Charlie Copeland wants you to believe that he isn’t voting for Clinton
Charlie Copeland isn’t an idiot. He knows Donald Trump has no business being the President of the United States. He knows the full implications of a Trump presidency. However, Charlie Copeland is a craven coward. That’s why he wants to pretend that he will be voting for Trump and not Clinton.
Unlike Republicans like Ken Grant and Mike Stafford, who have the guts to put the country ahead of their party, Copeland is a cowering chickenshit. Meekly continuing to play to the unhinged racists and lunatics who comprise the bulk of the DEGOP’s current membership. Here is his statement:
“Hillary Clinton deserves to be congratulated on making history this evening. But the kudos stop there.
“There is no amount of colored bunting, balloons or bravado that can mask what we witnessed in Philadelphia tonight. Hillary Clinton has firmly aligned herself with the extreme ‘progressive’ wing of the Democratic Party. Moderate Democrats no longer have a home in Hillary Clinton’s Democratic Party, and their belief in limited government, a strong foreign policy, and individual freedom has been pushed to the wayside with them.
“Americans have never trusted Hillary Clinton and they won’t start tonight.”
I’d love to hear Mike Castle’s thoughts on this election. I doubt we will, but it would be nice for Castle to rescue a little bit of his dignity by denouncing Trump. 
Charlie Copeland, Laird Stabler and Ellen Barosse have Bonini/ Lafferty, Trump, and Reigle to support this year. The GOP couldn’t sink any lower than that!
I can’t look at him, I’ll have nightmares. He’s like the creeper from every childhood scary movie I saw
chris – I get that he is stuck, but a person with integrity would find a way to rise above it.
Jason: I’ve never understood why you see him as a man of integrity. Have you never read Dissolute Recriminations? He’s an arguably human Rethug quote machine.
His Dad basically established of Planned Parenthood in Delaware. I tend to think he was raised by actual humans in a wealthy, but normal middle of the road conservative household. I guess that’s why I think his sucking up to Evangelical nut-bags is an act.
His position is more important than principle
“His Dad basically established of Planned Parenthood in Delaware.”
Grand-dad.
Charlie is about my age and came of age with the election of Pete du Pont to the House and to Governor, whose political star in turn was hitched to Reagan conservatism and its coalition with evangelicals. I imagine the extended family followed Pete’s instincts rather than the humane conservatism of Lammot Copeland Sr. Here’s an interesting 1986 article that documents the changeover in progress:
http://articles.philly.com/1986-07-16/news/26097777_1_du-pont-tax-increases-deregulation
“In short, [Pete] seems scarcely distinguishable from Rep. Jack Kemp (R., N.Y.). Indeed, the one conservative litmus-test issue on which he disagrees with Kemp is probably abortion. Unlike Kemp, du Pont does not support a constitutional amendment to forbid abortion, although he now says he would favor reversal of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade and leave the issue to the states, a position that will not endear him to pro-choice groups.”
I’ve probably internalized the nonsense that wealth indicates some baseline level of intelligence.
The switchover to movement conservatism was entirely rational for the du Ponts in terms of preserving individual wealth.
Goop point. The broke-ass losers in the GOP seem tireless in their commitment to the du Pont’s wealth in return for a very modest outlay in meaningless buzzwords.