GOP senator to seek 'third candidate' if Trump is nominee

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Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse said Sunday night that he will not vote for Donald Trump if the billionaire wins the Republican nomination and will instead seek "some third candidate — a conservative, a Constitutionalist" to support instead.

In a lengthy Facebook note posted late Sunday, Sasse argued that Trump does not appear to support the constitutional principles most dear to conservatives, such as limited government and First Amendment protections for religious liberty.

"Much like President Obama, he displays essentially no understanding of the fact that, in the American system, we have a constitutional system of checks and balances, with three separate but co-equal branches of government. And the task of public officials is to be public 'servants,'" Sasse wrote.


"I’m as frustrated and saddened as you are about what’s happening to our country. But I cannot support Donald Trump. Please understand: I’m not an establishment Republican, and I will never support Hillary Clinton. I’m a movement conservative who was elected over the objections of the GOP establishment. My current answer for who I would support in a hypothetical matchup between Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton is: Neither of them. I sincerely hope we select one of the other GOP candidates, but if Donald Trump ends up as the GOP nominee, conservatives will need to find a third option."

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-senator-to-seek-third-candidate-if-trump-is-nominee/ar-BBq9mvx?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

[Botany]

1. Oh for the love of dog

"Much like President Obama, he displays essentially no understanding of the fact that, in the American system, we have a constitutional system ....

President Obama was elected under that constitutional system and he taught constittutional law @
the University of Chicago too.

[AgadorSparticus]

2. He also graduated from that little law school that starts with an H...oh yea. Harvard Law School.

[Botany]

3. And he has done one hell of a job too

BTW Obama was at the top of his class @ Harvard Law too

a must read article

The Sweeping, Historic Changes Of The Obama Presidency



Obamacare would cover millions of the uninsured, a giant step toward the Democratic dream of health care for all. It also included dozens of less prominent provisions to rein in the soaring cost and transform the dysfunctional delivery of American medicine."


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"As a candidate, Obama was often dismissed as a talker, a silver-tongued political savant with no real record of achievement. But ever since he took office during a raging economic crisis, he’s turned out to be much more of a doer, an action-oriented policy grind who has often failed to communicate what he’s done."

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" Obama bailed out U.S. automakers, enacted an enormous economic stimulus package, signed the most sweeping rewrite of financial rules since the Great Depression, killed the Keystone XL pipeline and issued historic carbon regulations to fight climate change. But how many Americans are aware of his administration’s harsh regulations cracking down on for-profit diploma mills, inefficient industrial motors and investment advisers with conflicts of interest? Everyone knows the Obamacare website was a disaster, but few realize that Obama got some of the Silicon Valley techies who fixed it to stick around and start up a U.S. Digital Service, a groundbreaking effort to bring government tech into the 21st century."

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" The economy was bleeding 800,000 jobs a month when Obama took office; it has now enjoyed a record 69 straight months of private-sector job growth, though economists disagree about how much credit Obama deserves for the recovery, and in any case wage growth has been tepid. The deficit has shrunk by nearly $1 trillion, and Medicare’s long-term solvency has been extended by 13 years. The resuscitated auto industry produced 11 million vehicles in 2014. Federal contractors can no longer discriminate against gays, women can now serve in combat and the rich are paying higher taxes. A new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is policing unscrupulous mortgage brokers, payday lenders and other rip-off artists, and the financial system has much less risky leverage.

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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/obama-biggest-achievements-213487

[AgadorSparticus]

4. I totally agree. He really has done a lot in his 8 years at the helm.

People have conveniently forgotten what he was facing when he took office. And even more amazing is that he turned the ship around in the face of blatant racism and obstinance. I have never seen a POTUS treated the way he has been. It is really shameful. But it doesn't surprise me. I see and deal with people's bigotry all the time. I can only imagine a person as visible as he is and what it must be like to be such a target.

[Botany]

5. and what % of Americans know that on Jan 20 or 21 2009 that the republicans ....

..... got together on the night of his inauguration and put together a plan to
sink the economy and to block every single thing that President Obama
would try to do?

If you haven't read that article it is very good. The big thing was Obama
did not want any public talking about things that got done because then
the GOP would notice and try to "mess w/things" more.

BTW Obama did an executive order that put together a plan to protect
pollinators and monarch butterflies ...something I know a little about and
it was a very good plan too and it showed that who or whomever put the
plan really understood the problem.

Obama .... Columbia University, Harvard Law, Professor of Constitutional
Law @ the University of Chicago, State Senator, US Senator, 2 best sellers,
2 kick ass campaigns for POTUS, and two landslide wins to be POTUS. I wish he had
some talent

[former9thward]

7. I have no idea where Obama was in his class standing at Harvard.

And neither do you. He has always refused to release his transcripts from Harvard.

[Botany]

8. He had to be at the top or close to the top because he was the editor of the law review and ....

... that honor is given to one of the top law students

[former9thward]

10. No, not at all.

The editor is an elective position. It is not based on merit.

[Major Nikon]

6. You go girl!

[chade]

9. I hope 'Constitution'...

...Wasn't anybody's drinking word.