Posted on 10/20/2016 1:08:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump is more similar to the Founders of our country than anyone who has run for the presidency in my lifetime.
What?! What?! Didn't Trump just jump an entire school of sharks in the third debate, saying he didn't know if he would accept the outcome of the election. Isn't he finished? Are you out of your bloody mind, Simon?
Okay, maybe, it wouldn't be the first time... but hear me out.
Put briefly: If Donald Trump believes—as many of us do—that the FBI is corrupt, the Justice Department is corrupt, the other party is hiring violent paid thugs to disrupt his campaign rallies, that no one knows who is really registered to vote, that the press is stratospherically biased, and that his opponent, backed up by all those corrupt entities, should have been indicted, why would a patriot, or for that matter someone who is even routinely honest, necessarily accept the results of the election of that opponent?
Ben Franklin wouldn't. Thomas Jefferson wouldn't. James Madison wouldn't. Sam Adams wouldn't. Of course, those guys were revolutionaries. These days we're just, you know, "good citizens" who obey the rules and move on. With that kind of behavior in the past, our country wouldn't even be here. But never mind.
Not convinced? Think of the reverse. Suppose Trump had meekly said he would accept the outcome with the smirking Hillary—the woman he has called a crook and who, for all intents and purposes, is one—standing only a few feet away? Wouldn't that, in the true sense, have invalidated everything he has been saying? #DraintheSwamp, my eye!
Now, as we all know, Trump has been here before, back in the primaries, when he made no guarantee he would accept the nominee of his party and, as I recall, received a round of boos at that debate for his non-declaration. He later went up in the polls despite those boos.
Will that happen this time? Not if the mainstream media has anything to do with it. As I write they are damning Trump forever with faint praise—or should I say they are "concern trolling" him—by saying how well he was doing in the debate until he jumped that shark and betrayed everything our country stands for.
The implication here, of course, is that everyone should forgive Hillary Clinton after she is elected and just ignore what happened with the bogus FBI investigation. Good luck with that. More likely the road ahead will be extremely rocky with more WikiLeaks revelations (they could even be saving their more dramatic ones for after the election), not to mention defections from the FBI and elsewhere, subpoenas from Judicial Watch and others with inflammatory and illegal emails and documents appearing for years.
Okay, I'll say it. When Donald said he wouldn't necessarily accept the results of election 2016, he was doing us all a favor. The democratic republic about whose precariousness Franklin warned us at the founding is shaky indeed at this moment. Leaders have gone beyond the law, as the new Project Veritas videos painfully remind us once again. Only the toughest love can save our republic now.
How can Trump refuse to accept election results when there aren’t any results yet?
neither..... just plain old common sense
Genius? Trump is one, but in this case it’s common sense and a set of balls.
"Mr. Trump, will you allow the Democrats to cheat as much as they want, and blatantly steal this election through illegal means, and do you promise to accept the bogus result and simply disappear without a fight?"
And Trump answered: "No."
Which, of course, has outraged the Democrats.
Nixon made a terrible precedent setting mistake, in not filing a Court challenge to the “miracle” in 1960, whereby the Democrats came up with 25k Kennedy votes, on the day after the election, to save Illinois for Kennedy. That strange happening should have been challenged, and thoroughly investigated. Honest elections should not be sacrificed in order for those victimized to prove they are good sports!
I seem to remember Trump going along with “the pledge” and then Kasick and Jeb refusing to honor their pledge. So why should Trump promise anything? Keep in mind that Kasick is governor of a battleground state, the one where the state RNC was sabotaging the campaign effort.
Oh, bullcrap (not directed at you, 2ndDivVet)... Trump didn’t refuse; he said he’d look at the situation. With the recent revelations of dead Americans being registered, illegals voting and other irregularities — not to mention the 140% “turnout” in the Philly ‘hoods in 2012 — why should he or anyone for that matter summarily take the results at face value? Norm Coleman didn’t fight the “results” in MN in 2008 and how well did that work out for him?
Trump didn’t say that but...
Algore!
Today he said he will accept it, “if I win”. He isn’t going down like Nixon did.
I want someone who will fight for fair elections and for fair government that respects our rights, not someone who puts principles on the shelf when the going gets tough.
I want Trump to fight for EVERY Vote that he thinks might have been STOLEN from the Voter! State by State. County by County. Town by Town. House by House, if need be!
Tie it up in the courts for YEARS; keep Hillary! OUT and keep 0bama on board just to piss him off and DELAY the rest of his lazy, feckless, bought-and-paid-for-by-We-The-People, Life!
Wallace: Mr Trump, why can’t you just be more like Mitt Romney?
He didn’t refuse to accept anything, he said he will not decide before the fact.
Trump for President.
LMAO! Yeah, that the correct question, alright.
Very good point. I didn’t know the 25K appeared the day after election. Seems like I missing something important in history class.
I agree with Trump’s response. Absolutely it was the correct one.
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