Republicans slam Trump -- but slow to pull endorsements
Source: CNN
Republicans were quick to condemn Donald Trump Friday. But pull back their endorsements? Not so much.
In the hours after The Washington Post published a vulgar video of Trump bragging about his ability to grope women as a benefit of his celebrity, Republicans were slow to rescind their endorsement of Trump.
By the end of the night, only two Utah politicians pulled their support of Trump: Gov. Gary Herbert and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz. Others, including Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock, who never endorsed Trump in the first place called on him to drop out of the race.
But other high-profile Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, haven't backed away from their endorsements of Trump even as they blasted his comments.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/07/politics/donald-trump-republicans-endorsement/
I think the main purpose of Trump's latest non-apology is to give Republicans a fig leaf to continue to support and endorse him. Indeed, Trump's statement that he looks forward to Sunday's debate is to tamp down talk about him dropping out.
appleannie1
(5,067 posts)have no problem with his actions.
kysrsoze
(6,021 posts)CNN jumped the gun on this article. This is all about it to get so, so much worse. I think Trump is so narcissistic and literally crazy, that he is willing to do just about anything to become president. If I were one of "the generals," I'd be prepping for something really messed up.
Hopefully nothing will happen, but you know he's already got Russia hacking stuff and acting as a mouthpiece for him. He's just too stupid to keep his mouth shut about it. He is literally as menacing a figure in my mind as Hitler. It's no surprise the right wings hate groups are so supportive of him. They'll forgive this.
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Grins
(7,217 posts)I woke up early this morning, turned on CNN and heard this news. Swear to Ba'al this was the first thing that came to me:
"Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking."*
That's what Repuke J.C. Watts said about Bill Clinton. And the Reich-wing deplorables picked it up and ran with it. Limbaugh, Hannity, Falwell, Robertson, all of 'em. And that led to Reich-wing bumper-stickers and the campaign slogan, "Character counts!"
Must suck to be them this morning.
* The line actually comes from a book by UCLA coach, John Wooden.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)needs to further be shackled around there very necks.
They have created and have enabled this "stuff" for decades and now they trying to play like they are grown-ups on there side of the fence, to hell with them, to put it nicely. They knew exactly what they were getting------------end of story.
As Lawrence O'Donnell said last night what this man has done boils down to "battery and assault".
And the republicans are now trying to unendorse themselves from him, BS.
They have been attacking woman just this year when it comes to funding Planned Parenthood and other programs.
Ryan and the entire republican leadership and members still want to go after the middle class and privatize everything. Ryan is a outright hypocrite, and he is just a jerk
Right now the media is trying to say that Ryan is popular in his district, with right wingers, libertarians that are just as extreme, and democrats, BS---------------I don't think so, as a liberal bleeding heart progressive democrat, and I an many others are offended, that they would put the Democrats in the same room as Ryan and the republican leadership and republican members on this outrage issue, is just asinine and disgusting. The republicans have been attacking woman ever since Roe vs Wade, they have never presented legislation for equal pay for starters
The republican party has only been in Washington this year to attack the middle class and the working poor for 111 days out of 365 days, making $174,000 and $223,000 a year doing exactly what, nothing, they didn't even want at one point to put money into Flint, for example, until the democrats filibustered the legislation?
Going around and saying that what he says are offensive, and sickening, and he shouldn't do that, BS, nothing more, nothing less, its still BS
He (Ryan) is still going to stand beside a man that is just as much as a bigot and homophobic jerk called Pence, this double standard, of see I am not with the dumpster, is trying to be like a magician and using his tactics that he has used for years of smoke and mirrors, he is still a AYN RAND follower, and he doesn't not like the middle class that has social security, medicare, and medicaid, and other programs.
Well, jerk you are with the dumpster and your standing next to his second in command, he has also attacked woman while as governor, and and as congressman, what say you Ryan.
This self reflection that the republicans are having with this nominee and there platform is is BS.
They tied themselves to this bigot, megalomaniac, narcissistic, fraud, scam artists, that has actually gone out of his way to demean anyone for those like myself that doesn't think like him, and right now he has white nationalist jumping up and down saying yeah.
And now the republicans are trying to have it both ways----------------I don't think so.
You republicans made your bed with this platform now sleep in it and go ****yourselves
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)The town hall has the recipe to get very personal and ugly.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)If Trump is saying that it is a woman's fault if her husband is unfaithful, does this mean that Trump's actions are Melania's fault? CNN's Erin Burnett reported that Trump tried to kiss and seduce one of her friends in 2010, when Trump had long been married to Melania. In Trump's world, he is blameless, because Melania is enabling him.