Quote:If the Democratic Party has the brains god gave a duck, it will hang He, Trump around Ayotte's neck like a dead raccoon.
Quote:How Do Republicans Keep Their Jobs Without Supporting Trump?
Let's ask New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAY 5, 2016
I think it's not necessarily a bad thing if the Democrats offer a ratty blanket and a bowl of hot graywater soup to any Republican who wants to escape the clammy embrace of their presumptive presidential nominee.
This is fine as long as they speak in their low inside voices and don't get in the way of the party's real job of using He, Trump to hand the Republicans a defeat that crushes them back to sanity.
For example, New Hampshire Republicans are welcome, as long as they don't interfere with the happy work of turning Senator Kelly Ayotte into a pretzel. The folks at WMUR in Manchester have been tracking the contortions.
The morning after Donald Trump became the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party, U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, through a spokeswoman, made it official that she plans to support him. But in an updated statement, the spokeswoman said that "as a candidate herself," Ayotte is not planning to endorse Trump.
Ayotte, who will likely run on the same ticket in New Hampshire as the New York businessman, has been regularly asked by the media and Democrats to say if she will back him given his string of controversial comments.
In March and again as recently as last week, Ayotte spokeswoman Liz Johnson told WMUR.com that Ayotte "intends to support the Republican nominee.
However, she would like to see how the process plays out." Now that the process has virtually played out, and the Republican National Committee has recognized Trump as the presumptive nominee, Johnson told WMUR.com on Wednesday morning in a brief statement: "As she's said from the beginning, Kelly plans to support the nominee."
Later Wednesday morning, however, spokeswoman Johnson added: "As a candidate herself, she hasn't and isn't planning to endorse anyone in this cycle."
If the Democratic Party has the brains god gave a duck, it will hang He, Trump around Ayotte's neck like a dead raccoon.
It will do the same thing to Rob Portman in Ohio and Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania and Ron (Shreds of Freedom) Johnson in Wisconsin. (Ayotte's running pals, Lindsey Graham and John McCain, are studies in abject terror on the subject.)
He, Trump is not only the Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee, he has won that distinction in an overwhelming fashion.
He won the most votes. He won all over the country. He defeated 17 other candidates, some of them the most ballyhooed rising stars of the GOP. Beyond question, he is the person that the majority of Republican voters want to run for president.
At the very least, making the Talleyrand Of Tuftenboro do this support-but-not-endorse Ayotte gavotte for the next seven months will be damned entertaining.
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