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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The take away line and, really the entire paragraph, for me, was that “no candidate remotely shared the real sense of outrage, nor could they convey it”.
It occured to none of them to drop the insulting level of poli-speak and the presumptuousness and arrogance, and rail against the collapse of our country.
I read the entire article. Hanson is an erudite intellectual, too smart by half for the majority of readers. His piece was grandiose, often unintelligible due to his excellent and obscure vocabulary. But he made one mistake in the final paragraph—not telling you straight out to vote for Trump or else. Then again, that is just his style.
He did not participate in the bashing issue. And since then, he has been even-handed and cautiously optimistic.
Trump is main street, despite his money. There is a segment of the cucumber sandwich Republican bunch that despises Trump for being a commoner who speaks too bluntly about many things.
I suspect VDH is one of these, a conservative who just doesn’t want the crude man in the club making everyone uncomfortable.
This is in contrast with those who fear Trump because he threatens to expose the corruption and cheating that keeps them in power and employed.
The problem is that the very reserve that makes for proper conversation in the club is essentially helpless against the sort of corrupt, vile behavior that Team Clinton and the Uniparty engage in.
The vile bastards that steal the furniture from the State Department, sell out the middle class for big foreign money, leave Americans to die to guard a reelection bid and collude with the press to hide it all are only going to be stopped by a man who can look them in the eye and call them out as the dirty rotten sons of bitches the are, and the sensibilities of the proper upper crust be damned.
VDH reminds me of some of the brilliant officers I served under, but sometimes the situation calls for a foul mouthed Mustang or NCO who makes up for a lack of ten dollar words by letting his actions speak for him. That’s Trump.
Eloquently stated, and of course true, to the letter.
The shiny, polished guys and gals, all steeped in silver tongue, long on experience, after greasing all the right skids to get there have so damaged the Republic that there was no fear among those on the ground that a brash outsider could possibly do worse. Especially one already proven an extraordinary success who rose in the real world by his own steam to become a billionaire at least a few times over.
Donald will fit the role he is in. Right now he is in a street fight. As president, I can’t imagine anyone in the White House so elegant as he, and Mrs. TRUMP.
I don't get VDH this time around. He splits his time between the Hoover Institution at Stanford and a family farm in central California, and has often railed about the collapse of American civilization from the vantage point of a long-time conservative citizen increasingly encroached on by lawless "immigrants". More than most, he should understand the important of taking a stand and building the wall. Unfortunately, his National Review country-clubbing colleagues seem to have gotten the better of him. It is said that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with, so choose carefully. VDH didn't.
When NR went all-out Trump is poison and unacceptable, VDH was never on board, always measured and fairly analyzing the strengths and weaknesses. He identified strengths no one else there would contemplate let alone write.
VDH is an excellent thinker, a beautiful writer and weighs in here with a conclusion that the results of a Trump presidency may in fact lead to the most conservative outcome since Ronald Reagan.
It should be embraced.
I seem to recall some criticisms but not to the NeverTrump level.
Morons? Am I deplorable? Irredeemable?
I can't stand people who don't recognize backhanded "support" when they read it, and deliver personal insults with a smile.
They usually turn out to be Rat infiltrators who don't know how to hide their own foulness because they don't even recognize it in themselves anymore.
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