WOMEN BAILING ON THE GOP-'I hung on until I couldn't'. Kavanaugh put me over the top!

**Centerleftfl** · 10-20-2018, 01:25 PM

I feel sure there are hundreds of thousands. But MOST won't write an editorial and submit it under their name to a MAJOR newspaper. And most won't change their party affiliation but won't vote for REPUBLICANS. (Remember, if these women are from ORANGE COUNTY, it bleeds red).

"The Brett Kavanaugh hearings and the GOP’s support for the now-Supreme Court justice that put her “over the edge.”

Longtime GOP female voters reveal what Trump did to make them finally bail on the party: ‘I hung on until I couldn’t’

NOOR AL-SIBAI
20 OCT 2018 AT 15:07 ET

In two letters to the editor of the Los Angeles Times, longtime Republican-voting women explained why Donald Trump has led them to leave the party.

Eileen E. Padberg, a registered Republican of 53 years, wrote that although she considers herself “an active feminist,” she stuck with the GOP because she believed it was “the party of individual rights and liberties, personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, a strong national defense and fiscal responsibility.”

“I hung on to my party registration although I didn’t always vote a straight GOP ticket,” she wrote. “I hung on until I couldn’t.”

Padberg noted that her Republican credentials “would hold up to anyone” — she founders her college’s Young Republicans club, has been a delegate and an attendee at multiple Republican National Conventions and “was the regional political director for George H.W. Bush’s campaign for president.”

The Brett Kavanaugh hearings and the GOP’s support for the now-Supreme Court justice that put her “over the edge.”

“When I heard the words coming from the Republican leadership and the president, that fine thread holding me to the GOP finally broke,” Padberg wrote. “I couldn’t believe the disrespect for women I was hearing.”

Padberg acknowledged that she’s not alone, that “surely there are thousands of women across America who gave up on the Republican Party.”

Longtime GOP female voters reveal what Trump did to make them finally bail on the party: 'I hung on until I couldn't'

**Sailor** · 10-20-2018, 01:31 PM

Rawstory and this woman is from CA. Two credibility issues right from the start.....

**Centerleftfl** · 10-20-2018, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by Sailor

Rawstory and this woman is from CA. Two credibility issues right from the start.....

Raw Story can't READ? And women in CALIFORNIA can't write? ONE google search was all it took....

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/reade...020-story.html

**Sailor** · 10-20-2018, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by Centerleftfl

Raw Story can't READ? And women in CALIFORNIA can't write?

You wanna stick with the proposition?

Yes I do.

**Flash** · 10-20-2018, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by Centerleftfl

(Remember, if these women are from ORANGE COUNTY, it bleeds red).

Orange County voted for Clinton in 2016.

**Centerleftfl** · 10-20-2018, 01:43 PM

Originally Posted by Flash

Orange County voted for Clinton in 2016.

Orange County is RED. (Exceptions prove the rule. Surely you've heard that).

I just assumed the letter was behind at paywall. It isn't. Link below. RS didn't use the best line from the woman's article.....

To the editor: Columnist Virginia Heffernan talks a lot about the men who have moved on from the Republican Party.
I think the real story is the number of women who have left the party.

Will there be any Republican women left after Trump's presidency? - Los Angeles Times

**cawacko** · 10-20-2018, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by Centerleftfl

Orange County is RED. (Exceptions prove the rule. Surely you've heard that).

I just assumed the letter was behind at paywall. It isn't. Link below. RS didn't use the best line from the woman's article.....

To the editor: Columnist Virginia Heffernan talks a lot about the men who have moved on from the Republican Party.
I think the real story is the number of women who have left the party.

Will there be any Republican women left after Trump's presidency? - Los Angeles Times

The OC was red. Demographics are changing.

Of course 'SC alumni still dominate Newport Beach and they are politically conservative.

**dukkha** · 10-20-2018, 01:48 PM

suburban married women are Dems..I think it's the aversion to Trump because he's blunt,
or it could just be them succumbing to ID politics.. who knows

**kudzu** · 10-20-2018, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by noise

suburban married women are Dems..I think it's the aversion to Trump because he's blunt,
or it could just be them succumbing to ID politics.. who knows

Kavanaugh was perfectly horrible during the hearing.. I am sure that made an impression.

**dukkha** · 10-20-2018, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by kudzu

Kavanaugh was perfectly horrible during the hearing.. I am sure that made an impression.

spoken like a suburban woman. I saw a bunch of deranged Democrats dragging up accusers without corroboration ;
and that Whack Job Sen. Hirono saying due process wasn't important. just "believe"

**Cypress** · 10-20-2018, 02:05 PM

she stuck with the GOP because she believed it was “the party of individual rights and liberties, personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, a strong national defense and fiscal responsibility.”

This totally has to be from The Onion.

Parody and tongue-in-cheek is written all over this one.

**Nordberg** · 10-20-2018, 02:20 PM

Donald,grab them by the pussy, Trump has offended lots of women and men who appreciate intelligence and maturity. Trump is the worlds oldest teenager. He talks like a kid and acts like one. You can argue that his followers are like that too. Trumps attacks and low level insults play to the lowest of Americans There are just a lot more people who are at that level than many of us believed.
His talk is driving educated and polite women away. Trump is a huge embarrassment.
Kavanaugh offended many of the same people.

**kudzu** · 10-20-2018, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by noise

spoken like a suburban woman. I saw a bunch of deranged Democrats dragging up accusers without corroboration ;
and that Whack Job Sen. Hirono saying due process wasn't important. just "believe"

No.. I had hoped Kavanaugh would be a qualified judge.. He is a wimpy flake and a crybaby.

**dukkha** · 10-20-2018, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by kudzu

No.. I had hoped Kavanaugh would be a qualified judge.. He is a wimpy flake and a craybaby.

1 thing I think all sides can agree with is it was a political type Rorschach test.

I saw gross attempts at dismissal of due process, and while you saw a "wimpy flake"
I saw a man determined to defend his character of decades of good behavior. His name and family.

I'm not saying either perception is "correct"- it's a matter of perception in the eye of the beholder.