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Zorro

(15,751 posts)
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 12:28 AM Aug 2016

I’m a Republican and I don't like Hillary Clinton — but I’m voting for her

If Donald Trump had flamed out of the primaries as almost everyone expected, I would have proudly voted for Marco Rubio, John Kasich or Jeb Bush, and would have supported Scott Walker or Chris Christie. But compared with these candidates, Donald Trump lives on another planet. Simply put, he is not a Republican nor a conservative as we have understood those terms for decades.

Instead, I will vote for Hillary Clinton in November. I will do this knowing full well that she has more baggage than United Airlines and that she would nominate Supreme Court justices that would do violence to the 1st, 2nd and 5th Amendments to the Constitution. She flat-out lied about her home-brew server and the classified information on it, thereby imperiling national security. I recognize that she is owned in fee-simple by one of the most reactionary groups in the United States, the public employee unions. Further, I assume that the SVR, the foreign intelligence service of the Russian Federation, will cause to be released documents showing a very unsavory connection between Clinton’s actions as secretary of State and the Clinton Foundation.

Despite these serious flaws, Clinton believes in America and its values. Trump — who would establish religious tests for immigration and ethnic tests for judges — does not. She is open to the world; Trump is not.

Trump believes in only himself. As Khizr Kahn, the Muslim father of a slain U.S. Army captain noted at the Democratic Convention: Trump has “sacrificed nothing.”

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shulman-republican-clinton-voter-20160808-snap-story.html

Even a few RWNJs are coming around to the Clinton camp.

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I’m a Republican and I don't like Hillary Clinton — but I’m voting for her (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2016 OP
It's always nice to vote for someone you like but in reality underthematrix Aug 2016 #1
Nice backhanded bash at Hillary. LakeArenal Aug 2016 #2
You do realize this is an LA Times op-ed piece Zorro Aug 2016 #3
I'm pretty sure he/she didn't write the article a la izquierda Aug 2016 #4

underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
1. It's always nice to vote for someone you like but in reality
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 01:22 AM
Aug 2016

we should vote for the kind of America we want to live in.

LakeArenal

(28,863 posts)
2. Nice backhanded bash at Hillary.
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 02:11 PM
Aug 2016

You do realize that most of us here don't agree with your assessment of Secretary Clinton. Nice bash to unions as well.

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