2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRepublican women organize to support Clinton
(CNN)Huddled around a corner table during happy hour at the swanky St. Regis Hotel bar in downtown Washington, five young Republicans busily brainstormed how they could help Hillary Clinton become the next president of the United States.
The group included an unlikely gang of pro-Clinton foot soldiers, including a Mississippi-born Southern Baptist who got her start in GOP politics as an intern in the second Bush White House, a conservative health care policy analyst who has volunteered for anti-abortion causes and a former president of the Cornell University College Republicans.
Over glasses of wine and champagne Monday night, they kicked off the first steering committee meeting for a new organization: "Republican Women for Hillary."
Their motivation? Stop Donald Trump.
"It's really important that Republican leaders, especially Republican women leaders, stand up right now and say we're not OK with Trump representing our party," said Jennifer Lim, a group founder who works at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and has spent much of her life volunteering for Republican causes and campaigns. "This is not a position I ever wanted to find myself in. But it's important that when things like this happen that people speak up."
This is going to be a game changer in many areas. There may be plenty of Repub women who won't admit it publicly, but may privately vote for the first female president so they can make history. I think the anti-Trump sentiment is stronger than it appears. People know he's unqualified.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)will not vote for Trump under any conditions.
MineralMan
(146,351 posts)including my 91-year-old mother. Donald Trump is anathema to many women, and rightly so.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)strongly disagrees. "Women love me!" Oh puhleeeze. Any women with even a MINISCULE amount of intelligence loathes the shitgibbon.
athena
(4,187 posts)how they manage to bring themselves to vote for any Republican. It's not like Trump is much more extreme than the the other Republicans in his views.
treestar
(82,383 posts)under which they should not slink. Maybe not Palin. And they at least know the limits on the Presidency. They might stretch them to be as fascist as they can make them be, but they know there is some limit. They have experience in the Senate or as Governor. Trump has no idea. The thought of him with the nukes is way scarier than even Cheney with them.
mcar
(42,474 posts)Doesn't surprise me a bit.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)IronLionZion
(45,667 posts)I have a female Trumper at work who says that often. She despises Hillary.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)IronLionZion
(45,667 posts)and that Michelle is too masculine. She says it's time to have a real man in charge again and a feminine woman as first lady. She loves Reagan
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,543 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Laura said Hillary would make a much better president, and Queen Mother Babs said she didn't understand how any woman could vote for him.
IronLionZion
(45,667 posts)openly mocking him and his wife during the primaries
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Probably because Jeb was perceived to be the leader early on.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)People pretty much ignored what she said. When I mentioned it, they scoffed, that Laura Bush would not support the Democrat, even a woman.
Simple, I have always believed that all the women in that family were prochoice, and had to basically shut up, because that is what one does, with husbands career.
Who knows what she has voted in the booth, all her life.
I know a woman, that became Mayor in a major city. I know she was Democratic leaning. I sat with one running for the state Senate and heard her position on women's issues. These women cannot run as Democrat. That simple. It is interesting.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)Laura, and one of her daughters were not so subtly hinting that they were supportive of Hillary Clinton.
I found that interesting, so I read a bit about her. Laura Bush said when she met W, they had nothing in common. She was a liberal Democrat. She later said she was only a Republican by marriage.
I never could get on board with a Laura Bush bashing.
IronLionZion
(45,667 posts)Squinch
(51,090 posts)are voting for him, but then they won't.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)"These women may be Republicans, but they are not patriots, nor are they conservatives. A pox on them."
22 posted on 7/2/2016, 9:41:56 AM by trisham