Harvard Republican Club declines to endorse Republican nominee for ‘first time in 128 years’

[$tevie]

Harvard Republican Club Will Not Support Party Nominee Donald Trump

The Harvard Republican Club announced it would not support Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump, and called for Republican leaders to withdraw their support of the candidate they called a “threat to the survival of the Republic” in a press release Thursday.

In the scathing statement, the largest conservative group at Harvard cited “both policy and temperamental concerns” about Trump and condemned his divisive campaign rhetoric they say “is poisoning our country and our children.”
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“His authoritarian tendencies and flirtations with fascism are unparalleled in the history of our democracy,” the Republican Club said in a statement. “He hopes to divide us by race, by class, and by religion, instilling enough fear and anxiety to propel himself to the White House.”

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/8...ort-trump/

[sekker]

A Republican Club I can support.

[August West]

dayum.

[bfd]

There ARE thinking Repugs left after all …

[SteveG]

A long tradition of integrity there. Hey GOPers, is it any coincidence that the Harvard Republican Club has the same initials as a certain Presidential candidate? Team Trump suspects DIRTY TRICKS!
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Dirty Tricks at the Harvard Republican Club
Hamilton Nolan
11/19/10 10:04am http://gawker.com/5694275/dirty-tricks-a...lican-club

The Harvard Republican Club is mired in an election-fixing scandal of a deviousness not seen since the heyday of ACORN. The charge: a sinister plot by one candidate to lure voters away from the polls. The bait: McKinsey. Ooooo, Mckinsey!

The Crimson reports that Michael McLean was elected president of the Harvard Republican Club yesterday after his opponent, Luis Martinez, dropped out of the race. McLean charge Martinez with sending a fake email purporting to be from superawesome consulting firm McKinsey, designed to lure HRC voters off-campus—at the same time voting was being held.

Several Harvard undergraduates, including several members of the HRC, received an e-mail from alexjmichaelson@gmail.com on Saturday night, inviting them to a "private reception" at MIT on Thursday at 8 p.m. The message was signed "Alex J. Michaelson, McKinsey & Company."

The e-mail also mentioned the opportunity to sign up for "one of 25 exclusive fast-track interview slots, available only to those who attend our event."

The first clue might have been that if one Googles "Alex J. Michaelson McKinsey," nothing comes up except Crimson articles about this very scandal. But you can't blame the kids—waving a McKinsey gig in front of Harvard College Republicans is like waving a crack salad with crack dressing in front of a crackhead.

We can only hope that the Harvard Republican Club can one day get the taste of taint out of its mouth.

[SteveG]

And furthermore:


commie FDR '04 member Harvard Republican Club!
... he joined the Republican Club to support his Oyster Bay cousin Theodore, President William McKinley's running mate in the election of 1900. In red caps and gowns, Frank and most of the freshman class joined a torchlight parade into Boston to celebrate the Republican victory in November. Sporting his pince-nez and spouting "Bully!", Frank seemed to some of his classmates to be trading too much on familial ties.

[Speedy]

Bunch of elitists.

[Ombligo]

So a small conservative club in surrounded by one of the most liberal populations in the US didn't endorse the not-so-conservative nut running for president... YAWN

Call me when the University of Alabama Football Fan Association starts supporting someone else - then you are talking numbers in a very Crimson Red state.

[RgrF]

Over time, that small conservative club has produced more political figures than any other club in the country. For all it's reputed to be Harvard is not anything like a strictly liberal institution.

[Lux Interior]

RgrF wrote:
For all it's reputed to be Harvard is not anything like a strictly liberal institution.

Oh please! next you're going to try and tell me that the corporate-owned mass-media is not liberally biased!