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Heavyweight breaks ranks with GOP, endorsing Clinton (Turncoat Armitage)
The Hill ^ | June 16, 2016 | Jesse Hellmann

Posted on 06/16/2016 10:12:30 AM PDT by jazusamo

Richard Armitage, who held top national security positions in the administrations of former Presidents George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, said he would vote for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over her likely Republican rival, Donald Trump.

"If Donald Trump is the nominee, I would vote for Hillary Clinton," Armitage, who served as a deputy secretary of State under Bush and as an assistant secretary of Defense under Reagan, told

Politico on Thursday.

"He doesn't appear to be a Republican. He doesn't appear to want to learn about the issues. So I'm going to vote for Mrs. Clinton."

Clinton hit Trump earlier this month on national security, saying his ideas would put America in greater danger and inspire more terrorist attacks.

"A ban on Muslims would not have stopped this attack," Clinton added on Wednesday, referring to the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. over the weekend.

"Neither would a wall. I don't know how one builds a wall to keep the internet out," she said. "Not one of Donald Trump's reckless ideas would have saved a single life in Orlando."

--This report was updated at 12:32 p.m.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 201606; 2016election; antitrump; armitage; clinton; colinpowell; election2016; endorsements; hillary; hillaryclinton; jessehellmann; leakers; newyork; nigerflap; orlando; orlandoshooting; plamenamegame; powell; richardarmitage; trump
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To: jazusamo
Well....heavyweight certainly describes him physically....

but it's easier to find a Higgs-Boson particle than to find his moral core.

41 posted on 06/16/2016 10:41:13 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: jazusamo

everybody who supports the hag has to be as criminal minded as she is. No exceptions for the DC politicians.


42 posted on 06/16/2016 10:41:31 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: jazusamo
"He doesn't appear to be a Republican. He doesn't appear to want to learn about the issues. So I'm going to vote for Mrs. Clinton."

"Being a closet commie, I have decided to go the worst route for America because I don't like the man with the balls to act like a man - he intimidates me"....

43 posted on 06/16/2016 10:42:09 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: jazusamo
The gobbled rationalization, that Trump "doesn't appear to want to learn about the issues," is something of a tip off.

Trump has been debating the issues. What upsets those into "political correctness," which Trump correctly rejects, is that Trump does not see the issues through their prism. Trump is not ignorant of the issues. He just puts America & the Americans First. Those who would surrender our heritage cannot stand the presence of those who remain loyal.

(I doubt if Benedict Arnold would have been comfortable in the presence of George Washington, after hostilities ended at York Town.)

The overriding issue, actually, is whether we will adhere to our Constitutional duty, and put America First or not. Trump gets it. This Armitage has apparently forgotten it, if he ever really understood.

44 posted on 06/16/2016 10:43:45 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: dowcaet

“Face it folks. It’s Trump and those of us who support him against everyone else now.”

We have zero media.

All of these GOPe types openly endorsing Hillary or calling Trump racist

The “true conservatives” either pouting in the corner or actively working with the Democrats. They certainly arent critical of Hillary.

Romney and Co. stopping all of the money

Leftist mobs attacking Trump supporters. People even refusing service to people they know are.

All of the entertainment industry is helping the left.

Social media is already openly censoring and manipulating the internet. That’s not even a secret.

So what do we even have to work with? Trump does a ton of heavy-lifting, but sometimes it is like we have virtually nothing else. Simply telling these people “FU” and “he’s outed another RINO” is fun and all, but is that all we have here to do?


45 posted on 06/16/2016 10:49:56 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: jazusamo

Hey Richard, no republican votes for a commie criminal. You aren’t a republican.


46 posted on 06/16/2016 10:51:52 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: jazusamo
"He doesn't appear to be a Republican. He doesn't appear to want to learn about the issues. So I'm going to vote for Mrs. Clinton."

Gives dumb eF's a bad name.

47 posted on 06/16/2016 10:54:09 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: jazusamo

They’ve forgotten about Arlen Specter already


48 posted on 06/16/2016 10:56:11 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: jazusamo

All the Bushies are going to endorse Clinton. Bushes and Clintons are the same.


49 posted on 06/16/2016 10:58:56 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: jazusamo

Armitrage-Heavyweight?? Could have fooled me.


50 posted on 06/16/2016 11:00:23 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: jazusamo

He was a coward.


51 posted on 06/16/2016 11:02:12 AM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: jazusamo

The Plame leaker? Not surprised...


52 posted on 06/16/2016 11:22:56 AM PDT by SueRae (An election like no other..)
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To: jazusamo

Jesse Hellman is a little on the ignorant side if s/he thinks Armitage is a “heavyweight”.

Armitage is/was a career bureaucrat, not a heavyweight.


53 posted on 06/16/2016 11:33:23 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper ((Just say no to HRC))
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To: SoFloFreeper

There’s this: http://newsok.com/article/2192079


54 posted on 06/16/2016 11:36:03 AM PDT by JmyBryan
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To: jazusamo

Not at all surprised. Steeped is he in the ring of fire that is DC. It’s another country, not even remotely reflective of its host country Texas and it’s neighboring states (the other 30 or so)


55 posted on 06/16/2016 11:36:41 AM PDT by CARTOUCHE (I am prepared and like a watchman in the night.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

You’re absolutely right.


56 posted on 06/16/2016 11:38:07 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo
Armitage was in favor of allowing German men to immigrate to the United States during World War II ...

Why?

Because he had been to Germany as a youth and said most of the people there were nice... That's why we speak German today...

57 posted on 06/16/2016 11:39:28 AM PDT by GOPJ ("9-in-10 GOP outsiders say 4-in-10 GOP insiderds should STFU". - Freeper RoosterRedux)
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To: jazusamo

YOU sir are part of the problem.


58 posted on 06/16/2016 11:43:39 AM PDT by coincheck (Time is Short, Salvation is for Today)
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To: GOPJ

What a complete idiot, guess he never heard of the death camps and 6 million Jews being murdered.


59 posted on 06/16/2016 11:44:00 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: sport

+1
Never thought anti americanism went so dee.
Feel like I’ve been lied to forever.
These so-called republicans can suck it.


60 posted on 06/16/2016 11:44:21 AM PDT by bantam
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