# Should the republicans distance themselves from the current president? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 17, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276 "2018-06-17T18:50:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/1 "2018-06-17T18:50:10Z")
In the light of Donald Trrmp’s anti-FBI rant a few Republicans have gone on record saying such acts basically hand the country over to the Democrats. [So I’d like to ask. Should republicans distance themselves from the current president?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=856976) This was also brought up with his campaign mess when he talked about grabbing women by their pussies. Quite frankly, when I see outbursts like Tru Mp made and the audience all giving him a standing ovation I have to ask - do I really want such people running my country? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/2 "2018-06-17T19:10:52Z")
The “Your Dad’s Oldsmobile” Republicans have already fled. Years ago, when “Independent” started to mean “Ex-Republican”. I daresay no Republican candidate can win without the support of the Trump faction, there just aren’t enough. Somewhere there is one or two, but as a general thing, its his way or the highway. There will always be a conservative party, of one form or another, because conservatism is more of a personalty that a position. And those people deserve fair representation. The best hope for an honestly conservative Republican Party rests with an absolute clobbering this November. They can reform as the Loyal Opposition. Which we need, because as smart as we are, we aren’t \*that \*smart, not so smart that we can afford to ignore criticism. There is a major downside to that. And that is that if the Dem Party becomes the best path for the ambitious and unscrupulous candidates, they will become Democrats. We must be wary of casting pearls before wolves with sheepskins. That’s Scripture! ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/3 "2018-06-17T19:16:21Z")
First you would have to find some principled republicans. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Dobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Dobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dobbs)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/4 "2018-06-17T19:22:41Z")
Only if they ever want my vote again. I’m a middle of the road, moderate sort of guy. I don’t vote straight D or R, I vote for the best person. Here in Virginia, we vote for Governor and Lt Governor separately, and back in ‘06 to ‘10, they were from different parties. I was one of those responsible for that. In the last election, I held my nose and voted for HRC, but it was really a vote against Orange Thinskin. Anybody who stands up and says they support the current POTUS will not get my vote ever. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/5 "2018-06-17T19:42:30Z")
It is IMHO too late for the Republicans. Their three monkey act regarding Trump is so common now that it is clear that they are the party of Trump now. Time to throw all the rascals out. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/6 "2018-06-17T19:59:56Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > There will always be a conservative party, of one form or another, because conservatism is more of a personalty that a position. There is one: the Democrats. The Republicans are the \*reactionary \*party. As said, their problem is the more reasonable types have already fled or are fleeing. From a moral perspective and from the perspective of keeping the Republicans anything other than a party of neofascist populists, yes; they should distance themselves from trump. But it’s really too late for them to do that without gutting the party. The whole reason Trump was able to get their nomination in the first place is that he’s practically the living incarnation of the modern Republican party. Evil, ignorant, insanely egotistical, psychopathically selfish, utterly malignant, and with no principles or virtues whatsoever. They can’t reject those traits anymore without destroying themselves. They are the Party of Trump. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/7 "2018-06-17T20:08:15Z")
Solid pitting of a deserving target. Kudos. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/8 "2018-06-17T20:20:11Z")
The fact that even one current republican thought it was a good idea to even nominate this criminal in the first place guarantees me never voting republican again. I can only hope the party just implodes. People like Paul Ryan who first criticized then bends over to kiss his ass guarantee the GOP as carnival barking hucksters from now on. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/9 "2018-06-17T20:26:39Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > In the light of Donald Trrmp’s anti-FBI rant a few Republicans have gone on record saying such acts basically hand the country over to the Democrats. Ok, I realize you’re just riffing on another thread, but have any Republicans actually said anything like this? My news sources don’t seem to have mentioned it. > [@](#): > > [So I’d like to ask. Should republicans distance themselves from the current president?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=856976) No, a thousand times no! I hereby call on all Republicans to continue to demonstrate to everyone their well-known moral rectitude and fiscal responsibility, by braying their unwavering support for The Lump, every chance they get. While they are at it, I also ask that they continue to fail to understand that that 90% Republican approval rating for their, er, man represents about 40% of the voting population. > [@](#): > > Quite frankly, when I see outbursts like Tru Mp made and the audience all giving him a standing ovation I have to ask - do I really want such people running my country? C’mon, let’s be adults here; you can spell his name. Look: Donald J. Gump; I mean Donald J. Harrumph; er, Donald J. Plump…oh, the hell with it. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/10 "2018-06-17T20:50:45Z")
I’d suggest that a child-molesting, kitten strangling, goat felcher distance himself from the current president to avoid being tainted by association. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/11 "2018-06-17T20:51:04Z")
Do you need a nickname for the Nazi-loving scumbag? “Trump” is bad enough as it is; it sounds like the name of the fat cat foreclosing on ranchers’ mortgages in a bad Western. Anyway, my fave is “Noted Donald Trump Supporter Donald Trump,” or “Trump” for short. ---
**Author:** ![Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delicious)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/12 "2018-06-17T22:04:29Z")
Hells naw! All republicans should reduce the distance between them and Trump until he’s trapped in the middle of a 30M strong crowd all pressing in to get closer to him. They should also do this naked…no political reason, I just think it would be funnier. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/13 "2018-06-17T22:33:26Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Ok, I realize you’re just riffing on another thread, but have any Republicans actually said anything like this? I read somewhere that they did. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/14 "2018-06-17T22:44:09Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > … “Trump” is bad enough as it is; it sounds like the name of the fat cat foreclosing on ranchers’ mortgages in a bad Western. … Anybody can have an airline. They even let Donald Trump have one, which he immediately renamed after himself, as is his usual classy practice despite the fact that “Trump” sounds like the noise emitted by livestock with gastric disorders (“Stand back, Earl! That cow’s starting to Trump!”). — Dave Barry ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/15 "2018-06-17T22:44:28Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Do you need a nickname for the Nazi-loving scumbag? I’m still partial to “Mango Mussolini”. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/16 "2018-06-17T23:06:04Z")
**Should the republicans distance themselves from the current president?** Should, but can’t. The time they could have done it was back in the campaign. Now it’s way too late, and there’s no evidence they even know how. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/17 "2018-06-18T01:41:01Z")
Why should they? They ARE him. Or he is them. They are one. They can privately call him a dipshit and leak it to the press, but very, very few are speaking out and even fewer standing up to him. Remember how it leaked when he was courting Kasich that he was going to basically just be in the photo ops and let his VP do all the work? Why would we think that that is NOT happening right now? We know so many of these terrible programs and policies are Kelly’s or Miller’s so why not assume that most of the rest of them aren’t from 2-second attention span trump? After the wide path of destruction Pence laid through Indiana, why isn’t this put at his feet? Isn’t he a “true” republican? Just because on the outside Pence and Kelly and others might not be as vapor-inducingly vulgar as Trump, it doesn’t mean that they aren’t as odious on the inside as him. So yes, if you’re a Republican you should distance yourself from this because it’s morally bankrupt to stand by it, but since probably everything he does comes with a big ole stamp of approval from some GOP scion, that’s not going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/18 "2018-06-18T01:54:47Z")
Everyone should distance themselves from Trump. I seem to have been afflicted with optimism all of a sudden and think soon Democrats will hit almost every currently serving Republican with the Trumpism stick. Oh nevermind, it’s gone, not enough people will pay the price for this, the Democrats will say they want the country to heal and concentrate on the future and allow the same Republican scum to resume their efforts to destroy this country. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/19 "2018-06-18T01:57:35Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > C’mon, let’s be adults here; you can spell his name. Look: Donald J. Gump; I mean Donald J. Harrumph; er, Donald J. Plump…oh, the hell with it. Try America-hating fuckstick. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276/20 "2018-06-18T02:43:08Z")
Nine out of ten fuckstick-hating Americans agree, this sobriquet will show instant results. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-republicans-distance-themselves-from-the-current-president/816276.md?page=2)