Posted on 08/12/2016 4:38:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
August has not been a good month for those of us who are actually interested in preventing a Hillary Clinton presidency.
The left was always expected to be an obstacle, aided by willing handmaidens in the dominant media culture. But we have been additionally thwarted by Republicans unable to achieve clarity on the necessity of this mission. Throw in our candidate’s self-inflicted wounds, and moods have darkened.
Not mine.
This is a thoroughly winnable election, still more than twelve weeks away. We have a candidate who is far superior to Hillary Clinton on national security, taxes, job creation, gun rights, health care, rebuilding the military and the vital issue of Supreme Court choices. If we can spend more time celebrating his skillful deployment of those comparisons and less time cleaning up his messes, we will win.
That is a sizable if, but I plan to spend every day until the election doing things that bring about the defeat of Hillary Clinton, while pointing out the hazards of failing to do so.
However, the air hangs thick with residual NeverTrumper discontent. This has sparked discussion over whether foot-dragging Republicans will actually be to blame if he loses. If we shuffle off to nightmare-filled sleep November 8 after a Hillary Clinton win, will we have contrarian politicians and pundits to blame?
The answer is: it depends.
Any allegiance to conservatism requires fending off the disaster of her presidency. The only sensible choice is for the malcontents to get with the program, unify and help return this woman and her husband to private life permanently.
But if they do not, and Trump loses, is it their fault?
It will be if he brings us sufficient focus and discipline to deserve victory. If we blaze a trail to November 8 spending relatively few days explaining what he meant in his latest shoot-from-the-hip brushfire because he has done a laudable job of showing America why he is an infinitely better choice, then yes, it will be time to inform the NeverTrumpers that they own every stinking day of the ruinous presidency that will then unfold.
If Trump does pleasantly surprise us with a home stretch short on crises, maybe some of the recalcitrant know-it-alls will shrug and get on board. But many will not. They have made clear that they are fine with a status-quo establishment dichotomy, even if it features a presidency we have spent a generation dreading, and the country be damned.
Those die-hards are unmoved by the logic that they will have enabled a Hillary presidency, because they simply do not care. They have proven it.
But I believe there are many Trump skeptics who will thaw as November 8 draws nearer. They will see that a corrupt President who has alternately sacrificed and monetized our national security is a far worse prospect than any vagaries the Trump years may bring.
If they do not, then yes, we should long remember their betrayal as we endure Obama’s third term.
Unless…
What if Trump is just getting warmed up in the unforced errors department? What if September and October are a wheels-off catastrophe dispiriting to even enthusiastic supporters? This, by the way, is the firm prediction from the camp of his haters.
If they are right, he will lose, and it will not have been because of Susan Collins, Ben Sasse and Bill Kristol. It will have been because he screwed it up.
But here in mid-August, there is no way to know which Trump we are going to get. As such, it is the duty of every conservative to join the fight to at least give America a shot at a rescue from a continuation of the worst policies of our lifetime.
If our candidate does not sufficiently cooperate, at least we will have done our part. The Hillary presidency will not unfold because we lost focus. There will be at least some shred of peace from that as our liberties blink out in the coming years.
As someone passionately fighting for a Trump win, why am I spending time musing over the scapegoating landscape in the event of a Trump loss? I offer it as motivation, an appeal to any shred of objectivity that may be reachable in the minds and hearts of the Trump-haters.
If he runs a terrible campaign, they can say their initial predictions were correct. Good for them, we will award brownie points as we await the collapse of the economy and the Constitution.
But if he runs a good campaign, winning over enough votes to forestall a national calamity, what a tragedy if he loses one necessary state by a slim margin because NeverTrumpers denied America the life preserver of their cooperation.
THE GOP PARTY
who will never get another vote from me EVER
The GOP itself, it has never put 1% of the energy into stopping the left as it has into stopping Donald Trump. If Trump doesn’t win then if a new party is not formed out of the ashes I never vote again, I know longer really care. I will never vote GOP or DEM again after this election, unless that is, trump Guts the people who tried to stop him. The problem is half of the GOP is as brain dead as the liberals, they believe what they hear in the media. Hell, Hannity is backing “Lil’ Marco” down in Florida already, says he believes him on immigration now, LOL, fool me once, what a dufus
Yup. Low info voters. The race-baiters. The gibmedats. The Julias. The mush-minded who can’t make a decision even when the choice is THIS stark.
Yup...Hitley has ads on during the Olympics
The ignorant voters.
Anyone who considers Hillary is in my opinion evil. To overlook the history of the Clinton is far and away evil to me.
The voters.
Why start looking for excuses?
Winners don’t go looking for excuses.
That is true.
The voters who picked an unelectable candidate.
I hope you’re wearing Nomex underwear.
Don’t care.
The truth hurts.
Not even Labor Day.
Defeatist talk is crap.
Look, this is one positive: the statists are outing themselves.
Stuff it. The globalist clap trap is too much.
GOPe and leftist commie media.
Hey look everybody it’s another hacked account. This user has been a member since 2008, but just stated posting on August 6, 2016 ..... 8 year later. Or was the account hacked by a Government/DNC Troll??? You decide!
I have copied and pasted this users pings. Just scroll all the way to the bottom of the link and look at the reply date. It’s dated August, 6 2016.
At the bottom Left is the “Next” button”. For the next pages of pings. And guess what??? There are no other posts.
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# 1 all you Trump supporters, QUIT the garbage about “self inflicted wounds, public gaffs, constant griping about Trump’s “less than perfect” fallacies. I am sick and tired of EVERY article continually pointing out Trump’s so called weaknesses and problems while passing a white glove over everything Clinton has done to DESTROY this country. I AGREE with just about EVERYTHING TRUMP has said. Why am I able to understand what he says and his meaning without taking offense? Probably because I am sick to death of the nit-picking lying media and Democrat supporters who are so brain-washed they couldn’t find their way out of a wet paper bag! AND because I agree with him! Wake up people. Continually harping on Trump’s so called goofs are subliminal criticisms that somehow get embedded in weak minded people. Enough is enough. STOP adding insult to injury in order to hide your private support of Hillery.
Townhall is a source of never ending half-truths and innuendo. It doesn’t belong on FreeRepublic!
You have exposed a Hillary mole. This forum is lousy with them. But d=given time, they always out themselves. Good job. Now if the moderators will do their job and get rid of them....
anyone in the Beck, Cruz, Kasich wing od the democrat party
Free stuff Trumps low taxes.
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