A letter that urges the Republican National Committee to cut off funds to Donald Trump has collected more than 120 signatures from current and former elected officials, according to the final version obtained by CBS News.
The letter, which will be delivered to RNC Chairman Reince Priebus Tuesday, includes two sitting members of Congress and 27 former RNC staffers, among many others.
"Given the catastrophic impact that Donald Trump's losing presidential campaign will have on down-ballot Senate and House races, we urge you to immediately suspend all discretionary RNC support for Trump and focus the entirety of the RNC's available resources on preserving the GOP's congressional majorities," says the letter, whose draft CBS reported on last week when there were already 70 signatures.
It adds that Trump's chances of winning in November are "evaporating by the day." [...]
"We believe that Donald Trump's divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide, and only the immediate shift of all available RNC resources to vulnerable Senate and House races will prevent the GOP from drowning with a Trump-emblazoned anchor around its neck," the letter says.
The group added that every dollar the RNC spends on Trump's campaign "is a dollar of donor money wasted on the losing effort of a candidate who has actively undermined the GOP at every turn." [...]
This is a perfect CBS Leftist anti Trump story. Only 2 of the 120 are currently in congress and they are retiring. How about providing some names? The Bush failures (Bush was the worst Republican president up to his time) certainly would be against Trump. These people don't at all represent the feelings of the general Republican base and certainly not the voting base.
ReplyDeleteThe Rinos who are enslaved to the Democrats should certainly be afraid and they are working full time to undermine Trump. Trump is going to change a lot of things and many who are comfortable with the current mess are going to do all they can to try to stop him
what paranoid drivel. Not only do we have evil Hillary undermining our society and morals - but she has infiltrated the Republican party by means of the evil left wing media. Don't trust anything that is reported in the evil media because the real truth is that silent majority will be voting Trump with a landslide to show how fedup the true Americans are with the slimy establishment.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the reasoning concerning flying saucers and the John Birch Society's view of Communism in America or the Sanhedria Murchevet satanic abuse rings. In short I shouldn't trust any source of information accept you - because everyone else is part of the conspiracy and has been comprised.
Daas Torah, sometimes you just have to accept the 'facts of life'.
ReplyDeletebut it is usually better to deal with reality
ReplyDeleteI'll admit. I am suspicious of the polls. But it's not a suspicion based on conspiracy theories.
ReplyDeleteI would like to put up a Trump sign on my lawn. I'm afraid to do it, however. I live in an area of the country that has a significant immigrant population, including many undocumented aliens. I neither want to offend them nor anger them. So no Trump lawn sign.
I suspect that many who will eventually support Mr. Trump in the general election are like me: closet supporters. Oh, during the weeks going up to the election they'll hem and haw when talking to co-workers about how they are voting. They'll tell pollsters they are undecided. Come the actual day and they will then vote for Mr. Trump by rationalizing "can't stand him -- but he'll (fill in the blank)\_\_\_\_ (1) stand up to ISIS (2) reduce taxes etc".
Are these the words of irrationality?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/16/trump-says-clinton-democrats-have-failed-and-betrayed-african-americans-after-milwaukee-riots.html
Don't know why we bother with the polls and the pundits - all we need is our imagination and we can answer all questions
ReplyDeleteDon't see that they make too much sense. Yes the solution to all social problems is more police. Bigger jails and harsher sentences
ReplyDelete"'everyone should have respect for the law and be respected by the law.'"
ReplyDeleteWe put the kids in school for years. Would it kill us to have respect for police taught as part of the curriculum? As it is, many kids in inner city pick up disrespect for police from their environs -- from people, many criminals, mouthing off and dissing all cops.
What a world of difference it would make if kids were able to learn the value of policing in a civil society. The liberal agenda rules in the public schools to a great extent. The failure to do what I suggest and what Mr. Trump is advocating as evidenced in the above quote, lies to a great extent with the Democratic Party.
Defeat ISIS. Teach respect. Stand up for the country. Keep out noxious elements. Outlaw revolving door lobbying. Makes sense to me.
From the first link in your comment:
ReplyDelete“You’re not going to find a lot of black people who openly support Donald Trump,” Trump supporter Pastor Mark Burns, an African-American preacher from South Carolina, told the New York Daily News. “If they openly supported Donald Trump, they’d get viciously attacked within their own community.”
I made a similar point in a previous comment.
Yes I can definteily see a course "Respecting the Police 101" Grade is dependent upon an essay saying nice things about the police and extra credit if you get a picture taking hugging a policeman or inviting him to a barbecue or having a beer in your backyard.
ReplyDeleteWe should have course for inner city kids not to get involved in criminal activity and not to use drugs and to be respectful to their neighbors. The fact that this hasn't happened is because of the bleeding heart left wing democrats who don't see blacks as people and are bigoted. They just want the blacks to be addicted to welfare and food stamps
yes that just confirms my point - Trump is not just disliked but is hated by blacks. Trumps attacks on Clinton are not resonating with the target audience
ReplyDeleteHave you read the reports from the justice department about police practices in Baltimore and Ferguson? Respect needs to be earned, not just taught.
ReplyDeleteYou're complaining to me about listening to selected sources while you are ignoring the widespread and open indication that the mainstream media is totally compromised. Here is a report from one of your Left wing flunkies indicating the widespread and pervasive media bias
ReplyDeletehttp://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/15/glenn-greenwald-u-s-media-essentially-100-percent-united-donald-trump/
Why didn't they list the names of the mythical 120? What were they afraid of? Your belief in Hillary the criminal over a somewhat disorganized Donald shows a great misunderstanding of the evil that she represents and all the well known and documented danger that she manifests to Jewish interests. Do you think her arab spring was good? How do you like Huma Abedin with her Muslim Brotherhood connections? What about her close virulently anti Semitic Blumenthal advisers? This is just a tiny fragment of the disaster that Hillary is and you follow a poor maybe about Trump to discount him.
I think I am far less paranoid than you are in discounting Trump.
Trump numbers are higher in Internet based polling, due to the heightened anonymity. Many are your neighbors who also wish to put up a Trump sign on their lawn.
ReplyDeleteRegarding this election, I trust my imagination, even on my worst days, than the Mainstream Media's pundits and polls.
ReplyDeletewhat will you do when Trump loses?
ReplyDeletewe obviously don't live in the same reality
ReplyDeleteA comprehensive program of education is required. It will take leadership to implement.
ReplyDeleteI'm here at ground zero, boots on the ground, pick any metaphor to describe what I'm trying to do. I know what I'm up against because I deal with the entrenched bureaucracy. It often comes back to those in power saying only those in power can make these programs. But they don't so it doesn't happen. It's an uphill battle to do anything without coming up against some law or regulation limiting it. So it's not a conscious liberal plan to undermine the underprivileged but the result of their arrogating all power and overregulating and legislating is the same: social stagnancy and deterioration.
ReplyDeleteVote Trump.
What does that question have to do with this discourse?
ReplyDeleteJew-hatred on the Left. From the BLM platform:
ReplyDeleteThe US justifies and advances the global
war on terror via its alliance with Israel and is complicit in the
genocide taking place against the Palestinian people. The US requires
Israel to use 75 percent of all the military aid it receives to buy
US-made arms. Consequently, every year billions of dollars are funneled
from US taxpayers to hundreds of arms corporations, who then wage
lobbying campaigns pushing for even more foreign military aid. The
results of this policy are twofold: it not only diverts much needed
funding from domestic education and social programs, but it makes US
citizens complicit in the abuses committed by the Israeli government.
Israel is an apartheid state with over 50 laws on the books that
sanction discrimination against the Palestinian people. Palestinian
homes and land are routinely bulldozed to make way for illegal Israeli
settlements. Israeli soldiers also regularly arrest and detain
Palestinians as young as 4 years old without due process. Everyday,
Palestinians are forced to walk through military checkpoints along the
US-funded apartheid wall.
There's quite a bit more about Israel there. This is the Democratic party today.
https://policy.m4bl.org/invest-divest/
how is that jew hatred? they don't like israel's policies
ReplyDeletedisrespect for police is largely due to the conduct of police
ReplyDeleteUnhelpful comment. Rabbi Carey Friedman is America's unofficial Rabbi to police. (http://www.chaplainusa.org/new-page/) I've heard him speak on the subject of police. I have a friend who vets candidates for police training (http://www.policetest.com). And anecdotal evidence gathered over the years. All seem to indicate that people generally become law enforcement officers (LEO) because they want to help people. As one LEO in Europe put it, as a young man he was enticed to become a police officer for just that reason: he was told about all the nice things he could for people. That was before he was stabbed, etc, while doing his job and reality began to set in. He didn't regret his choice, and his son also became a LEO. It is just that as I learned from Rabbi Friedman, being exposed to the underbelly of society day in and day out can have a corrosive effect on the men and women who serve.
ReplyDeleteSo don't give me this "it's the police". I could answer that "it's the inner city culture and society". The truth is that it is both -- it's a feedback loop of distrust that must be broken.
Reports from Obama's Justice Dept. aren't worth the paper they're printed on! The mess in Ferguson happened because a thug named Michael Brown attacked a cop who had told him to get out of the middle of the road. Officer Darren Wilson deserved respect but instead you have this topsy-turvy world where the crooks are mourned and the cops have to walk on eggshells not to offend.
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