Posted on 08/23/2016 8:42:39 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
I've heard a lot from the Never Trumpers inside the GOP who say that Trump violates their “conservative values.” Most of them were Bush and Kasich supporters. So I have a question:
Isn’t keeping your word a “conservative value”? Jeb Bush and Kasich and many of the other candidates took a solemn pledge to support the Republican nominee — and they did so in front of millions of Republican voters. Then they broke their word. Then they wonder why Americans are so angry and distrustful of careerist politicians.
The Bush brigades are the worst...The people who gave us the Medicare prescription drug bill, the worst and most intrusive energy bill in American history, a massive expansion of the federal role in education, and the biggest bailout of private companies in history — TARP — are complaining that Trump isn’t ideologically pure?
One’s vote is a matter of personal conscience. But to actively support Hillary is to put the other team’s jersey on and then run a lap around the stadium.
if Obama/Hillary win a third straight presidential race, there won’t be a conservative movement left to rebuild. The Republicans will move to the left. Worse, for Obama to win effectively a third term will be a voter validation of all of the destructive policies of the last eight years. This will be one of the greatest victories for liberal governance of all time.
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Is fighting to stop CINC Hillary and her SCOTUS a “conservative” value? These AWOL tantruming sore loser Cruzers and the rest of the never Trumpers have lost all moral authority regardless of the outcome of this election.
I think we’ve all pretty much come to the conclusion that the word “conservative” has no real meaning.
Conservative? What are we conserving?
“I’ve heard a lot from the Never Trumpers inside the GOP”
I call them Always Hillary, the Uniparty Establishment’s rear guard to ensure that the Establishment, even Hillary, MUST win at all costs.
The endless spite of the worst ones here confirmed it for me.
If they cannot be Republican kingmaker, nobody can be Republican kingmaker.
These losers don’t have “conservative” values, they have a mutant strain of “republican” values.
The GOP has become a party of shape-shifters, each claiming their own unique definition of “conservatism”. They are “conservative” on the stump, but otherwise follow the uniparty model when in office.
Cruz, kasich, Bush, et al are just licking their wounds for losing what they had all assumed, was THEIR.
Their future in politics, at least “conservative” politics, is somewhat dubious at this point.
A quick hypothetical, if, say, Bush had been the nominee, would Kasich still be pouting? I mean, he made a colossal jerk of himself in the debates, then tried to hold on to the end hoping for some miracle to happen.
I’m pretty confident that if Trump had not won the nomination, he’d be loyal to his pledge.
I was a strong W supporter during his two elections. I realize many did not agree with that position - but that’s what it was.
Now, I am very disappointed in him.
Maybe if enough of us former W supporters found a way to contact him with pleas for him to join in the fight against Hillary and for Trump - he would change his mind. I realize the damage has been done and that I am probably dreaming. I just hate being so disappointed in someone for whom I worked so hard in the past.
They didn’t like it at all when Trump said, from day one, politicians are all talk and no action. Politicians are corrupt. Politicians are stupid. Politicians are weak, ineffective and incompetent.
All of that included their own actions. He was hitting against them too, and he made it clear their gravy train in DC was about to be derailed. He also did basically the same thing to the media.
They know if he gets elected, their pathway to mulitmillionaire status at the expense of taxpayers is over. they don’t want a real leader in the white house who will stand up for the people they have lied to for 50 years or more. They want a politician who will look the other way while they continue with business as usual.
Trump brought out one idea that people have been peripherally aware of for years. Politicians caused most of our problems, politicians have already proven they will not fix any of them.
So..here we are...
Dear Washington,
America is coming
and they’re bringing Donald J Trump.
W? The guy who called Bill Clinton his “adopted” brother because George HW became so fond of him after they both left office? The Bush family and the Clinton family are thicker than thieves. Jeb only ran to throw the election because it was “sister Hillary’s turn.”
It’s not like Jeb Bush and John Kasich (and GHW Bush, Bob Done, Dubya, McCain, and Romney) are deeply principled conservatives, you know.
Your link is bad.
The man called Hillary Clinton his sister in law. Would you support Trump over a woman you refer to as your sister in law?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/05/politics/george-w-bush-hillary-clinton-jeb-bush/
I know. Just ONE of the things that turned me off earlier from W - is his “adoption” of Bubba as his “brother”....giving Bill legitimacy when he needed exclusion.
It should go here with an abbreviated title thus: The Never Trumpers do need to get a hold of themselves.
They have all been holding on to themselves for some time now. gotta let go soon fellas, you are proof that it makes you go blind.
Great argument. Time for a new tagline...
These never Trumpers should switch parties. That would be the only honest thing to do. They aren’t republicans and they certainly aren’t conservatives.
Deadenders and hangers-on ......please include Beck and Levine and the idiot Steve Deace and their favorite candidate Ted Cruz
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