I am getting a crush on Richard Painter.

[boston bean]

Hell of a man that guy is.

[Lotusflower70]

1. I know right

He is amazing. I watch him whenever I can and follow him on Twitter. Love when he is on Bill Maher.

[Chasstev365]

2. W Bush Ethics Lawyer?

Isn't that an oxymoron?

[Leghorn21]

5. Well, he says stuff like this

Link to tweet

...and has been for months now, Chasstev. He's not playing.

[yardwork]

8. I don't see it. The GOP is using every trick in the book.

Maybe he's had a change of heart and maybe it's just talk. Either way, he helped set in motion something that won't be so easily stopped.

Sometimes sorry isn't good enough.

[Leghorn21]

10. Understood. But he is currently a very powerful voice of reason in this conflagration (and has

been for a couple of months now). Change of heart, or just deeply appalled by every single thing LOSER 45 has done and stands for? - I don't know...maybe he needs to be experienced in person, yard, to get the full effect of his articulate denunciation of all things drumpf -

[yardwork]

15. I'll take a closer look, then. Thanks for the info.

[brush]

16. He's been on Joy Reid's show quite often and has consistenly bashed trump and...

calls for the white supremacists in his admin to be fired.

He doesn't bite his tongue. He calls Bannon and Gorka by name and says if they are not removed by trump, trump will be removed.

He's gained my respect. He's part of the old Republican party establishment (I usually use the term repug), which trump and his racists consultants aren't.

I think the wheels are beginning to turn behind the scenes to get this white supremacist administration out of the White House.

[brer cat]

12. Sorry isn't good enough

for sure, yardwork. I lump him into the "the enemy of my enemy" faction although I think we would be crazy to consider him a friend. It is going to take cooperation from republicans to get trump out and I hope Pence as well. If there are some sane voices in the wilderness, I will take them in hopes they will influence tptb to move.

[yardwork]

14. Ok, understood.

[JI7]

25. he did not support trump.

he only became public in his views when he started going after trump.

before he kept mostly a private profile.

[moonscape]

27. I've seen him quite a bit. He and Tribe were very strongly appalled

by 45's $$ interests, has talked a lot about the Emoluments Clause, been very outspoken. I find him sincere.

[JI7]

24. nope, he made sure Bush didn't personally profit during his presidency the way Trump is doing

so he did his part.

[Leghorn21]

3. I love how he gets so frickin intense he can barely hold still, and yet,

he's perfectly still... ❤️!!

But we can share, bean!

[Control-Z]

4. Hey, I crushed on him first.

Get in line, boston bean! Lol.

He really is one hell of a man.

[madaboutharry]

6. Sometimes he looks like he's going to cry.

He's a good guy.

[SunSeeker]

7. Get in line, sister!

[mnmoderatedem]

9. hard to believe any of us would be heaping kudos on a former Bush ethics lawyer

but he's been nailing it on a regular basis.

[Louis1895]

11. I am getting a crush on Ana Navarro

Painter and Navarro are both Republicans, I believe, but they talk sense and are true American patriots.

[brush]

17. Yes. They both need to come over from the dark side. And add Steve Schmidt also.

[moonscape]

28. Yes, and Rick Wilson cracks me up! n/t

[obamanut2012]

29. Navarro voted for Hillary

[mucifer]

13. His boss killed thousands in a war on false pretenses. Not much ethics there IMO

He was the ethics guy for w.

[brush]

18. He's bringing it against trump and his white supremacists. Try watching him on AM Joy.

[mucifer]

20. I saw him on AM Joy. He said the republicans aren't racist. He said that's not his party.

Mr ethics is denying all of the de franchising of the people of color and denying them their right to vote by his lovely party with their dirty tricks.

Just because many republican politicians say they hate nazis doesn't mean they aren't doing a lot of horrible things to people of color.

[brush]

23. News Flash: We need the sensible Republicans to work with us to get trump out

In this fight Painter is an ally.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

21. Yeah. I don't get it.

Enemy of my enemy. Ok. I can get on board.

But tossing underwear up on stage? What the fuck?

Where was this guy when his boss was prosecuting an illegal war, outing CIA agents, running illegal propaganda campaigns (NCLB/Armstrong Williams) and setting off phony terror code alerts to win an election??

[moda253]

19. He was a professor for my wife

When going through law school she had him as a prof. She said he was excellent then and she has a lot of admiration for him despite being diametrically opposed politically.

[R B Garr]

22. Yes, he does have a touch of chivalry to him!

He's not going to stand for a monster like Trump define his party. Everything he says makes sense and is the right thing.

[Greybnk48]

26. Both of my daughters and I

are crushing on him too! My middle girl graduated from U of M (Minnesota) and is now sorry she didn't pick up one of his classes as an elective, lol. His wife teaches there too.

[Gothmog]

30. I also admire Painter