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Murkowski, done with Trump, won’t rule out leaving GOP (www.cnn.com)

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, aghast at Donald Trump’s candidacy and the direction of her party, won’t rule out bolting from the GOP.

The veteran Alaska Republican, one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial amid the aftermath of January 6, 2021, is done with the former president and said she “absolutely” would not vote for him.

“I wish that as Republicans, we had … a nominee that I could get behind,” Murkowski told CNN. “I certainly can’t get behind Donald Trump.”

The party’s shift toward Trump has caused Murkowski to consider her future within the GOP. In the interview, she would not say if she would remain a Republican.

Asked if she would become an independent, Murkowski said: “Oh, I think I’m very independent minded.” And she added: “I just regret that our party is seemingly becoming a party of Donald Trump.”

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 123 points 6 months ago

Murkowski who voted for almost every bullshit corrupt nominee and tax break the trump administration coughed up? That Murkowski?

Yes she had the occasional "reservation". Like Collins she just did the evil 72% of the time anyway.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

72% sounds exceptional to me. Most of the legislation that the House and Senate deal with is uncontroversial and unless you read the daily Congressional Record would never hear about because it concerns only a handful of people or it's something we all agree on. Shit like nominations for the deputy undersecretary to the diplomat plenopotentiary to Mauritania or whatever. I'm sure a lot more of it is being unnecessarily politicized in order to sabotage the country but still. Even Bernie and Ted Cruz I would expect to be more than 72%. Got me curious.

[-] Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world 87 points 6 months ago

"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it"

-Senator Lindsey Graham

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They've all deserved it for a long time and for a lot of things. I'm pretty sure nobody in an elected position in DC today was there in 1964 when Goldwater's clique inside the GOP turned it anti-civil rights and pro-Southern Strategy, but every elected Republican in DC today knew that had happened and signed up anyway

The Republican party is the disease that needs curing*, everything they've done are just worsening symptoms of that disease

*For the record, I think violence would be an ineffective and self-defeating course of treatment

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This mf spittin.

I wasn't even old enough to vote but was stumping for a candidate many years ago, a Democrat, and an older voter rebuffed me while walking into the polling place, fine, but then he said "you know that's the party of socialists and communists right?" And I'm like "yeah the other party is that of the KKK."

Not all Republicans are Klan but all Klan are Republicans. And I keep waiting for the day the GOP will kick these fools to the curb but every year they go further to the right. Fine, maybe you're too young to remember Goldwater. Remember Willie Horton? Remember Sarah Palin?

They keep on showing everyone there is no floor. That's why David Frum warns that before Republicans reject conservatism, they will reject democracy.

And here we are.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 10 points 6 months ago

"... And I will help."

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Important thing to note here is that he just meant they would be "destroyed" in the election - as long as Trump means they stay in power, he has no problem with him.

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 45 points 6 months ago

She just now noticed all the Nazis at her favorite bar?

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 27 points 6 months ago

Do it, coward.

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

She'd do it too. And she would still be re-elected.

[-] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Republicans never have any idea what they vote on, as long as it has an (R) next to it.

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

One time Murkowski was not on the ballot and needed to be written in, and spelled correctly. She still won.

[-] root_beer@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago

And that was against a jamoke from Tea Party, who were basically proto-chuds

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 months ago

So guys, there's this sinking ship, see, and she's on it and afraid she'll drown - so when faced with irrelevance she finally finds an excuse to get onto another ship.

The important thing to remember is that she's still the same piece of shit she's always been... so don't let her on our ship. Just let her fall into irrelevance.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

hey y'all, no joke... I'm totally gonna maybe probably be pretty dang upset this time you guys... Seriously, don't be surprised if I might possible potentially consider not fully supporting the worst shit again - okay, so I did support it again, but you got to admit, I got pretty close to not doping that for a second maybe (I didn't, but you can totally imagine what it would be like if I did right?)

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