The Lincoln Project is a group of prominent Republicans who have concluded that Donald Trump is an incompetent and dangerous President. It has produced a series of commercials attacking Trump and places them on FOX News and other conservative media platforms.
Here is their latest anti-Trump ad.
One of the leading figures supporting the Lincoln Project is George T. Conway III, husband of Trump’s senior advisor,
KellyAnne Conway.
George Conway’s tweets are a source of great amusement. The other day, Trump tweeted that two years from now, he would be in Alaska campaigning to defeat Senator Lisa Murkowski, who dared to express her doubts about Trump after he was criticized by General Mattis, his former chief of staff. George Conway tweeted in response to Trump that the conditions of his parole were unlikely to make him available to campaign in Alaska. He tweeted, “frankly I don’t see how you’d be eligible for parole by then.”
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Has anything good come from Twitter? Really.
I wonder how Republican politicians will explain to their children and grandchildren that they stood by and did and said nothing as a lunatic with narcissistic, sociopathic personality disorder took our nation down? How will they excuse their complicity when history shows that the man in the White House single-handedly destroyed this country? I place blame squarely upon these “leaders” and decision-makers. They have caused a loss of faith in our leadership and a loss of hope in our future. I cried the day that man was voted into office and I cry as I write this because of overwhelming powerlessness and grave discouragement over the shattered nation that we have become.
Republican politicians will have to tell their children and grandchildren that they stood by, silent.
Thank you Mitt Romney for being the one exception. The one man of integrity.
Romney has voted with Trump almost all of the time, so I’m not sure you can say he has integrity.
He does have a gift of wetting every finger and toe and raising them in the air simultaneously to see he if feels a breeze on each one before deciding to show his integrity. Here’s a great example of his integrity:
TOW and GregB,
Mitt Romney seems to have enormous integrity when compared to the rest of the establishment Republican Party! Romney doesn’t have much integrity compared to politicians who have a lot of integrity — like Bernie Sanders — but compared to the typical Republican in Congress, Romney’s integrity is huge!
I don’t really define integrity by whether Romney votes for a Trump policy that he agrees with — Romney is always going to support very conservative policies, like George Conway.
But Mitt Romney’s vote guilty on the one impeachment count was absolutely huge. It changed the narrative that the media was chomping at the bit to make about how the entire impeachment was simply “partisan”. That narrative was necessary to enable Trump’s most corrupt and anti-democratic actions. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski were both very willing to enable Trump and Barr’s trashing of the Constitution. Whether Susan Collins opposes a specific right wing policy (when her vote isn’t needed) and Romney does not is not nearly as important as whether Susan Collins opposes Trump trashing the Constitution. Susan Collins approves of that. Mitt Romney and George Conway do not. And Romney’s single vote prevented that narrative from having the power the far right wanted it to have.
That’s why Romney has integrity (compared to other Republicans), even if he agrees with many of Trump’s policies.
“compared to the rest of the establishment Republican Party”
Lowest. Bar. Ever.
GregB,
“Lowest. Bar. Ever.”
Can’t argue with you about that. Just saying that compared to people who used to be viewed as having just the very tiniest smidgeon of integrity — like Susan Collins — Romney has at least 100x or 1,000x more integrity.
Or maybe “integrity” is the wrong word. I don’t know the right word to describe the German generals who supported the rise of Hitler but turned against him and lost their lives in doing so. Some of them just wanted to seize power themselves, but there were some who agreed with some of the early Nazi issues, against the Versailles Treaty and for having a strong government, but when they realized that under Hitler that meant totalitarianism, they risked their lives opposing him. I suppose that’s a form of having a line they were unwilling to cross, as opposed to all the rest of the Germans who remained silent and went along.
The German history you cite is very complicated, so this may be inadequate. Ludwig Beck, formerly the Wehrmacht’s chief of staff, and a few others were ready to overthrow Hitler in 1938 but were thwarted when Chamberlain “negotiated” Peace in our Time. The vast majority of members of the military were very, very late to the game and mostly motivated by Stalingrad, not principle. Stauffenberg, although unquestionably brave, was one of the latest to the game and gets far too much credit from history. The first who resisted were Communists and Social Democrats (who like the opposition of the left to Hillary) were divided and hated each other. Next were some evangelical Protestants (Bonhoeffer, von Moltke, Wartenburg, Niemöller was also very late to the game, “They came for…” mythology only exists in retrospect). Liberal Catholics were also early, doctrinaire Catholics never really joined the party. But, I guess, with people like Romney, better late (and he’s still equivocatingly late, not arrived, that is) than never is better than nothing.
Absolutely Romney was very late and in no way should he be in the same category of those who have been resisting from day 1 (or before). But definitely worth identifying those who aren’t embracing the neofascism of Trump/Barr versus those who are, as we very well may need everyone to defeat it and save our democracy.
Did you see that Romney marched today, and seemed to say for the record that he won’t vote for Trump in November? He made some typical equivocal remarks at the end of May, but in last 7 days seems to have really decided to resist. Hope he doesn’t get quashed like the German generals did.
I have tempered my criticism of Romney. His words and actions yesterday to march toward the White House surprised and pleased me.
Romney did not win any points from his Republican colleagues by joining a BLM march.
More Republicans are speaking out against Trump. I recently read an opinion piece by George Will criticizing Trump for his lies and lack of leadership. For at least two years Steve Schmidt, a Republican strategist, has been super critical of Trump’s White House. He appears on liberal media and speaks his mind. A few Republicans are ideological conservatives, but they have scruples. They do not think politics is a blood sport; they see it as a game of chess. Most of all they would never say, “The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.” When Biden mentions working with Republicans, he speaks from his experience in the past before the Tea Party arrived on the hill. Since then, we have only seen obtructionism from the Republicans. They refuse to compromise, and nothing positive gets done.
Also worth reading… The recent physical attacks on the press https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/7/1951203/-Ali-Velshi-on-what-is-happening-to-the-Press
I certainly don’t agree with these very conservative Republicans on most things but they are doing a good job exposing Trump for what he is, a wannabe Pinochet or Idi Amin. The rest of the GOP is an extremist cult that will stop at nothing to cut taxes on the rich, destroy our precious remaining social programs and stands in the way of any progressive legislation that helps ordinary Americans.
A very large part of the problem is that the people down at the grassroots are not willing to see and listen. They are not willing to open their blinded eyes to the truth of what Trump form of leadership is doing to this great nation — and the world. They are not willing to open their ears to Trump’s blatant lies that have sent the United States into chaos. Until their eyes are opened they will never see. Until their ears are opened they will never hear. To never see or hear the truth that is clearly visible to all is to stumble in the darkness behind a leader whose self-centered emptiness can only lead the very people that worship him and all others spiraling down into even greater chaos.
As many of you know, I tune out Conway and Lincoln Project, but my eyes and ears perk up when Walter Schaub comments:
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/07/02/trump-corruption-ransacking-republic/
Why tune out Conway and the Lincoln Project? Their ads run on FOX. They speak to Republicans.
I’ve explained my views before, but to paraphrase Admiral Akhbar, “It’s a grift.” It will be Paula Jones poison, character assassination a la Max Cleland, voter fraud lies, and bothsiderism on steroids should the Idiot lose and they will point back to this as their sources of legitimacy. And do you really think any Fox viewer is going to be influenced by this? This is about making money and job security for these grifters. It’s a dopamine high for anyone who opposes the Idiot and his cult. That’s about it.
And the job security will include George’s wife. It’s a win-win for her.
George Conway doesn’t sit well with me. I agree with most of what he says but he’s still married to Kellyanne. She’s getting paid, I presume. So, he’s benefitting from her position in the White House. Also, he’s married to someone who either believes in Trump’s positions or does not believe in them and therefore is deceitful for some other personal interest perhaps. Something in this situation doesn’t sit well with me.
Chuck Todd and Jake Tapper are already in a bidding war to book them as long-term replacements for the Carville-Matalin s*^t show.
You might be interested to know that there is another group that is hitting Trump hard with ads, and this group is not affiliated with either party. This ad comes from the only political advocacy organization headed by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Here is their latest attack ad on Trump and there are others but they do not have the same numbers as The Lincoln Project.
Vote Vets has less than 7,000 followers (I’m one of those subscribers) on YouTube and 4.6 million views for their videos vs The Lincoln Project’s 299,000 followers with more than 51 million views. If you watch this Vote Vets video and like what you see and hear, then subscribe and share.
Lloyd, As retired Veteran I appreciate you providing the Vote Vet website info.
Words can never express how I feel about Trump as this nation’s CINC. There are not enough descriptive words in the English dictionary to express the loathing I have for this person. I would have resigned/retired from the service before I would serve under Trump as the CINC. Receiving a salute from this Trump would be an insult to me and the uniform I wore.
I agree. Trump is a disgrace to everyone and everything, even cockroaches and rats.
At least cockroaches and rats have a defined purpose. We may not like it but the purpose is there. Trump on the other hand lacks a real purpose to even be on this planet.
I’m not sure there is an occupied planet in the universe that would take him unless it was for a deranged “alien” exhibit in an exotic zoo.