While I consider any anti-Trump voices welcome, I find the former Republicans more

[Atticus]

than a little difficult to accept at face value.

I'm admittedly biased and occasionally fit the "curmudgeon" stereotype for old white guys, but with the ex-GOP stalwarts, I can't get past "Where did you have your head stuck these past several decades?"

They did not know that a large percentage of their party was racist? Misogynistic? Homophobic? Antisemitic?

They did not know that the Limbaughs, Becks and Hannitys were simply nasty cheerleaders for the dregs of our society?

They did not know about the mean-spirited lies and hypocrisy and greed that have been the foundation of the "Grand Old Party" since Goldwater and Nixon and Reagan and Gingrich?

NOW they're ashamed?

I do believe in forgiveness and second chances, but it will take more than a sudden "one-eighty" to persuade me that either is yet merited.

[Irish_Dem]

1. They are not ashamed in the least. Only doing damage control.

[Walleye]

3. 👆Bingo

[Walleye]

2. This is new for McConnell isn't it? Does he know somethings coming

[PortTack]

5. No actually he's made several comments over the last few months aimed at tfg

Followed by “official” statements denouncing him and calling him names. Works for me

[PortTack]

4. Agree, but just like turtle and his recent comment about 1/6, it serves a purpose

He picks away at the festering wounded ego of tfg. The more unhinged he becomes the better it is for us

[Atticus]

7. Yes, his comment "served a purpose" but the person most responsible for Gorsuch,

Boof Boy and the Handmaiden being seated on the SCOTUS now "supporting democracy" is too much hypocrisy for me to swallow.

[PortTack]

19. Indeed turtle has harmed democracy many times over

[MyOwnPeace]

9. I do like that part.....

"The more unhinged he becomes the better it is for us."

And THANK GOD he (meaning TFG) is NOT in office anymore - it was scary enough when he was without the building pressure he's now facing!

Love McTurtle dumping on TFG - but McTurtle is NOT doing it for us - he's doing it for his own self-preservation - and McTurtle being 'preserved' is still a slug stopping actual progress for the Biden/Democratic agenda.

We need to chop them ALL down, one-by-one, and get this country working again - and it ain't gonna' be easy!

[Leith]

6. Any rethug who was rethug in the 1990s

has to do a lot more than shrug and insult that fuckin' goon. If they were okay with Ken Starr and Newtie, they weren't good people then or now.

[MyOwnPeace]

12. VERY good point.......

A group of Republicans went into the Oval Office and told Republican Richard Nixon that he had to go.

Who went in to see Trump? Kanye?

And now they're using Newt as an "advisor?"

[Stuart G]

8. Mitch now tells the truth, and he is a leader...The other guy..(you know who) is a fool and a killer

Mitch is standing tall for telling the truth..Rare...of course..but Mitch is above ..."The other guy."

and now, that is plain and clear to all....

[Demsrule86]

10. A vote is a vote. so I don't care.

[William769]

11. The enemy of my enemy

Is not necessarily my friend.

[MyOwnPeace]

14. But I'll take him on my side.......

and won't trust him for a second!!!!!

[abqtommy]

13. We know that one of the basic traits of our reTHUG Fascists is that they LIE. I can't ever

trust any of them.

[Funtatlaguy]

15. During this CURRENT critically urgent battle, I welcome their help.

The battle to keep our democracy is an all hands on deck situation.
Later, they can go back to their tribe.

[jcgoldie]

16. yeah

Racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-Semitism, setting the entire fucking planet on fire, cutting taxes for corporations at the expense of all social services for the people that need them most... all that stuffs okie dokie until the dumb rednecks try to ransack our office... that's a bridge too far!

[FSogol]

17. Trump was nothing more than a ruder, less polite, more crass version of Reagan.

Both wanted the same end result.

[Salviati]

18. What I want from them...

... is to not come to me looking for "attaboys". You feel ashamed at what your party has become? Do the hard work of talking to your former party bretheren and bring them around to your way of thinking, don't come over to our side and expect praise for marginally updating your antediluvian thinking...