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To all Republican leaders, if you weren’t born great, or haven’t yet achieved greatness—or even if you have—now is your time to accept the greatness that is being thrust upon you.
You have the chance to stop Donald Trump. You have the opportunity to prevent a calamity from happening. You have a legitimate platform from which you can defend the republic.
Certain moments in American history present a clear crossroads for the country. Below are a handful of examples:
- 1787 — the constitutional convention.
- 1865 — the nation responds to the end of the Civil War and President Lincoln’s assassination.
- 1941 — the nation enters World War II and chooses to be a global power.
- 1965 — the civil rights movement becomes a fixture of American society.
- 1974 — President Nixon resigns due to the Watergate scandal.
This is one of those moments.
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Your party has selected as its candidate a man who constitutes a serious threat to the American people, American institutions, and American allies.
He represents a radical departure from other modern-era presidential candidates, as:
- He has no political experience;
- He promotes programs and plans that are nonsensical and impractical;
- He regularly insults large groups of ethnic and religious minorities;
- He often incites violence at public meetings;
- Over 100 Republican public servants have vowed to not to support him, including 50 foreign-service career professionals.
He is unfit for the office. He lacks the experience and temperament to be president. He is a divisive and polarizing personality.
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You have the ability to take a principled stand in this election. You don’t have to follow the party line. As an elected politician you are bound by your oath defend the Constitution of the United States from all threats. Donald Trump is a threat.
You have before you an opportunity to take a courageous stand against a man who will do harm to this country. Your conscience should be your guide.
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So we loee 50 pandering, lying and meddling “diplomats” that are of the kind that prefer Regime Change and Color Revolutions over independent sovereignty……hell – that alone would get me to VOTE TRUMP
Many top Republicans mentioned voting for Gary Johnson as they could not in good conscience vote for Trump. The Republican party has been split and in a bit of disorder for some years now. It is, in my humble opinion, a time of great change for the GOP. They’ll either need to embrace a more Libertarian approach (social liberalism/conservative economics) or fade into obsolescence.
Thanks for the comment. I agree with you — things are at a breaking point with the GOP.
So, let me get this straight…We are suppose to vote for a two face, double dealing, double talking, proven liar instead? And might I ask just what qualifies Hillary Clinton to be President? “Donald Trump is a threat.” Yes, a threat to the Establishment that has brought us $20 Tril in debt, record numbers of Americans on food stamps, record numbers of Americans in poverty, zero real income growth for middle America, and income inequality resembling a Third World country. All of this nonsense you are spewing is just fear mongering. I got news for you. It is not going… Read more »
Absolutely not. Lets stop thinking about this in terms of two parties.
Nothing in this article advocates a vote for Hillary Clinton or supports her in any way.
That is patently the most sexist thing I’ve seen in a long time. So much for open minded consideration from the left as a way of being. What you just said is why were in massive division today.
How is this article sexist?
The article let wasn’t sexist David. The comment that expecting men not to vote for trump was very much so.
Dear Reader,
Please print this, or something to the effect, and mail it to all your republican representatives, both federal and state. Mail it to them as in a printed piece of paper in a stamped envelope. Email is far too easy to delete and forget.
And there are many more letters to Republicans that need to be printed and sent. Climate change for example. Make each one a separate letter.
Regular mail is just as easy to ignore as email, trust me.
You should know better than to ask men not to support Trump because they are men. It’s like asking whites not to support him because they are white. Everything about his persona, and his platform, is archetypically, performatively masculine.
Thanks for the comment. I would say that he represents many negative, unhealthy aspects of masculinity. But there’s a lot more to masculinity than what he offers.
I’d also like to address your points. 1. I think it’s a true bonus he has no political experience. Given the nature of all the political experience to date, that a plus. Pigs. Fleecing the sheep. Us. 2. Like the democrat policies of the last 50 years have ushered in more wealth and opportunities for their main voting constituency, not, yet continue to toss more money at it in the fantastically magical thinking it’s going to work. The only thing it’s done is get voters for them. Yet more and more people are now under government control, because they feed… Read more »
Mark, I appreciate your input.
No Mark it is the right winger that have been inciting violence. Who killed those four cops in Vegas during the Bundy stand off? It wasnt’ the left wingers nor was it the left-wingers that were pointing guns at law enforcement at the Bundy Ranch and taking over the federal building in Oregon.
A few instances here and there. Yawn.
Please provide references?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/29/us/politics/at-least-110-republican-leaders-wont-vote-for-donald-trump-heres-when-they-reached-their-breaking-point.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/08/us/politics/national-security-letter-trump.html
Do you have any idea why the don’t support him? . Try the fact that he’s out to upset they’re gravy train. The pigs at the trough on both sides of that trough are squealing in fear that their food line might get cut off. Here’s an example. Harry Reid stole, literally stole I believe 31000 of his campaign funds to buy a beautiful necklace for his granddaughter. He covered it up by saying it was a fictitious name as a gift. When found out he reluctantly gave the money back but absolutely refused to admit it, and even deflected… Read more »
Mark, fair enough. Your concerns about the corruption of the current system are understandable. But I think it’s wrong to say that Donald Trump is any less of a vile opportunist or that he has any real desire to clean the system up. What about Trump’s history suggests that he has any interest in enriching anyone other than himself? I think he’s capitalizing on people legitimate frustrations by promising them impossible fixes and easy scapegoats. This is how dictators come to power. It’s what Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/22/donald-trump-hugo-chavez-political-similarities
I guess that’s the difference here David. Thanks for your comment reply. Self interest is one of the greatest ways to enrich the whole. Been shown to be true throughout time. Adam Smith pointed this out in the 1700s and now all of a sudden we say he was wrong and that shared equity is the way to growth. That’s foolish. It’s not at all. Henry Ford. Edison. all followed that principle. Look at what we all got out of that self interest of theirs. Trump too. Think of how many families he’s taken care of by his own self… Read more »
I was referring to … “He promotes programs and plans that are nonsensical and impractical;
He regularly insults large groups of ethnic and religious minorities;
He often incites violence at public meetings”
I think promising an impenetrable wall on the southern border that Mexico will pay for followed by the mass deportation of 12 million undocumented residents is pretty impractical. Even if somehow he secured bipartisan political support for these initiatives, it would be next to impossible to carry them out. He has made specific comments about Mexicans, Muslims, and women that many people find deeply offensive. He’s entitled to his own opinions, of course, but I expect more from a president. He has walked a very fine line at his rallies suggesting that he would pay legal fees for those who… Read more »
You’ve generalized … give me specific quotes within context, not out of context.