Leave the Crazies and Go!

 

by Pa Rock 

Citizen Journalist

Mike Pence, the man Donald Trump chose to be his running mate in 2016 and who served a full term as Trump's Vice President, says he will not endorse Trump in this year's presidential race.

Lisa Murkowski, a senior Republican US Senator from the ruggedly independent state of Alaska, says that she will not vote for Donald Trump, and she is even considering leaving the Republican Party over its continuing adoration of egomaniacal Donald Trump.  Murkowski voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial.

Maine's senior US Senator, Susan Collins, also a Republican, said that she cannot see herself endorsing Trump in the 2024 presidential race.  She also voted to convict him during his second impeachment, the one which followed the January 6th insurrection that Trump inspired and encouraged.

US Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, who is a former governor of Massachusetts and was the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, says he "absolutely" would not vote for Trump over Biden.  Romney voted to convict Trump in both of his impeachment trials in the Senate.

Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney is scathing in her condemnation of Trump, and her father, former Republican Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, is strongly opposed to Trump as well.

The US House of Representatives which began the current session with a small majority of Republicans has been largely dysfunctional as much of the caucus focuses on pursuing Trump-inspired vendettas and neglecting the business of legislating for the nation.  Two additional Republican members have announced early retirements within the past few weeks, both seemingly due to the dysfunction within their own party in the House, and the GOP will soon have a working majority of only one vote.

The nation's only surviving former Republican President (besides Trump), George W. Bush, is not actively supporting Trump's third presidential bid.

Nikki Haley, the former Republican Governor of South Carolina and Trump's Ambassador to the United Nations, ran against Trump for this year's GOP presidential nomination before finally dropping out of the race earlier this month.  Haley has not endorsed Trump and she is still drawing double-digit support against him in the primaries even though she is no longer in the race.

Other Republican notables who are not supporting Donald Trump in his current presidential bid include General John Kelly, Trump's former Chief of Staff, John Bolton, Trump's National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster, another Trump National Security Adviser, Mark Esper and General James Mattis who each served as Defense Secretary for Trump, Rex Tillerson, Trump's Secretary of State, and Bill Barr Trump's Attorney General.

Four cabinet secretaries (and potentially at least two more), two National Security Advisers, a US Ambassador to the UN, and a Chief of Staff - each and every one of whom was appointed  by Trump and worked directly for him - are declining to support his effort to get re-elected - and so is his former Vice President - wow!

Lisa Murkowski and all of the other Republicans who can't stomach Donald Trump ought to change their party affiliation because their old party, the one that recognized the importance of working for the public good and being accountable, has pulled up stakes and left them.  The old Republican Party, the one that gave us decent people Dwight and Mamie, is gone.  It has been obliterated by raging lunatics and replaced by a cult of personality whose fealty isn't to the Constitution or the public good, but simply to a tyrannical and self-absorbed despot.  The leader of the new, purer group, has referred to it as the "MAGA Party."

Go, Lisa.  Get out while you can - and leave the door open so that others can follow.  Take the real Republican Party someplace else  - away from the crazies!