“Republicans are now officially the character doesn’t count party,” Stuart Stevens

 Most of what I see and hear about President Trump causes me to recoil in my body and soul. Perhaps he really is as sorry as I perceive him to be and/or perhaps he reflects sorry parts of me back to me. I wanted to vote for the Libertarian Party ticket, Gary Johnson and Bill Weld, in 2016, but felt a woman's touch was sorely needed in the White House. Hillary Clinton made my body and soul recoil, so I voted for the Green Party candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, who seemed genuine and wanting to help people and the planet. The Huffington-Post article below about a Washington Post op-ed was in my Apple News this morning.

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01/02/2200

GOP Strategist Reveals The Only Thing Republicans Now Stand For

“Republicans are now officially the character doesn’t count party,” wrote Stuart Stevens in a scathing op-ed for The Washington Post.

By Lee Moran
Stuart Stevens, a top Republican Party strategist in the 2012 election, tears into the GOP in a new op-ed for The Washington Post, lambasting party members for standing only for what President Donald Trump has just tweeted.

Stevens noted in the column published Wednesday— titled “Wake up, Republicans. Your party stands for all the wrong things now.” — that most Republicans would have until only-recently agreed the party stood for “some basic principles,” such as “fiscal sanity, free trade, strong on Russia, and that character and personal responsibility count.”
But now, the party “actively opposes” those issues, he explained.
“Republicans are now officially the character doesn’t count party, the personal responsibility just proves you have failed to blame the other guy party, the deficit doesn’t matter party, the Russia is our ally party, and the I’m-right-and-you-are-human-scum party,” wrote Stevens, who is now working with a political action committee backing former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld’s (R) run against Trump’s 2020 reelection.
“Yes, it’s President Trump’s party now, but it stands only for what he has just tweeted,” he added.
Stevens said the impeachment of Trump over the Ukraine scandal “and all that has led to it should signal a day of reckoning.”
“A party that has as its sole purpose the protection and promotion of its leader, whatever he thinks, is not on a sustainable path,” he wrote, adding: “I’d like to say that I believe the party I spent so many years fighting for could rise to the challenge of this moment. But there have been too many lies for too long.”
Read the full op-ed here.

How about instead, the Republicans back Bill Weld in 2020?

Bill Weld

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Bill Weld
68th Governor of Massachusetts
In office January 3, 1991 – July 29, 1997
Lieutenant	Paul Cellucci
Preceded by	Michael Dukakis
Succeeded by	Paul Cellucci
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division
In office 1986–1988
President	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	Stephen S. Trott
Succeeded by	Edward Dennis
United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
In office 1981–1986
President	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	Edward F. Harrington
Succeeded by	Frank L. McNamara Jr.
Personal details
Born	William Floyd Weld July 31, 1945 (age 74) Smithtown, New York, U.S.
Political party	Republican (before 2016, 2019–present)
Other political affiliations	Libertarian (2016–2019)
Spouse(s)	Susan Roosevelt (m. 1975; div. 2002) Leslie Marshall (m. 2003)
Children	5
Relatives	Weld family
Education	Harvard University (BA, JD) University College, Oxford
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William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) is an American attorney, businessman, author, and Republican politician who served as the 68th Governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. Weld is currently running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States of America in 2020.

A Harvard and Oxford graduate, Weld began his career as legal counsel to the United States House Committee on the Judiciary before becoming the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and later, the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. He worked on a series of high-profile public corruption cases and later resigned in protest of an ethics scandal and associated investigations into Attorney General Edwin Meese.

Weld was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1990. In the 1994 election, he was reelected by the largest margin of victory in Massachusetts history. In 1996, he was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in Massachusetts, losing to Democratic incumbent John Kerry. Weld resigned as governor in 1997 to focus on his nomination by President Bill Clinton to serve as United States Ambassador to Mexico; due to opposition by socially conservative Senate Foreign Relations committee Chairman Jesse Helms, he was denied a hearing before the Foreign Relations committee and withdrew his nomination. After moving to New York in 2000, Weld sought the Republican nomination for Governor of New York in the 2006 election; when the Republican Party instead endorsed John Faso, Weld withdrew from the race.

Weld became involved in presidential politics in later years. In 2016, he left the Republican Party to become the Libertarian Party running mate of former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson. They received nearly 4.5 million votes, the highest amount for a Libertarian ticket, and the best for any third-party ticket since 1996.

Returning to the Republican Party, Weld announced in April 2019 that he would challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primaries. In October 2019, Weld launched his campaign.

Bill Weld 2020 presidential campaign