George Conway is married to Kellyanne Conway, who is Counselor to the President , Donald Trump and is a political advisor…
Mr. Conway IS a Republican….
And he’s calling his fellow party members cowards….
THAT should include his wife.…
The birther imaginings about Barack Obama? Just a silly conspiracy theory, latched onto by an attention seeker who has a peculiar penchant for them. The “Mexican” Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel incident? Asinine, inappropriate, a terrible attack on the judiciary by an egocentric man who imagined that the judge didn’t like him. The white supremacists’ march in Charlottesville? The president’s comments were absolutely idiotic, but he couldn’t possibly have been referring to those self-described Nazis as “good people”; in his sloppy, inarticulate way, he was referring to both sides of the debate over Civil War statues, and venting his anger about being criticized.
No, I thought, President Trump was boorish, dim-witted, inarticulate, incoherent, narcissistic and insensitive. He’s a pathetic bully but an equal-opportunity bully — in his uniquely crass and crude manner, he’ll attack anyone he thinks is critical of him. No matter how much I found him ultimately unfit, I still gave him the benefit of the doubt about being a racist. No matter how much I came to dislike him, I didn’t want to think that the president of the United States is a racial bigot.
But Sunday left no doubt. Naivete, resentment and outright racism, roiled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist president. Trump could have used vile slurs, including the vilest of them all, and the intent and effect would have been no less clear. Tellingfour non-white members of Congress — American citizens all, three natural-born — to “go back” to the “countries” they “originally came from”? That’s racist to the core. It doesn’t matter what these representatives are for or against — and there’s plenty to criticize them for — it’s beyond the bounds of human decency. For anyone, not least a president.
What’s just as bad, though, is the virtual silence from Republican leaders and officeholders. They’re silent not because they agree with Trump. Surely they know better. They’re silent because, knowing that he’s incorrigible, they have inured themselves to his wild statements; because, knowing that he’s a fool, they don’t really take his words seriously and pretend that others shouldn’t, either; because, knowing how damaging Trump’s words are, the Republicans don’t want to give succor to their political enemies; because, knowing how vindictive, stubborn and obtusely self-destructive Trump is, they fear his wrath….
More from George T. Conway III….
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Brilliantly written Op-Ed.
Yes,I agree.
This is one of the best ,most succinct takedowns of the fool I’ve read.
Marc Short, Chief of Staff to VP Pence said that Trump’s remarks couldn’t be racist becsuse he has an “Asian woman of color” in his cabinet.
That’s not even a “some of my best friends are black” defense
That’s more like a “a guy I know lives across the street from a black dude”.
Yes pathetic and predictable.
Presidential historian Jon Meacham told MSNBC that President Trump’s attacks against four minority lawmakers placed him with Andrew Johnson as the “most racist president in American history.”
Said Meacham: “What the president’s done here is yet again, because I think he did it after Charlottesville, and I think he did it frankly when he was pushing the birther lie about president Obama, is he has joined Andrew Johnson as the most racist president in American history.”….
Politicalwire…
Did me or anyone think the head knucklehead would stop ?
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…..shouting of the F…word, among many other terrible things, and the petrified Dems run for the hills. Why isn’t the House voting to rebuke the filthy and hate laced things they have said? Because they are the Radical Left, and the Democrats are afraid to take them on. Sad!
twitter 6:20AM 7/16/19
Let’s just hope that Donald Trump also turns out to be about as ineffective as Andrew Johnson.
Had Johnson succeeded, Jim Crow would have succeeded slavery about thirty years earlier than it did.
He almost certainly meant Andrew Jackson.
Jon Meacham is a published presidential historian. Although all of us make mistakes and slips of the tongue, he (like Doris Kearns Goodwin) would be the least likely to say Andrew Johnson when he was thinking of Andrew Jackson.
Andrew Johnson was an ineffective president, without a home in either party (having run as Democratic running-mate to Lincoln) or a majority in Congress, and he was a very strong mountain Unionist, but he was also a racist. Under his (as opposed to what might have been Lincon’s) version of Presidential Reconstruction had prevailed, the states with white majorities who had supported secession (almost all of them save Mississippi and maybe Louisiana) established onerous Black Codes upon the freedmen, which forced them into “apprenticeships” little different from slavery. (This was before the 14th and 15th Amendments were passed by Republican Congresses and state legislatures.)
Andrew Jackson, so far as I know, was no paragon of racial tolerance although I don’t know if he was more racist than the slaveholder presidents who preceded him or the other presidents (save Martin Van Buren) who succeeded him (Tippecanoe, John Tyler who was elected to the Confederate Congress, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan).
On the other hand, his Indian Policy (leading to the Trail of Tears) was in its effect utterly devastating and based on some deeply racist notions.
Can’t forget Woodrow Wilson on this list.
Full tweet:
The Democrat Congresswomen have been spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate, & yet they get a free pass and a big embrace from the Democrat Party. Horrible anti-Israel, anti-USA, pro-terrorist & public…..
…..shouting of the F…word, among many other terrible things, and the petrified Dems run for the hills. Why isn’t the House voting to rebuke the filthy and hate laced things they have said? Because they are the Radical Left, and the Democrats are afraid to take them on. Sad!
followed by
“Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel believes Google should be investigated for treason. He accuses Google of working with the Chinese Government.” @foxandfriends A great and brilliant guy who knows this subject better than anyone! The Trump Administration will take a look!
If you come after the President, the Country, the Flag – he’s going to defend himself. What the squad doesn’t like is that Donald Trump is enforcing the very laws that are on the books that were put there by Congress.” Jason Chaffetz. Also, buy Jason’s great new book, POWER GRAB!
Our Country is Free, Beautiful and Very Successful. If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave!
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The House voted along party lines to allow Speaker Nancy Pelosi to refer to President Donald Trump’s tweets about minority Democratic lawmakers as “racist,” overriding House rules and GOP objections….
Politico….
Post will be forthcoming later….
Only 5 GOOer’s supported the vote to hold the vote….
Actually 4 GOOer’s
and Amash who is now an indie,,..
Reporters has been told that they DO believe his comments WHERE racist…
But dare NOT stand up against Trump and his supporters….
The resolution against Trump has passed…
The five non-Democrats to vote for the resolution were:
Brooks (IN) R IN Aye
Fitzpatrick R PA Aye
Hurd (TX) R TX Aye
Upton R MI Aye
Amash I MI Aye
The xix non-voters were all Republicans from the Southwest:
Biggs R AZ Not Voting
Burgess R TX Not Voting
Gohmert R TX Not Voting
Granger R TX Not Voting
Marchant R TX Not Voting
Williams R TX Not Voting
Total votes:
235 Democrats Aye
1 Independent Aye
4 Republicans Aye
6 Republicans Not Voting
187 Republicans No
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll482.xml
Presidential Retweet from Steve Daines, the Montana Republican who replaced Sen. Max Baucus (D) in 2014 after Baucus had been nominated & confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to China (which means that Daines needs votes and money to seek re-election in 2020).
[if you want to see what America-hating really sounds like, see the last Presidential Inaugural Address, largely writeed by Steve Bannon]
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Montanans are sick and tired of listening to anti-American, anti-Semite, radical Democrats trash our country and our ideals. This is America. We’re the greatest country in the world.
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