Longtime Republican operative backs Clinton: Trump’s ‘a bigot, a bully, and devoid of grace’

[RealAmericanDem]

Source: Washington Times


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Frank Lavin, who has served in “every Republican administration over the past 40 years,” wrote an op-ed for CNN Monday arguing that while it’s not entirely clear Mrs. Clinton deserves to win the White House, “it is thunderingly clear that Donald Trump deserves to lose.”

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“From this premise, I will do something that I have not done in 40 years of voting: I will vote for the Democratic nominee for president,” he wrote. “The depressing truth of the Republican nominee is that Donald Trump talks a great game but he is the emperor who wears no clothes.

“Trump falls short in terms of the character and behavior needed to perform as president,” he continued. “This defect is crippling and ensures he would fail in office. Trump is a bigot, a bully, and devoid of grace or magnanimity. His thin-skinned belligerence toward every challenge, rebuke or criticism would promise the nation a series of a high-voltage quarrels. His casual dishonesty, his policy laziness, and his lack of self-awareness would mean four years of a careening pin-ball journey that would ricochet from missteps to crisis to misunderstandings to clarifications to retractions.”




Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/8/frank-lavin-longtime-gop-operative-backs-clinton-t/

[lindysalsagal]

1. So many rats jumping ship, I lose count!

Good luck, donald, insulting everyone who's coming out against you.

[Thinkingabout]

2. I would have to jump ship with Trump, it is country over party.

[apnu]

3. "devoid of grace" really sold it for me. (nt)

[ailsagirl]

5. I was gonna say...

[Volaris]

6. Sadly I take it with a grain of salt...

It would seem from the grammar order chosen, that as long as Mr Nominee were NOT devoid of said grace, that his bigotry and bullying would be perfectly acceptable to the Establishment that built him, and now would rather run screaming the other way.

In other words:
Everyone knows that wolves eat sheep, and enjoy it. Since its the wolf who makes a public statement about it that gets shot, we would rather he shut up about it, so the rest of us can go on devouring the powerless.

This is just proof that Teh Donald is The Id, Unleashed.

[Person 2713]

9. Very much agree

[RealAmericanDem]

4. This guy did a 180 in two weeks.

At the end of the repub convention he praised Trump's speech.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/04/27/gen_barry_mccaffrey_trump_hit_it_out_of_the_ballpark_in_foreign_policy_speech_did_tremendous_job.html


Now he's voting for Hillary. That is a hugggggge turn around.

[Skittles]

7. once again

I have to marvel at these repukes who suddenly found their inner morality because TRUMP is so bad

[llmart]

8. I honestly don't think it's because they found their inner morality....

I think it's because they finally are getting it that this is going to hurt the GOP down ticket and they are now trying to save face.

[yellowcanine]

10. I think the Khan debacle was a bridge too far for many.

Yes they had excused the trashing of McCain's military service but McCain is a politician so they were able to let that go. But when they saw Trump dis a Gold Star mother simply for standing up with her husband and not being able to talk it was a tipping point.

[GOLGO 13]

11. They don't want the stink of this loser to stain them.

They are desperate to distance themselves from what they know is going to be a big, big loss for their side. It's all about self preservation.

[whatthehey]

12. I confess I've never heard of the man, and he could be a standard RWNJ but...

...I like the way he writes.