Sen. Lisa Murkowski, aghast at Donald Trumpâs candidacy and the direction of her party, wonât rule out bolting from the GOP.
The veteran Alaska Republican, one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial amid the aftermath of January 6, 2021, is done with the former president and said she âabsolutelyâ would not vote for him.
âI wish that as Republicans, we had ⌠a nominee that I could get behind,â Murkowski told CNN. âI certainly canât get behind Donald Trump.â
The partyâs shift toward Trump has caused Murkowski to consider her future within the GOP. In the interview, she would not say if she would remain a Republican.
Asked if she would become an independent, Murkowski said: âOh, I think Iâm very independent minded.â And she added: âI just regret that our party is seemingly becoming a party of Donald Trump.â
Why do you say that?
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/southern-states-pushing-forward-with
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/retaliation-texas-ag-paxton-demands
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/republicans-issue-new-government
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/west-virginia-bill-would-mandate
https://newrepublic.com/article/178576/republicans-reveal-end-game-fight-trans-kids
And, in advance of your reply, please donât bother telling me the yellow liquid that smells like piss running down my leg is rain. Conversion therapy kills. Getting proper treatment saved my life, and they explicitly want to take that away from me. Address this rather than trying to explain it away, or just donât waste both of our time. Iâm sure you have more productive things to do than deny what I can plainly see.
WTF. I donât know where to start.
I donât understand whatâs happening in the plains states. Itâs like a tornado sucked out all their humanity. I hadnt seen that yet.
You lost me with piss⌠đ¤ˇ
I actually have a lot of empathy for people who are shit on. I donât hate you or think you should have to feel that way.
The piss comment is a reference to an American idiom. I guess they missed that one in your training.
Training?
A reference to the phrase, âdonât piss on my leg and tell me itâs raining,â ie, I can see what is happening in front of me. And theyâd implement this shit on a federal level if they could; there were 40 such provisions they tried to get into the recent budget bills. The Twitter caucus has decided that I am an abomination, that my existence as myself makes me a pedophile, and that pedophiles deserve to be killed. The rest of the party is generally apathetic towards this, and will let them run the show on such matters if they are in an unassailable position. I thought John McCain was someone who I could have voted for in 2008, but he was the last Republican who was even remotely there; even the Republicans who managed the absolute minimum bar of recognizing a coup attempt when it tried to hang them, went along with the program the vast, vast majority of the time, right up until the doors were being hammered on by an angry mob.
I actually mentioned Bush/McCain because they were no where near as bad as now. Voting R wasnât as scary then.
Can do it now, now itâs a coup, like you said.
So yeah, given this, in what sense is it realistic or reasonable to not vote for the person with the better chance of beating them, IE, the democrat. I donât love that I have to bet my life, and the lives of lots of others, on a keynesian beauty contest, but Iâm not going to be dumb and throw the contest just because I donât like it. Why would you want to persuade people to do that?