Hey Richard Burr, Roy Blunt, Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio, and Ron Johnson: How's that Donald Trump support working out for you now? Now that the floodgates have opened on Donald Trump's sordid history of assaulting women, that is.
Let's check in. Burr, you were just named a Trump national security adviser—after the infamous Access Hollywood video release. You said you had “forgiven” Trump for his lewd comments (like it's your place to forgive that), ignoring the elephant in the room: assault. What's your level of forgiveness now, huh?
How about you, Blunt? Do you still think Trump can show that "he is a different man than that person," the one who bragged about grabbing women by the genitals? Do you still think his "apology" was adequate?
And you, Toomey, Mr. Courage. Is this enough to get you off the fence you've been sitting on for the past five days? At some point, you're just going to have to decide, because this maybe-I'll-vote-for-him-maybe-I-won't schtick will not suffice until Nov. 8.
Oh, little Marco. Back when the video broke, you were all, "No one should ever talk about any woman in those terms, even in private," never mind what he was actually bragging about doing. You said Tuesday night that keeping Hillary Clinton out of the White House was the most important thing. Any updates from you on that thinking?
But you, Ron Johnson, genius. Seriously? Donald Trump's abuse of women is really about Russ Feingold's support for Hillary? Really? You are a genius.
You're all standing by your man Trump—or in Toomey's case, dancing around him. Because you think tying yourself to a would-be (maybe?) rapist is smart politics. You don't want to lose your base, all those Trump supporters who might turn on you. You know, the deplorable people sticking with their deplorable leader. That's more important to you than stepping up for your country. Which makes you pretty damned deplorable, too.
Can you chip in $3 to each of these candidates to send these deplorables packing?
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