Clinton to score another GOP endorsement: former senator John Warner of Virginia

[geek tragedy]

Source: Washington Post

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will score another high-powered Republican endorsement on Wednesday, according to a campaign aide: retired senator John Warner of Virginia, a popular GOP maverick with renowned military credentials.

Warner’s decision not to support his party’s nominee, Donald Trump, is intended to send a signal in the five-term senator’s battleground home state and beyond that mainstream, security-minded Republicans should side with Clinton.

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Perhaps best known by some for marrying actress Elizabeth Taylor, Warner, 89, is also known for bucking his party. A World War II veteran, former U.S. Navy secretary and former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Warner famously opposed the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork, as well as the 1994 Senate candidacy of Oliver North of Iran-contra notoriety. He endorsed Democrat Mark R. Warner over Republican Jim Gilmore to fill his own seat in the U.S. Senate.

John Warner’s ability to withstand the Republican criticism he endured for those decisions stemmed largely from the gravitas he had built over a lengthy Senate career in which he mastered national security issues and diligently delivered for the state’s military bases and defense contractors.

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There are precious few, if any, like him left in the GOP. Which is why we're seeing this endorsement.

[TexasBushwhacker]

1. Yeah, he's old school. I'm glad to hear this. n/t

[Mamajami]

2. This is "bigly"

[4lbs]

3. Yes, John Warner is a classic Eisenhower-style Republican. Common sense and logic

over stupid party politics.


He voted to close the gun show loophole.

He supports gun control.

He sponsored Dianne Feinstein's Senate Bill to extend the Federal Assault Weapons Ban another 10 years.

Even though he is personally against abortion, he supported Roe v. Wade, believing the government shouldn't interfere.

He supported embryonic stem cell research.

Even though he was against same-sex marriage, he supported and voted for expanding hate crime laws to include those crimes that involve sexual orientation.

He voted AGAINST Bill Clinton's impeachment.

[texasleo]

4. Kaine + Warner =Va= no path for Trump

[Grassy Knoll]

5. Good, Stupid Fuck.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Locks up Virginia...may move NC and PA as well

[geek tragedy]

8. May have a small effect in NC, don't see it affecting PA nt

[saltpoint]

7. John Warner was one of the last Republicans

who could do some independent thinking, approach his role in Congress in the context of public service.

I don't think there's anybody like him left in today's GOP.

[In_The_Wind]

9. Kicked and recommended