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Hillary Clinton

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Hekate

(100,133 posts)
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 06:06 PM Mar 2016

GOP women whisper: "I would seriously consider voting for Hillary." [View all]

This is hilarious, oh Hill yes it is. And I don't need to tell you why I'm posting it in this Group.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-donald-trump-women-20160316-story.html

Hillary Clinton's Trump card: Female swing voters

Get Carol Roszka talking about why she does not want Hillary Clinton in the White House, and it is hard to get her to stop. Roszka vents about how Clinton’s handling of the Benghazi attacks was disgraceful, her feminism is phony and her ambition is off-putting.
“She wants to be elected at all costs,” said Roszka, a 63-year-old from suburban Detroit who often votes Republican, as she did in last week’s primary. Yet Roszka says when she votes in November, it will very likely be for Clinton.

Donald Trump has driven her to it. “I do not want Trump under any circumstances,” she said of the New York billionaire who looks headed to appear on the ballot alongside Clinton, after both candidates won a round of key states Tuesday. “So much so that I will not vote for the Republican Party at all if he runs.”

Roszka is part of what you might call Clinton’s coalition of the unwilling. They are the independent and moderate Republican women who don’t like Clinton – some even despise her – but are so repulsed by Trump that they are already preparing to vote for the Democrat they anticipate will be on the ballot in November if that’s what it takes to keep him out of office. Either that, or sit out the election altogether.

This loose coalition is large and growing. >snip< Trump is characteristically unconcerned. >snip<
“He’s sexist; he’s racist; he says things that will cause businesses to lose money,” said Roszka. “He wants to be king or emperor. He does not want to be president.”

Kelly Grayburn, an occupational therapist in South Carolina, recoiled when asked what she will do if Trump is on the ballot in November. “I can’t even say the words,” said Grayburn, a Marco Rubio supporter, before bringing her voice to a whisper. “I would seriously consider voting for Hillary.”
>snip<




Sure, I'd much rather have them actually like Hillary, but if Trump is throwing them into our arms or causing them to stay home, I am surely not going to spurn these women.

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I have 22 Republican ladies in our little rally group here that will be voting for Hillary leftofcool Mar 2016 #1
If die-hard Repubicans can vote for Hillary... yallerdawg Mar 2016 #2
No kidding shenmue Mar 2016 #25
I know a few who are being pretty loud about it. UtahLib Mar 2016 #3
I just reject that Benghazi premise altogether. Gomez163 Mar 2016 #4
Welcome to DU wryter2000 Mar 2016 #16
Thank you. Gomez163 Mar 2016 #20
Same here gwheezie Mar 2016 #5
Trump and Cruz scared the hell out of me. Cruz wants to America's first dictator. Thinkingabout Mar 2016 #6
Oh I think they do like her...just a lot of them need an excuse! Lucinda Mar 2016 #7
She gets the noseholder vote surely..... ghostsinthemachine Mar 2016 #8
Nice of you to drop that nasty comment in the Hillary group. UtahLib Mar 2016 #9
Every time you come around ghostsinthemachine Loki Mar 2016 #11
Are you back again? NastyRiffraff Mar 2016 #12
First election? grossproffit Mar 2016 #15
You know what is a bloody shame? That people suck up that propaganda and don't know Cha Mar 2016 #18
My very dear friend Loki Mar 2016 #10
LOL LisaM Mar 2016 #22
"I'm sick and tired of men." Ellen Forradalom Mar 2016 #29
For Every Pissed Off BS Supporter otohara Mar 2016 #13
That sort of Bernie supporter probably wouldn't vote for a Democrat, anyway wryter2000 Mar 2016 #17
2 of bff's from university, former Hillary haters, are phone banking for her in Arizona. grossproffit Mar 2016 #14
Great, gp! I didn't like her in 2008 and now I'm one of her biggest fans. Hillary has Cha Mar 2016 #19
I realized in 2008 just how much I liked her. LisaM Mar 2016 #23
I was pro-Hillary in 2008 Ellen Forradalom Mar 2016 #30
.. Cha Mar 2016 #31
They'll learn to like her, Hekate.. trump's just giving them a chance. Cha Mar 2016 #21
Here in Bergen County NJ, Republicans look down their noses at Social Conservatives.... Walk away Mar 2016 #24
That might be why the media is telling us we all hate Hillary liberal N proud Mar 2016 #26
As I said in another thread here, Hillary voters SHOW UP, & 80% of success is showing up Hekate Mar 2016 #27
GOP women will likely support Clinton over trump Gothmog Mar 2016 #28
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