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NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 08:37 PM Sep 2017

So GOP, About the Next Democratic President

Eventually (and no doubt sooner than you think), we will again have a Democratic president.

I’d just like to know if the same standards you have applied to Donald Trump will be applied to the next (D) president.

If the next (D) president is proven to have cheated workmen out of their pay when building his “empire”, students out of money paid to his fake university, collected money for “charity” that he used to pay personal debts, will you dismiss those things as irrelevant?

If the next (D) president is a thrice-married, self-proclaimed pussy-grabber, will you declare him a good Christian who was chosen by God to lead a nation?

If the next (D) president hands classified information to the Russians in a “closed meeting” in the Oval Office, will you claim he has a right to “declassify” information whenever he feels like it?

If the next (D) president is documented as lying to the American public an average of five times a day, will you simply ignore it?

If the next (D) president, his campaign personnel, advisors and family members have multiple meetings/communications with our enemies (like Russia, for example) and they all lie about it until confronted with the proof thereof, will you denounce any investigations into those facts as a “witch-hunt” and demand they be shut down?

If the next (D) president “tweets” misspelled, ungrammatical, and totally inane messages on a regular basis, will you say he’s being “presidential”?

If the next (D) president requires his daily briefings to be reduced to a single page of bullet points, and continually demonstrates his complete ignorance of how our government works, will you insist it’s unimportant because he’s “new at the job”?

If the next (D) president spends his days watching TV and “tweeting”, will you praise his “hard work on behalf of the people”? What about spending 25% of his time on the golf course – same answer?

If the next (D) president accuses his predecessor of illegally wire-tapping him with no proof whatsoever, will you just shrug it off and pretend it didn’t happen?

If the next (D) president appoints totally inexperienced people to his Cabinet and advisory positions, will you remain silent?

If the next (D) president insults our allies and constantly praises our enemies (Putin comes to mind), will you say it’s of no consequence?

If the next (D) president does everything to appeal to his “base” while giving no regard to the citizenry as a whole, will you refuse to criticize him?

If the next (D) president invites his daughter to represent the US at international meetings, will you just look the other way? How about tasking his no-political-experience-whatsoever son-in-law with solving problems like unrest in the Middle East, government reform, opioid crisis management, criminal justice reform – and more? Will you find that acceptable?

If the next (D) president uses his position as POTUS to make money for his personally-owned businesses, will you look the other way?

If the next (D) president pardons his political cronies, and even inquires into whether he can pardon himself of crimes he may commit while in office, will you refuse to even acknowledge it?

Most importantly, when the next (D) president is elected, will you declare that we should ALL support him, no matter what?

I just wanted to make sure we’re on the same page. I would hate to think you have one set of rules for an (R) president and another for a (D) president. That would mean you are hypocrites with absolutely no regard for the well-being of the nation, and are more than willing to put party above country.

You wouldn’t want to be seen as unpatriotic hypocrites, would you?

Yeah, right ...

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So GOP, About the Next Democratic President (Original Post) NanceGreggs Sep 2017 OP
Yeah right, indeed..... dhill926 Sep 2017 #1
The GOP does not plan for another Democrat to be elected as President. guillaumeb Sep 2017 #2
Silly You aeromanKC Sep 2017 #3
No. Democratic presidents are expected to be law abiding and honorable. Kablooie Sep 2017 #4
Made me think of this. The Wizard Sep 2017 #5
Or, as Data paraphrased, if you prick us, do we not.... leak? nt Xipe Totec Sep 2017 #7
Of course not. If you want to fix it - we need to fix the media sharedvalues Sep 2017 #6
"hypocrites with absolutely no regard for the well-being of the nation' Hayduke Bomgarte Sep 2017 #8
Wow! "Thrice married", don't forget two were immigrants, one of questionable status. George II Sep 2017 #9
Republicans will always be hypocrites Lazy Daisy Sep 2017 #10
Great post Gothmog Sep 2017 #11
I am speechless. This is THAT perfect. raven mad Sep 2017 #12
They will go back to their holier than thou mcar Sep 2017 #13
Another Beaut, Nancy! DoctorJoJo Sep 2017 #14

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
2. The GOP does not plan for another Democrat to be elected as President.
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 08:44 PM
Sep 2017

So full speed ahead on the voter suppression, and gerrymandering, and ballot tampering tactics.

Kablooie

(18,612 posts)
4. No. Democratic presidents are expected to be law abiding and honorable.
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 10:01 PM
Sep 2017

Any deviation will bring down condemnation.

Republican presidents, on the other hand, are expected to be unlawful, petty, unintelligent and amoral so they will be lauded for this kind of behavior, not condemned.

See? No hypocrisy at all. Perfectly understandable.

The Wizard

(12,536 posts)
5. Made me think of this.
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 10:24 PM
Sep 2017

“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?". - (The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene I).”


sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
6. Of course not. If you want to fix it - we need to fix the media
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 10:28 PM
Sep 2017

Until Fox and Limbaugh and the Daily Caller and IJR and Breitbart and right-wing radio and Russia twitter are gone or discredited, all you say above will remain the same.

It is Fox and the like that amplifies these lies and allows the GOP to get away with lying.

Until the media starts telling the truth we will have to deal with what you describe.

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)
8. "hypocrites with absolutely no regard for the well-being of the nation'
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 10:40 PM
Sep 2017

That is precisely what they've always been, are now and always will be.

George II

(67,782 posts)
9. Wow! "Thrice married", don't forget two were immigrants, one of questionable status.
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 11:10 PM
Sep 2017

Thanks so much for that!

 

Lazy Daisy

(928 posts)
10. Republicans will always be hypocrites
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 11:38 PM
Sep 2017

I just hope we as Democrats don't let our standards plummet as we've seen how our Republican countrymen have.
I'd like to think we would never vote such a person in office. (which is why Trump ran as a R)

raven mad

(4,940 posts)
12. I am speechless. This is THAT perfect.
Thu Sep 7, 2017, 04:33 PM
Sep 2017

So saved, bookmarked, and WHY can't I write like this? LOL - rats....................

mcar

(42,278 posts)
13. They will go back to their holier than thou
Thu Sep 7, 2017, 04:55 PM
Sep 2017

"Family values" hypocrisy.

Note McConnell's perpetual outrage about "Democrat obstruction." One wonders how his tongue doesn't snap off in protest.

 

DoctorJoJo

(1,134 posts)
14. Another Beaut, Nancy!
Thu Sep 7, 2017, 07:11 PM
Sep 2017

How about not filling several hundred critical Government positions? But of course the answer to all these "what abouts" is easy: These cretins with an (R) after their names have no shame. For most of them, the embarrassment causing, red face gene is just missing. They'll probably lobby for a special Trump Suite in Federal prison, because they are so special!

JoJo

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