Heavyweight breaks ranks with GOP, endorsing Clinton

[mystery-ak]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/283750-armitage-breaks-ranks-with-gop-endorses-clinton

June 16, 2016, 12:12 pm
Heavyweight breaks ranks with GOP, endorsing Clinton

By Jessie Hellmann

Richard Armitage, who held top national security positions in the administrations of former Presidents George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, said he would vote for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over her likely Republican rival, Donald Trump.

"If Donald Trump is the nominee, I would vote for Hillary Clinton," Armitage, who served as a deputy secretary of State under Bush and as an assistant secretary of Defense under Reagan, told Politico on Thursday.

"He doesn't appear to be a Republican. He doesn't appear to want to learn about the issues. So I'm going to vote for Mrs. Clinton." 

Clinton hit Trump earlier this month on national security, saying his ideas would put America in greater danger and inspire more terrorist attacks.

"A ban on Muslims would not have stopped this attack," Clinton added on Wednesday, referring to the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. over the weekend.

"Neither would a wall. I don't know how one builds a wall to keep the internet out," she said. "Not one of Donald Trump's reckless ideas would have saved a single life in Orlando."

[Mechanicos]

Never heard of the rino.

[INVAR]

No surprise.

The GOP has only a handful of actual Conservatives in it, so voting for the Mao Pantsuit is as easy for them as it was surrendering the power of the purse and the Advice and Consent clause to Obama.

The Ruling Class Oligarchy has been a uniparty for some time, and after the velvet coup in 2012 - Armitage does that which we now expect of the 'opposition party'.

[sitetest]

Wow.  I remember this guy.  He's a big player on issues related to national security.  It makes sense, though.  The brazen, lying fraud don is weakest on these matters.

Except for economics.

And  the Constitution.

And civics.

And telling the truth.

And immigration.

Oh, wait.  stump is weakest on everything.

[aligncare]

Wow.  I remember this guy.  He's a big player on issues related to national security.  It makes sense, though.  The brazen, lying fraud don is weakest on these matters.

Except for economics.

And  the Constitution.

And civics.

And telling the truth.

And immigration.

Oh, wait.  stump is weakest on everything.

[Oceander]

So?  Putin and Kim Jong-un support Trump as well.  Not such good company if you ask me.

[Right_in_Virginia]

who held top national security positions in the administrations of former Presidents George W. Bush

I sure do wish I knew what frightens the Bush clan so much about a Trump presidency. 

[sinkspur]

I sure do wish I knew what frightens the Bush clan so much about a Trump presidency.

Crazy.

[INVAR]

I sure do wish I knew what frightens the Bush clan so much about a Trump presidency.

He's not a member of their exclusive club.

And he is to the Left of Hildabeast and alongside Bernie Sanders on matters of trade.

[Oceander]

I sure do wish I knew what frightens the Bush clan so much about a Trump presidency. 

A lunatic with his finger on the nuclear launch button, perhaps. 

[RoosGirl]

Ralph Reed that asked another entity to launder money for him so it didn't look like the money they were paying him actually came from them?  That Jake Abramoff and Tom Delay were sentenced to prison for?  That Ralph Reed?

[aligncare]

I haven't heard about that. I suppose it's the same Ralph Reed. Say, perhaps you should contact the authorities if you have any incriminating evidence on Mr. Reed that may be useful in a criminal trial. Who knows? Maybe you'll get a reward!

[R4 TrumPence]

wasnt armitage the one who should have been in trouble for valerie plame? not scooter!

[RoosGirl]

I haven't heard about that. I suppose it's the same Ralph Reed. Say, perhaps you should contact the authorities if you have any incriminating evidence on Mr. Reed that may be useful in a criminal trial. Who knows? Maybe you'll get a reward!

Well, you've already ignored the character of one politician, why not the rest of them?  And Hillary's lying and stealing shouldn't be an issue at all.

[sitetest]

wasnt armitage the one who should have been in trouble for valerie plame? not scooter!

He is the one who unintentionally "outed" plame.

[Oceander]

I haven't heard about that. I suppose it's the same Ralph Reed. Say, perhaps you should contact the authorities if you have any incriminating evidence on Mr. Reed that may be useful in a criminal trial. Who knows? Maybe you'll get a reward!

Say, why don't you try a little less snark and a little more Google or Wikipedia?  You know, show respect to get respect.  That is the same Reed, as per the Wikipedia articles on him and he Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal.  The facts are reasonably apparent, but for whatever reason Reed wasn't charged or prosecuted (perhaps he provided assistance, who knows).  So this isn't a case of someone claiming newly discovered evidence. 

[ConstitutionRose]

He is the one who unintentionally "outed" plame.

Plame was unintentionally outed by her employers in a mishap with a list that contained her name and other pertinent info.  Which is why she was riding a desk.  Then there was a magazine article with not so subtle reference to her employment.  All of that took place well before anything in the Bush administration.

[R4 TrumPence]

A lunatic with his finger on the nuclear launch button, perhaps.

You are the snarky one.

[uglybiker]

A lunatic with his little finger on the nuclear launch button, perhaps.

There. Fixed it. 

[Right_in_Virginia]

Crazy.

I wouldn't go so far as to call the Bush Cartel crazy, Sink.  But there is something they want hidden. 

We'll know, I suppose, soon enough.   

[Right_in_Virginia]

Ralph Reed that asked another entity to launder money for him so it didn't look like the money they were paying him actually came from them?  That Jake Abramoff and Tom Delay were sentenced to prison for?  That Ralph Reed?

So now Ralph Reed is a crook?   

[bilo]

Never heard of the rino.

IIRC, he worked under Colin Powell and was the guy who leaked the false information to the press that got another WH staffer imprisoned.

[bilo]

wasnt armitage the one who should have been in trouble for valerie plame? not scooter!

That's it, Scooter Libby served time and was financially decimated for leaks to the press which Armitage later admitted he did. One of Bush's terrible moments. He should have listened to Cheney and pardoned Libby before everything got out of hand.

[RoosGirl]

You are the snarky one.

I think a few of us, including me, have been a little snarky.  And for my part in that I apologize.  That does not change that this guy has some serious character issues that need to be examined before thinking that his endorsement is some great thing.

[bilo]

I wouldn't go so far as to call the Bush Cartel crazy, Sink.  But there is something they want hidden. 

We'll know, I suppose, soon enough.   

Could be as simple as they recognize that Trump is a lying jerk.

I can never support hillary, but Trump is no better. So like a lot of "nevertrump" folks I'll vote for conservatives down the ballot and leave the vote for POTUS blank.