Republican women organize to support Clinton

[IronLionZion]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/02/politics/republican-women-organize-to-support-clinton/index.html

(CNN)Huddled around a corner table during happy hour at the swanky St. Regis Hotel bar in downtown Washington, five young Republicans busily brainstormed how they could help Hillary Clinton become the next president of the United States.

The group included an unlikely gang of pro-Clinton foot soldiers, including a Mississippi-born Southern Baptist who got her start in GOP politics as an intern in the second Bush White House, a conservative health care policy analyst who has volunteered for anti-abortion causes and a former president of the Cornell University College Republicans.
Over glasses of wine and champagne Monday night, they kicked off the first steering committee meeting for a new organization: "Republican Women for Hillary."
Their motivation? Stop Donald Trump.

"It's really important that Republican leaders, especially Republican women leaders, stand up right now and say we're not OK with Trump representing our party," said Jennifer Lim, a group founder who works at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and has spent much of her life volunteering for Republican causes and campaigns. "This is not a position I ever wanted to find myself in. But it's important that when things like this happen that people speak up."

This is going to be a game changer in many areas. There may be plenty of Repub women who won't admit it publicly, but may privately vote for the first female president so they can make history. I think the anti-Trump sentiment is stronger than it appears. People know he's unqualified.

[sufrommich]

1. Yep,there's going to be a lot of women who

will not vote for Trump under any conditions.

[MineralMan]

2. There will be many, many Republican women voting for Hillary,

including my 91-year-old mother. Donald Trump is anathema to many women, and rightly so.

[DemonGoddess]

3. Even though Trumpler of course

strongly disagrees. "Women love me!" Oh puhleeeze. Any women with even a MINISCULE amount of intelligence loathes the shitgibbon.

[athena]

4. I wonder

how they manage to bring themselves to vote for any Republican. It's not like Trump is much more extreme than the the other Republicans in his views.

[treestar]

10. the others are at least somewhat professional or aware of the floor

under which they should not slink. Maybe not Palin. And they at least know the limits on the Presidency. They might stretch them to be as fascist as they can make them be, but they know there is some limit. They have experience in the Senate or as Governor. Trump has no idea. The thought of him with the nukes is way scarier than even Cheney with them.

[mcar]

5. This is good news

Doesn't surprise me a bit.

[grossproffit]

6. Chris Christie's wife Pat spoke for millions of women w/o saying a word.

[seabeyond]

7. I wonder if they will be accused of voting with their woman parts. Nt

[IronLionZion]

8. Of course

I have a female Trumper at work who says that often. She despises Hillary.

[grossproffit]

9. She's only voting for Trump because of his kielbasa. She just won't admit it.

[IronLionZion]

11. She often says Obama is soft, effeminate, and probably gay

and that Michelle is too masculine. She says it's time to have a real man in charge again and a feminine woman as first lady. She loves Reagan

[grossproffit]

12. Oh, so she's a self admitted idiot. Gotcha!

[Arkansas Granny]

14. Well, that's pretty much a given, isn't it? They won't be credited with using reason.

[charlyvi]

13. Even the Bush women can't stand him.

Laura said Hillary would make a much better president, and Queen Mother Babs said she didn't understand how any woman could vote for him.

[IronLionZion]

15. He was pretty shitty to Jeb

openly mocking him and his wife during the primaries

[charlyvi]

17. Yes Indeed

Probably because Jeb was perceived to be the leader early on.

[seabeyond]

18. Laura Bush made the statement immediately. She has been on board a long time.

People pretty much ignored what she said. When I mentioned it, they scoffed, that Laura Bush would not support the Democrat, even a woman.

Simple, I have always believed that all the women in that family were prochoice, and had to basically shut up, because that is what one does, with husbands career.

Who knows what she has voted in the booth, all her life.

I know a woman, that became Mayor in a major city. I know she was Democratic leaning. I sat with one running for the state Senate and heard her position on women's issues. These women cannot run as Democrat. That simple. It is interesting.

[KMOD]

20. I remember during the 2008 Democratic Primary,

Laura, and one of her daughters were not so subtly hinting that they were supportive of Hillary Clinton.

I found that interesting, so I read a bit about her. Laura Bush said when she met W, they had nothing in common. She was a liberal Democrat. She later said she was only a Republican by marriage.

[seabeyond]

21. Yes.

I never could get on board with a Laura Bush bashing.

[IronLionZion]

16. Memes

[Squinch]

19. And I imagine many of these will not show up in polls. They will tell their Trumpian husbands they

are voting for him, but then they won't.

[COLGATE4]

22. For a moment of humor, an enlightening response on FR:

"These women may be Republicans, but they are not patriots, nor are they conservatives. A pox on them."

22 posted on 7/2/2016, 9:41:56 AM by trisham