Posted on 10/17/2016 7:09:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Conservatives should vote for the Republican nominee.
Donald Trump needs a unified Republican party in the homestretch if he is to have any chance left of catching Hillary Clinton — along with winning higher percentages of the college-educated and women than currently support him. But even before the latest revelations from an eleven-year-old Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump crudely talked about women, he had long ago in the primaries gratuitously insulted his more moderate rivals and their supporters. He bragged about his lone-wolf candidacy and claimed that his polls were — and would be — always tremendous — contrary to his present deprecation of them. Is it all that surprising that some in his party and some independents, who felt offended, swear that they will not stoop to vote for him when in extremis he now needs them? Or that party stalwarts protest that they no longer wish to be associated with a malodorous albatross hung around their neck? That question of payback gains importance if the race in the last weeks once again narrows.
Trump had by mid September recaptured many of the constituencies that once put John McCain and Mitt Romney within striking distance of Barack Obama. And because Trump has apparently brought back to the Republican cause millions of the old Reagan Democrats, various tea-partiers, and the working classes, and since Hillary Clinton is a far weaker candidate than was Barack Obama, in theory he should have had a better shot to win the popular vote than has any Republican candidate since incumbent president George W. Bush in 2004. What has always been missing to end the long public career of Hillary Clinton is a four- or five-percentage-point boost from a mélange of the so-called Never Trump Republicans, as well as women and suburban, college-educated independents...
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Was Victor always on board with Trump? Hard to keep some of the players straight.
this link works:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441126/donald-trump-conservatives-should-vote-president
Et tu, VDH?
National Review, nuff said.
I think Hanson has been relatively pro-trump.
No, he wasn’t.
Not real vocal about it, but wrote about his dislike.
Glad to see him finally on board.
Did you read it FRiend?
VDH has been onboard for a while. He’s a fart in a hurricane at that cesspool.
He’s on every week for a segment on WIBC radio with Greg Garrison out of Indy.
He was not a Trump supporter in the primaries. That, I remember.
I had to quit listening to that station til the primaries were over because every single host and guest there was anti-Trump.
The irony is now upon us that Trump may have been the most conservative Republican candidate who still could beat Hillary Clinton — and that if he were to win, he might usher in the most conservative Congress, presidency, and Supreme Court in nearly a century.
Welcome home.
You are correct. VDH’s conversion to Trump is recent. I believe he has written a couple of pro-Trump columns lately.
Victor is a soldier of honesty, ethics and right mindedness. He might very well be the only NReview columnist allowed to write a piece like this. Worth studying his work and history.
“No, he wasn’t.
Not real vocal about it, but wrote about his dislike.
Glad to see him finally on board.”
That is how I remember it but I wanted to make sure. Like you I am glad to see him on board the Trump train.
Did you bother reading the article?? He gave an argument IN FAVOR OF TRUMP!!! I can’t stand morons who don’t bother reading before they comment :)
Oh get over it! I’m about sick of the vitriol from all conservative sides. This isn’t the Hatfield’s & McCoys! Let it go. We aren’t each others enemy :)
It should not be any so called Republican not voting for Trump with the exception of the bunch of idiots like Romney etc. These #never trump idiots don’t understand that this country is in peril to be destroy.
I read most of it this morning. It’s unnecessarily long winded and smug on account of he’s so smart and everything.
I remember he referred to Mr Trump as a “lecherous cretin” at one point mixed in with all his other fancy words.
Win or lose, we know a lot more about how things work thanks to Donald Trump.
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