Conservative columnist George Will says he's leaving GOP over Trump

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Conservative commentator and columnist George Will says he is leaving the Republican Party because of Donald Trump -- and he's advocating that others do the same.

In a speech at a Federalist Society luncheon Friday, he told the audience, "This is not my party," according to PJ Media, a conservative news website.

The Pulitzer Prize winner confirmed to PJM in an interview after his speech that he had left the party and was now "an unaffiliated voter in the state of Maryland" before switching the subject.

PJM reported that Will cited House Speaker Paul Ryan's endorsement of Trump is one of the reasons why he decided to leave the party. Will didn't say whether he'd vote for either Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton or a third-party candidate, such as Libertarian Gary Johnson.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/25/politics/george-will-donald-trump-leaving-republican-party-election/

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Trump or Will? Choices, choices...

[Botany]

1. And did Will say word one when Trump was, "sending good men to Hawaii" to check out ....

.... President Obama's birth?

[redstateblues]

2. It was all fun and games back then.

They created a monster

[jamese777]

3. George Will Attacked Gingrich & Huckabee for Birtherism

in 2011:
"Let us not mince words, there are at most five plausible Republican presidents on the horizon - Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, former Utah governor and departing ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, former Massachusetts governor Romney and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty.
So the Republican winnowing process is far advanced. But the nominee may emerge much diminished by involvement in a process cluttered with careless, delusional, egomaniacal, spotlight-chasing candidates to whom the sensible American majority would never entrust a lemonade stand, much less nuclear weapons."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030404613.html

[Skittles]

4. he is still an asshole

[The Second Stone]

5. Will prefers his bigoted screeds to be 1000 words and somewhat disguised

rather than blatant 140 character tweet bursts of bigotry. Personally, I find Trump less despicable than Will for the reason that Trump doesn't hide his disgusting nature.

[Red Mountain]

6. Here, here.