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Distraught GOP consultant hints she may leave party after disgraceful display by Trump and CPAC crowd
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03 Mar 2019 at 14:04 ET
Susan Del Percio -- screenshot
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Echoing the sentiments of her colleague Rick Tyler on Saturday who said the Republican Party is no more Susan Del Percio scalded both the president and the attendees while speaking with MSNBC host Alex Witt.
What do you think about what he [Tyler] said there and how the president portrayed himself yesterday, host Witt asked after airing a clip of the GOP consultant gloomily describing the state of the party.
I think Rick was absolutely right, Alex, Del Percio replied. I dont think it was embarrassing I think it was an embarrassment. I dont think it was a speech, I think it was a rant and a disgraceful way for the president of the United States to handle himself.
Rick is right about what hes done to the conservative movement its been completely hijacked, she continued. I blame the people in that crowd because they would rather be entertained than face hard realities and face the fact that they have sold themselves out to the great entertainer of our political times. Thats all they have done, they are doing nothing to move forward policies that matter, for us to be taken seriously as a party.
Im fortunate enough that I have some, actually prominent Democrats saying, Please dont leave the party yet. I know youre ready to go but we need solid Republicans like yourself to move forward, she added.
Gothmog
(145,218 posts)I feel sorry for her. She used to be on every weekend with Governor Dean
PatSeg
(47,429 posts)these days. I really thought she had already left the party, being she is quite sane.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Always tried to make her points logically, even when I violently disagreed with her, I respected that. She never tried to shout over her opposition.
area51
(11,908 posts)Mystery sage
(576 posts)TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)This is who he is.
ZZenith
(4,122 posts)UTUSN
(70,691 posts)CharleyDog
(757 posts)RandySF
(58,805 posts)Liberal Jesus Freak
(1,451 posts)He just said it for two hours, unscripted and unhinged.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It's cruising along in the same direction it's always been headed. Del Percio has just decided to be all offended by it is the only difference.
Midnight Writer
(21,762 posts)When you drive your car towards Chicago, how can you act shocked that you arrive in Chicago?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)They let themselves be sold to the Moral Majority first because that was the only way they could get enough votes. Now, they've sold themselves to Russia in the form of a Reality TV star to continue in power.
What's next?
Quemado
(1,262 posts)she would have left years ago, or never joined in the first place.
Lochloosa
(16,064 posts)Im fortunate enough that I have some, actually prominent Democrats saying, Please dont leave the party yet. I know youre ready to go but we need solid Republicans like yourself to move forward, she added
ProfessorGAC
(65,021 posts)It's her excuse for being all talk/no action!
sprinkleeninow
(20,246 posts)Voltaire2
(13,027 posts)Initech
(100,070 posts)Instead they see the government as a form of entertainment and govern by how they would "own" the other side rather than listen to facts and reason. The government is not a form of entertainment.
lindysalsagal
(20,682 posts)45 destroys all he touches, including the gop.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)Check that last quote:
Im fortunate enough that I have some, actually prominent Democrats saying, Please dont leave the party yet. I know youre ready to go but we need solid Republicans like yourself to move forward, she added.
Yeah, right. Just like "many people don't know" and "many people are telling me........"
She'll be like Maine's Senator - says some old BS and goes back to kissing their a$$es the next day!
madaboutharry
(40,210 posts)She has not just woken up. In fact, she has been one of the loudest and most persistent Trump haters since day one.
She is an old school republican. I don't agree with her conservative views, but she is a decent person.
hlthe2b
(102,263 posts)WHy THIS one has her so fired up?
Seriously, i don't want to seek out the video clips, but if someone could describe one or two, that would be appreciated.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)like it was one of his underage beauty contestants was the final straw. Who knows.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)He could have dry humped the flag and the "patriots" in attendance would have wildly cheered him on while chanting "lock her up".
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)the word BULLSHIT. Such wonderful "Christians", all of them.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Just like Nazis and others down through time before them, they use religion to justify them doing evil.
hatrack
(59,585 posts)If not now, when? If not under these circumstances, under what circumstances?
sprinkleeninow
(20,246 posts)Yes, indeedy.
Faker. 😠
malaise
(268,993 posts)ReTHUG hack. She loves those RW judges and supported all of Bush's war crimes.
Not one did I hear her condemn the birther movement.
Spare me.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)She hates Trump for what he did to Jeb and how he did it. But she knows what the rightwing loons in her party are capable of, so she mouths discomfort, but basically plays along.
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Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Upon being told about the Trump candidacy, Trump presidency and everything that made it possible (from Nixon's Southern Strategy to The Powell Memo to the Moral Majority to Reagan's dog whistling to the Tea Party backlash to a Black president), the consultant asked to be put back into a coma.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)The Republican Party has been complete garbage since before Strom Thurmond switched parties. But Trump (father of Birtherism, sexual assaulter, misogynist, serial liar, racist, traitor, tax cheat, etc., etc., etc.) at CPAC has finally gone too far apparently. Jesus H Christ.
Republicans are, for the most part, just terrible, terrible people.
rwsanders
(2,599 posts)We don't need more former GOP's joining to drag things further to the right.
BumRushDaShow
(128,958 posts)WTF? Really?
Ya'll made that bed and ya'll gonna sleep in it.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Sorry, I'm sick to death of fucking repugs. SICK OF THEM and their hypocrisy.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)got too much stink on her!
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)This radical takeover of the GOP/Conservative movement has been going on for some time,
and went full bore with the tea party infestation while President Obama was in office.
All Trump has done is give these freaks a soapbox.
That is the problem the GOP will have to clear up if they want to exist.
In the meantime, I'm down with anything that cripples the GOP for a few election cycles.
The damage is in process. I believe there will be more indirect and direct damage to the GOP once all of the investigations are complete.
Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)But that's CPAC for you.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I guess they hope her spark of clarity will lite up other repukes. Not that therere many lucid enough to see farther than the noise machine bubble they live in.
HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)Please, Stay where you are. You'll do less damage that way.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Doitnow
(1,103 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,165 posts)I listened for a little over 2 minutes. Didn't the Democrats warn them that "children are listening" 3 years ago!
Well settle in because the children are going to hear a whole lot more about their president.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...yes, Trump's true nature has been obvious from the beginning. And the truly honest conservatives--those very few--have seen it from the start. But people are not perfect, and it's hard to face the fact that the party--and movement--you've devoted your life to has gone rotten. How easy would it be for us, if--God forbid--a radical extremist movement hijacked the Democratic Party, and a demagogue used it to slip into the White House? No, we are not them, of course we aren't, and I am not suggesting so. But all human activities are capable of corruption, evil isn't only on one side, and we are all sinners. The sin of pride we see everywhere on the American Right is capable of proliferating among us too. No--Ms Del Pelcio has at least begun to see the light, and this is a good thing. If we liberals framed the issue not as Right vs Left, but as people, liberal and conservative, who believe in facts and empirical evidence, versus Trumpistas...we just might break off enough sane conservatives to make the difference.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Since the Southern Strategy, they have built their brand based upon hate, she was part of that. We built our brand on looking for people's better angels and helping those in need, while protecting everyone's rights.
I feel for her and other republicans that are disgusted with Trump, but it is up to THEM to vote for the democrat in 2020, them sitting home or sucking up the swill and voting for Trump only shows what they are. People in our party has spent decades having people like Ms Del Percio question our patriotism and make stuff up about us. It is up to them to step up and help us save the country, we owe them nothing and must not make any promises to them, we are perfectly capable of saving the country on our own if we avoid 2016 type divisiveness.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...a promise to try and be fact-based, and not empirically-challenged. If we do this--not making any compromises with our values, making it clear we are liberals and expect that everyone in this country believes--or should believe--in liberal democracy...well, we can--as you say--save the country ourselves. But we would also, maybe, get the sane conservatives--whatever their past sins, which I agree with you 100% they're guilty of--to try and move their party a little closer to being the conservative wing of a liberal democracy...instead of being a party committed to liberal democracy's overthrow, as they are now. Is it possible? It better be...
SWBTATTReg
(22,118 posts)national forum. It just showcases his obvious pitfalls and failings as a human being and as president even more so. Anyone up yet for their rabies shots?
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)But the point that someone made about judges, tax cuts, killing critical regulations, growing the military foreever is maybe what keeps her republican.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)They are all just offended by Trump's crassness. They are just fine with the rw judges being nominated and confirmed, regulations being gutted, federal land being leased for less than the cost of a Sunday newspaper, tax cuts, cuts to the social safety net and every other thing the last 2 years of total GOP control have brought.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)As soon as Trump is safely gone, they will be back to demonizing us and calling us names.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)When I have listened to her, it was clear that she was uncertain about what was happening to her party. My only guess is longtime loyalties are what is keeping her in it, hoping that some rare sane republican will rise up and remove Trump as the party head.
agingdem
(7,849 posts)we're three years into this Kabuki and the Orange Magat's "graceful display" and the morons that eat up his bullshit with a knife and fork is what's giving you pause?...you "may leave the party"?...what's wrong with you!!!
LAS14
(13,783 posts)Im fortunate enough that I have some, actually prominent Democrats saying, Please dont leave the party yet. I know youre ready to go but we need solid Republicans like yourself to move forward, she added.
DFW
(54,377 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 4, 2019, 05:42 AM - Edit history (1)
As long as there are people who are filled with fear, jealousy, sadism, anger, paranoia, and religious fanaticism; as long as there are mean-spirited people, control freaks and the downright frustrated, then there will ALWAYS be a Republican Party.
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)if and when Trump leaves.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)DFW
(54,377 posts)That was the shortest death on record.
elias7
(3,999 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)way she is leaving the Republican Party, since she hasn't left before now. I have far more respect for Nicole Wallace.