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Dear GOP: Loyalty Should Be to Principles, Not People

posted onJuly 3, 2017
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Article snippet: Posted at 5:00 pm on July 2, 2017 by Kimberly Ross If the 2016 election had gone as I would have preferred, we would be experiencing a Scott Walker administration right now. His solid, proven leadership in the state of Wisconsin is exactly the type of thing we need on the national stage. But that didn’t happen. The country wanted something else, and Scott Walker is too regular, principled, and composed for their liking. His history doesn’t include explosive tweets or primetime, reality show television spots. Some may even consider him boring. Boring is what we need right now. Regardless of my preference, Donald Trump is our president. He is my president. I didn’t vote for him in the primaries or on November 8th, but I’m adult enough to recognize that he won the election. That doesn’t mean I should support everything he does. There has been a tendency among the Right to fall in love with people and not principles. This has been true for a while, but it became especially apparent in this last election cycle. If we do not accept this truth, we will never be able to clean out the cobwebs, improve our standing, gain more ground, and increase our ranks. Trump the candidate was all about being the bully, whether against his fellow GOP candidates or against his ultimate opponent, Hillary Clinton. On Sunday morning, President Trump took to Twitter (which happens way more often than it ever should), and tweeted the following. It is nothing short of an embarrassment. W... Link to the full article to read more

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