Trump sends out his invitations—RSVP… répondez, s’il vous plaît…
And the responses came pouring in..
I have lunch that day, I will be celebrating my birthday, Alaska is just too far away, I have an X-ray that day, I cannot stand to be close to him any way, fly fishing seems better on a summers day, my voters can not bear for me to be away, I am just too busy OK?, I have tickets to the ballet, I can better help staying around here to pray, I must work on every weekday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, my diary is full on that day, that day, that day and that day—but I send my regrets anyway – as long as every realizes that I would not be seen dead with you on any day.
There must be 101 ways To leave your lover
You Just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free
- Mark Kirk (R.-Ill.) “Given my military experience, Donald Trump does not have the temperament to command our military or our nuclear arsenal”
- H.W. Bush Sr. Too old to come
- G.W.Bush Jr Too busy scrubbing bush in his non-ranch suburban home
- Jeb Bush, 2016 Republican presidential candidate “Trump is not the future of the Republican Party”
- Mitt Romney, If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished.
- Sarah Palin sulking over not being VP – Alaska is a long way from Cleveland
- Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) “Shelby lying low as GOP convention draws near”
- Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) will be traveling her state by bush plane.
- Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) he is planning to trek the Grand Canyon
- Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) he has to mow his lawn
- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) he will be in Florida campaigning and meeting with voters
- Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) will be conducting town hall-style meetings in Idaho
- Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) will be on a “listening tour” in his state.
- Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) will be campaigning,
- Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) will use the time to hone his “fly fishing.”
- Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) will be campaigning
- Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) Under the circumstances we have, I’m going to be campaigning in the state
- Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) says he has attended four conventions
- Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) will not be going for personal and family reasons.
- Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) just want to reconnect with constituents.
- Sen. Lindsey Graham, former presidential candidate just want to reconnect with constituents.
- Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) essentially called Trump a racist and said he’s open to embracing the Libertarian Party
- Sen:Still Deciding: Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), “other things going on and I’ve got to weigh where I can do the most good.” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)* Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) Sen. John Thune (R-SD)*
- Ohio Governor John Kasich If I’m going to show up at the convention, and I’m not going to be saying all these great things about the host…
- Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R-Md.) I hate the whole thing.
- Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (R-Mass.) Anybody who is using the Orlando shooting as a tool in a political fight isn’t “thinking straight,
- South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley Trump supporters aren’t all racists.
- Former NJ Governor Tom Kean Sr. Trump was a loose cannon who should “listen to people and stop tweeting at 11 o’clock at night.”
- New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Like my Democratic opponent, I will support my party’s nominee in the fall,”
- Utah Rep. Mia Love, I have not been supportive of Mr. Trump, and I’m not really excited to go back to a convention that’s centered around him
- Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) told reporters he had “a longstanding appointment downtown.”
- Mark Salter, former aide and speechwriter for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) “The GOP is going to nominate for President a guy who reads the National Enquirer and thinks it’s on the level. I’m with her.”
- David Ross Meyers, former White House staffer under George W. Bush’s former communications adviser for the Senate Republican Leadership
- Eliot Cohen, counselor of the Department of State during President George W. Bush’s administration
- Max Boot, foreign policy adviser to Sen. Marco Rubio, Council on Foreign Relations fellow “I would sooner vote for Josef Stalin than I would vote for Donald Trump,” Boot told the New York Times on March 2. “There is no way in hell I would vote for him. I would far more readily support Hillary Clinton, or Bloomberg if he ran.”
- Ben Howe, contributing editor to the conservative website RedState—She’s not flipping crazy like Trump is
- Jamie Weinstein, senior editor, Daily Caller: there is little threat another Clinton presidency would end the American system as we know it. You can’t be so sure with Trump.
- Robert Kagan, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution The neoconservative foreign policy commentator called Trump the GOP’s “Frankenstein monster” who is “strong enough to destroy its maker” “The Republicans’ creation will be.”
- Richard Armitage, deputy secretary of state under George W. Bush he doesn’t appear to want to learn about issues.
- Rep.Scott Rigell R-Va I reject Trump as our nominee based on his judgment, temperament and character, all of which point to a reckless, embarrassing and ultimately dangerous presidency. Just this past Sunday, Trump’s poor judgment was on display. He failed not once, not twice, but three times to denounce the KKK and its onetime leader, the infamous racist, David Duke. Looking a bit confused when asked about the KKK and Duke, Trump pleaded ignorance. What void must exist in the heart of a person who when asked about the KKK has to struggle for even a moment as to what his position is?
- Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) “I will not support Mr. Trump. That is not a political decision, that is a moral decision”
- Patrick Ruffini, Republican strategist and early #NeverTrump adopter
- Richard Hanna (R-NY)
- Former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R-NJ)
- Tim Miller, former spokesman for Jeb Bush, adviser to Our Principles, an anti-Trump super PAC
- Peter Wehner, GOP strategist
- Liz Mair, GOP strategist
- Rick Wilson, Republican operative “I will never vote for Donald Trump, not even if it means he forms a third party and runs as the narcissist sociopath he truly is.”
- Former Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.)
- Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-M.N.), Congressional Leadership Fund chairman
- Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) “He loves torture!” Paul said.
- Stuart Stevens, top strategist, Romney 2012
- Kevin Madden, former Mitt Romney communications director
- Ken Mehlman, former Republican National Committee chairman
- Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard
- Erick Erickson, conservative commentator, former editor of RedState, founder of The Resurgent
- Steve Deace, conservative commentator and radio talk show host
- Mark Levin, conservative radio host
- Brian Bartlett, GOP communications strategist
- Jay Caruso, contributing editor at RedState
- Linda Chavez, conservative columnist
- Mindy Finn, GOP media strategist and president of Empowered Women “For me, it’s secondary to his menacing character. So I wouldn’t support Trump if you paid me his net worth. I refuse to carry his flag. I challenge you to do the same.”
- Jon Gabriel, editor-in-chief of Ricochet “If the keys are handed to a would-be strongman, I have no choice but to step out of the car and walk my own way,” he wrote. “If that makes me a bad Republican, so be it. I seek to be a good American.”
- Stephen Hayes, senior writer at The Weekly Standard “Casual dishonesty is a feature of his campaign.”
- Glenn Beck, host of The Glenn Beck Program and founder of TheBlaze
- Dave Yost, Ohio auditor of state
- Ruth Guerra the RNC’s national director of Hispanic media, serving as a top surrogate for the party as it looked to make inroads with Latino voters and making frequent TV appearances in English and Spanish to try to lead outreach.
- Katrina Jorgensen the communications chair for the Young Republican National Federation. “I want no part of a racist, fascist, hateful presidency.”
- Nathan Wurtzel, Make America Awesome Again super PAC
- George Will, Washington Post columnist and Fox News commentator
- Bruce Carroll, creator of GayPatriot.org Carroll said on Twitter, “I will oppose ALL candidates of any political affiliation who align.”
- Mona Charen, senior fellow at Ethics and Public Policy Center
- Dean Clancy, former FreedomWorks vice president
- Rory Cooper, GOP strategist, managing director of Purple Strategies, Senior Advisor to the Never Trump PAC
Daniel Vajdich, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, national security policy adviser to the Ted Cruz campaign - Bob Dold (R-Illinois) “Donald Trump’s hateful words towards wide swaths of our country, from women to Latinos to veterans and Muslims, disqualify him from ever serving as president of the United States
- Michael Graham, conservative radio host
- Former Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.)
- Connor Walsh, former digital director for Eric Cantor, founder of Build Digital
- Jonah Goldberg, senior editor at National Review
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.)
- Alan Goldsmith, former staffer, House Foreign Affairs Committee
- Stephen Gutowski, Free Beacon staff writer
- Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist
- Doug Heye, former communications director for the Republican National Committee*
- Brad Thor, conservative author
- Charlie Sykes, radio show host
- Erik Soderstrom, conservative blogger
- David French, National Review writer
- Jennifer Rubin, conservative opinion columnist for the Washington Post
- Quin Hillyer, conservative columnist
- Former Gov. Tom Ridge (R-PA)
- Iowa state Sen. David Johnson “I will not stand silent if the party of Lincoln and the end of slavery buckles under the racial bias of a bigot.”
- Chase, Ford, JPMorgan Chase, Motorola, Walgreens and Wells Fargo For the first time in years,such corporate sponsors have declined to participate
- Justin Amash (R-Mich.)
- Mark Sanford (R-S.C.)
- Reid Ribble (R-Wis.)
- Nine of Arizona’s 58 Republican delegates originally slated to go to the GOP convention in Cleveland next month are skipping the event
- Ivanka Trump’s Rabbi will be a no show after all …
- Tim Tebow also nixed Trump’s invitation yesterday…
- Tom Brady- that Quarterback Guy who loves Stupidparty
- I will not be attending.
For more details about speakers and to see Trumps acceptance speech see here…
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