{"id":27765,"date":"2020-02-26T20:06:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T02:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27765"},"modified":"2020-02-26T20:06:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T02:06:34","slug":"presidential-campaign-2020-joe-walsh-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/26\/presidential-campaign-2020-joe-walsh-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Campaign 2020: Joe Walsh, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More props for former Rep Joe Walsh (R-IL), who <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/07\/presidential-campaign-2020-joe-walsh-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently closed up<\/a> his Presidential campaign with an honest description of the Republican Party as a cult. Now he&#8217;s banging on <em>NeverTrumpers<\/em> for whispering that the Socialist epithet might be their <strong>Get Out Of Jail Free<\/strong> card:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I hate to break it to you, but if you\u2019re really never-Trump, then you know there\u2019s no except-if-he\u2019s-a-socialist footnote. There\u2019s no but-she\u2019s-way-too-professor-ish clause. Nothing in the fine print says the only acceptable Democratic alternative is another arrogant billionaire. I thought this was understood.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">In 2016, sadly, I supported Trump. I freely admit that I\u2019m a second-wave never-Trumper. But once I got here, it was always my plan to stay. Because, for me, the ways in which Trump threatens this country go beyond left-right ideology.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/01\/20\/president-trump-made-16241-false-or-misleading-claims-his-first-three-years\/?tid=lk_inline_manual_15&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_15\">He lies constantly<\/a>. He grants pardons to toadies. He\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2019\/08\/28\/whats-trumps-idea-america-first-g-cash-flowing-his-golf-resort\/?tid=lk_inline_manual_15&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_15\">conflates<\/a> America\u2019s financial interests with his own. He uses his bully pulpit to air a never-ending, year-round list of Festivus grievances. &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>But I\u2019m not a Democrat. It\u2019s not my job to tell Democrats whom to choose. What I can do, and what I have done, is pledge that I\u2019ll vote for their nominee. Even Bernie. He and I hardly agree on anything, but if he\u2019s the nominee, I won\u2019t just vote for him, I\u2019ll campaign for him.<\/p>\n<p>If that surprises you, it shouldn\u2019t. I tried to run against Trump in the GOP primary, because I believe in this country. I sidelined my syndicated talk-radio show because I don\u2019t want to be a bought-off mouthpiece for the regime. Because never-Trump means never. And I\u2019d rather have a socialist in the White House than a con man.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2020\/02\/25\/joe-walsh-im-no-fan-bernie-sanders-nevertrump-means-never-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Walsh keeps it real more than most Republicans. Gotta admire him for that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More props for former Rep Joe Walsh (R-IL), who recently closed up his Presidential campaign with an honest description of the Republican Party as a cult. Now he&#8217;s banging on NeverTrumpers for whispering that the Socialist epithet might be their Get Out Of Jail Free card: I hate to break \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/26\/presidential-campaign-2020-joe-walsh-ctd-2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27768,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27765\/revisions\/27768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}