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Related: About this forumEditorial: State GOP chairwoman’s defense of Trump disturbing
The Republican Partys reaction to a 2005 videotape that showed its presidential candidate Donald Trump bragging in the most obscene terms about sexually forcing himself on women ranged from those calling on him to step down, such as Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo, and those who stopped short of that call but said they would no longer vote from him, including Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and others deplored the comments but did not pull their support from their nominee.
And then there was Susan Hutchison, since 2013, chairwoman of the Washington state Republican Party, who employed an apologists hybrid of excuse and misdirection.
He [Trump] was a Democrat at the time and he was channeling Bill Clinton, Hutchison told KOMO-TV. And the hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton to say this man does not belong in the White House, when her husband defined this behavior, is just absurd.
Read that first sentence again. Slowly.
He was a Democrat at the time and was channeling Bill Clinton.
Translation: Since accepting Republican values into his heart, Mr. Trump has renounced the sins of the flesh that were typical of his opponents philandering husband.
http://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/editorial-state-gop-chairwomans-defense-of-trump-disturbing/
Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)GOP chairs in Washington. She used to be a local TV news talking head, which I guess is her appeal.
We are mostly a very blue state.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)She gushed over a visit to the Reagan Whitehouse in 1983. It was at that point I knew she was a Republican.
RainCaster
(10,882 posts)"Channeling Bill Clinton"? I just cannot believe her.