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Short list of current & former Republicans who plan not to vote for Trump.

Short list of current & former Republicans who plan not to vote for Trump.

09/06/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Below is a significant list of powerful Republicans who decided not to vote for Trump.  I listened to a news report that revealed to me that some important Republicans have rejected voting for Trump in the next election.  I had NO idea that a really large list of Republicans have also moved away until I found a list in Wikipedia.  I chose to use their list but not showing details because I want to convey the rather huge number of wonderful Republicans who are breaking away from supporting Trump.  For some Americans, they want simple, not embellished truth.  This blog post is intended to only show the large numbers.

In Depth Source for the list shown below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Republicans_who_oppose_the_Donald_Trump_2024_presidential_campaign

Former executive branch officials

George W. Bush

Mike Pence

Dick Cheney

Cabinet-level officials

Mark Esper

John F. Kelly

Dan Coats

John Bolton
William Cohen
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Mark Esper

Alberto Gonzales

Chuck Hagel

John F. Kelly

Ray LaHood

Other executive branch officials

H. R. McMaster

Alyssa Farah Griffin

Robert D. Blackwill

Ty Cobb

Ashley Davis

Ronald Gidwitz

Alyssa Farah Griffin

Stephanie Grisham

Michael E. Guest

Cassidy Hutchinson

Bobbie Kilberg

Mary Kramer

Frank Lavin

John Lehman

Rosario Marin

Sarah Matthews

John McKay

Harriet Miers

Omarosa Manigault Newman

Elizabeth Neumann,

Karen Pence

Jeanne Phillips

Anthony Scaramucci

Marc Short

Richard V. Spencer

Miles Taylor

Jay Town

Olivia Troye

Mitt Romney

Susan Collins

Bill Cassidy

Jerry Moran

Lisa Murkowski

Todd Young

Bill Cassidy

Susan Collins

Jerry Moran

Mitt Romney

Todd Young

Rob Portman

Jeff Flake

Pat Toomey

Bob Corker

Rudy Boschwitz

Jeffrey Chiesa,

Bob Corker,

Cory Gardner

Judd Gregg, 

Gordon J. Humphrey,

George LeMieux

Rob Portman,

Alan Simpson

Pat Toomey

U.S. representatives   Current

Thomas Massie

Greg Pence

David Valadao

David Joyce

Thomas Massie

Greg Pence

David Valadao

U.S. representatives Former

Paul Ryan

John Boehner

Liz Cheney

Adam Kinzinger

Fred Upton

Barbara Comstock

Mo Brooks

Will Hurd

Joe Walsh

Gresham Barrett

John Boehner, 

Mo Brooks,

Susan Brooks

Rod Chandler

Liz Cheney

Tom Coleman

Barbara Comstock

Tom DeLay

Mike Gallagher

Anthony Gonzalez

Wayne Gilchrest

Jim Greenwood

Will Hurd

John Katko

Adam Kinzinger

John LeBoutillier

Mia Love

Susan Molinari

Jack Quinn

Tom Rice

Paul Ryan

Joe Scarborough

Claudine Schneider

Chris Shays

Peter Smith

Alan Steelman

David Trott

Fred Upton

Joe Walsh

David Emery

State and local officials – Governors[ Current

Phil Scott

Eric Holcomb

Eric Holcomb

Phil Scott

Former State and local officials[

Chris Christie

Larry Hogan

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Asa Hutchinson

John Kasich

Jeb Bush

Charlie Baker

Bill Weld

George Pataki

Charlie Baker

Jeb Bush

Arne Carlson

Chris Christie

Jim Edgar

Bill Haslam

Larry Hogan

Asa Hutchinson

John Kasich

Pat McCrory

James G. Martin

George Pataki

Marc Racicot

Bruce Rauner

Mark Sanford

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bill Weld

Christine Todd Whitman

Other statewide elected officials

Jeanette Nunez

Michael Steele

Current

John Dougall

Roby Smith

Former

Geoff Duncan

Adam Laxalt

Bob Orr

Corey Stapleton

Michael Steele

Cate Zeuske

State legislators

Russell Bowers

Becky Edwards

Peter Mills

Doug Coleman

Paula Dockery

Susan Gerard

Deb Gullett

Pete Hershberger

Joel John

Roger Katz

Steve May

John S. McCollister

Peter Mills

John S. Rodgers

Roberta Voss

Dan Wolf

Bob Worsley

Published 9-6-2024.   Posted by Score Card


Commentary, Countries, Federal Government, Politics, United States of America, US Government
REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS REJECT TRUMP
DEMOCRACY IS THE ONLY ANSWER FOR SUCESS OF A SOCIETY BECAUSE WE ALL ARE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE.

DEMOCRACY IS THE ONLY ANSWER FOR SUCESS OF A SOCIETY BECAUSE WE ALL ARE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE.

09/04/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

The best pure form of government

Democracy relies on everyone to help rule and control this wonderful form of governing thus success or failure is shared.  But, the process requires that all citizens work together, make their voice heard, and vote.

Democracy is a country ruled by all the people.  It is a country not for me but we that rule!

Some bad forms of governing

Plutocracy is one of the worst forms of governing.  It is a self centered idiot form of government!

Plutocrats are:

  • It is a self centered, thus moronic, form of rule and governing.
  • It is a selfish form of governing a business and nations for a long list of reasons!
  • Stupid maybe the primary reason followed by a vast number of other reasons.  
  • Viewpoints of plutocrats are thus limited.
  • Plutocracy’s typically are rewarded with payoffs that are to themselves and not shared.
  • Plutocracy is against Democracy partly because they are direct opposites in construction, operation and results.
  • If plutocrats work against the people then they are our enemy and we should work to destroy them!
  • They rig the system to benefit themselves.

Dictatorships are:

  • Same list at for Plutocracy but sometimes supported by the military.

Monarchies are:

About the same as Plutocracy except the ruler pretends to have favored status from maybe god, past royalty ties  inherited, appointed such from some powerful group.

List of some politicians, counties, examples and knowledge to help explain plutocracy:

  • Top 10 Tyrannical Dictators in Power Today
  • Authoritarian Rule Challenging Democracy as Dominant Global Model

  • The world’s most, and least, democratic countries in 2022

  • The world is becoming increasingly authoritarian – but there is hope

  • What Is a Plutocracy?

  • How to Recognize a Plutocracy: The Dead Giveaway
  • Why Plutocrats Are Rallying to Trump

THE UNITED STATES MIGHT BE A CORPORATOCRACY.

(A FLAWED AND SELFISH FORM OF DEMOCRACY)

  • The Myth of U.S. Democracy and the Reality of U.S. Corporatocracy
  • What are the Values of a Corporatocracy?

 

 

Posted 9-3-2024.  Updated 9-4-2024.   Posted by Score Card


Countries, Opinion, Politics, US Government
CORPORATOCRACY, Democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, Plutocracy
Women In The USA Seem To Be Rising

Women In The USA Seem To Be Rising

09/01/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

My idea for this blog article resulted from visiting a Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz promotion materials booth, two different days.  Both days, as soon as I reached the booth, rather quickly, two women appeared, apparently not knowing each other.  They were very nice individuals.  I got to think about this happening and this occurrence triggered a view in my mind that it seemed to me that women have recently, in my mind, have possibly become more active in politics.  The basis for this view is that when I watch MSNBC News, women seem to predominate more to a noticeable extent.

“The women of MSNBC are reshaping the television landscape”

https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-ig-women-warriors-of-msnbc-20190606-story.html

I did not want to jump to any conclusions until I searched the Internet so see if I could find any opinions concerning this thesis.

“Yes, women have become more involved in many areas of society, including the labor force, politics, and community organizations.” (Search Labs | AI Overview).

 

MORE

Opinion: Diversity in the Media is Something We Need to Keep Seeing

How Women Have Helped MSNBC Tip the Cable-News Ratings Scales

POSTED 9-1-2024
POSTED BY: SCORE CARD


Opinion, TV Show, United States of America
Kamala Harris, MSNBC, Tim Waltz, Women are rising
 Some conservative business leaders and reactionary billionaires want to rewriting the rules of our economy and our democracy.

 Some conservative business leaders and reactionary billionaires want to rewriting the rules of our economy and our democracy.

08/29/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

” conservative business leaders and reactionary billionaires who’ve focused not just on winning elections, but on rewriting the rules of our economy and our democracy. The growing power of these forces has encouraged the GOP to embrace a retrograde economic program that has little support even among its own voters. One effect is more inequality. Another is a Republican Party more reliant on white identity to stay in power.”

 

With concentrated wealth has come unprecedented investments in politics by billionaire donors and business organizations, mostly on the right. 

 

It was Ronald Reagan who truly began to chart the path that would, in time, make the Republican Party safe for plutocracy.

 

Posted by Score Card


Commentary, Federal Government, Opinion, Politics, United States of America, US Government
Republican Party, Ronald Regan
When Trump Looks Into His Mirror

When Trump Looks Into His Mirror

08/29/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

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Trump has called Harris “crazy,” “nuts” and “dumb as a rock,“

He must have been looking in a mirror at himself, when he got that idea.

Posted 8-29-2024
Posted by Score Card

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Commentary, Humor, Opinion, Politics, United States of America, US Government
Kamala Harris, Trump
Supreme Court Made A Ruling That Is Dangerous To Our Democracy.

Supreme Court Made A Ruling That Is Dangerous To Our Democracy.

08/28/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Trump v. United States

“The Supreme Court’s opinion in Trump v. United States is a dangerous attack on the rule of law.”

The court’s ruling gives wide room for presidents to commit abuses previously checked by assumed restraints, particularly under federal criminal law. These abuses include:

  • ordering the military to invade a foreign country and commit genocide against a minority religious group;
  • ordering the military to commit major war crimes and torture against a civilian population in an enemy nation during an armed conflict;
  • instructing federal officials to falsify documents required for the sale of U.S. weapons and munitions to a foreign purchaser under the Arms Export Control Act;
  • sharing highly classified national security information (and making no attempt to declassify it) with a foreign leader; and
  • ordering the U.S. Border Patrol to massacre hundreds of sleeping migrants camped on the U.S.-Mexico border.

It is the opinion of this blog that this rule of law could easily be used by a dictator to ruin the United States form of government, a democracy, and turn it into a dictatorship, even fascist state.   No one should be immune from prosecution for any reason!  This ruling appears to possibly be a future Republican Party tool.

 

Recommended Reading:

  • Trump v. United States: Explaining the outrage
    https://www.brookings.edu/articles/trump-v-united-states-explaining-the-outrage/
  • Supreme Court’s Radical Immunity Ruling Shields Lawbreaking Presidents and Undermines Democracy
    https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/supreme-courts-radical-immunity-ruling-shields-lawbreaking-presidents-and

Posted:  8-28-2024
Posted by: Score Card


Commentary, Legal & Law, Politics, United States of America, US Government
Supreme Court, Trump, Trump v. United States

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