Noise, and they voluntarily watch nothing else, what did they expect? Did they think that 95% of the people who watch that channel see through the theater? For Pete's sake, they ought to know better than anyone the low level of education in our country. They are the ones who slice the budget for education and install the likes of Betsy DeVos as education secretary. We have almost two generations now of people who not only watch Fox Noise, but actually BELIEVE what they hear. Kids watch cartoons, too, but they don't expect to meet Daffy Duck in person. Republicans expect to meet Daffy Duck. In fact, they just voted him into the Oval Office.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
12. He's YOURS, Dr. Frankenstein. You built that.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 06:55 AM
Aug 2017

"Two dozen strategists and consultants who make a living advising GOP candidates" loathe Trump? You guys have spent your careers paving the road that he's drag-racing on. You've spent the last quarter-century portraying Democratic presidents and candidates as incompetent radicals who were threats to the very republic and had to be brought down at any cost. Well, congrats, guys, we finally got one, and he's YOURS.

Oh, and he's definitely a Republican. Aside from the bombastic style, how much of his alleged program during the primary campaign was really all that different from the rest of the field? It's his style you don't like, that's all.

“I have a hard time taking him seriously; I don’t believe he’s a true conservative,” one pollster added


There it is, the escape hatch, the reverse unicorn, visible only to the corrupt and having a horn up its butt: the "true conservative".

The people who decided they had to purge the Republican Party of its liberal wing, who call everything they don't like "socialist". The people who'd still be grousing among each other in country clubs, fraternal orders, and Yalie-prick circle-jerks if they hadn't, those decades ago, set up a recruiting table the minute the Democrats got out of the klansman-coddling business.

He's yours, fellas, all yours. It's too late to file off the serial numbers.

maxrandb

(15,330 posts)
13. Fuck you!
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 08:07 AM
Aug 2017

The ReTrumplican Party "birthed" this fucking prick...bloody, putrid afterbirth and all!!!

Fuck your..."he's not even a ReTrumplican" horseshit!!

Donnie Short Fingers could be interchanged with ANY PROMINENT RETRUMPLICAN and the policies and bullshit and hate radio propaganda WOULD BE EXACTLY THE FUCKING SAME

You ReTrumplicans OWN this rat-fucking bastard, and all the Turd Polishing in the world won't save you from the shit-storm you've unleashed on this fucking country.

When you start dismantling Sinclair Broadcasting and removing pieces of filth like Hannity and Limbaugh and the 2,000 other cookie-cutter hate mongers you've sucked off for over 30 years, then maybe, you can distance yourself from this racist orange asshat.

Until you do that, Donnie Short Fingers rotten, festering corpse is going to be over every ReTrumplicans head, stinking the fuck out of every place you go.

The American people will soon get sick of the sulfur smell that permeates the room everytime a ReTrumplican opens their mouth.

You OWN this fucker. Wear your racist ass MAGA, Commie-Red, made in China ballcap with fucking pride...mother fuckers!

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