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Why this Never Trump ex-Republican will vote for almost any 2020 Democratic nominee
I'm good with anyone who is mentally stable and in no way sympathetic or beholden to a hostile foreign power. Policy doesn't really even matter.
Pretty much how I see it also, and I'll vote for whomever wins the Democrat primary.
Democrat candidates who fail to snag the Dem presidential primary - governors, mayors, unattached - should run for open Senate seats wherever possible.
Related: Montel Williams: Trump has gone off a narcissistic cliff
Republicans are now the party of national insecurity on threats from guns to missiles
I'm good with anyone who is mentally stable and in no way sympathetic or beholden to a hostile foreign power. Policy doesn't really even matter.
8/15/19
All of the policy “what about” hypothetical's from my conservative friends are diversions. They’re trying to move the argument to policy to blind us to the reality that President Donald Trump is both unstable and compromised. As I have argued for well over two years, there is plenty of evidence that the president is compromised by our most dedicated enemy. Even before the Mueller report laid bare the degree to which the Trump campaign welcomed Russian help, it was obvious that Trump feared Russian President Vladimir Putin. Compulsive lying, fantastic and easily refuted claims, base insults and bizarre public meltdowns, however, are indeed signs of serious emotional problems. Trump has never been a reasonable man, but for two years, he has gotten worse. He literally cannot tell the truth from a lie, he often seems completely unable to comprehend even basic information, and he flies off the handle in ways that would make most of us take our children to a pediatrician for evaluation. This is why policy doesn’t matter. I have only two requirements from the Democratic nominee. First, he or she must not be obviously mentally unstable. Second, the nominee must not be in any way sympathetic — or worse, potentially beholden — to a hostile foreign power. This rules out Gabbard, Williamson and maybe New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, although in de Blasio’s case it’s hard to tell whether he is unstable or just a terrible person. As for the rest of them, I am willing to live with whoever wins the Democratic primary process.
The Democratic candidate will promise to nominate people into Cabinet posts who will make me tear my hair out. But at least I will be confident that they are in charge of their own inner circle, instead of surrounded by unprincipled cronies who keep their own boss in the dark while taking a hatchet to the Constitution. Is there anyone that Warren or former Vice President Joe Biden could bring to, say, the Justice Department, whom I would fear more than an odious and sinister courtier like William Barr? It is a sign of how low we have fallen as a nation that “rational” and “not compromised by an enemy” are now my only two requirements for the office of the president of the United States. Perhaps years of peace and prosperity have made us forget the terrifying responsibilities that attend the presidency, including the stewardship of enough nuclear weapons to blow the Northern Hemisphere to smithereens. As long as the Democrats can provide someone who can pass these simple tests, their nominee has my vote.
Pretty much how I see it also, and I'll vote for whomever wins the Democrat primary.
Democrat candidates who fail to snag the Dem presidential primary - governors, mayors, unattached - should run for open Senate seats wherever possible.
Related: Montel Williams: Trump has gone off a narcissistic cliff
Republicans are now the party of national insecurity on threats from guns to missiles