Trumpkin

by | Aug 11, 2016 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGov | 11 comments

You’ve got to hand it to Pat McCrory. He’s adaptable. When he needed to be the moderate Republican mayor of a New South city, he fit the role. When he arrived in Raleigh and found a state government run by hardcore social conservatives, he became one of those, promoting discriminatory legislation and railing against the liberal media. And when Donald Trump became the GOP nominee, he became a Trumpkin, opening for The Donald in Wilmington and bashing the “corporate elites” who were his allies as mayor.

The McCrory running for re-election looks nothing like the McCrory who ran against Bev Perdue and Walter Dalton. That guy was coming to Raleigh to clean up cronyism and corruption. He would work with Democrats and Republicans like he had in Charlotte. Once he got to Raleigh, though, that guy slowly slipped out of town after getting rolled a few times by the toughs in the legislature.  In his place, a fire-breather emerged who railed against the left-wing groups and stood up for family values as defined by the North Carolina Values Coalition.

Now, he’s turned into a Trumpkin. While the type of people who supported him as mayor are dropping Trump like a hot potato, McCrory is grabbing onto the Trump Train. When Trump called on “the Second Amendment folks” to take care of Hillary and her Supreme Court appointments, McCrory was silent. Even when Trump supporters like North Carolina Senator Richard Burr are questioning Trump’s rhetoric, McCrory is the good soldier, staying silent and supporting the boss.

We’ve long known that McCrory will say anything and we’ve seen more evidence this week when his administration lied about the danger of coal ash contamination. Now we know that he will become whatever he thinks is his best chance to get re-elected. He’s a long way from the guy we elected. Now, he’s gone full Trumpkin.

11 Comments

  1. Honest Abe

    McCrory never fit as your blog said. He was a Duke employee who wouldn’t disclose his role. And now we see. Erin Brochovich, where are you? He would poison our waters as Duke’s puppet, and lie to the people. Flint Michigan, go right to the top to find the pollution.

  2. Mike Leonard

    McCrory is Art Pope’s loyal poodle.

  3. Jay Ligon

    “When you stand for nothing, you fall for everything.”

    McCrory’s malleable morality suggests that, at his core, he lacks basic integrity. He says things he doesn’t mean, and he betrays those who believe him when he says them.

    The people of Charlotte were burned badly last week by their former mayor when he cost them $100 million. The women of North Carolina were lied to by the candidate when he ran on womens’ health, then turned against them once he was in office. He has betrayed his oath to protect and defend the Constitution when he either signed unconstitutional laws or failed to veto laws which would never pass constitutional muster.

    Lately his public statements have become a word salad of incomprehensible inconsistencies and lame justifications for indefensible positions.

    You can’t believe a word he says.

  4. Frank McGuirt

    Charlatan, although it comes to mind, is too a kind word to describe McCrory.

  5. Arthur Dent

    A small quibble regarding your tweet:

    “It seems @PatMcCroryNC has evolved from moderate mayor to social conservative to Trumpkin. https://www.politicsnc.com/trumpkin/ #NCPOL #NCGOV”

    Rather than “evolved,” I would suggest “transmogrified.” Dictionary.com given the definition as:

    “to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.”

    That seems apt!

  6. Diana Travis

    I did not consider him all that moderate when he was in Charlotte. I guess that is because I am gay and he completely ignored anything positive about the gay movement that was happening in Charlotte. He would not welcome the human rights campaign when it had its national dinner here years ago. And now with the resignation of the state epidemiologist because the department of natural resources is lying to the people of North Carolina about the safety of well water near coal ash ponds I believe he is guilty of treason to us.

  7. Mr David B Scott

    Your piece is far too generous toward McCrory. “Spineless” is a better word. When his champion Trump flames out in November, so will the governor. Shortly thereafter, he’ll be toting water for Duke Power as a lobbyist to the legislature. He’s both over his head and unencumbered by ethics.

    • JC Honeycutt

      I agree with “spineless” but would add “toady”.

  8. Ed Nelson

    Gov. McCrory, please respond to Trump’s claim today (CNN, 8/11/2016) that President Obama “founded” ISIS.

    • Christopher Lizak

      ISIS was created by the US as a weapon to use against Assad in Syria – just as Al Qaeda (the Mujahadeen) was created by the US as a weapon to use against Russia in Afghanistan.

      This came out in DIA reports released in 2012 – but our wonderful media chose (was ordered?) not to tell us:

      https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-west-saw-isis-as-strategic-asset-b99ad7a29092

      Our proxy use of Muslim terrorist mercenaries in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Kosovo is very well documented.

      Just sayin’

    • Christopher Lizak

      2012 DIA Intelligence Reports openly admit that the US and its allies created ISIS as part of the effort to unseat Assad in Syria – just as Al Qaeda was created as a weapon to use against the USSR in Afghanistan. This inhuman monstrous garbage has been going on since Reagan.

      Our use of Muslim terrorist mercenaries in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Kosovo is very well documented by official Pentagon reports.

      I find it very strange that otherwise intelligent people are perfectly willing to ignore reality just because it was given voice by Trump.

      And yes, to address another Trump “outrage” – our elections have been fraudulently influenced since Florida in 2000 – across an expanding number of states. Brad Blog has documented this phenomenon very, very well. We should not roll our eyes when Trump says the election is rigged – we must ask ourselves why the damn Democrats never had the courage to expose this hard, cold, statistically-demonstrated fact in the past. Why is the false credibility of a bankrupt voting system more important than actually winning elections?

      Ask yourself that question, and don’t hide from the answer.

      Maybe it has something to do with the fact the Rove’s IT guru in Ohio 2004 died in a small plane crash right before he was scheduled to testify as to how he hacked and stole that election for the GOP?

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