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I hate Donald Trump. But he might get my vote.
The Washington Post ^ | June 28, 2016 | Jim Ruth

Posted on 06/28/2016 9:57:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

No Trump campaign buttons or bumper stickers for me. I’m part of the new silent majority: those who don’t like Donald Trump but might vote for him anyway. For many of us, Trump has only one redeeming quality: He isn’t Hillary Clinton. He doesn’t want to turn the United States into a politically correct, free-milk-and-cookies, European-style social democracy where every kid (and adult, too) gets a trophy just for showing up.

Members of this new silent majority, many of us front-wave baby boomers, value hard work and love the United States the way it was. We long for a bygone era when you didn’t need “safe spaces” on college campuses to shelter students from the atrocity of dissenting opinions, lest their sensibilities be offended. We have the reckless notion that college is the one place where sensibilities are supposed to be challenged and debated. Silly us....

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TOPICS: New York; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016endorsements; 2dv; districtofcolumbia; election2016; hillary; jimruth; newyork; secondshift; trump; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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1 posted on 06/28/2016 9:57:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fascinating propaganda that would do Goerhing proud!

I’ll have to examine this hit piece tomorrow.
It’s a piece of art.


2 posted on 06/28/2016 10:04:15 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My ex mother-in-law’s husband is a flaming liberal and is voting for Donald. He does have a Hillary bumper sticker on his car so his buddies don’t harass him.


3 posted on 06/28/2016 10:04:44 PM PDT by ParityErr (It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whatever your rational is, pull the lever for Trump & bring your friends.

The author doesn’t like Trump because he is a bully. He must really hate the bully/dictator Obama.


4 posted on 06/28/2016 10:04:57 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t care if you like it or not, vote Trump! Otherwise America is screwed.


5 posted on 06/28/2016 10:08:01 PM PDT by BAW (It's gunna be Yuge!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Schizophrenia, or at least cognitive dissonance, is alive and well at the Washington Post! ;-)

On a serious note, now we are beginning to see why the “conservatives” have been rolling over for the progressives. They think that standing up for their principles in more that an academic way is “bullying”! No wonder they hate the “Tea Party”! They see the Tea Party as a bunch of bullies trying to force their “club” to do things differently. Same for Christians who are just trying to bully the poor perverts with their moral principles.


6 posted on 06/28/2016 10:09:16 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!e)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author is a moron, nevertheless he might do the right thing. Fine. Otherwise he is as uninteresting as it is possible to be.


7 posted on 06/28/2016 10:09:49 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here’s what he’s saying:

“Donald Trump might save my country, but I’m not grateful to him. It’s more important to me to preen and strut, telling myself I’m better than he is.”


8 posted on 06/28/2016 10:13:56 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: mrsmith

You mean Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister.

Goering was the Luftwaffe commander.


9 posted on 06/28/2016 10:16:47 PM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverShrillary)
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To: Arthur McGowan

The WA Compost kissing ass and covering their ass. That is how I view it.


10 posted on 06/28/2016 10:17:59 PM PDT by Fungi (Make America America again.)
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To: ParityErr
Trump got four Obama loving in-laws to vote for him in the MO primary. I still am in shock over those votes. There is no bigger bully than the present government bureaucracy. Unfortunately, so called conservatives lust to ride over the bully government infrastructure. Just read their ‘policy’ papers.
11 posted on 06/28/2016 10:20:06 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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As always, the real learning experience is reading the commentary and the reaction of the slimy, hating left. They really don't see what they are doing, and the logical result of their true clinical stupidity.

I just hope they are not so dim as to think we are going to let them drag us over the cliff. I could describe the solution, but it isn't very Christian...

12 posted on 06/28/2016 10:27:16 PM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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I see no other candidates thartare standing up for America, its Americans, or the Constitution like Trump. The others are Commie sellouts who see no value in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, one of which I know would arm our enemies and sell them intel for $$$. Trump is the only real choice I see that has any chance of delivering us from the Hell that Obama, ValJar, and Soros have planned for us.


13 posted on 06/28/2016 10:28:09 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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I’ll have to examine this hit piece tomorrow. It’s a piece of art.

Well please do it first thing in the morning!

I think the key is in the title. The author is worried about back-sliders, whoever they may be. It's a remarkable admission that such a mentality even exists ... i.e. a secret attraction to Trumpism.

14 posted on 06/28/2016 10:29:08 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I see no other candidates that are standing up for America, its Americans, or the Constitution like Trump. The others are Commie sellouts who see no value in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, one of which I know would arm our enemies and sell them intel for $$$. Trump is the only real choice I see that has any chance of delivering us from the Hell that Obama, ValJar, and Soros have planned for us.


15 posted on 06/28/2016 10:29:41 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I believe there is a few more variations of this political creature out there. I remember some state polls during the primaries that showed Trump with 65% unfavorable/very unfavorable and he won the state with 48% of the vote. Maybe we are seeing this in today’s head to head polls with 15-20% no choice.

Best election ever!


16 posted on 06/28/2016 10:31:24 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
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This gomer: 2nd Div. Vet., has found a calling, denigrating DJT, using his credentials as some sort of get out of jail free card. I say- pound sand!


17 posted on 06/28/2016 10:36:36 PM PDT by freepersup (Trump is exposing the Fifth Column in the US!)
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To: freepersup

This is a positive article genius.


18 posted on 06/28/2016 10:41:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The comments after the article reveal how afraid the libtard loons are of the possibility of a Trump win. They are coming unhinged and I am celebrating their psychopathic paranoia....


19 posted on 06/28/2016 10:45:44 PM PDT by clintonh8r
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds to me like he likes Trump quite a bit. So do I for many of the same reasons.


20 posted on 06/28/2016 10:47:12 PM PDT by TexasCruzin ( He always hits back.)
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