Last April, Republican Senate candidate Scott Milne slammed his party's future presidential nominee, Donald Trump, for "cozying up to the [Ku Klux] Klan." But, he added, "I'm not ruling him out." In June, Milne called Trump's denigration of a federal judge whose parents were born in Mexico "distressing." But, the Senate candidate said, "I'm still listening." In July, Milne said it was "a poor decision" for Trump to post anti-Semitic imagery on Twitter. But, he added, "I would be delighted if I was in a place where I was supporting Donald Trump by November." In August, Milne called Trump's Islamophobic attacks on Khizr and Ghazala Khan — the parents of a slain Army captain — "silly." But, Milne said, he was "still hopeful" he could find a way to support his party's nominee. On Saturday afternoon, Milne called a newly released videotape of Trump bragging about sexual assault "disgusting," "offensive" and "pretty disturbing." But, he said of the 2005 Access Hollywood video, "It's not enough for me to change what I told you, which is, 'I'll tell you who I'm voting for when we get closer.'" Then, something mysterious happened. After months of excusing the inexcusable, Milne finally grew a backbone — or a conscience. Or maybe he just made an overdue political calculation. Within 20 minutes of arguing that Trump's "grab them by the pussy" remarks were "not enough" to disqualify him from the presidency, Milne called back to say that they were. "I was optimistic that Trump was going to evolve into a candidate that I at least wouldn't vote against, but he has evolved into a candidate that I can't vote for in the last 24 hours," Milne told Seven Days later that afternoon. "This latest thing was the straw that broke the camel's back. Whether I was going to vote for him or not, now it's clear I'm not going to vote for him." Milne, who is challenging Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) in next month's election, was hardly alone in his deathbed conversion. Throughout the country last weekend, GOP politicians pulled their endorsements like rats fleeing a sinking orange ship. Even in Vermont, where many top Republicans had long since abandoned Trump, a few remaining rodents scurried ashore. "At this time, I am withdrawing my support for Mr. Trump," House Minority Leader Don Turner (R-Milton) said in a statement Saturday night, calling the nominee's words…