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DaDeacon

(984 posts) Tue Jun 7, 2016, 04:02 PM Jun 2016

GOP Senators Finally Starting To Realize Their Party Nominated A Total Racist [View all]

Source: Huffington Post

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) became the first Republican member of Congress to rescind an endorsement of Donald Trump, saying on Tuesday that he could no longer support his party’s presumptive nominee for president after Trump’s racist attacks against a federal judge.

“I cannot and will not support my party’s nominee for President,” he said.

Kirk’s statement was the most powerful denunciation of Trump to come from Republicans on Capitol Hill, but it was hardly the only one, suggesting that Trump’s racist attacks are finally starting to worry GOP lawmakers.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-senators-donald-trump_us_57571fcfe4b0b60682df2e27

HA! Too Late!

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GOP Senators Finally Starting To Realize Their Party Nominated A Total Racist [View all] DaDeacon Jun 2016 OP

There are a few sane Republicans. Not many, but a few. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #1

Kirk is not one of them. He is just running scared. n/t IllinoisBirdWatcher Jun 2016 #3

I would be interested mercuryblues Jun 2016 #4

Oh, hell mercuryblues Jun 2016 #2

Think you're right... wcmagumba Jun 2016 #6

Those baggers will vote no matter who Rs shove down their 'little people' throats. Sunlei Jun 2016 #9

Actually, not. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2016 #16

exactly - they created the "Southern Strategy" and milked it for 44 years straight 0rganism Jun 2016 #18

GOP = Racism, but this guy... Duppers Jun 2016 #22

Buyer's remorse? TheCowsCameHome Jun 2016 #5

Did we miss the Republican Convention? The Republican 'frontrunner' isn't nominated yet. Sunlei Jun 2016 #7

They're all racists. Fuddnik Jun 2016 #8

Not only that, but they make jokes about being racist ffr Jun 2016 #12

Sounds similar to how Obama's blackness offended them. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2016 #17

This was already posted in LBN PSPS Jun 2016 #10

And they will vote for him anyway. Kelvin Mace Jun 2016 #11

Same for Bernie. It has to do with the D by their name ffr Jun 2016 #13

Ermm.. the GOP has nominated a total racist for years. ananda Jun 2016 #14

who are they kidding? Skittles Jun 2016 #15

Susan Collins is a pathetic, whiny, sack of SHIT BigDemVoter Jun 2016 #19

Kirk is currently involved in a tight race trying to be re-elected. Major Hogwash Jun 2016 #20

I agree. Duppers Jun 2016 #23

They're only sorry he's saying it in public & while being recorded. GOLGO 13 Jun 2016 #21

finally? They aren't very bright, or observant, are they? RussBLib Jun 2016 #24