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" Turns out it&amp;#039;s a longer and more exhausting drive back from political conventions than I thought it was. The sirens calling from the Indian casinos. The cyclops at the toll plaza. Circe, working the counter of a Sbarro at a service plaza near Newburgh. So we were a little late to the buffet on Tuesday. Some of the big news is this person, Sally Bradshaw, described as a &amp;quot;top adviser&amp;quot; to Jeb (!) Bush, who somehow has managed to avoid being rendered comatose by that proximity. Anyway, Bradshaw has looked at the Republican presidential nominee and decided that He, Trump is a virus too far for her genteel Republican constitution. Per CNN: Bradshaw, who&amp;#039;s been close to the former Florida governor for decades and was senior adviser to his 2016 campaign, officially switched her registration to unaffiliated. She told CNN&amp;#039;s Jamie Gangel in an email interview that the GOP is &amp;quot;at a crossroads and have nominated a total narcissist\u2014a misogynist\u2014a bigot.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;This is a time when country has to take priority over political parties. Donald Trump cannot be elected president,&amp;quot; Bradshaw said. The departure from the Republican Party of a Bush loyalist\u2014Bradshaw began her career working for George H.W. Bush&amp;#039;s 1988 campaign\u2014is the latest sign of an influential and respected member of the GOP establishment turning against Trump. &amp;quot;This election cycle is a test,&amp;quot; Bradshaw said. &amp;quot;As much as I don&amp;#039;t want another four years of (President Barack) Obama&amp;#039;s policies, I can&amp;#039;t look my children in the eye and tell them I voted for Donald Trump. I can&amp;#039;t tell them to love their neighbor and treat others the way they wanted to be treated, and then vote for Donald Trump. I won&amp;#039;t do it.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Our president must represent what is good about America\u2014a belief in opportunity for all\u2014regardless of race and gender and background\u2014to rise up and live the American dream,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;A president can&amp;#039;t tear down Hispanics, or mock someone who is disabled, or use symbols in campaign literature that Jewish voters understandably find offensive. To continue to be the hope of the world, all Americans regardless of party affiliation have to reject him.&amp;quot; Isn&amp;#039;t Bradshaw just the special-est special snowflake? (Notice how she got a jab in there about how terrible it is that 20 million people have healthcare now than had it in 2008, the last time a member of the Bush family held high political office?) Let&amp;#039;s take a look at Bradshaw&amp;#039;s resume. She began working for the Bush family during Poppy&amp;#039;s 1988 campaign, when the late king of the ratfckers Lee Atwater was running a racialized campaign against Michael Dukakis, aiming to &amp;quot;take the bark off him,&amp;quot; as Atwater said he would. Willie Horton was not too much for Sally Bradshaw. She worked for Jebbie in two campaigns in Florida, and went 1-1 on the scoreboard. She stuck with the Bush family through the two elections that produced C-Plus Augustus. The Swift Boat liars and the Purple Heart Band-Aids were not enough for Sally Bradshaw.     She was one of the authors of the much-celebrated &amp;quot;autopsy&amp;quot; conducted by the Republican Party after the 2012 election, an autopsy that swiftly got knocked into a cocked tricorn when the party realized that enabling crazy people was a good way to gum up the works. The 2010 and 2014 midterms were not enough for Sally Bradshaw. But Donald Trump, whose only tangible political skill is showing the conservative base of his party that it&amp;#039;s OK to abandon its inside voices, has driven Sally Bradshaw\u2014maybe, possibly, who in hell knows?\u2014to vote for the major party candidate who is not publicly insane. Congrats. Click here to respond to this post on the official Esquire Politics Facebook page. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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