Why not punish the Republicans for nominating Trump?

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The standard reason many Bernie-or-Bust folks give, just like their predecessors in previous elections, is that they want to send a message by punishing the party with their vote.

But, here's a better idea:

Punish the Republicans for nominating an explicitly racist, possibly criminally corrupt, completely unqualified, ignorant, fascist, mentally unstable, intellectually incurious, misogynist, unprincipled, bullying, thuggish, cruel, vile, horrid, petulant, man-baby baboon?

If ever a major party deserved to, nay needed to get stomped hard, really hard, it's the 2016 Republicans.

Even better, the misogynist man-baby baboon would be humiliated by massively losing to a woman.

I get that Clinton is an uninspiring or even disappointing choice for a lot of people. But how can anyone pass up a chance to vote to stick it to Donald Trump and the people whose 50 years of stoking white racism made him possible?

[MineralMan]

1. Take it down the ballot, too.

Dump the GOP!

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2. They're with the racist nt

[TeacherB87]

3. Great point!

It's a much better option than fucking over the country to punish the Democrats.

[yeoman6987]

4. Put them in jail? They voted for a guy who we disagree with.

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5. was there a reference to incarceration in my post? nt

[yeoman6987]

9. You didn't but said punishment

I don't know how Hillary (as president) can personally punish 10 million voters. Take away all government benefits could be possible.

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15. WTF are you talking about? nt

[JoePhilly]

6. That's what terrifies Lindsey Graham and the other GOP

officials who are not supporting Trump.

Their hoping to save the house and senate.

We should punish them and create majorities that FDR would envy.

[Chasstev365]

7. Standard Reason? BS!

I've stated I will vote for Hillary to stop Trump and I still get trashed all the time on DU. What do you people want from us?????

[Fumesucker]

8. It's a lot more hurtful when someone who is supposed to be on your side does you wrong

I *expect* Republicans to be assholes, it's what they do, there's as much point in getting angry at them as in getting angry at the weather, it just is.

Democrats on the other hand are supposed to be on my side but so often they aren't.

And besides, Cruz was a lot more scary than Trump, Trump's a blowhard while Cruz is a true believer.

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14. There's also the fact that Clinton is 10,000 times better than Trump

Trump is singularly bad in the history of Presidential nominees.

Worse than GWB43.

[Fumesucker]

19. Elementary human psychology...

No one can piss you off faster than the people you care about or that you think care about you.

[geek tragedy]

20. well, that's true, but I don't think the BoB folks view the Democratic

party that way.

[Fumesucker]

21. I suspect a lot of them did at one time

Trust is one of those things that takes a lifetime to build and can be thrown away in a moment.

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23. Hillary is not a meaningful departure from Gore/Kerry/Obama

She's more liberal than Bill.

She's every bit as liberal as Kerry was while in the Senate (remember that he voted for Iraq too).

She carried out Obama's foreign policy as Secretary of State. Domestically they were never any different.

Her so-called scandals pale in comparison to the fundraising scandal that tripped Gore up.

[larkrake]

10. he is not nominated yet. I will not be surprised if they replace him

[Dem2]

11. I hope he loses all 50 states.

It seems unlikely in today's political climate, but he can still get a major ass whoopin'

[w4rma]

12. The Republicans were not given any better options. Their whole party has been captured by wealthy

interests who have no interests beyond their obsessive personal hoarding of money.

[Lemonwurst]

13. I agree. Dems can say "no difference"...

between Trump's ideas and those of the Repub party and conservatives in general.

Paint him as just another Republican as far as policy goes, and let them twist into pretzels trying not to agree.

Don't spend all the focus on his own psychotic personality, that gives them an out they don't deserve.

[scscholar]

16. Arrest the people that voted for him for a hate crime?

Nothing less than that would be enough.

[geek tragedy]

17. that's illegal, but punishing them at the polls

is the best way. they will continue to feed the monster of racism until it completely blows up in their face.

here's our chance to make it blow up in their face

[scscholar]

18. People have been busted for hate crimes in one on one private conversations...

so why not for this?

[Chan790]

22. Because we're not Republicans and expect them to nominate assholes.

It's not punitive to vote against the GOP nominee.

We're not interested in changing the direction of the GOP...we hope they continue to nominate this kind of asshole in the future. We're interested in demonstrating that you can't win elections without us and you can't win elections unless you capitulate and give us the nominees we will support.

No more Clintons! No more neo-lib big-business sellouts! Specifically, Never Hillary!!

[Doctor_J]

24. Another excellent bumper sticker

Inspiring, will surely get the indies fired up