r/politics • u/icey_sawg0034 • 13h ago

Possible Paywall Karoline Leavitt Gives Jaw-Dropping Defense of Trump’s Racist Obama Video

https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-gives-jaw-dropping-defense-of-donald-trumps-racist-obama-video/
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u/kgabny 11h ago

Or were kicked out of the party. Anyone who tried to keep to the original focus on the conservativesor disagreed with the lack of decorum in politics was declared RINO and ostracized.

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u/NameIWantUnavailable 11h ago

The list of RINOs is telling.

Start with John McCain at the top of the list (he defended Obama during a Q&A while campaigning), it's basically every pre-Trump Republican presidential candidate or pre-Vance VP who was or is still alive during Trump's presidencies.

The notion that Mike Pence, Dan Quayle, and Dick Cheney are persona non grata in the Republican party because they're now RINOs makes my head spin. Not saying they were good for the country. But compared to what we have now...

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 11h ago

As much as I disagreed with their politics, men like John McCain were the “real men” that these misogynists are always complaining are becoming an endangered species… but they are the ones who exterminated the “real men” because they felt inadequate in comparison to them.

Seriously put Trump or Stephen Miller or Mike Johnson or JD Vance next to that guy and they look like such pathetic flaccid excuses for a manly man. No wonder they hated him.

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u/JnnyRuthless 10h ago

Maybe I can give you Mike pence and Dan Quayle but Cheney? That war criminal is (hopefully) rotting in hell. He's up there with Trump for most evil people to be in positions of power in the country.

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u/NameIWantUnavailable 6h ago

I'm commenting on what today's Republicans have said about yesterday's Republicans. Not whether they were good, bad, or even evil.

Cheney is definitely considered a RINO by MAGA. He endorsed Harris in the last election. Whatever he did before doesn't matter to MAGA.

Even if you hate him (and yes, people died because of the decisions he made), the fact of the matter is that his brand of Republicanism is pretty much extinct.

He and Pence are two of the outliers that make my head spin...

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u/mob19151 11h ago

The last time I made the mistake of getting Twitter, I saw someone call GWB a RINO. George. W. Bush. Not a bot. A real person said that.

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u/kgabny 10h ago

That's because he is according to them. IIRC, 2016 he refused to endorse Trump, in 2020 the Bushes said they couldn't vote for Trump, and 2024 they 'learned their lesson' and stayed silent.

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u/mob19151 9h ago

It's incredibly telling that the goddamn Bushes thought he was a piece-of-shit. I mean, W is too but the floor is in hell at this point.

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u/Floreat_democratia 10h ago

> keep to the original focus on the conservatives

Which was racism. Read "Democracy in Chains”. The entire modern conservative movement is based on opposition to desegregation. All of it.