Republicans excoriate Trump 7-24-2016

24, July 2016                              Republicans excoriate Trump

Trump’s taunts had predicable consequences. Stung by personal insults many elites of the Republican Party responded with seething anger, contemptuous of their presumptuous leader.

A few examples. “He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party.  . . .” — Senator Lindsey Graham.

“I don’t think this guy has any more core principles than a Kardashian marriage.” — Senator Ben Sasse.

“I will not stop until we fight a man that chooses not to disavow the K.K.K. That is not a part of our party.” — Republican Governor Nikki Haley

“A moral degenerate.” — Peter Wehner, evangelical Christian commentator.

“Donald Trump is a madman who must be stopped,” — Bobby Jindal, former Republican governor of Louisiana.

I won’t vote for Donald Trump because he isn’t a truth teller. ... he is a bigot, misogynist. A fraud. A bully.” — Norm Coleman, former Republican senator from Minnesota.

“To support Trump is to support a bigot”.— Stuart Stevens, chief strategist to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.

“Donald Trump is unfit to be president. He is a dishonest demagogue  .  .  .” — Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard

 “I thought he was an embarrassment .  . to my country. … I can’t vote for him.” — Tom Ridge, former Republican governor of Pennsylvania and secretary of homeland security under George W. Bush.

“I would not vote for Trump, if there is any,  any . . other choice, a living, breathing person with a pulse, . .” — Mel Martinez, former Republican senator from Florida and former chairman of the RNC.

Putting Trump at the top of the ticket, is endorsing a brand of populism rooted in ignorance, prejudice, fear and isolationism.. … Never Trump.” — Henry M. Paulson Jr., Treasury secretary under George W. Bush.

 “Hillary is preferable to Trump, just like malaria is preferable to Ebola. ….” — Jamie Weinstein, senior writer, the Daily Caller, a conservative website

On the flip side, there are those cowardly Republicans like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell that fell in lock step in the interests of party power and feigned enthusiasm for their ‘Frankenstein’. Last but not least, let's call out Chris Christie who endorsed Trump in the rapacious hope that he would be nominated VP or Attorney General.