GOP conservative activists and party regulars agree: ‘I cannot support Donald Trump’
Former House Speaker Bill O’Brien, the conservative firebrand who led the Tea Party-fueled takeover of the New Hampshire House in 2010, calls Donald Trump “the worst candidate a major American political party has ever offered up for the presidency” and insists he will not vote for the party standard bearer in November.
“I have not supported or voted for Trump and will not support or vote for him at the National Convention or during the general election,” O’Brien wrote on Facebook. “I prefer candidates whose honesty has a half-life that lasts beyond the end of a sentence and who have an understanding of the world that goes beyond the ignorance and prejudices of a typical cocktail party held on the upper West Side of Manhattan.”
Fergus Cullen, the former N.H. GOP chair who once complained that the party had been hijacked by “Tea Partiers, Ron Paul apostles and fringe figures,” sits at the opposite end of the ideological spectrum but is equally adamant in publicly opposing Trump.
“I cannot support Trump,” Cullen wrote in a series of Facebook comments. “I expect to vote for a third candidate, write-in, or abstain.”
“My hope is for a third candidate who gives principled voters a place to go while also giving other decent downballot cands a chance to avoid getting drowned in an anti-trump wave,” Cullen added.
“The womanizing, the casual dishonesty on matters great and small, the narcissism, all of it. I won’t have any part of it or him.”