Republican women organize to support Clinton

[Liberal_in_LA]

Huddled around a corner table during happy hour at the swanky St. Regis Hotel bar in downtown Washington, five young Republicans busily brainstormed how they could help Hillary Clinton become the next president of the United States.

The group included an unlikely gang of pro-Clinton foot soldiers, including a Mississippi-born Southern Baptist who got her start in GOP politics as an intern in the second Bush White House, a conservative health care policy analyst who has volunteered for anti-abortion causes and a former president of the Cornell University College Republicans.

Over glasses of wine and champagne Monday night, they kicked off the first steering committee meeting for a new organization: "Republican Women for Hillary."
Their motivation? Stop Donald Trump.

"It's really important that Republican leaders, especially Republican women leaders, stand up right now and say we're not OK with Trump representing our party," said Jennifer Lim, a group founder who works at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and has spent much of her life volunteering for Republican causes and campaigns. "This is not a position I ever wanted to find myself in. But it's important that when things like this happen that people speak up."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/02/politics/republican-women-organize-to-support-clinton/index.html

[Hekate]

1. Welcome, Sisters....

Their work will be very important to us in defeating Trump, and I welcome them with open arms.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. + a million! eom

[Thinkingabout]

3. Yes Trump spells danger with lots. Lets defeat him everywhere.

[JNelson6563]

4. It's good to know at least some Rs have a place where they draw the line.

I will never cease to be amazed at all they have been ok with up until now but at least there's some kind of awakening.

[Ford_Prefect]

5. That line in the sand must be somewhere to the right of off-the-planet?

Evidently they were going to be OK with Cruz or Rubio (or McCain/Palin) spouting racist hate and misogynist quasi-religious dogma, and 8 previous years of destruction, abuse and racism in Congress? As long as the suffering was going to be done by someone else why would they care?

Maybe that was the point, ie: they too now will suffer from the result? Or is it just that Trump is not refined enough in his presentation of the same dogma?

I guess it took Trump to get their heads out of the sand long enough to see where the line had been moved to by their own party leadership.

[Ilsa]

6. I welcome their votes for Hillary. nt