Party Loyalty Can’t Make Me Vote for Clinton

[BlueStateSaint]

I saw this cross-posted at Zero Hedge, so I figured that I'd go straight to the source.  The writer was a guest on Fox & Friends this morning.

Party Loyalty Can’t Make Me Vote for Clinton

A lifelong Democrat, I’m backing Trump because he can shake up our politics and revive the economy.


By
Andrew Stein
 
Updated Sept. 23, 2016 10:47 a.m. ET

 1132 COMMENTS   
 
I have been steeped in the Democratic Party all my life. My father, Jerry, was a New York City Democratic chairman and power broker, and I grew up in and around the Democratic Party. When I was a young man, former senators and Democratic presidential and vice-presidential nominees Hubert Humphrey and  Estes Kefauver stayed at my apartment and we would proudly discuss the great traditions of the Democratic Party.

My father was a pallbearer at St. Patrick’s for  Bobby Kennedy’s funeral. When I was young,  Robert F. Kennedy and  John F. Kennedy were (and remain) my political heroes. Four years ago, former New York Gov. and liberal lion Mario Cuomo spoke at my father’s funeral. I think his son, current Gov.  Andrew Cuomo, is a very effective leader.

I was elected five times to the New York state Assembly as a Democrat. In 1977, I beat  David Dinkins and  Robert Wagner Jr. in the election for borough president of Manhattan, and then was elected twice as City Council president.


With this background it is very hard for me not to support the Democratic nominee for president this year. But I believe my party has become the party of the elites and moneyed class and has deserted its historic mission as the party of the working class and disadvantaged.

Given my level of discomfort with the current leftist orientation of the Democratic Party, I am now supporting Republican nominee  Donald Trump for president. I urge my fellow Democrats to vote for Mr. Trump. I have known him since the early 1970s and have seen his deep concern for people, and how effective he has been while working on behalf of the average citizen.

Interesting.  I do not agree with his opinion of Dandy Andy Cuomo, but his arguments for Trump are well-reasoned.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/party-loyalty-cant-make-me-vote-for-clinton-1474498244