Great Tweetstorm from Repub never-Trumper Rick Wilson

[charlyvi]

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[Wounded Bear]

1. "You bought this bad pony. You ride it."

[C_U_L8R]

2. Bad pony!

Indeed.

Righteous tweets.

[charlyvi]

8. I like Rick Wilson.

Now, once this Trump mess blows over, he'll probably piss me off every other day, but I will at least never doubt his love of country.

[Blue_true]

22. I actually fear principled conservatives like Rick Wilson and Senator Ben Sasse.

They have screwed up views, but they honestly believe them and have personal integrity.

[CajunBlazer]

45. I agree

You may think this is strange, but I would rather see Trump survive grievously wounded than see him thrown out of office. I love his propensity for self destruction. If Trump goes we will get stuck with Pence who is a much smoother operator and whose views are much more closely aligned with those of Republican conservatives in Congress. He could get a lot more done legislatively than Trump.

[BigmanPigman]

47. I get your point and feel the same way. It's a tough call.

My mother would've said things like, "It's 6 of one, a half dozen of the other." Or, "Like being between a rock and a hard place". However, the Donald is so crazy who knows what he'll do (including himself). Pence is not as crazy but just as dangerous in other ways, especially with Ryan and McConnell support on one side and his 18th century wife/mother on the other side. Of course Pence is as guilty as hell too and may not make it to POTUS either, so if you go further down the line you get stuck with Ryan. We're screwed no matter how you look at it. I wish the entire election was null and void and we could have a do-over. I wish, I wish, I wish...

[Whiskeytide]

54. The only thing worse than a dysfunctional republican administration...

... is a functional one.

[Alice11111]

60. True, but DT will push the button, and he is getting

Crazier, angrier and more paranoid every day.

Pence just appliedfor his own PAC. That should threaten DT too.

It may be that his cabinetand Congree try to redeem themselves by invoking the 25th Amendment.

[Moostache]

63. Pence is a human garbage fire as well....just slightly more measured in public demeanor..

Ask any of the residents of Indianastan how they felt about Mike Pence last year or today....if Pence is elevated, he will be soundly whipped in 2020.

[JHB]

61. Rick's not THAT principled. He was fine with smearing Max Cleland...

He's a fighter, I'll give him that. But he was one of the people who built Kremlin Don's voting base by saying anything to help his guy win and then leaving voters to grind their teeth from the pivot after the election.

Glad he's hammering Trump (in op-eds and on Twitter), but then, as an conservative-establishment Republican political consultant, he can afford to, and it'll be good for his post-Trrump brand.

[writes3000]

3. Ding, ding, ding, DING! Wholesale truth!

[uppityperson]

4. K&R

[phylny]

5. K/R - n/t

[renate]

6. I like him!

Since I don't want to live in a Democratic version of a Fox "News" bubble, I like seeing sensible Republicans on MSNBC, like Rick, and Nicole Wallace and Charlie Sykes and David Jolly.

(Not Hugh Hewitt, though. Ew.)

[charlyvi]

7. Hugh Hewitt isn't a serious person

He just spouts propaganda.

[pnwmom]

17. Also, David Gergen and Ana Navarro. n/t

[LittleGirl]

25. Love me some Ana Navarro

wow, she's on it!

[renate]

32. oh yeah, David Gergen too!

I don't know Ana Navarro but I'll listen for her name the next time I watch CNN.

I forgot to mention Steve Schmidt. I like him too.

[pnwmom]

37. Yes, he's someone you can honestly disagree with, but feel he has some integrity.

Like the other names we've been mentioning.

[radical noodle]

44. David Frum and Charlie Sykes, too! n/t

[charlyvi]

55. Can't hang with you on Sykes.

Tried, but he's just tooooo complicit in the shitshow right wing radio has become in the last 20 years.

[radical noodle]

56. Yes, but...

even though I disagree with all of them on policy, Sykes has been as outspoken as the others on MSNBC about what a clusterfuck the trump administration is.

[charlyvi]

57. I agree with you on that.

And he has done a public apology for his part in wrecking the political discourse in this country; I just can't get past it.

[radical noodle]

59. It's tough, I know

Right now I grasp at the smallest straw.

[charlyvi]

65. I'll try it

[Hekate]

36. Them too

[spooky3]

21. Jennifer Rubin of WaPo has written some great columns.

[charlyvi]

31. Rubin was the biggest shock to me!

Once you've lost Jen Rubin.....

[spooky3]

33. Ditto!

[Hekate]

34. +1000

[Madam45for2923]

9. So called party of personal responsibility.

[charlyvi]

10. Funny how that works

when they've got all the marbles.

[irisblue]

11. Well then. I guess the reps got their pony and their piles.

[irisblue]

13. Gonna have to think about following him. Huh

[Mountain Mule]

12. K & R!

[Beartracks]

14. Posing for RUS propo photos

You'd think people who freaked out about so-called "Hanoi Jane" would also have serious issues with Kremlin Don.


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[Enoki33]

16. It's all about packaging. Trump as a conman is very good. Part of his speech at the

Coast Guard graduation was aimed at Flynn. Reportedly he recently sent him a message to stay strong.

[Skittles]

29. he's not good, he's just an expert at influencing REALLY STUPID PEOPLE

[SunSeeker]

42. No kidding. That is a rather jarring example of GOP hypocracy. nt

[CajunBlazer]

15. Love it!

But who is Rick Wilson?

[charlyvi]

18. A Republican political consultant.

I think he supported Jeb in the primaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Wilson_(political_consultant)

Rick Wilson (political consultant)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rick Wilson is a national Republican political strategist and media consultant based in Florida who has produced television for governors, U.S. Senate candidates, super PACS, and corporations.[1] He became well known during the 2016 United States presidential election for his vitriolic denunciations of Donald Trump and supporters of Trump.[2] Examples include asking Ann Coulter via Twitter if Trump "pays more for anal", and on MSNBC referring to some Trump supporters as "childless single men who masturbate to anime".[3] Wilson has written in The Daily Beast, Politico, New York Daily News, The Federalist, Independent Journal Review, and Ricochet.[4]

[moonscape]

38. He was a big supporter of Evan McMullin, but

maybe after Jeb was out?

[charlyvi]

41. Perhaps.

The only thing I could find was this:

“We are going to pay and pay and pay and pay for this,” says Rick Wilson, a GOP strategist who supports Rubio. “The fact of the matter is that this is a party who had an opportunity this year to show Hispanics an interesting, diverse, compelling party. Instead, what we’re going to show them is a 70-year-old verbally incontinent white man from Queens who bellows about brown people.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/131504/republicans-already-lost-florida

Who knows? Maybe he supported them all! LOL

[womanofthehills]

48. I definitely follow him on Twitter - Rick Wilson, Louise Mensch and Claude Taylor all came up

with the same intel a few weeks ago - all 3 from different intel sources. All three seem to be great Twitter friends always re-posting each others posts.

(excerpt is not working for me - maybe because site was down)

Rick Wilson?Verified account @TheRickWilson
Rick Wilson Retweeted Louise Mensch
Remember: Louise was first and right on the initial FISA warrants. Claude was right on the EVDA etc.

"Rick Wilson is a national Republican political strategist and media consultant based in Florida who has produced television for governors, U.S. Senate candidates, super PACS, and corporations. He’s on Twitter at @therickwilson." Rick writes for the Daily Beast. Here is a recent article:

President Trump Just Can’t Help Himself

"This isn’t a White House turning the corner or getting its bearings in Washington—it’s a White House engaged in daily Downfall cosplay.
President Donald Trump can’t stop sticking his head in the noose. The last 10 days in Washington have been a singularity of Trump’s reckless, dangerous, lead-paint-and-cheap-vodka brain-damage style of governance. As he flailed from crisis to crisis, nothing said “You’ll be tired of all the winning” like a series of self-inflicted wounds to his political, legal, and presidential fate.

The firing of FBI Director James Comey was just the start of this latest chapter in the White House drama. Trump’s dissipated preppy consigliere Stephen Bannon, Wisconsin Cheese Board Deputy Director Reince Priebus, and Shifty Spice were all cut out of the loop. This

isn’t a White House turning the corner or getting its bearings in Washington—it’s a White House engaged in daily Downfall cosplay.

Their myriad stories, revisionist history, weapons-grade stupid talking points, midnight shrub-based press avails, and rolling Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ corn-pone “Aw-y’all-he’s-muh-second-cousin” claims to have talked to countless FBI agents in defense of President Indefensible didn’t signal determination—it signaled that the iceberg has holed the Trumptanic and the crew is running for the lifeboats.

Entertaining yet insane interviews with Lester Holt and others told us that Trump is ignoring reason, logic, politics, and most importantly, his legal team. His unveiled threats to Comey about secret White House tapes were a self-inflicted can of political whup-ass. Trump had long ago declared a pointless, doomed war with the intelligence community. Short of a land war in Asia, it’s the jewel in his crown of stupid. Our outward-facing intelligence agencies like the CIA already view Trump as a dangerous, compromised child. By firing Comey, Trump has crossed another red line. The FBI rank and file took it as an insult and an affront to their integrity and their reputations.

As if we hadn’t had enough lunacy in the last 10 days, Trump looked at America and said, “Hey… hold my beer. Watch this.” In his very cozy Oval Office meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Both men are so steeped in Russian intelligence circles they might as well have “spy” tattooed on their foreheads. As one of the smartest political observers I know said, “It’s ONLY MONDAY.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/15/president-trump-just-can-t-help-himself.

[Hekate]

39. Might want to remove the homophobic "joke," Comrade Donald

[Texin]

20. Rick Wilson became a conservative rock star for me during the 'election' infiltration by tRump.

He has remained the only consistent anti-tRump conservative among the current crop of so-called conservatives, along with Steve Schmidt and Nicole Wallace (though NW has been more muted in her remarks than the other two). Wilson has despised the orange shitgibbon and the rest of the rethuglicons for well over a year. Hugh Hewett drew my interest early on because he was very outspoken in his dislike of twitler, but he quickly changed his tune the night the Russians delivered tRump. I have absolutely no use for a quisling like that.

[charlyvi]

24. Amen.

I think it's another case of ""the party left me". Let's face it, you are either a Trumpian or you keep your soul.

[Hekate]

40. During the campaign year I came to love Nicole and Steve as fellow patriots...

They really spoke my pain in speaking theirs.

I caught up with the others later, and was so glad to see them speaking out.

[BootinUp]

23. LUV IT! Lol.

[nycbos]

26. Read his OP-ED in the Washington Post as well.

It would be worth your time.

[charlyvi]

28. Can't, I've read my max for the month.

I read the post by Highplainsdem though; is that the op-ed you mean?

If you work for Trump, it's time to quit

[womanofthehills]

49. I finally broke down yesterday and suscribed to WaPo

I wanted to read a particular article really bad. Now I pay NYT's, WaPo, and Randi Rhodes podcast besides all the other small monthly fees like icloud storage, photoshop, photobucket, audible, etc. The internets are expensive.

[charlyvi]

51. I'm probably going to subscribe too.

I hate that I can't read Greg Sargent's Plum Line every day.

[TacoD]

72. Amazon Prime subscribers can get 6 months WaPo digital subscription free, then $3.99/mo thereafter

Reg. price is $9.99/mo

[charlyvi]

73. Thanks

Do you subscribe through Amazon Prime or the WP?

[TacoD]

74. Through Amazon but there's a convenient link at WP

https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/prime/

[charlyvi]

75. Just did it. Thanks!

[womanofthehills]

52. You can read him over at "The Daily Beast"

He's good!!!

[L. Coyote]

27. THIS - Borowitz "Obama Avoided Having Special Prosecutor Through Devious Tactic of Not Breaking Law"

Pretty simple! Especially, don't do it on television!

Trump's New Impeachable Offenses: Obstruction of Justice, Conspiracy, Abuse of Power

[charlyvi]

30. Borowitz is a hoot! eom

[Duppers]

62. Good one!

[3catwoman3]

35. I appreciate his scathing takedowns of Trump, all of...

...which are right on target.

My appreciation is not full-throated, however, because it is hard to forgive these past efforts -

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/politics/donald-trump-gop-rick-wilson/index.html

In 2002, he crafted an ad against former Democratic Sen. Max Cleland that included images of Osama bin Laden to suggest he was undermining the war on terror. And when then-Sen. Barack Obama first ran for president in 2008, Wilson organized a television campaign about his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The smear of Max Cleland is difficult to forget, and impossible to forgive.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

43. K&R nt

[Ilsa]

46. And there was this one from Wilson, 20 hrs ago:

Dear Trumpers:

No Wall.
No tax cuts.
No Obamacare repeal.
No trade deals.

You. Get. NOTHING.

Nothing but months of pain.

[czarjak]

50. Still...

Republican at the core. Trump is not one to Rick.

[charlyvi]

53. True. Repub to the core.

And after this mess, as I said upthread, he will go back to pissing me off every other day. But right now, he's helping the cause.

[NewJeffCT]

58. He also had a great article the other day

President Donald Trump can’t stop sticking his head in the noose. The last 10 days in Washington have been a singularity of Trump’s reckless, dangerous, lead-paint-and-cheap-vodka brain-damage style of governance.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/15/president-trump-just-can-t-help-himself?source=email&via=desktop

[DeminPennswoods]

64. Wilson's tweets are consistently hilarious

When he gets someone tweeting defending or praising Trump, he's got the punchiest replies around. But I'm sure he's completely ok with Ryan and McConnell's policy agenda.

[Honeycombe8]

66. Wow. I'm speechless. He's Republican? He's his own man, that's for sure. nt

[ThoughtProvoker]

67. He's a....

He's a rolling ball of knives, isn't he?

[charlyvi]

68. Yep. A veritable buzzsaw.

Welcome to DU!

[Scurrilous]

69. K&R

[Cha]

70. Mahalo for Rick Wilson's tweets,

charlyvi!

[charlyvi]

76. Thanks Cha.....just saw your post.

Mahalo!

[Cha]

77. I know how

that goes.

[Heartstrings]

71. K & R.......nt