Reason # 45: Republican?
People who read these posts have asked me why I hate Republicans so much. The answer is simple. I don’t hate Republicans. I grew up in a Republican family. My grandparents were Republicans. My mother and father were Republicans – Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh fans. My aunts and uncles and cousins were also Republicans, hard line Republicans in a few instances. I even made the terrible mistake of voting for Richard Nixon the first time.
What were their values? They did not like Democratic politics in New York City; it was corrupt. We all liked Ike. They were for law and order, they supported the military (one of my mother’s brothers had been killed in the battle of the Bulge, the other had spent two years in a German prison camp. They demanded sobriety and probity in their candidates. They were sexually conservative. Even a hint of marital infidelity would damage a candidate. Two messy divorces would be completely unacceptable. A tryst with a porn star – the kiss of death. No breath of falsehood, financial impropriety or personal scandal was acceptable. They were fiercely anti-communist. They were fiscally conservative.
It is inconceivable that any of these old time New York Republicans would ever have voted for Donald Trump. Even one public lie was a career ender. They could never have stomached 30.000 lies.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FD/FD00/20240515/117301/HHRG-118-FD00-20240515-SD003.pdf
Cozying up to Russian, Chinese and North Korean leaders? They all knew families who had lost sons fighting Chinese Communist and North Korean troops during the Korean conflict and other young men in Vietnam. They hated Communism and even a suggestion of collaboration with a Russian leader would elicit shouts of “treason”. Likewise, no one in my family would ever vote for a man with a history of not living up to his financial obligations. In any case everyone on Staten Island hated Fred Trump, who was a landlord widely despised by his tenants there.
All other New Yorkers read the papers every day and saw young Donald as a spoiled brat who made incredibly bad business decisions, ruined his investors, stiffed those who did business with him, screwed around on his wives and failed as a football owner. And how do you lose money in a casino where all of the games are rigged in favor of the house? This explains why Donald Trump does so horribly in the polls in his home city and state. All those who know him despise him. All those out there in the red states didn’t grow up with Donald; they only know his persona as projected onto their TV screens in The Apprentice. They are voting for a fictional character.
But all of these considerations are really irrelevant, since Donald Trump was not then and has never been a Republican. He got his start in Manhattan real estate with a tax boondoggle from Democratic mayor Abraham Beam, after he and his father had contributed large amounts to Beam’s campaign fund.
Jeb Bush noted that Trump was registered as a Democrat or an Independent far longer than as a Republican.
Others have argued that he is not a Republican at all.
https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/ken-walshs-washington/2016/02/22/is-trump-really-a-republican
A vote against Donald Trump will help rid the Grand Old party of a festering ulcer and perhaps drive it back to its root values.
Have a heart; use your mind, search your conscience, and vote for Democratic candidates – across the ballot – on November. 5th.
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