Vote for Trump? These Republican Leaders Aren’t on the Bandwagon

[ONGB]

Wasn't the report that W was not voting for Trump already debunked?

Yeah. According to this he hasn't made his feelings public.

 

[HailToPitt1985]

Yeah. According to this he hasn't made his feelings public.

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Thanks. Yet another fabricated piece of fake news from the NYT, as expected.

 

[Pitt79]

I doubt that but he was /is hardly a leader. He was voted in simply on his dad's accomplishments.

GWB looks like General Patton as a leader compared to Trump.

 

[Pitt79]

Fair enough. Much like I didn't vote for McCain, but I never felt the need to trash him . . . unlike so many of his fellow Republicans.

Looking at the GOP I knew all my life, It's literally amazing to me that the modern GOP loves a guy like Trump and hates a guy like McCain

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

He was until he put an R beside his name.

That’s preposterous
He’s been clown shoes for 40 years
He just knew he could actual grift republicans with a ready made network to sell them

 

[JGregor]

There you go again with your lies and very poor writing. Are you kidding me? PLEASE, go take a course in 5th grade English writing. You brag about your writing and try and throw it back in other peoples' faces, yet you are one of the worst writers on this forum!! That is the height of hypocrisy. Give it up. You're getting humiliated with every post because you don't understand the English language and can't communicate in a coherent manner. No wonder you like Biden!

Compound sentences?????? You can't even write a simple, coherent sentence. You also fail to comprehend what is written.

BTW, there is a word "wordsmith" and "wordsmithing" in the English language. You just don't know the word because of your limited reading.
https://www.yourdictionary.com/wordsmithing

Check your facts and learn something before you post. You are the ultimate hypocrite, including your extreme leftist, Marxist, socialist opinions. It's scary to think you vote while you are borderline illiterate and a danger to America. I used to at least respect you to some extent, mainly because I respect those who are older and have lived long lives. But old doesn't necessarily translate into intelligence or common sense. That's where you're direly lacking.

I'm sure there are words I've used here where the meaning and context escapes you. Keep a real dictionary handy, not the one that doesn't contain "wordsmith".

I'll let your future humiliations up to others here. I don't have any further time to waste on your nonsense and foolish, incoherent ramblings. I also don't like humiliating people, but you're too easy of a mark.

The term wordsmith is an actual English language word that was created in late 1800s to describe a person who works with words and is especially a skillful writer. The only variation on wordsmith is wordsmithery; both of these words are nouns, not verbs.

Wordsmithing is NOT a Word! | Square Jaw Media
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AND

The Merriam Webster unabridged dictionary of the American English Language 3rd Edition (the official arbiter of words) does not have the word Wordsmithing in it. (From my personal library.)

You write in 5th grade English with simple sentences, no eloquence, no metaphors, no concrete words and rarely do you use a compound sentence.

You have no idea of a succinct expression just six paragraph with the same old same old.

Increase the level of your readings to the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and recognize a much higher level of expression than what you write.

Next learn the words Communism, Socialism, Capitalism, Fascism since your application of those words are repeatedly misused and misunderstood.

Note: My Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Eleventh Edition only recognizes WORDSMITH & WORDSMITHERY, both nouns. So you two are out in space. Know before you criticize.

Secondary sources: The Random house Webster's Collegiate Dictionary only recognizes WORDSMITH.

Same with The American Heritage dictionary of the English Language - only WORDSMITH.

And also The Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary - only WORDSMITH.

All sources from my personal library.

@NCPitt

 

[NCPitt]

This was posted in answer to Dowd's response to Mattis.

@HailToPitt1985 could not understand a compound sentence. Why because you write simple sentences over and over again.



Hypocrites abound. There is no such word in the English language.
Learn before you criticize.




Speaking of poor writing. Hypocrites abound.

And what is even more problematic is that you would vote for a lying, corrupt, incompetent fascist want to be because you like his policies???

wordsmithing(Noun)

The making of changes to a text to improve clarity and style, as opposed to content.

We've drafted an agreement, but there's still a bit of wordsmithing left to do.

 

[ONGB]

 

[JGregor]

wordsmithing(Noun)

The making of changes to a text to improve clarity and style, as opposed to content.

We've drafted an agreement, but there's still a bit of wordsmithing left to do.

Do you want to join @HailToPitt1985 with substandard English. The making or doing something is not a noun. I proved above that there is no such word in standard English.

There is a word for what you describe it’s known as editing. That word is a gerund, a noun used as a verb.

 

[NCPitt]

Do you want to join @HailToPitt1985 with substandard English. The making or doing something is not a noun. I proved above that there is no such word in standard English.

There is a word for what you describe it’s known as editing. That word is a gerund, a noun used as a verb.

I found that in a dictionary. Your proof was limited to only those sources you chose to use.

Your writing is horrible. Just give it up.

 

[JGregor]

I found that in a dictionary. Your proof was limited to only those sources you chose to use.

Your writing is horrible. Just give it up.

The Merriam Webster is the authority. It’s not in the unabridged or the collegiate editions. The word is editing. Learn!

You’re too prejudice to have a meaningful opinion.

 

[HailToPitt1985]

wordsmithing(Noun)

The making of changes to a text to improve clarity and style, as opposed to content.

We've drafted an agreement, but there's still a bit of wordsmithing left to do.

Just ignore him as I'm doing now. He tries to come off as some intelligent, well read, great writer while he is quite the opposite. His writing is some of the worst I've seen on here, but he brags about it. I don't call out others because I know what they're trying to say and they don't profess to be literary giants or writers. This guy won't let anyone forget how great he is, but it's only in his own little, closed mind. He has the writing skills of a 5th grader, if that. He'd do better to learn some humility along with learning how to read and write. And to think he got this old and still can't do either.

And I agree with you, as do Americans everywhere that wordsmithing is a real word in the English language. It's in the Oxford English dictionary.

 

[JGregor]

Just ignore him as I'm doing now. He tries to come off as some intelligent, well read, great writer while he is quite the opposite. His writing is some of the worst I've seen on here, but he brags about it. I don't call out others because I know what they're trying to say and they don't profess to be literary giants or writers. This guy won't let anyone forget how great he is, but it's only in his own little, closed mind. He has the writing skills of a 5th grader, if that. He'd do better to learn some humility along with learning how to read and write. And to think he got this old and still can't do either.

And I agree with you, as do Americans everywhere that wordsmithing is a real word in the English language. It's in the Oxford English dictionary.

Words written from a 5th grade writer. Simple sentences. Simple ideas. Simply the same old thing. A very simple man.

NYT WAPOST Atlantic Monthly The New Yorker way over his head.

A Trump supporter who fits the Mold.

 

[gull point]

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Among the anti-Trump Republicans now out of office, recent events have only vindicated their sense of alarm — and nudged them toward embracing Mr. Biden.

“For people who were long waiting for that pivot, the last week has shown, if anything, he’s dug in and not even making an attempt to appeal to anybody outside his hard base,” said former Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, who is close to Mr. Coons and in conversation with him about how and when to formalize his support for Mr. Biden.

Former Representative Mark Sanford, who briefly challenged the president in the Republican primary, said last year that he’d support the president if he won the nomination.

But now Mr. Sanford believes Mr. Trump is threatening the stability of the country. “He’s treading on very thin ice,” said Mr. Sanford, also a former South Carolina governor, who is engaged in frequent conversations with other Republicans about how to proceed.

There are already a number of Republican groups dedicated to defeating Mr. Trump, and former lawmakers, strategists and policymakers who are plotting what and when to say about the election.

“There is an organized effort about how to make our voices useful in 2020,” said Kori Schake, who worked at the National Security Council and State Department under President George W. Bush and was an editor with Mr. Mattis of the book “Warriors and Citizens,” about the civil-military divide.

She said a number of officials who worked for both Presidents Bush and Reagan, many of whom signed a 2016 letter opposing Mr. Trump, were on Zoom chats and group emails trying to determine how to express their opposition and whether it should come with an endorsement for Mr. Biden. The effort to gather more anti-Trump Republicans to speak out is being spearheaded by John B. Bellinger III, who also worked in George W. Bush’s N.S.C. and State Department.

Some Republicans believe Mr. Mattis made their task easier.

“It laid the cornerstone of fighting back against Trump,” said former Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, who noted that as Navy secretary he once served as “boss” to Mr. Mattis, then a youthful Marine officer. “He said: ‘I can judge the man.’”

Yet neither Mr. Mattis, nor any other former Trump official, is likely to be able to prod Mr. Bush to publicly state his opposition. Freddy Ford, a spokesman for Mr. Bush, said the former president would stay out of the election and speak only on policy issues, as he did this week in stating that the country must “examine our tragic failures” on race.

Notably, though, while the former president, whom Mr. Trump has never reached out to while in office, may be withdrawn from presidential politics, he is not totally disengaged from campaigns: he has raised money for a handful of Republican senators, including John Cornyn of Texas, Susan Collins of Maine and Cory Gardner of Colorado.

Mr. Romney this week lavished praise on Mr. Mattis but stayed mum about who he would actually support for president.

As for Mrs. McCain, she has sought to stay out of partisan politics. “Picking a fight with Trump is no fun,” said Rick Davis, a longtime McCain adviser who’s close to the family.

But, Mr. Davis, alluding to Mr. Biden, said: “You know where her heart is. Whether she articulates that or not is still an open question.”

I don’t jump on here to read “war and peace “ the longer the post the less likely I am to read it. Seriously, I think you are a little egotistical to think someone cares that much what you think. It even went to a continued. You make dr yinzer’s look brief. Would suggest brevity going forward. Those are the remembered and read posts anyway

 

[JGregor]

I found that in a dictionary. Your proof was limited to only those sources you chose to use.

Your writing is horrible. Just give it up.

Your writing is substandard. I should do your editing.

 

[JGregor]

I don’t jump on here to read “war and peace “ the longer the post the less likely I am to read it. Seriously, I think you are a little egotistical to think someone cares that much what you think. It even went to a continued. You make dr yinzer’s look brief. Would suggest brevity going forward. Those are the remembered and read posts anyway

Thanks for the advice.

The point of the unread article is that many Republican leaders will not support Trump.

Another point is that Trump Is falling in all the polls even in the battle ground states. There is still time for his continual display of incompetence.

 

[JGregor]

I found that in a dictionary. Your proof was limited to only those sources you chose to use.

Your writing is horrible. Just give it up.

The Merriam Webster is the authority. It’s not in the unabridged or the collegiate editions. The word is editing. Learn!

You’re too prejudice to have a meaningful opinion.

The Merriam Webster unabridged 3rd edition is the absolute authority on American English.

It has 470,000 words in it. Wordsmithing is not one of them. Choose the correct word, editing....

From my library.

edit: @HailToPitt1985 is limited to 5,000 of those words, you 5,001 but that one word has not made it into the M-W dictionary.

 

[HailToPitt1985]

The Ignore feature is your friend. Gregor has joined a very unflattering group of people I have on Ignore. They all have much in common, and none of it is complimentary.

 

[jtownknowitall]

haha Republican leaders! GW and Romney!

If the Republicans had a leader we would have a better president.

 

[NCPitt]

The Merriam Webster is the authority. It’s not in the unabridged or the collegiate editions. The word is editing. Learn!

You’re too prejudice to have a meaningful opinion.

It’s not an opinion. It’s in the dictionary. Learn outside your box.

 

[NCPitt]

Your writing is substandard. I should do your editing.

I forgive your insults.

 

[ONGB]

 

[9nationalchampionships]

This from Romney a few hours ago....

Sen. Mitt Romney predicted President Trump will be reelected this fall despite breaking with the president several times during his first term in office.


“I'm confident that we will keep the majority in the Senate," Romney said Wednesday, according to Politico reporter Jake Sherman. "And I actually have long predicted the president will be reelected ⁠— I continue to think that's the case.”

 

[JGregor]

It’s not an opinion. It’s in the dictionary. Learn outside your box.

Are you embarrassed to state your source? What dictionary? I cited several dictionaries included the only recognized authority.

 

[JGregor]

This from Romney a few hours ago....

Sen. Mitt Romney predicted President Trump will be reelected this fall despite breaking with the president several times during his first term in office.


“I'm confident that we will keep the majority in the Senate," Romney said Wednesday, according to Politico reporter Jake Sherman. "And I actually have long predicted the president will be reelected ⁠— I continue to think that's the case.”

A false HOPE?

 

[JGregor]

I forgive your insults.

You have taken my path of forgiveness.

 

[NCPitt]

You have taken my path of forgiveness.

I have no idea what that means. I will take no path of yours. Trust me on that.

 

[NCPitt]

Are you embarrassed to state your source? What dictionary? I cited several dictionaries included the only recognized authority.

It doesn't matter. I found it.

Btw, I didn't use "editing" because it wasn't the right word for my intent, an intent you obviously understood and that's all that matters.

 

[JGregor]

It doesn't matter. I found it.

Btw, I didn't use "editing" because it wasn't the right word for my intent, an intent you obviously understood and that's all that matters.

Hiding behind ignorance and shame? You’all ain’t right...

 

[NCPitt]

Hiding behind ignorance and shame? You’all ain’t right...

I forgive your insults.