A MAJOR PUBLICATION STATES THAT DONALD TRUMP IS “DANGEROUS TO THE REPUBLIC”

….A caricature of a “caricature GOP nominee”

 

Sixteen GOP US Senators will NOT be attending the Republican Convention, six senators are still deciding.

 

I am not a big fan of Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE), but he was only somewhat accurate when he referred to the up-coming presidential election as a, “dumpster fire”.

 

I say that because, as was stated by an op-ed column from the Washington Post Editorial Board, “the two major-party candidates for president are historically unpopular,” but they went on to say that you could not seriously compare the two candidates as each candidate “being equivalent”.

 

What The Post determined as a final evaluation of the two candidates, is that even responsible Republicans should be able to agree that you may not like or agree with Hillary Clinton, but she is “well within established bounds of competence, knowledge, and commitment”, while “Mr. Trump is a danger to the republic.”

 

This is demonstrated as being the truth, because a major group of sixteen well-known and well respected Republican senators have decided to not attend July's Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

 

That group includes Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Sen. Lisa Murkowsky (R-AK), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID), Sen. Mike Kirk (R-IL), Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), and Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY).

 

Oh, and by-the-way, six GOP senators are still deciding whether they will be attending the convention. 

 

Even though the final Republican candidate to drop out of the GOP Primary, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), has agreed to attend and to speak at the convention, but this senator from Texas has still not endorsed the presumptive Republican nominee.

 

And to top off this large group of US Senators not attending, the two former Republican President Bush’s and the former Florida Governor, Jeb Bush, plus Former Governor Mitt Romney, none of these prominent members of the GOP will be attending the 2016 Republican Convention in Cleveland.  (A true first for any American political convention to have healthy former US presidents of the same party not attending.)

 

There are some US Senators that have never missed a Republican convention since they first became interested in politics…..never missed that is, until this year.  Therefore, for this many key Republicans to be avoiding one of the most important and most visible events of any political party, the rebellion being demonstrated by these key drop-outs from the national convention, this is sending a resounding message of disagreement about the nominee to the Republican National Committee (RNC).

 

Let’s look at why there is no way to seriously compare the two final political presidential nominees with each other.

 

As the final GOP nominee, Donald Trump has waged a campaign based on bigotry, ignorance and resentment.  Trump has had no experience as a public servant, and for a candidate running on his so called “business experience”, his private record of multiple bankruptcies and exploitation of his suppliers should be disqualifying in itself.

 

Donald Trump regularly circulates major “4 Pinocchio” falsehoods. He has no noticeable interest in, or knowledge of, any governmental policies.  In recent days, Mr. Trump tweeted out an anti-Semitic image that had previously circulated on neo-Nazi, white supremacist websites, and then he attacked the mainstream media for reporting as such. He has called one sitting senator “a loser” and has threatened another senator, all the while proving that he lacks even a passing familiarity with the US Constitution.  He has even praised one of the most vile Middle East dictators of the 20th century.

 

But it doesn’t stop there.

 

Mr. Trump is an American with almost no fixed beliefs.  He is still the candidate who mocked a disabled reporter, has proposed banning Muslims from entering the United States, he attacked a judge based on his ethnicity, has celebrated violence at his large rallies, he continually demeaned women and he still promises to round up and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants . He is still the candidate who came to political prominence with race-based attacks on the incumbent president, and who launched his campaign by calling Mexicans rapists.

 

As to the other candidate for the Democrats, even if you don’t agree with her politics, Ms. Clinton is a highly knowledgeable politician who has been vetted over and over again.  Clinton shows that she understands and respects the US Constitution. She does know about government policies and she can cite accomplishments in the public interest, such as obtaining an important children’s health insurance program. As a senator, even the current Republican Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, has stated his respect of the former Senator New York.  As have other senate colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

 

 

Clinton completed four years as the US Secretary of State to generally positive reviews.  She also began her presidential campaign by rolling out a series of serious policy papers, while her competitor has only offered general policy statements that are rife with contradictory proposals.

 

These Republicans that are avoiding the Republican Convention are basically mortified by the man that their party is about to officially nominate.  These individuals are continuing to hold out hope for some magical transformation of their presumed candidate into one that can act “presidential”.  So far, all to no avail.

 

As to Ms. Clinton as a candidate, yes there are the minuses you have to consider.

 

You may disagree with her views and you may believe she was foolish to push for the intervention into the warring country of Libya.  And perhaps she was being arrogant in keeping her emails out of the official State Department server, and she was greedy to take large speaking fees when she was a private citizen.

 

But when she is measured against other major-party candidates of recent times, Ms. Clinton is well within established bounds of competence, knowledge, commitment and integrity. She is not as Sen, Sasse had said about the election, “a dumpster fire candidate”.  However, you cannot say that about the GOP nominee.

 

In Senator Sasse attempt at trying to equate both of the candidates as being “unqualified products of a rigged or failed system”, that only feeds the public cynicism, while it blurs the distinctions between them that should not be blurred.

 

As has been stated from all of the above, Hillary Clinton is a vetted politician that has shown her capability and her faults in the political arena.

 

While on the other hand, Hillary’s competition is a reality TV show billionaire celebrity that refuses to publish his tax returns, and who continues to show that he is unqualified to run this complicated and somewhat politically divided nation. 

 

But more important, as The Post has stated, Donald Trump is “extremely dangerous for this republic”.

 

Copyright G.Ater  2013