Distraught GOP consultant hints she may leave party after 'disgraceful' display by Trump and CPAC

[riversedge]

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Distraught GOP consultant hints she may leave party after ‘disgraceful’ display by Trump and CPAC crowd


https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/distraught-gop-consultant-hints-may-leave-party-disgraceful-display-trump-cpac-crowd/

03 Mar 2019 at 14:04 ET
Susan Del Percio -- screenshot

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Echoing the sentiments of her colleague Rick Tyler on Saturday — who said the Republican Party is no more — Susan Del Percio scalded both the president and the attendees while speaking with MSNBC host Alex Witt.

“What do you think about what he [Tyler] said there and how the president portrayed himself yesterday,” host Witt asked after airing a clip of the GOP consultant gloomily describing the state of the party.

“I think Rick was absolutely right, Alex,” Del Percio replied. “I don’t think it was embarrassing — I think it was an embarrassment. I don’t think it was a speech, I think it was a rant and a disgraceful way for the president of the United States to handle himself.”

“Rick is right about what he’s done to the conservative movement — it’s been completely hijacked,” she continued. “I blame the people in that crowd because they would rather be entertained than face hard realities and face the fact that they have sold themselves out to the great entertainer of our political times. That’s all they have done, they are doing nothing to move forward policies that matter, for us to be taken seriously as a party.”

“I’m fortunate enough that I have some, actually prominent Democrats saying, ‘Please don’t leave the party yet. I know you’re ready to go but we need solid Republicans like yourself to move forward’,” she added.

[Gothmog]

1. I like this consultant even though she is a republican

I feel sorry for her. She used to be on every weekend with Governor Dean

[PatSeg]

36. She is a regular contributor on MSNBC

these days. I really thought she had already left the party, being she is quite sane.

[Blue_true]

50. Yeah, I have always noticed how calm she was.

Always tried to make her points logically, even when I violently disagreed with her, I respected that. She never tried to shout over her opposition.

[area51]

2. Why did it take the cpac performance to take her blinders off?

I'm guessing:

[Mystery sage]

5. That green is sure mean...and stupid

[TwilightZone]

3. Apparently, she's been living under a rock the past few years. This is Trump.

This is who he is.

[ZZenith]

4. Let me guess - she just did her taxes.

No refund for you!”

[riversedge]

7. ha ha

[UTUSN]

6. Slow learners, late bloomers?!1 Best post, "she did her taxes"!1

[CharleyDog]

8. yay. (deflated balloon sound)

[RandySF]

9. What did say that was any different than any other day?

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

14. Nothing.

He just said it for two hours, unscripted and unhinged.

[gratuitous]

10. The conservative movement has not be hijacked

It's cruising along in the same direction it's always been headed. Del Percio has just decided to be all offended by it is the only difference.

[Midnight Writer]

35. Thank you. Trump is the culmination of the conservative movement. This is no surprise.

When you drive your car towards Chicago, how can you act shocked that you arrive in Chicago?

[Blue_true]

52. Excellent analogy. They have been going down the road they are on for many years. nt

[bitterross]

37. It was sold in exchange for power a long time ago.

They let themselves be sold to the Moral Majority first because that was the only way they could get enough votes. Now, they've sold themselves to Russia in the form of a Reality TV star to continue in power.

What's next?

[Quemado]

11. If she had an ounce of integrity in her,

she would have left years ago, or never joined in the first place.

[Lochloosa]

12. I call bullshit on this

I’m fortunate enough that I have some, actually prominent Democrats saying, ‘Please don’t leave the party yet. I know you’re ready to go but we need solid Republicans like yourself to move forward’,” she added

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Yeah, I Don't Believe That Either

It's her excuse for being all talk/no action!

[sprinkleeninow]

24. Copy that. A 'load' of.... eom

[Voltaire2]

13. nah, they will all slowly embrace their inner nazi.

[Initech]

15. The party is being run by people who don't think and listen to reason .

Instead they see the government as a form of entertainment and govern by how they would "own" the other side rather than listen to facts and reason. The government is not a form of entertainment.

[lindysalsagal]

16. I heard her say that live. You can only crawl through crap so long.

45 destroys all he touches, including the gop.

[MyOwnPeace]

17. Sounds like TRUMP!!!!!!

Check that last quote:

“I’m fortunate enough that I have some, actually prominent Democrats saying, ‘Please don’t leave the party yet. I know you’re ready to go but we need solid Republicans like yourself to move forward’,” she added.



Yeah, right. Just like "many people don't know" and "many people are telling me........"

She'll be like Maine's Senator - says some old BS and goes back to kissing their a$$es the next day!

[madaboutharry]

18. Susan Del Percio has been distraught about Trump since the day he came down the elevator.

She has not just woken up. In fact, she has been one of the loudest and most persistent Trump haters since day one.

She is an old school republican. I don't agree with her conservative views, but she is a decent person.

[hlthe2b]

20. For those of us who haven't watched CPAC: what was so different from his other deranged speeches?

WHy THIS one has her so fired up?

Seriously, i don't want to seek out the video clips, but if someone could describe one or two, that would be appreciated.

[Ferrets are Cool]

30. Maybe groping the flag

like it was one of his underage beauty contestants was the final straw. Who knows.

[Blue_true]

56. I don't think it was that.

He could have dry humped the flag and the "patriots" in attendance would have wildly cheered him on while chanting "lock her up".

[Ferrets are Cool]

58. Oh, they were chanting alright...

the word BULLSHIT. Such wonderful "Christians", all of them.

[Blue_true]

65. They are American Nazis.

Just like Nazis and others down through time before them, they use religion to justify them doing evil.

[hatrack]

21. Do, or do not. There is no "may".

If not now, when? If not under these circumstances, under what circumstances?

[sprinkleeninow]

26. Hnmm. I may. But then again, maybe not. I'll check to see which way the wind is blowing tomorrow.

Yes, indeedy.

Faker. 😠

[malaise]

22. I've never seen anyone who is a guest on more programs than said

ReTHUG hack. She loves those RW judges and supported all of Bush's war crimes.
Not one did I hear her condemn the birther movement.
Spare me.

[Blue_true]

59. She is an oldline Bushie.

She hates Trump for what he did to Jeb and how he did it. But she knows what the rightwing loons in her party are capable of, so she mouths discomfort, but basically plays along.

[Garrett78]

25. GOP consultant comes out of coma after 60 years, mumbling "I like Ike."

Upon being told about the Trump candidacy, Trump presidency and everything that made it possible (from Nixon's Southern Strategy to The Powell Memo to the Moral Majority to Reagan's dog whistling to the Tea Party backlash to a Black president), the consultant asked to be put back into a coma.

[Progressive Jones]

34. LMAO! True story! nt

[Garrett78]

62. These fucking people and all the shit that doesn't even faze them. Worse, they love it.

The Republican Party has been complete garbage since before Strom Thurmond switched parties. But Trump (father of Birtherism, sexual assaulter, misogynist, serial liar, racist, traitor, tax cheat, etc., etc., etc.) at CPAC has finally gone too far apparently. Jesus H Christ.

Republicans are, for the most part, just terrible, terrible people.

[rwsanders]

27. She needs to find others and form another party.

We don't need more former GOP's joining to drag things further to the right.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. "I have some, actually prominent Democrats saying, 'Please don't leave the party yet."

WTF? Really?

Ya'll made that bed and ya'll gonna sleep in it.

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. If it took her this long, FUCK OFF.

Sorry, I'm sick to death of fucking repugs. SICK OF THEM and their hypocrisy.

[Cryptoad]

31. TOO Late!!!!

got too much stink on her!

[bullwinkle428]

32. As they say on the Stephanie Miller show..."NOW A WARNING????"

[Progressive Jones]

33. Trump didn't let the Riff Raff in. They were already there.

This radical takeover of the GOP/Conservative movement has been going on for some time,
and went full bore with the tea party infestation while President Obama was in office.
All Trump has done is give these freaks a soapbox.
That is the problem the GOP will have to clear up if they want to exist.
In the meantime, I'm down with anything that cripples the GOP for a few election cycles.
The damage is in process. I believe there will be more indirect and direct damage to the GOP once all of the investigations are complete.

[Efilroft Sul]

38. This weekend, we saw conservatives spit on a Vietnam vet 46 years after he returned home as a POW.

But that's CPAC for you.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

39. That's fascinating, that prominent Dems want her to stay in her party.

I guess they hope her spark of clarity will lite up other repukes. Not that there’re many lucid enough to see farther than the noise machine bubble they live in.

[HubertHeaver]

46. The prominent democrats, who ever they may be, don't want her contaminating the democrats.

Please, Stay where you are. You'll do less damage that way.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

51. Stay where you are? Huh?

[Doitnow]

40. Tell me one thing a Rethug could think of that would move this country FORWARD! ONE!. (crickets)

[Delmette2.0]

41. "Children can't listen to their President"

I listened for a little over 2 minutes. Didn't the Democrats warn them that "children are listening" 3 years ago!

Well settle in because the children are going to hear a whole lot more about their president.

[First Speaker]

42. I don't think we should be putting people like this down...

...yes, Trump's true nature has been obvious from the beginning. And the truly honest conservatives--those very few--have seen it from the start. But people are not perfect, and it's hard to face the fact that the party--and movement--you've devoted your life to has gone rotten. How easy would it be for us, if--God forbid--a radical extremist movement hijacked the Democratic Party, and a demagogue used it to slip into the White House? No, we are not them, of course we aren't, and I am not suggesting so. But all human activities are capable of corruption, evil isn't only on one side, and we are all sinners. The sin of pride we see everywhere on the American Right is capable of proliferating among us too. No--Ms Del Pelcio has at least begun to see the light, and this is a good thing. If we liberals framed the issue not as Right vs Left, but as people, liberal and conservative, who believe in facts and empirical evidence, versus Trumpistas...we just might break off enough sane conservatives to make the difference.

[LAS14]

55. I agree. nt

[Blue_true]

60. We ARE NOT THEM, like you pointed out.

Since the Southern Strategy, they have built their brand based upon hate, she was part of that. We built our brand on looking for people's better angels and helping those in need, while protecting everyone's rights.

I feel for her and other republicans that are disgusted with Trump, but it is up to THEM to vote for the democrat in 2020, them sitting home or sucking up the swill and voting for Trump only shows what they are. People in our party has spent decades having people like Ms Del Percio question our patriotism and make stuff up about us. It is up to them to step up and help us save the country, we owe them nothing and must not make any promises to them, we are perfectly capable of saving the country on our own if we avoid 2016 type divisiveness.

[First Speaker]

66. We should promise them one thing...

...a promise to try and be fact-based, and not empirically-challenged. If we do this--not making any compromises with our values, making it clear we are liberals and expect that everyone in this country believes--or should believe--in liberal democracy...well, we can--as you say--save the country ourselves. But we would also, maybe, get the sane conservatives--whatever their past sins, which I agree with you 100% they're guilty of--to try and move their party a little closer to being the conservative wing of a liberal democracy...instead of being a party committed to liberal democracy's overthrow, as they are now. Is it possible? It better be...

[SWBTATTReg]

43. Absolutely despicable display of behavior on the part of our so called president in front of a ...

national forum. It just showcases his obvious pitfalls and failings as a human being and as president even more so. Anyone up yet for their rabies shots?

[Evolve Dammit]

44. Maybe the light bulb finally turned on? She's a highly intelligent woman. How many more are there?

[Blue_true]

49. I have always viewed her as intelligent and somewhat thoughtful.

But the point that someone made about judges, tax cuts, killing critical regulations, growing the military foreever is maybe what keeps her republican.

[DeminPennswoods]

45. Tyler, Del Persio, Wilson, etc

They are all just offended by Trump's crassness. They are just fine with the rw judges being nominated and confirmed, regulations being gutted, federal land being leased for less than the cost of a Sunday newspaper, tax cuts, cuts to the social safety net and every other thing the last 2 years of total GOP control have brought.

[Blue_true]

48. Yes, that too.

As soon as Trump is safely gone, they will be back to demonizing us and calling us names.

[Blue_true]

47. I don't understand why she did not leave before 2016.

When I have listened to her, it was clear that she was uncertain about what was happening to her party. My only guess is longtime loyalties are what is keeping her in it, hoping that some rare sane republican will rise up and remove Trump as the party head.

[agingdem]

53. sorry but no kudos to you Susan...

we're three years into this Kabuki and the Orange Magat's "graceful display" and the morons that eat up his bullshit with a knife and fork is what's giving you pause?...you "may leave the party"?...what's wrong with you!!!

[LAS14]

54. Count me in. I'm hoping for the restoration of a worthy opposition.

“I’m fortunate enough that I have some, actually prominent Democrats saying, ‘Please don’t leave the party yet. I know you’re ready to go but we need solid Republicans like yourself to move forward’,” she added.

[DFW]

57. I keep hearing about "the death of the Republican Party." Forget it, that's nonsense.

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As long as there are people who are filled with fear, jealousy, sadism, anger, paranoia, and religious fanaticism; as long as there are mean-spirited people, control freaks and the downright frustrated, then there will ALWAYS be a Republican Party.

[Blue_true]

61. Yep. nt

[Yavin4]

64. Exactly. Steve King or Kris Kobach or Sam Brownback are all waiting in the wings

if and when Trump leaves.

[lunasun]

67. ++exactly ! Thank you - nonsense it is

[DFW]

68. We heard the same song after the 2008 election

That was the shortest death on record.

[elias7]

70. Self above other - that's what it's all about.

[IluvPitties]

63. Leave!

[OnDoutside]

69. Playing both sides. I've watched Del Percio on MSNBC for the last 3 years and there is no

way she is leaving the Republican Party, since she hasn't left before now. I have far more respect for Nicole Wallace.