Which Never Trumper is your favorite?

[Cary]

Whom do you like best?

37 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	David Frum
	0 (0%)
	Rick Wilson
	17 (46%)
	Steve Schmidt
	3 (8%)
	Joe.Walsh
	0 (0%)
	Bill Kristol
	0 (0%)
	Other
	3 (8%)
	Anne Navarro
	7 (19%)
	Nicole Wallace
	6 (16%)
	George.Conway
	1 (3%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[hlthe2b]

1. Nicole Wallace

[TruckFump]

6. Ditto. EOM

[trueblue2007]

13. I. LOVE. HER.

[Control-Z]

15. Yes, I love Nicholle.

And it is she who brought us Rick Wilson. He is my choice in the poll.

[LakeArenal]

2. Anne Navarro

[leftieNanner]

3. I pick two

Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson.

And I look forward to honest, robust discussions of policy differences after we sweep The Orange One out of OUR HOUSE!

[unblock]

4. you might consider adding ana navarro to the poll

personally, not sure i want to play this game. i'll take their never-trumper statements, but i'm not into deciding i'm a "fan" of any of them.

but i do suspect ana would get quite a few votes here.

[Cary]

8. I hear you

I still have hope that our species can mature beyond tribalism. I am naive I guess.

[jimfields33]

5. I put other for none

As soon as we get rid of trump they’ll be back to their repug ways.

[obamanut2012]

7. Nicole Wallace and Ana Navarro

Both also voted for Hillary in 2016.

[tishaLA]

9. Ms Wallace. No contest.

She's like the BFF every woman wants to go out for margaritas with so we can find out who does her highlights while we talk politics.

[AkFemDem]

10. George Conway is fun just because you know it really

Gets under Kellyanne and Trumps skin.

[Tanuki]

28. George Conway brought the receipts!

Link to tweet

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[tishaLA]

11. George Conway merits a place in the poll IMO

even though I'd still vote for Nicolle Wallace.

[Cary]

16. Done

[Locutusofborg]

21. George is my favorite

Because of what he gets to do with the Trump Administration's Senior Counselor to the President.

[bullwinkle428]

12. I want to see which ones run back into the loving arms of the

Republican party, if and when Chump gets defeated in the fall.

[Cary]

14. I'm not sure that's fair

We need an opposition party. We need checks and balances.

How does that happen? I don't pretend to know but these folks have proven to me that they have integrity when it counts. Are they not the most qualified to lead?

I am not sure about the "loving" part. That ship has sailed. The rabble seem to have it out most for Joe Walsh whose transformation is perhaps the most radical. Check out his tweets.

[stillcool]

30. I think there will be a transition..

to another party, if Republicans can no longer win elections. It is such a mess. Makes me wonder why people get all bent out of shape about a policy position, while the government is being torched to the ground. Although, maybe that's what they want?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. None

The real test will be, what happens to them once Trump is gone. Are they going to try to reform the Republican Party? Or just a brief sigh of relief that Trump is not making them look as bad as many of them actually are and go right back to their old bag of tricks. I don't really think that I've heard any of them repudiate their party's behavior from the 8 years of Obama or any of their actual policies that harm people. I'm not eager to embrace any of them until they agree to repudiate some of this and agree to work with Democrats in a genuine bipartisan manner. Until then, they should be treated as temporary allies against a common cause.

[Cary]

18. Joe Walsh has

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. Ok

I guess that I did hear him make some mea culpas but the true test will be once Trump is gone.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

27. I have to agree

It was their past bullshit that helped give birth to the orange monster

[OnDoutside]

24. They're on record saying that the GOP must die, it is irredeemable. They're hoping to get a new

party going to replace it.

[Goodheart]

19. Because Wilson is the sharpest and most articulate.... he's my pick.

He cuts like a knife.

[keithbvadu2]

22. Melania?

[OnDoutside]

23. I had to vote for Rick, but my vp would be Nicolle

[Patterson]

25. I like David Jolly.

[BusyBeingBest]

26. Tom Nichols.

[Recursion]

29. You know, it was only last year I realized there are two Joe Walshes

I kept picturing the guy from the Eagles all this time.

[Caliman73]

31. I did not see an option for "none"

While I do appreciate when Republicans or "former Republicans realize just how destructive Trump is, I have to remind people that this is a progression of conservatism from Goldwater and Nixon, to Reagan to Bush Jr. & Cheney, to Sarah Palin, to the Tea Party, to the "freedom caucus" to Trump. Conservatives believe that there is a hierarchy of people that are "supposed to be in charge" and it typically does not include women, people of color, LGBTQ people, or poor people. They have always lacked the numbers because their policies serve mainly the wealthy. There has always been a tacit racism, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobia within the conservative movement although they have typically tried to hide it from plain view. Trump just went with it and tore off the mask.

Everyone on the list would be happy just to go back to maybe the Reagan years or even the Bush Jr. years, which were horrible for women, people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ people, etc...

They can tear Trump down all they want, but they gave us Sarah Palin and the concept of "real America". They would use the same "costal elites" rhetoric and "government take over" to describe Democratic policies, if they could just have a nice, articulate, somewhat charming candidate to get behind. They disavow Trump but they do not look any deeper. They are surprised that he has taken over the Republican party but then they don't look at why he would have NEVER had a chance as a Democratic candidate, the same way the Michael Bloomberg didn't have a chance as a Democratic Candidate. Bloomberg is more articulate and less of a disgusting vulgarian, but he has a similar attitude to Trump with regards to looking down on people who are not wealthy like him. At a minimum, in our party, our candidates have to show that they understand and respect the experiences of people who do not have a lot of money and that they can push back on big money.

[Blue_Tires]

32. Schindler, no contest

Tom Nichols also deserves a mention.

[Dem2]

33. I like Steve Schmidt

I like his balance of smarts and snark.

[VOX]

34. Conway, Schmidt and Wilson are advisors with an entity called "The Lincoln Project."

On the Project’s website, they clearly state, “Our many policy differences with national Democrats remain,” [but] ”Electing Democrats who support the Constitution over Republicans who do not is a worthy effort.” These folks, while sorely needed to help defeat Trump, aren’t likely to become Democrats in the future.

The Lincoln Project describes itself thus:
https://lincolnproject.us/
DEDICATED AMERICANS PROTECTING DEMOCRACY
The Lincoln Project is holding accountable those who would violate their oaths to the Constitution and would put others before Americans.

WE HAVE SEEN THE BEST AND WORST
OF AMERICAN POLITICS
We understand that action must be taken, now, to protect the institutions that have made the United States the greatest nation the world has ever known.

OUR MISSION
Defeat President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box. We do not undertake this task lightly nor from ideological preference. Our many policy differences with national Democrats remain. However, the priority for all patriotic Americans must be a shared fidelity to the Constitution and a commitment to defeat those candidates who have abandoned their constitutional oaths, regardless of party. Electing Democrats who support the Constitution over Republicans who do not is a worthy effort.