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In reply to the discussion: They are turning on Trumpy! About time! Mona Charen just wrote about being escorted out of CPAC [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)47. You are right on the details but wrong on the bigger picture
1) Professional pundits like her will not vote for Democrats but that isn't the issue, we just need for 5% of the Republicans to simply stop voting. With a swing of 10% in Independents and an energized Democratic electorate we can build a wave, it is coming.
2) People like her are a metric for the Republican population, especially women who will vote for Democrats. I have a close relative who has voted Republican for 40 years and told me recently "if the Democrats don't win in a landslide the country is lost".
It isn't just conservatives but the "institutionalists" who work in criminal justice, military, corporations who are not going to vote for Trump who tries to conning people that he is with the pitchfork and shovel crowd.
It is all good for us. Don't have to vote for Democrats, just stop voting for Republicans.
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They are turning on Trumpy! About time! Mona Charen just wrote about being escorted out of CPAC [View all]
FM123
Feb 2018
OP
Mona, you can cry, cry, cry -- but you helped get him elected. So. live with it. nt
NCjack
Feb 2018
#1
I'm happy with every convert. Every Republican who decides to vote for Democrats no matter what
pnwmom
Feb 2018
#2
There are a number who are urging it. If they are openly telling others to do so,
pnwmom
Feb 2018
#14
I believe that Mona wants to revise the GOP to be slightly left of Trump. That is, she likes
NCjack
Feb 2018
#63
It's a positive step when they won't vote for a tRump or a tRump-licker like Paul Ryan. . . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2018
#33
He's a centrist founder of the Lawfare blog, and he's organizing a group of R's to pledge
pnwmom
Feb 2018
#43
Yes. I don't think true republican conservatives have any choice but to vote with us.
Blue_true
Feb 2018
#67
So far, the only time she speaks out is when Trump says or does something bad about a
spooky3
Feb 2018
#44
The teapary or freedumb contingent are ignorant racists who got involved to
Eliot Rosewater
Feb 2018
#55
I hope that I am correct to, but we can't let voting get to a case where our backs are
Blue_true
Feb 2018
#75
I still have trouble thinking of their current drive as being to the "Right" as we know it.
Pope George Ringo II
Feb 2018
#56
She is in denial. Conservatives have used hate and identity politics for decades
sharedvalues
Feb 2018
#10
Yet Steele backed Ed Gillespie, and didn't criticize him when he went down the racist road.
OnDoutside
Feb 2018
#22
That is true, but I would like MSM to push them on what exactly "Conservatism" is. If Trump wasn't
OnDoutside
Feb 2018
#26
They didn't "out" him while campaigning because they ALL took russian dirty money.
lindysalsagal
Feb 2018
#19
Mona appears to be at Step 1 of 12. She acknowledges her political life has become unmanageable.
Marcuse
Feb 2018
#36
She's a woman, so it will be easier for them to dismiss her as easily corruptable
ehrnst
Feb 2018
#51
Mona Charen, exposing some decent instincts. That's how bad trump has made things. (nt)
Paladin
Feb 2018
#53
of course she got booed and escorted out. She had an extremely rare bout of brief truth telling
mnmoderatedem
Feb 2018
#72