Vote against all Republicans. Every single one. - By Max Boot

[DonViejo]

By Max Boot
Columnist
October 31 at 3:31 PM

“I am sick and tired of this administration. I’m sick and tired of what’s going on. I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I hope you are, too.”

— Joe Biden

I’m sick and tired, too.

I’m sick and tired of a president who pretends that a caravan of impoverished refugees is an “invasion” by “unknown Middle Easterners” and “bad thugs” — and whose followers on Fox News pretend the refugees are bringing leprosy and smallpox to the United States. (Smallpox was eliminated about 40 years ago.)

I’m sick and tired of a president who misuses his office to demagogue on immigration — by unnecessarily sending 5,200 troops to the border and by threatening to rescind by executive order the 14th Amendment guarantee of citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

I’m sick and tired of a president who is so self-absorbed that he thinks he is the real victim of mail-bomb attacks on his political opponents — and who, after visiting Pittsburgh despite being asked by local leaders to stay away, tweeted about how he was treated, not about the victims of the synagogue massacre.

I’m sick and tired of a president who cheers a congressman for his physical assault of a reporter, calls the press the “enemy of the people ” and won’t stop or apologize even after bombs were sent to CNN in the mail.

I’m sick and tired of a president who employs the language of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish financier George Soros and “globalists,” and won’t apologize or retract even after what is believed to be the worst attack on Jews in U.S. history.

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[Funtatlaguy]

1. Need a national commercial with him and Steve Schmidt saying this.

[benfranklin1776]

16. Yes as it would smack down their latest Willie Horton like scare ad

If the DNC did an ad featuring these points,which are all true, it would be a powerful counterpoint to their fearmongering racist
video filth.

[Hamlette]

24. very few former Republicans stand up for dems but Boot and Schmidt do.

From the link in the OP

"I’m sick and tired of a president who won’t stop engaging in crazed partisanship, denouncing Democrats as “evil,” “un-American” and “treasonous” subversives who are in league with criminals."

I've read all the former Republican books on how awful Trump is and Boot's is the only one I could stand. the others trashed Dems in the process of trashing Trump, but not Boot.

I never paid much attention to him before but I'm beginning to now.

While she doesn't have a book out, I think Jennifer Rubin is more like Boot and Schmidt. I've not heard her trash dems either.

[beachbum bob]

2. I will NEVER vote for any republican ever again....

this will be a first for me as I have voted for some locally, but no more

[jcgoldie]

3. I can say I honestly never have

Started voting in 1992 when I was 19 in college. But I've never been so completely sickened by the idea of republicanism as now.

[beachbum bob]

8. I have voted for some amazing republicans in the past (I have 45 years of voting)

and will NEVER again

[jcgoldie]

10. Isn't that an oxymoron?

Just teasing.

[lark]

14. I first voted for Jimmy Carter.

In all these years in both CA and FL, I have never voted for a repug. In the old days if the position was non-partisan, say a judge or environmental person, I didn't vote unless I knew what the person stood for. These days with the internet access we enjoy, I research judges to see how they have ruled and who appointed them and vote on them too. I voted against all judges appointed by Bush or Scott who are anti-worker, pro big business only, and to retain one judge who has consistently ruled for privacy and pro-choice (it's actually included in FL's constitution).

There was a liberal Republican in CA who I really liked in the mid-70's, but he wasn't in my district so couldn't vote for him. He switched parties when Reagan was governor because he didn't approve of gutting CA's education so millionaires paid next to nothing in property taxes but new owners paid at 10x that rate. There are no more repugs like him anywhere in America, just right wing haters & grifters.

[Metro135]

17. I haven't either

I voted for the first time in 1972. I was 18 and voted for McGovern. And then Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Obama, right down the line. Moved to NYC in 1982. I never cast a vote for Ghouliani or any other Republican.

And I really, really doubt that I ever will.

[GWC58]

35. 1976 was my first time voting,

I turned 18 that May. I’ve never voted GOP and I don’t see myself starting now.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Same Here Bob

I've voted several times for a guy who is an R, for county board. I know him personally. He was, like me, active in the credit union movement. He's not a raving lunatic. He used to run the EMA for our county, which has around 700k people, meaning he wasn't a "investment" or "business" guy. He's in the mold of Chuck Percy or Everett Dirksen.

But, i'm not voting for him this time. He has an "R" after his name. I'm sick of it.

[Hekate]

25. Those personal connections mean a lot, so I hope you have told him of your decision & your regrets

Based on what you say, he sounds like a good guy -- but the tides of history changed and the party he affiliates with is now too toxic to let there be any more in their column to add up to a majority. A majority that will determine redistricting boundaries, committee chairmanships, and all the rest.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. When i See Him, I'll Tell Him

He's going to win anyway, but i just can't do it any more.

[vi5]

4. I haven't since 1986. DEFINITELY not starting any time soon.

I was happy to hear that my parents, who are usually Democratic voters but have occasionally been known to pull the lever for a more reasonable Republican (or what they perceived to be a reasonable Republican) have said they did not do that this election and voted straight Democratic ballot. We are in NJ and they are no Menendez fans (neither am I, and I'm a more hardcore Dem than they are), so this was pretty big for them to look beyond just the individual candidate and know that pulling the lever for any R was a vote for enabling and emboldening Trump.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. it's not just TrumPutin

As Reiner and Obama pointed out, it's a whole party of candidates just making stuff up, lying to the American public every day about everything.

[vi5]

11. I know that....

....I was referring to my parents who while most of the time not in favor of any Republican candidate, had previously still always looked at each candidate independently and not as a piece of the larger rot. I hate that it took Trump to make them see this, but at least they are on the right track now.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. figured that from your previous post

I didn't mean to imply that you didn't know the trouble goes beyond Trump. Your previous post was pretty clear.

It is just a bit alarming how many people still focus on Trump without recognizing he's just capitalizing on a diseased GOP. They need it spelled out, often, how the GOP is selling everyone out and dismantling our system.

[vi5]

33. If nothing else with Trump...

....he's removed any degree of plausible deniability. Even my father in law who is a die-hard Republican is finally having to admit that Trump is merely the biggest symptom and not the disease itself.

This is why, to your point I don't want us as a party or as individuals to keep focusing on Trump because it allows for a "Well, now things are back to normal!" once Trump is gone however that happens (impeachment, voted out, etc.). That's my biggest fear with keeping a lot of the same Dems and leadership we have because I fear they will be too willing to forgive and forget and move on from what has been done.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

37. I share that fear

If we don't hold them accountable at every level, the cycle will simply repeat. Acting like everything is normal doesn't make it so.

[Andy823]

5. I already did.

Day after I received by ballot it was in the mail.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Yep, me too...

took me an extra day. Not because of candidates, but to look at a couple of initiatives on this ballot.

I had it kind of 'lucky' though. Two dems on my House ballot.

[jcgoldie]

12. Thanks

I don't have facebook or twitter, but shared this with everyone in my phone, even the republican fuckers.

[usaf-vet]

13. As a cancer survivor I cannot think of many things that are worse than cancer.

So having said that I believe our current president is a cancer. A pervasive form who is destroying the country piece by piece.

IT! The cancer living in the white house needs to be removed for the health of the nation.

Please VOTE on November 6.

[ck4829]

15. K&R

[Zorro]

18. I've been sick and tired of Republicans since 1968

I will admit to have once voted for a Republican in 1972 -- Howard Baker of Tennessee -- for the Senate. His Democratic opponent Ray Blanton was obviously crooked, and Blanton eventually ended up in the federal pen for selling pardons and taking bribes for liquor licenses when he was governor.

[NewJeffCT]

19. I'm in my early 50s

I've voted for 1 Republican my entire life. When I graduated from college, the state of Connecticut treasurer gave the address at the graduation ceremony. The speech was so terribly boring that I decided to vote against him the next election (1990) - the biggest applause line the guy had in the 45+ minute speech was "and in conclusion" - he still won handily, but the margin was closer than it was for other Democrats in statewide elections and I think his speech was a reason (maybe he won be 12% when other Dems won by 14-15%?)

[defacto7]

20. I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore.

[wcollar]

21. Yellow Dog

To anyone who asks, I tell them I'm a "Yellow Dog Democrat" this year. If they don't know the reference, I tell them, I'd vote for an old yellow dog if he was a Democrat before I'd vote for a republican".

[hostalover]

23. I have to confess to my DU friends that my very first presidential vote was for Barry Goldwater in

1964. (Along with 3,000,000 others) My reason? I was devastated, of course, when President Kennedy was assassinated--our charismatic, urbane, gorgeous leader. And who took his place? A hulking, homely, seemingly grumpy LBJ, and I resented him! So I voted against him. In my defense, I knew very little about politics except I knew I was a Democrat because all the women in my family were-especially my mother. (Actually I also voted for Gerald Ford because I liked Betty!) Needless to say, I've become a bit more discerning as time has passed!

[paulkienitz]

26. The pundit's balls grew three sizes that day.

[NastyRiffraff]

28. I voted for 1 Republican in my lifetime

That was Connie Morella for MD-8. She was one of the last decent Republicans and was actually a good representative. Now, I won't vote for any Republican, even the very rare "good" ones. Larry Hogan has done some good things in MD, but I'm voting for a Democrat that I'm not at all excited about: Ben Jealous.

Republicans have lost my vote forever. If a Republican candidate is a decent person, he or she should change parties.

[RicROC]

29. Nov 6, Trash Day

November 6- National 'Take Out the Trash' Day

[Coventina]

30. What do you do with non-partisan races?

I'm curious because we have a lot on our ballot.

School Boards, our Judges are non-partisan, Water board (no, seriously that's what it's called), Corporation Commission, City Council, Mine Inspector, up to about half of our ballot is filled with non-partisan races. Very few of the candidates declare what their political party is. And, it isn't info that is available via Google, either.

I'm wondering what others do in this situation.

[calimary]

31. But YOU helped build this, Max.

ALL of you former CONS or “recovering” CONS or “repentant” CONS or whatever you wish to call yourselves. You’re STILL CONS. Until/unless you have a complete change of heart, or a lobotomy.

As the GOP’s campaign slogan of a few elections ago proclaimed: “You Built It.” And you did. ALL OF YOU did, on that side of the aisle. THIS is the natural outcome of what the republi-CON Party - YOUR republi-CON Party - has built month-after-month, year-after-year. With their penny wise/pound-foolish policies and their incendiary language stirring up hate. How do you think the finished cake’s gonna taste when you dump several cups of shit into the mixing bowl while you’re making the cake batter?

[2naSalit]

32. At this point in time

it's against my religion to vote for one of them at all. I'll leave that space blank before I'll cast a vote for them.

[SergeStorms]

34. I've never voted for a Republican.....

and my Dad was an elected Republican official. My vote for him never mattered since we lived in a very red area at the time. I never voted against him either, I just left that race blank. I've voted for Independents before, but never a Republican, so not voting for any Republicans is muscle memory for me.

[MatthewG.]

36. I voted Republican a few times too and I'm embarrassed by it.

I can relate slightly to Max Boot - I was active in the College Republicans and even had a leadership position on a conservative campus newspaper that spawned the career of one or two well known Republican pundits.

It’s a source of embarrassment to me to this day.

On the other hand, I was about twenty when I figured out the GOP is, at least at a national level, a colossal scam which mostly operates to harness ethnonational resentments in the service of deficit funded tax cuts benefiting the wealthy. So at least I can claim my conservatism as a youthful indiscretion.

What took Boot so long? It should be obvious to anyone that the GOP’s a scam which stokes popular prejudices in the service of tax cuts.