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If Your Child Behaved Like Donald Trump Would You Be OK With It? (This op-ed belongs in News)
Townhall.com ^ | February 29, 2016 | Kimberly Fletcher

Posted on 02/29/2016 8:14:26 PM PST by Kaslin

As Super Tuesday draws near and Americans from 12 different states choose their candidate, I want to make one final plea to my friends, fellow tea partiers, patriots, conservatives, and Christians, who will be voting on Super Tuesday.

I know you're tired of losing. I am too. I know it feels good to have someone voicing our frustrations and be heard for a change. I know it feels like voting for Trump will send the establishment, the media, and everyone who has ignored us for the past eight years a powerful message. I know it feels good to finally feel like we can win. But please, for one moment, before you mark ballot, consider what we're winning. And ask yourself, if your child behaved like Donald Trump would you be okay with it?

Before you jump on the "You're just a Trump-basher" bandwagon, I ask you, as one of you, to please hear me out.

I know how frustrated you are. I've been on the frontlines of freedom fighting this fight for 16 years—a mere fraction of the years many of my friends have spent—and I can assure you, we are extremely frustrated. I was thrilled in 2009 when the liberty movement emerged and so many Americans became engaged. It was absolutely exhilarating to see Americans start to search their history and study the Constitution. The National Center for Constitutional Studies has been teaching Constitution Seminars for decades. I only needed 30 people to hold one but I couldn't ever find enough people interested. In the fall of 2009 I had 200 people sign up—and a waiting list, because 200 was all the room would hold. I hosted several more seminars after that including one in the Ohio State Capital building for State Legislators. It was energizing and inspiring. And while I loved seeing rallies overflowing and rooms filled to capacity, I knew it was only a matter of time before people started going back to their lives and stop paying attention again.

It's not a criticism; it is just a fact of life. We all have families, jobs and obligations. We don't have time to march on D.C. every time our elected leaders ignore us. And really, what good does it do when we take time out of our lives and money out of our checkbooks to fly to Washington D.C. by the hundreds of thousands –twice—and are still ignored?

So now, after putting our hope in the Supreme Court—only to be disappointed; and then in the 2012 election—only to get Barack Obama for four more years, we find ourselves angry, frustrated, fed up—and putting all our hopes in one man. Though I know you neither want to hear it nor believe it, if you put all your hope in Donald Trump, I assure you, you will be disappointed once again. The tyranny and oppression in our country is too wide and too deep for one person to fix it—no matter how loud or aggressive they are. Our state legislatures, city councils and school boards are just as bad, sometimes worse, but we completely ignore them. An election cannot make America great again. Donald Trump cannot make America great again.

Only you and I can make America great. So I have to ask again, if your child behaved the way Donald Trump does, would you be okay with that?

Would you be okay if your son called a girl ugly? Would you be okay if your child used vulgar language, made fun of other people or behaved rudely? Do you want your children to grow up thinking the measure of a person's worth is how much money they make? Do you want them growing up believing something is only worth fighting for when you win? Do you want your child to be popular no matter how they gain their popularity or do you want them to be a good person even if it means they stand alone?

We are sending a message to our children folks. They are watching us. What message does it send our children when we say it's okay to vote for someone who is rude, abrasive and vulgar as long it's directed toward someone we're mad at?

What message does it send our children when we support someone who says, "I could shoot somebody and wouldn't lose any voters."

What message does it send our children when we vote for someone who publically and unapologetically cheated on his wife, uses vulgar, degrading language, and openly advocates a sexually immoral lifestyle?

Rebecca Hagelin wrote an excellent article on Townhall.com addressing Donald Trump's promotion of the porn industry in his hotels, his playboy behavior and his current wife's nude modeling.

"That's right,” says Hagelin, "if the GOP continues down this path of madness we will have a presidential nominee that degrades women, has bragged about his adultery, has made money off of strip tease shows, and a First Lady that has posed totally nude."

What message are we sending our children when this is who we are supporting? What message are we sending when we ignore everything we know to be true simply because we want to win for a change?

The people we elect are a representation of who we are ourselves. Is this really who we want to represent us to the world? Is this really who we have become as a people?

Neil Postman said, "Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." What message are we sending?

If you would not be okay with your children behaving the way Donald Trump does then why would we want him to be our president?

Heaven help us if this is the message we decide to send our children.


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To: Migraine

“When things are as ossified as they have become at GOPe, drastic measures are required. Otherwise, their entrenched power stays entrenched. It is extremely hard to dislodge.”

Cruz has been fighting with all his heart while Trump has been tooting his own horn.


61 posted on 02/29/2016 8:31:50 PM PST by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: usafa92

Love love love your comment!


62 posted on 02/29/2016 8:32:10 PM PST by DefeatCorruption
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To: Rennes Templar

Than you just as ignorant as your fellow Trump bots are


63 posted on 02/29/2016 8:32:27 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

If my child walked around claiming he was the “Seventh King”, I’d be worried, if he bought a building or two, I’d be happy.


64 posted on 02/29/2016 8:32:37 PM PST by heights
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To: Kaslin

If my child behaved like any politician I would be saddened, and I would be looking at myself and how I had failed them.


65 posted on 02/29/2016 8:33:18 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Pirate Ragnar

Cruz is a liar and Trump has the whole globalist structure against him ..yes, Trump is a true American hero ...


66 posted on 02/29/2016 8:33:33 PM PST by Neu Pragmatist (It's now or never , Trump now more than ever)
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To: Kaslin

All in all, if I had to choose between my kid being a coarse, super rich patriot or becoming a turncoat sellout like Mitch McConnell....


67 posted on 02/29/2016 8:33:39 PM PST by M1911A1
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To: Kaslin

Too f***ing late, Baby!

You had 2 or 3 election cycles to fix the problem, but you didn’t.

Now it’s all in for Donald Trump.


68 posted on 02/29/2016 8:33:43 PM PST by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: Wissa

“We are sending a message to our children folks. They are watching us. What message does it send our children when we say it’s okay to vote for someone who is rude, abrasive and vulgar as long it’s directed toward someone we’re mad at?”

Children hear/read/see worse than Donald Trump everyday unless you a really over protective parent.

You may think they don’t but if they are in public school they see far worse.


69 posted on 02/29/2016 8:33:47 PM PST by Fai Mao (piaps)
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To: Kaslin


We go some Pearls for you just incase:


70 posted on 02/29/2016 8:34:27 PM PST by PJBankard (I wouldn't let Obama or Hillary run my Dairy Queen - Wayne Allen Root)
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To: TigerClaws

I was raised not to take any crap.

How do you think I’d raise my own kid?

;D


71 posted on 02/29/2016 8:35:07 PM PST by Salamander (I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone...)
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To: Kaslin
Likely do something like his father did...if I had enough money.

From wiki:

Due to behavior problems, Trump left the school at age 13 and was enrolled in the New York Military Academy (NYMA).[27] In 1983, Fred told an interviewer that Donald "was a pretty rough fellow when he was small". Trump finished eighth grade and high school at NYMA.

Trump's in the front:

72 posted on 02/29/2016 8:35:30 PM PST by caveat emptor
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To: Pirate Ragnar; Helicondelta
Stop watching the Trump media.

Put down the drinking horn, and step AWAY from the mead, Ragnar.

Didn't you read ANY of the reports on the foaming nonstop epileptic fits over "KKK Trump" ALL the news networks are having today?

73 posted on 02/29/2016 8:35:32 PM PST by kiryandil ("Our Muslim-In-Chief, Barack Obama - the Quislaming in the White House")
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To: Kaslin

I like the way he acts. He is hard working, energetic, friendly, kind, loves his kids, tons of money, tons of money....

Oh and smarter than most people.


74 posted on 02/29/2016 8:35:44 PM PST by dforest
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To: Kaslin; All
Would I be OK if my children grew up and served this country as poorly as the career politicians and establishment pundits have?

Our National Debt will hit $20 Trillion, we have millions and millions of illegal immigrants wandering around the country, the IRS is out of control, the EPA is out of control, the Department of State allows its Secretary of State to shake down foreign countries for personal gain, the DOJ is corrupted, the Pentagon is corrupted, the POTUS gives up five high ranking enemies of state for a deserter, cuts another deal with Iran that allows Iran to finance its terrorist activities and build the bomb, the Republicans after two great wins turns its back on its constituents and pushes through a ridiculous budget, etc.

And this dummy wonders why Trump is winning? Really?

75 posted on 02/29/2016 8:36:06 PM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: kiryandil

“And to think I once wanted you for Palin’s vice-president in 2016.
No blood-eagle for you! “

LOL. Oh well.


76 posted on 02/29/2016 8:36:10 PM PST by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: Kaslin

Hah! If my son behaved like Trump, he’d STILL be grounded.


77 posted on 02/29/2016 8:36:30 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
If my child behaved like any politician I would be saddened, and I would be looking at myself and how I had failed them.

I would be regretting why I just hadn't fallen asleep that one night.
78 posted on 02/29/2016 8:36:39 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: Kaslin

Oh for Petes sake...children are not politicians or businessmen


79 posted on 02/29/2016 8:37:15 PM PST by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner)
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To: Wissa

Yes, as opposed to what they’ve been seeing/hearing for the last 30 years, via cRAP music.

Yup.

Got it.

;D


80 posted on 02/29/2016 8:37:24 PM PST by Salamander (I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone...)
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