Champion of Liberty Donald Rumsfeld endorses Trump

[The Rebel Poet]

I have a lot of respect for Donald Rumsfeld.

This endorsement means a lot to me.

Dafuq?

 

[openfire]

No, if that was the case Colin Powell would not have backed Obama twice.

Memo: Over 93% of blacks voted for Obama. (Powell is black)

 

[William Tell]

Memo: Over 93% of blacks voted for Obama. (Powell is black)

Bush isn't publicly backing Trump, and yet you say Darth Cheney had to?

 

[CPUd]

 

[The Rebel Poet]

Memo: Over 93% of blacks voted for Obama. (Powell is black)

So only white Bush admin officials are required to fake endorse their frenemy The Trumptard?

 

[openfire]

Bush isn't publicly backing Trump, and yet you say Darth Cheney had to?

Correct, because in case you missed it, his brother Jeb was smacked down by Trump in quite the humiliating fashion.

 

[CPUd]

Heavyweight breaks ranks with GOP, endorsing Clinton

By Jessie Hellmann

Richard Armitage, who held top national security positions in the administrations of former Presidents George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, said he would vote for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over her likely Republican rival, Donald Trump.

"If Donald Trump is the nominee, I would vote for Hillary Clinton," Armitage, who served as a deputy secretary of State under Bush and as an assistant secretary of Defense under Reagan, told Politico on Thursday.

"He doesn't appear to be a Republican. He doesn't appear to want to learn about the issues. So I'm going to vote for Mrs. Clinton."

Clinton hit Trump earlier this month on national security, saying his ideas would put America in greater danger and inspire more terrorist attacks.

"A ban on Muslims would not have stopped this attack," Clinton added on Wednesday, referring to the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. over the weekend.

"Neither would a wall. I don't know how one builds a wall to keep the internet out," she said. "Not one of Donald Trump's reckless ideas would have saved a single life in Orlando."

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...mitage-breaks-ranks-with-gop-endorses-clinton

 

[openfire]

In before the Trumpsters start to rationalize this by telling us what's really in Rummy's head.

Much the same way I imagine that the members with the "stand with Rand" icons under their usernames will be rationalizing when Rand endorses Trump.

The schadenfreude will be palpable.

 

[William Tell]

Correct, because in case you missed it, his brother Jeb was smacked down by Trump in quite the humiliating fashion.

So everyone in the Bush administration has to back Trump, except the ones who don't have to.

 

[openfire]

So everyone in the Bush administration has to back Trump, except the ones who don't have to.

With few exceptions, prominent members of Republican administrations say they support the Red team (unless you're black and a black man is running, or your brother was humiliated by the nominee), yes.

 

[openfire]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...mitage-breaks-ranks-with-gop-endorses-clinton

^ Of course, some are more honest about who they are really voting for.

 

[nikcers]

^ Of course, some are more honest about who they are really voting for.

Have you ever watched the movie 23?

 

[openfire]

Have you ever watched the movie 23?

Are you suggesting that when Rand endorses Trump, that he will actually vote for Trump?

 

[nikcers]

Are you suggesting that when Rand endorses Trump, that he will actually vote for Trump?

Nah, I just think its a really good movie if you haven't seen it, you should. Cognitive bias is a bitch, my friend.

 

[openfire]

Nah, I just think its a really good movie if you haven't seen it, you should. Cognitive bias is a bitch, my friend.

I'll remember that when Rand endorses Trump, hope you will too - Because I predict that many of the arguments made in this thread will magically not apply. That's some cognitive bias right there.

 

[openfire]

I already have the thread title in mind:

Champion of Liberty Rand Paul endorses Trump

Heads will explode.

 

[CPUd]

Real Rand supporters already know Rand will endorse the nominee.

 

[nikcers]

Real Rand supporters already know Rand will endorse the nominee.

Rand is a man of his word, unlike self funding Trump.

 

[openfire]

Real Rand supporters already know Rand will endorse the nominee.

Precisely. And will that make Trump a Libertarian any more than Rumsfeld saying he will vote for Trump make Trump a neocon? No. There are reasons for endorsements, and the reasons are important. Rumsfeld laid out his reasoning for reluctantly supporting Trump thusly: Hillary is a known known and she is unacceptable, while Trump is a known unkown, which, while not ideal, is preferable.

That's not much of an endorsement, IMO.

But since Hillary shills are rejoicing in this news because it apparently "proves" something, I intend to expose their hypocrisy by holding them to that same "high standard" of logic when Rand endorses.

 

[Mad Raven]

Thread title should be changed to:

Champion of Liberty Donald Rumsfeld endorses Trump, calling him a "known unknown."

^Because that's what he actually said.

Now, if Trump was such an insider as the Hillary shills claim, why would someone as connected as Rumsfeld consider him an "unknown"?

Furthermore, in his statement he made it clear that he is only voting for Trump, because Hillary is "unacceptable". Would you expect the former secretary of defense in the Bush administration to publicly endorse Hillary Clinton? Obviously not.

Carry on.

Quotes AND context? What kind of witchery is this? Begone from here, foul demon! Jesus loves me!