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ProudProgressiveNow

(6,129 posts)
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 04:56 AM Jun 2016

Republicans For Hillary 2016 "TOO DANGEROUS"



Actual ad.

Who should be at the desk of the commander in chief? It shouldn’t be Donald Trump.'

Hillary Clinton hadn't even clinched the Democratic nomination when Craig Snyder, a longtime Republican, filed the paperwork to create a PAC to help get her elected.

Snyder filed Federal Election Commission paperwork on Friday to create Republicans for Hillary 2016, an organization aimed at convincing Republicans to choose the former Secretary of State over presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump in November.


http://time.com/4360519/hillary-clinton-republican-pac-craig-snyder/
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Republicans For Hillary 2016 "TOO DANGEROUS" (Original Post) ProudProgressiveNow Jun 2016 OP
This is going to turn off a key demographic shes needs to win, Liberal Democrats who already view DemMomma4Sanders Jun 2016 #1
There were democrats for reagan, republicans for Obama even... mucifer Jun 2016 #2
Republicans DemMomma4Sanders Jun 2016 #3
I take it you think a national candidate can win with only one category of voter... Hekate Jun 2016 #4
Thank you! Well said. NurseJackie Jun 2016 #20
This message was self-deleted by its author rjsquirrel Jun 2016 #5
Not voting for someone because someone else is? liberal N proud Jun 2016 #6
If conservatives are voting for someone its a good bet that someone is a Republican DemMomma4Sanders Jun 2016 #13
No. Your Hillary-hate has blinded you to this situation dbackjon Jun 2016 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author liberalnarb Jun 2016 #18
People from the other side cross over every election year. liberalnarb Jun 2016 #19
People who I dislike now like someone I like, so now I must dislike who I liked Bucky Jun 2016 #9
Yes it is. Same logic that prevents the Rs from even considering a judge they themselves suggested Hekate Jun 2016 #21
Because some Republicans Chevy Jun 2016 #12
And many are just in self preservation mode dbackjon Jun 2016 #17
And if Sanders had won the nomination dbackjon Jun 2016 #15
Given her policies, a lot of Republicans will find her quite attractive... Herman4747 Jun 2016 #7
Her True Colors McKim Jun 2016 #8
Are you going to vote third party? Just curious. Hekate Jun 2016 #22
Well, that's been her strategy all along. Triangulate. Bucky Jun 2016 #10
not too surprising since she and the republicans agree on most issues Doctor_J Jun 2016 #11
Really? HRC and Sanders voted together 93% of the time. Is he a secret Republican? Hekate Jun 2016 #23
Yeah, sure Doctor_J Jun 2016 #25
Just goes to show.., Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2016 #14
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2016 #24
 

DemMomma4Sanders

(274 posts)
1. This is going to turn off a key demographic shes needs to win, Liberal Democrats who already view
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 05:17 AM
Jun 2016

her as Republican-lite and she isn't going to grab any ( Vince Foster) obsessed republicans with this gimmick.

This is actually surreal now that I think about it.

 

DemMomma4Sanders

(274 posts)
3. Republicans
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 05:35 AM
Jun 2016
In some cases, longtime Republican voters who have decided to support Sanders, like MacMillan, are rethinking their political affiliation entirely. (“I’m inclined to say I might stay with the Democratic Party because the Republican Party has changed and it’s not the way it used to be,” MacMillan says.) Far from claiming to have experienced a political conversion, other Republicans argue that Sanders actually embodies conservative values.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-lifelong-conservatives-who-love-bernie-sanders/417441/

I can see a group or pac starting up, but that doesn't necessarily mean there is one single republican who actually supports the "Democratic Socialist"...it just means someone paid whatever fee was required to start a group

It sounds more like people are fleeing the two party system in general....the rise of independants is fed by former democrats as well. Heres another ex Republican.

I have been a conservative Republican my entire life. But the Republican party as a whole has gotten so far out of touch with the American people,” says Bryan Brown, a 47-year-old Oregon resident. “I switched my registration so that I could vote for Sanders in the primary, but the day the primary is over I’m going to register as an Independent.”

Hekate

(90,690 posts)
4. I take it you think a national candidate can win with only one category of voter...
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 06:13 AM
Jun 2016

...and that anything that smacks of consensus is too wrong for words.

It's not like that in real life, especially when the other candidate is someone as vile and dangerous as Trump. I welcome any sign of sanity from the conservatives -- their party is imploding and it's dangerous for the Country. My husband already knows a couple of people from work who loathe and fear Trump to the extent they will definitely vote for HRC in November. They're not mucking around with "protest votes" like 3rd party, write-ins, or leaving the space blank -- they flat out want Hillary to beat Trump.

Response to DemMomma4Sanders (Reply #1)

liberal N proud

(60,334 posts)
6. Not voting for someone because someone else is?
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 06:36 AM
Jun 2016

That makes no sense, everyone should be basing their vote on their own values and not someone else's.

So what if the other side is voting for them too.

My vote, my choice.

Response to DemMomma4Sanders (Reply #13)

Bucky

(54,013 posts)
9. People who I dislike now like someone I like, so now I must dislike who I liked
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 09:56 AM
Jun 2016

Isn't that the same logic Republicans used to kill funding for the Zika virus?

Hekate

(90,690 posts)
21. Yes it is. Same logic that prevents the Rs from even considering a judge they themselves suggested
Sat Jun 11, 2016, 01:08 PM
Jun 2016

....even tho he is eminently qualified.

 

Chevy

(1,063 posts)
12. Because some Republicans
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 11:35 AM
Jun 2016

actually do care more about their country than their party affiliation clearly a message being missed by some radical socialists out there who are for purity alone. Unlike the Europeans of the 1930s we have have history to guide us what we are confronting now.

 

dbackjon

(6,578 posts)
17. And many are just in self preservation mode
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 11:50 PM
Jun 2016

They know that in association with Trump is toxic and could cost them their careers

 

dbackjon

(6,578 posts)
15. And if Sanders had won the nomination
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 11:44 PM
Jun 2016

In the same group of Republicans endorsed him because they do not trust Donald Trump to be president would you feel the same way ?


This is less a. Endorsement of Hillary is in indictment of how unworthy and untrustworthy Trump is

 

Herman4747

(1,825 posts)
7. Given her policies, a lot of Republicans will find her quite attractive...
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 06:44 AM
Jun 2016

...including the one below on the left:

McKim

(2,412 posts)
8. Her True Colors
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 09:07 AM
Jun 2016

I am shuddering to think what will happen to this world if Hillary is selected. Thanks for the reminder.

Bucky

(54,013 posts)
10. Well, that's been her strategy all along. Triangulate.
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 09:58 AM
Jun 2016

Eventually she'll realize how fair-weather those friends are.

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