People in the trenches here are taking the unprecedented stance that they will take their ball and go home if their preferred candidate loses. Well, this is unprecedented unless you look back at the 2000 election, in which many Democrats revolted and voted for Ralph Nader. Nader garnered enough votes in Florida to put the results in doubt and the 5-4 conservative Supreme Court handled the rest. We all know the disastrous results.
In 2016, history seems about to repeat itself. Only this time, many people are convinced that they have the luxury of withholding their vote because as of this writing, it appears that Donald Trump will inexplicably be the GOP nominee. And since he will be so revolting to independents and moderate Republicans, we can vote our consciences to send a message about how unhappy we are.
There’s just one problem with this theory…
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Chicago (CNN)Former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman said Monday that he would be inclined to support Donald Trump if the controversial real estate mogul secures the GOP nomination.
"If he's the nominee, I'm a Republican and I tend to gravitate towards whomever the nominee is," Huntsman, who lost the 2012 Republican presidential primary to Mitt Romney, told CNN senior political commentator David Axelrod on Axelrod's podcast "The Axe Files."
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"He's strong on things like campaign finance reform and I think it's going to take an extraordinarily unique leader to stand up and say that the way that we're doing this on the campaign finance side is broken and we need to fix it," Huntsman said, adding Trump is "right about bringing aboard a new generation of the best and the brightest and wiping out the old Washington establishment and the old Washington culture."
"I'd love to see someone stand up who's a total outsider and see if that can be done because I think it would actually be a pretty healthy thing," he said.
That’s right. The “sane” Republican from 2012, the guy who actually served under Barack Obama, is saying he’s actually excited about all the great things he sees in Donald Trump. The guy who calls all Mexicans rapists. The guy who wants to build a wall that “Mexico” will pay for. The guy who retweets white supremacists and calls women “dogs”. The guy who promises to return us to a torture regime. The guy who vows to ban all Muslims from coming to our country. This is a preview of how the GOP (and a compliant media) will gloss over this cretin’s record and rhetoric. Donald Trump could be our next president.
I don’t know what bothers me more. That Donald Trump is viable presidential candidate, or that so many of my fellow Kossacks don’t seem to care.