#NeverTrump GOP endorsements LATEST: Graham and Lee voted McMullin

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Former FL Rep. and current Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough says he won’t vote for Trump unless Trump backs away from some of his more extreme proposals like the Muslim ban:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/05/joe-scarborough-trump-vote-222834

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So much for Trump/Scarborough.

While I can at least understand social conservatives like JCL not wanting to back Trump because of his strong flirtation with being pro-choice, pro-gay rights, and in favor of Single Payer Health Insurance comma I am got against us that they have Paw Coursey other Republicans like Scarborough and Company who claimed it's Trump's supposedly extreme views on Banning Muslims and the like and immigration that keep them from supporting him. And yet they would in a second rally around Ted Cruz if he won the nomination who holds essentially the exact same policy decisions. For most of these Republicans the only reason they're not supporting Trump vs. Cruise isn't because they have any different views, but rather because Cruz presented in a Harvard Law School veneer of respectable appearance, where is Trump presents the exact same policies with the vulgarity of a reality show star that he is. Color Me unimpressed by the so-called principled Republicans for withholding your support of trump a hundred and 1% on the basis of Style versus substance.

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Former FL Rep. and current Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough says he won’t vote for Trump unless Trump backs away from some of his more extreme proposals like the Muslim ban:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/05/joe-scarborough-trump-vote-222834

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So much for Trump/Scarborough.

While I can at least understand social conservatives like JCL not wanting to back Trump because of his strong flirtation with being pro-choice, pro-gay rights, and in favor of Single Payer Health Insurance comma I am got against us that they have Paw Coursey other Republicans like Scarborough and Company who claimed it's Trump's supposedly extreme views on Banning Muslims and the like and immigration that keep them from supporting him. And yet they would in a second rally around Ted Cruz if he won the nomination who holds essentially the exact same policy decisions. For most of these Republicans the only reason they're not supporting Trump vs. Cruise isn't because they have any different views, but rather because Cruz presented in a Harvard Law School veneer of respectable appearance, where is Trump presents the exact same policies with the vulgarity of a reality show star that he is. Color Me unimpressed by the so-called principled Republicans for withholding your support of trump a hundred and 1% on the basis of Style versus substance.

A) The style is the substance in this case, not just because of the profoundly farcical nature of Trump's campaign but because said "style" veers dangerously close to incitement to violence.  It's not merely a matter of making the subtext text.

B) And, if you think it is just a matter of making subtext text, if it's the exact same policies with a different skin...well, that's not entirely false.  But if you really think that, and you choose to stick with your blue avatar, you do realize what that implies about your own desires, no?

I'm really not sure what you meant here. Probably a moral about posting at quarter to 4 in the morning.

I think you missed my point that the only real difference between Trump's worst xenophobic and Islamophobic position and Cruz's is simply a matter of Cruz packaging it in a more PC manner. Yes, I see that Trump's slimey language impacts the national discourse for the negative, but even on that front Cruz isn't too much better. My real point is it's hypocritical for "mainstream" Republicans to decry Trump's "extremism", while they would've supported Cruz as the nominee (albeit not their first choice for the nom) despite his views ultimately being just as odious, just better packaged.

As for your second point: don't blame me, I voted for Kasich.

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Former Rep. Ray LaHood (IL) won't vote for Trump:

http://www.sj-r.com/article/20160526/NEWS/160529638

Moderate Republican and of Middle Eastern descent and very bipartisan - basically he has too many reasons not to vote for Trump.

Hillary would be very wise to try to get him on board a "Republicans for Hillary" committee.

He already served as Obama's Secretary of Transportation, so it shouldn't be hard.

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In fairness, it's a longtime former top Hispanic Republican whom, after working with Reagan and W among others , left the GOP for Johnson in June over Trump. This is just an additional step in that direction.

Still though ...../

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All due credit to Kasich for not supporting trump. But cmon a wrote in for McCain is a waste of time.

As opposed to a write in for anyone else not running?

C'mon. It's not like he could publicly back Clinton or Johnson and have a future in the GOP.

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Kasich should have written in George HW Bush

Or himself

That would look tacky.

Though I might.