Posted on 01/29/2016 6:04:01 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Anyone who can post any transcripts or archives of Trump co-sponsoring, sponsoring, supporting thereof, participating in a Gang of 8 or 12, or signing any leftist policies while holding elective office capacity, I will immediately discontinue my support of him.
The Republican Party has lost 12 of the last 21 presidential elections dating back to 1932.
Of the Republicans who won, George H.W. Bush won in 1988 only because he rode on the coattails of Ronaldus Magnimus' revolution. He lost in 1992.
Nixon won in 1968 and 1972 on an aggressive law-and-order campaign, but was disastrous in implementing many of the Left's projects (OSHA, EPA, wage and price controls) that are destroying America now.
Eisenhower, although a moderate, won because he was a heroic military general.
George W. Bush lost the popular vote in 2000; and barely won Ohio in 2004 to beat back John Kerry.
So that leaves Reagan's sole two landslides in 1980 and 1984 that is the benchmark of Republican Party presidential epitome. Not counting the 1966, 1994, 2010, and 2014 Republican Congressional landslides.
Why do you think the Republican Party has lost half of all presidential elections since 1932, and didn't pursue conservative goals in three-quarters of the ones they won?
They've reached out to moderates, independents, and undecided voters until they were blue in the face; and yet they did not get these voters.
Donald Trump isn't reaching out to these voters. They are FLOCKING to him en masse.
He's doing the very same thing that the head honchos at the RNC, GOPe, K-street, Fox News, and Chamber of Commerce want Republicans to do; yet he's being vilified for simply running in the race.
Trump was NEVER in an elective office position where he wielded influence over legislation. His donations to Democrats were more about helping his home state and city than about supporting the liberalism of the PACs he was donating to. Trump has never donated to Democrat candidates directly.
Now the Republican Party has a candidate, who is getting the independents, moderates, blacks, legal Hispanics, and blue-collar Democrats that Republicans say they need to get in order to win.
So what is the Republican Party doing?
They are defecating on the very candidate that will give the party it's first presidential landslide since 1988.
What does that tell you?
Do you believe that the people who are supporting Trump - many of whom get belittled by National Review, Weekly Standard, HotAir, Townhall, and other Salem Communication-owned websites, as well as even some FReepers - really going to hold their noses for a Rubio, a Christie, a Kasich, or God-forbid, a Jeb Bush?
Trump's past liberalism is a total non-issue. If he hasn't held elective office where he could have put his liberalism to work and affected millions of Americans via legislation, he wouldn't get elected to the town water board.
>>In short, to be a good conservative Republican all you needed to do is talk about less government while wearing a shield of professed morality. American first hasn’t been an issue since Reagan.<<
That is just one great point out of a totally on-target post.
The conservative catechism is not even internally consistent, since it has often been accompanied by increased military spending and even social spending. Only the libertarians are somewhat consistent, and that leaves them as useful idiots for the globalists (i.e., weaken military, open borders, so-called Free Trade).
The GOPe NEVER puts America first, and neither does the NR crowd or, sadly, most of the 2016 candidates. They put the catechism first . . . FOR WHAT I ASK YOU!? What is the benefit of small government if it means LOSING AMERICA? This is INSANE.
The conservative catechism is not even internally consistent,
I support Trump for the reason that it might be a gentler revolution than the other options. We are way past liberal and social issues. There is no fixing our current situation, sad to say.
NOTHING WILL CHANGE UNTIL THE MONEY RUNS OUT. So, how does that happen? Hint: The USSR in recent history.
Folks, People disqualify Trump because he has been through several business bankruptcies. WELL, FOR THE RECORD, THE USA IS BANKRUPT AND WE NEED HIS SKILLS....................
I like the way you worded it.
What a bunch of word-swilling. Cruz's actions on TPA have been discussed in this forum endless times - just a sloppy wet kiss to Obama and another massive job loss for the country. Corker is also clear as it forced Cruz to give one of the most oblique political explanations I have ever heard. Both the aforementioned actions are clear examples of 'vote your corporate masters' while 'hiding your actions from the flock'.
Anyone who can post any transcripts or archives of Trump co-sponsoring, sponsoring, supporting thereof, participating in a Gang of 8 or 12, or signing any leftist policies while holding elective office capacity, I will immediately discontinue my support of him.
So as long as Trump was not in prior elective office you are supporting him?
Good catch! I see they are well-intentioned; but their mouthpieces lack wisdom in sliming and shaming those who aren't convinced that Cruz is the best way to restore respect for Christian values in the culture. If we go broke from a destroyed economy, lack of jobs, porous borders, corrupt politicians, bad trade deals and an anti-American fifth column disguised as refugees, there will be no Christian nation to defend.
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