{"id":16288,"date":"2016-08-04T03:04:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T03:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16288"},"modified":"2016-08-04T03:04:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T03:04:32","slug":"another-actual-republican-bolts-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16288","title":{"rendered":"Another actual Republican bolts from Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16289\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vin-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"vin\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vin-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vin-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vin-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vin.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last time I thought about this guy, I understood that he was a seriously conservative Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Vin Weber served a dozen years in the U.S. House of Representatives. He worked closely with Speaker Newt Gingrich. He&#8217;s the real GOP deal.<\/p>\n<p>His view of his party&#8217;s presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump?<\/p>\n<p>Weber says his party has made a mistake of &#8220;historic proportions&#8221; by nominating Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/08\/vin-weber-trump-mistake-226630\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/08\/vin-weber-trump-mistake-226630<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past, whenever I raise issue of former officeholders who have been critical of Trump, I get the &#8220;has been&#8221; rejoinder from my conservative friends. Who cares what Vin Weber thinks? some of them likely are going to say, just as they&#8217;ve said it about other Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Weber is a serious thinker. He is among the latest of several key Republicans who&#8217;ve bolted from Trump. According to Politico: &#8220;Weber joins a growing list of notable Republicans who have recently said they will not support Trump&#8217;s candidacy, including HP CEO Meg Whitman, Sally Bradshaw, a longtime aide to Jeb Bush, and Maria Comella, a former top aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite all this, Trump keeps saying his campaign is in great shape.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sigh &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see about that.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I thought about this guy, I understood that he was a seriously conservative Republican. Vin Weber served a dozen years in the U.S. House of Representatives. He worked closely with Speaker Newt Gingrich. He&#8217;s the real GOP deal. His view of his party&#8217;s presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump? Weber says his party &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16288\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another actual Republican bolts from Trump<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,1941,3299,6462],"class_list":["post-16288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-vin-weber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16290,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288\/revisions\/16290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}