Attacks on Evan McMullin Escalate

[Frank Cannon]

Plenty of Hillary articles get posted.  Plenty.

Not by you you rodeo clown and when they do get posted you either dismiss them as nonsense or avoid them like the plague.

It's almost like you are a pro-Hitlary troll here just to trash Donny. Of course that can't be true. You don't have a history of being untruthful online.......do you?

[corbe]

   He's an equal Opportunity Republican hater, both these guys seem to bring out his worse.

[bigheadfred]

My view is McMulligan isn't trying to help. He isn't trying to fix things. He doesn't really stand for anything. He is merely a turd in the punch bowl.

[jmyrlefuller]

My view is McMulligan isn't trying to help. He isn't trying to fix things. He doesn't really stand for anything. He is merely a turd in the punch bowl.

He's also the closest thing to an actually effective "none of the above" vote that we have.

I'm starting to sympathize with the beliefs of the late Luther Knox that there needs to be a way to reject all candidates.

[Jazzhead]

My view is McMulligan isn't trying to help. He isn't trying to fix things. He doesn't really stand for anything. He is merely a turd in the punch bowl.

Not at all.   He's a patriot, a hero and an honorable man,  who also happens to be a conservative.   As Gary Johnson continues to demonstrate his profound weaknesses on foreign policy,  McMullin is (for those outside of Utah)  THE viable option for conservatives who want to remain neutral in the Presidential election.   

And that's the real issue heading into these last few days.   Do conservatives who recognize the dangers of Donald Trump  - both to the nation and the future viability of the conservative movement -  choose to stay neutral or act to defeat it?   

Consider this - the next few years will be rocky, but if we can hold Congress the crapulence of Hillary Clinton will be exposed and investigated,  and together with the bankruptcy of her policies will set the stage for a roaring comeback by conservatives  in 2018.   

The task ahead will be to unite the clans.   That means acknowledging the efficacy of some of Trump's message, even as the messenger must be rejected as utterly unfit for office.   Give Trump his due - he roused a populist groundswell.  I don't dismiss - and neither should Republican "elites" - the agony of the working class after eight years of slow growth and inattention.    The next step is to unite behind a message with a sane messenger - perhaps Mike Pence.

The days following the election will be instructive.   Will Trump claim personal grievance, or will he at last behave as a leader,  and urge his constituents to reconcile with the rest of us who must do the hard work of addressing the House of Clinton?   If he was really, as some suspect,  a stalking horse for the Clintons,  his post-election behavior will make that clear enough.       

[bigheadfred]

He's also the closest thing to an actually effective "none of the above" vote that we have.

I'm starting to sympathize with the beliefs of the late Luther Knox that there needs to be a way to reject all candidates.

Especially this guy: Joe Exotic

[bigheadfred]

@Jazzhead

If you want to remain neutral then you don't vote for Mcmulligan. You don't vote at all.

"“What we’re trying to do is earn enough electoral votes [in the Electoral College] to block Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, if the race between both of them is close that we are able to do that by winning one or two states … if not that, then we will be, you know, happy to have prevented someone who I believe is a true authoritarian from taking power in the United States and that is Donald Trump,” McMullan told Austen Petersen, a libertarian activist, journalist, media consultant and entrepreneur. "

Turd in the punchbowl.

[GrouchoTex]

It's interesting how violent the bleep attacks on #Nevertrumps are becoming.  You'd almost think we mattered, if they hadn't been crowing all along about how irrelevant we supposedly are. 

They're getting more and more desperate as the gravity of what they've done becomes apparent.

Exactly. if #NeverTrump people are to be tossed into the ash bin of ancient history after Tuesday, what's the point of going after them them?
Our votes didn't matter, right?

The person who loses is the one to blame for the loss.
Real simple.
They failed to receive enough votes to beat the other candidate.
No more complex than that.

[Jazzhead]

@Jazzhead

If you want to remain neutral then you don't vote for Mcmulligan. You don't vote at all.

"“What we’re trying to do is earn enough electoral votes [in the Electoral College] to block Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, if the race between both of them is close that we are able to do that by winning one or two states … if not that, then we will be, you know, happy to have prevented someone who I believe is a true authoritarian from taking power in the United States and that is Donald Trump,” McMullan told Austen Petersen, a libertarian activist, journalist, media consultant and entrepreneur. "

Turd in the punchbowl.

I agree with you that folks in Utah who vote for McMullin are voting to defeat Trump.  That's why I've contributed to his campaign,  to help drop that turd in Trump's punchbowl.    But here in Pennsy,  where he's just a write in,  he's a principled way of saying "none of the above".    And because Pennsy is a swing state - perhaps THE crucial swing state - I need to decide whether to cast such a vanity vote or a vote to keep, as McMullin says,  "a true authoritarian from taking power".   

[bigheadfred]

I agree with you that folks in Utah who vote for McMullin are voting to defeat Trump.  That's why I've contributed to his campaign,  to help drop that turd in Trump's punchbowl.    But here in Pennsy,  where he's just a write in,  he's a principled way of saying "none of the above".    And because Pennsy is a swing state - perhaps THE crucial swing state - I need to decide whether to cast such a vanity vote or a vote to keep, as McMullin says,  "a true authoritarian from taking power".   

Well, when he comes out and says stuff like that I lose interest fast. If he comes out and says I am everything conservatives are looking for and delineates those objectives I could see supporting him. Otherwise he is a turd in the puchbowl. Nothing more. Why don't you vote for a different third party candidate like Castle? It has the same effect doesn't it? I mean as far as objecting to either of those top two. Unless you seriously doubt either one WILL be POTUS.

[sneakypete]

Don't people  have to know,and care,who he is before they can attack him?

[sneakypete]

Only means that McMullin is becoming a serious candidate.

@Oceander

True. I have read reliable reports he is running neck and neck with Fred Mertz's dead dog Scruffy. Scruffy is of course handicapped somewhat by being dead and buried.

[sneakypete]

We didn't elect Clinton.  We're not the ones who nominated the only person who couldn't beat her.  You did and thus the blame for Clinton lies squarely on your shoulders.

@Oceander

What color is the sky on your  home planet?

The way it works on THIS planet is that in America we end up with two candidates for president. One or the other of them win. Your vote for Luke Skywalker may get you a date with Yoda,but you have nobody to blame but yourself when the most hated and evil candidate in the history of this nation was elected because you were off somewhere eating your toejam to get higher.

[sneakypete]

It's interesting how violent the bleep attacks on #Nevertrumps are becoming.  You'd almost think we mattered,.

@Oceander 

You DO matter. Bubbette! is counting on people like you to help put her over the top.

[bigheadfred]

@Oceander

True. I have read reliable reports he is running neck and neck with Fred Mertz's dead dog Scruffy. Scruffy is of course handicapped somewhat by being dead and buried.

I heard John Wayne said if he was alive he would vote for Trump. But since he is dead he is voting for hillary. 

[rodamala]

The only thing that is going to be dead after Nov 8th is the Political/Media careers of the #Never Trumpsters.

Trump wins, you are impotent jokes who no one on the Right will ever take seriously on anything again.

Trump lose. You are personally responsible for helping elect the most corrupt lawless President in US History. The Left will still hate you politics and you will be anathema to everyone on the Right. You will be irrelevant and politically impotent.

The only route left will be to form a clown third party that will spasmodically thrash around for a few years and then die from terminal poltical irrelevancy.

A well deserved sad and sorry end to collection of petulant children who could not put their own egos aside once their candidate lost the Primary.

Looks like someone has spent a little too much time in the tank on the TRUMP TRAIN.

[sneakypete]

But I'll be able to sleep at night. 

I'm a conservative who wants my party back.  I'll suffer four years of Clinton (or such shorter period of time 'til it takes to impeach her) in order to repudiate the racialists who've hijacked the GOP.

@Jazzhead

Oh,bullbush! WHO is going to impeach her,when even some of the people that hate and fear  her can't even be bothered to make sure she isn't elected?

YOUR solution is akin to killing cancer cells by killing their host,the patient.

[libertybele]

I agree with you that folks in Utah who vote for McMullin are voting to defeat Trump.  That's why I've contributed to his campaign,  to help drop that turd in Trump's punchbowl.    But here in Pennsy,  where he's just a write in,  he's a principled way of saying "none of the above".    And because Pennsy is a swing state - perhaps THE crucial swing state - I need to decide whether to cast such a vanity vote or a vote to keep, as McMullin says,  "a true authoritarian from taking power".   

Though he's just a write-in, he's still on the ballot.  Highly unlikely he will win in PA.  Some reports state he's taking votes from Trump, some reports says he's taking vote from Clinton; the choice unfortunately we're dealing with.  Do you keep a narcissistic demagogue who is potentially dangerous from taking power or do you keep a career criminal from taking power who's corruption continues to unfold all the way to the presidency with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Hell of a choice isn't it?

[libertybele]

8detect8

Yes indeed, the B.S. detector is clearly pointing your way!!

[rodamala]

Yes indeed, the B.S. detector is clearly pointing your way!!

Ain't no clothespin strong enough to seal my nostrils off from the putrid stench of your Orange God that would let me even think for a millisecond about voting for your shitshow clown candidate.

[Smokin Joe]

Exactly. if #NeverTrump people are to be tossed into the ash bin of ancient history after Tuesday, what's the point of going after them them?
Our votes didn't matter, right?

The person who loses is the one to blame for the loss.
Real simple.
They failed to receive enough votes to beat the other candidate.
No more complex than that.

That ignores the effort to steer the pesky Conservatives back onto the GOP Plantation. Danged uppity people anyway, thinking they own their vote and don't have to summarily cast it for whatever dreck the Prebius cadre wants to stuff into office.

Of course any and all who hop the fence and head for the Constitutional high ground will ever be vilified and marginalized, and politically treated as runaway slaves  to be recaptured and flogged into submission.  That's why the browbeating and even physical threats continue, even at this late date. It is a dangerous precedent to let people get away with thinking for themselves.