Quick Thought - Betty Tamposi is dead wrong - Granite Grok

Quick Thought – Betty Tamposi is dead wrong

Betty Tamposi, beloved of the Establishment Republicans, has a piece in the Concord Monitor where declares that Republicans must resist Donald Trump – he’s the Barbarian at the Gate of Republicans so we MUST go out and embrace the Goths, Vandals, and Visi-Goths.

Together, reaching across the aisle, Republicans, Democrats and independents can choose the candidate who is far better able to lead our country. That candidate is Hillary Clinton….I am voting for Hillary because she will be a president America can be proud of.

Yeah, that old reaching across the aisle has worked out just so dandily – sorry, but for the base, that is code for “we’re gonna help the Democrats move their agenda FORWARD“. Just look at the Republicans reaching across the aisle in implementing Obamacare here in NH.  Look at Kelly Ayotte willing to subvert the clear words of the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments “to keep us safe” – yeah, Constitutionally supportive, eh?

And you’re worried about Donald Trump????

Yeah, making common good with those that repeatedly say “Death to Republicans” and vote for Hillary Clinton is EXACTLY like what Rome did – how’d that work out for them?

Just like the Romans who had lost their founding vigor and walked away from First Principles, we should be blaming the GOPe for the disaster that is now the Republican Party from their hollowing out of the Party from the inside, setting the stage for someone like Trump to be the Presidential nominee.  Betty, dear, Trump’s finger that is about to fell the outer gate is not his fault – he’s just using arbitrage on a situation you helped to set up.

You have brought him upon yourselves.  My quick response is this:

The Establishment Republicans, of which Tamposi is one, are collectively losing their minds. The analogy that comes to mind is when Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy tried to work with the Soviets when he disliked the Republican President.

So Betty thinks that electing a Saul Alinsky devotee (whose Rules for Radicals gave the Socialist Left their street tactics now cumulative in the Alinsky President we have now (shhh – Obama used to TEACH those tactics)) and whose words (we need to take things from you, I am not responsible for every undercapitalized entrepreneur) scream Socialist, is now supposed to be better than Trump? Oh please – this is mere displeasure on steroids that the working people finally stood up and took Jeb Bush (and the other GOPe candidates out) simply because we’ve had it with the REpublican campaign one way and then act another once in office.

Sheep no more.

Make no mistake, I was for Cruz (and still am) but knowing the danger that Hillary presents (hey, she already has said she wants to gut the 1st & 2nd amendment, and she WILL take stuff away from people that earned that wealth) and that Trump may be all over the place, I’ll choose the perhaps over the certain doom. Two more terms of Obama, for that is what she has said she will do, will snap the last tendrils of this country holding onto the philosophy that cumulated in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution (and I still think our NH Constitution is better written than the US one).

Her Letter:

My Turn: Clinton is the only choice for Republicans

Over 100 years ago, Edmund Burke said, “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” So here we are, good men and women, having to make a crucial decision in the upcoming presidential election.

I am a lifelong Republican. While many good Republicans have recently left the party because Donald Trump has co-opted it, I refuse to allow him to define who we are as a party. I have heard some Republicans say, “I’m going to sit this one out. What choice do I have other than to not vote?”

That would be doing nothing. I’ve looked into it and we can do something. Together, reaching across the aisle, Republicans, Democrats and independents can choose the candidate who is far better able to lead our country. That candidate is Hillary Clinton.

My decision was not easy. I did my due diligence and found there are many things that make Donald Trump unfit to be the president. The self-proclaimed billionaire wants to do away with the federal minimum wage. He proclaims himself a “Sunday church person,” but his company manipulated students of Trump University into spending their savings and maxing out their credit cards to pay for worthless “workshops.” He has spent a lifetime cashing in, stiffing thousands of subcontractors, tradesmen and other hardworking Americans.

Trump’s casinos went belly-up, leaving investors to clean up the mess, but he boasted, “The money I took out of there was incredible. … I left before it cratered.” And yet he promises, “I’m going to do for America what I did for my businesses. I’m going to make America great again.”

Trump, who never served in the military, dissed John McCain – a hero who was tortured as a prisoner of war. He failed to make promised donations to veterans groups until the press called him out on it. He has repeatedly praised the murderous dictator Saddam Hussein. He reluctantly rejected the support of KKK leader David Duke, then posted an anti-Semitic slur with symbols that first appeared on a white nationalist and anti-Semitic website. Did he apologize? No, he said he wished he hadn’t allowed it to be removed.

He has mocked the handicapped, targeted Muslims, and made racist remarks about a judge who is presiding over a case of fraud brought against Trump. His treatment of women is appalling. I do not understand how any woman, no matter her political persuasion, can stand with a man who routinely demeans women, judging them on their physical appearance rather than their intellect, character or kindness. Can you imagine working for a man who ogles over women in a professional setting, referred to pregnancy as an “inconvenience” and asserted that women seeking abortions should be punished? In Donald Trump’s America, women will not stand a chance of achieving equal pay. Paid family leave will not be a legislative priority. A woman’s right to make her own health care decisions will not be protected. Women will not be equals. What we can expect from a President Trump is fear mongering, demagoguery and dishonesty.

Politifact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking project, deemed that 76 percent of Trump’s public statements are false. By contrast, they found that less than 10 percent of his statements are truthful. He has encouraged his supporters to punch protesters. He disrespects democracy, denigrating the values that make this country exceptional.

But I am not voting for Hillary simply because of Mr. Trump’s long pattern of racially and sexually charged comments and attitudes, and his unfit temperament. I am voting for Hillary because she will be a president America can be proud of. She is working to unite, not divide, our country. She wants an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. As she showed in the U.S. Senate and as secretary of state, she is a consensus builder. And if you examine her record, as I have, you know that she has fought for women and children; defended those who cannot defend themselves; and, worked to make our world a safer place. She has been tested and she has proven herself.

I implore my fellow Republicans, as well as independents and moderates, to fight the backward and contrary forces of Donald Trump. He is not of the party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt or Reagan. That is why many honorable Republicans have declined to support Donald Trump, including the last two Republican presidents. Let us commit to do what is best for our country, our peoples and our honor. We can choose to remain Republican and not vote for this particular nominee. There is only one candidate in this race who is qualified, prepared and with the temperament to be president.

Hillary Clinton has won my vote.

(Betty Tamposi served as an assistant secretary of state under George H.W. Bush and is a former New Hampshire legislator.)

Yeah, voting for someone (Hillary Clinton) that HATES Republicans and the Conservatism they represent…

Sidenote: heck, we real Conservatives hate the Establishment Republican faux Conservatism as well!

…and YOU think putting an Obama-work alike is going to get rid of what ails the Republican Party? That will push the process of ignoring the Constitution, the Congress, and the Judiciary is a “goodness”?  You prove my point I’ve been trying to make for the last 10 years.

News fer ya, Betty – (and I’m just echoing what YOU folks told us while looking down your collective noses at us): you have just proved that your just on the other side of that gate that Trump is about to push.

Except you’re pulling it down from the inside.

Look, I really don’t care – I resigned from the Party because I have seen the tremendous rot on the inside and unless there is a tremendous regeneration of Principles, both talked and acted upon, the Republicans are in the slow slouch toward Whigdom.  I have no idea what Republicans stand for anymore (at least at the Elite level) and the general public doesn’t either.

And telling people to vote for the “arch-enemy” is supposed to be helpful?

Daft, I say, just daft.

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