Posted on 10/23/2016 8:25:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
This past week, a talk radio colleague created a stir when she asserted that those who were refusing to vote for Donald Trump on moral grounds were both misguided but also hypocritical.
She went so far as to describe those that did not choose to support the only candidate who can defeat Hillary Clinton as in essence supporting the expansion of abortion.
Laura Ingraham was correct in her assertions.
Though I do not make any assumption of intent to do so, I very much agree that those who refuse to stop Hillary, are assisting her efforts. On the campaign trail this year she has pledged to quadruple the current tax-payer funding of Planned Parenthood. We currently send more than one half billion tax dollars to the organization that kills 387,000 children per year (and increasingly in turn makes more money from the selling of their body parts.) Hillary has pledged to quadruple these efforts.
So if you’re comfortable with Hillary Clinton spending two billion of our tax dollars (money you work hard for to feed your kids with) to kill upwards of 1.2 million children, then do nothing.
But the moral mandate to oppose Clinton goes far beyond the killing of unborn children.
Her economic policies would continue the choking regulations on small businesses. Doing so means fewer jobs are created. Fewer people feeding their families. Fewer people doing good with their tithes and charitable giving. Fewer resources to ever help those who have fallen through the cracks. She has no plan to address the issues of the urban centers. She has not met and formulated action plans with community leaders in Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and DC. She has no plan to help end addiction, dependency, and entitlement drains. She is fine with allowing those who are suffering to continue to suffer, so long as they vote for her. This approach is morally wrong, not merely fiscally.
Her national security positions are impossible to trust. She openly flaunted national security concerns by installing and using a nearly completely unsecured server. Her shrug-of-the-shoulder approach to classified information being left vulnerable on her server stood in sharp contrast to nearly every military or intelligence official who has had their statuses revoked for much smaller infractions. Considering also that the FBI agents who worked the case investigating her unanimously felt she should never be given a security clearance again should be telling. Considering that the six DOJ attorneys who worked her case believed she should’ve been prosecuted should seal the deal as to whether the moral trust the nation will have to put in it’s top intelligence officer. Indifference to the law is as immoral as breaking it. Her willingness to ignore the plight of the boys in Benghazi, lie to their families faces and ask Congress “what difference it made” also speaks to her willful and immoral lack of care for those in her charge. She is morally compromised, and demonstrated it while serving in government.
Her approach to the rule of law speaks loudly to the lack of moral code she would continue to encourage at higher office. Everything from encouraging Black Lives Matter to go further in disturbing law and order in their protests, to making smarmy and arrogant jokes while wholesale denying things we later found out to be true speaks to her own willingness to skirt any law that is inconvenient for her. She is without equal in public brazenness and overly prideful in defying lawful orders, subpoenas, and court instruction. Not ironically those are usually issued because of an earlier refusal to comply with written laws.
Lastly and perhaps the most important reason that she must be opposed on moral grounds is very simple: we’re not merely electing one person to one position. The president will bring with them nearly 3000 bureaucrats. Which leads those not committed to stopping Hillary to answer some tough questions.
For instance, what's the rigorous intellectual difference between what Laura Ingraham said and what conservatives have argued about democrats who claim to be pro-life but refuse to raise a finger to stop
Every argument made to vote for Bush in 2000 once Keyes and Bauer were out of the running was "he's better than Gore... even if imperfect." Every argument made for McCain was that while he may have not been a perfect conservative we would get more from him than Obama. The same for Romney.
You fight the battle for purity in the primary, but you should fight for the survival of civilization in the general.
It's not just Trump v Clinton. It's Pence v. Kaine. It's it's Christie vs. Lynch. It's Ken Blackwell vs. Cheryl Mills. It's a cabinet of competence vs a cabinet of corruption.
To continue to pretend that "doing nothing" is in some way being pro-life at this time is rigorously intellectually, and mathematically false.
It makes me uncomfortable to have to level such confrontation in writing. I have so many cherished friends who likely disagree with me here. But what I’ve said is true.
If you are not committed to stopping Hillary—especially on moral grounds—then you are helping her win.
And if good people choose to do nothing, then evil prospers.
Sir Edmund Burke would be the first to say so.
I’ve heard some people I know, who get tired of the questions of, “How can you support Trump after he said_______”?
Trump was not my first choice in the primaries, but, in the general election we face a binary choice. The next president will be either Trump or Hillary. If you fail to support Trump, then you are assisting Hillary even if you don’t vote for her.
If you vote for a 3rd party, that helps Hillary.
If you don’t vote at all, that helps Hillary.
Judgement Day approaches. Please everyone go vote and know what the stakes are. This is a major pivot point in our history. If Hillary wins, then we will descend further and further into liberalism and political correctness and socialism. The choice is in your hands. Please choose wisely.
A common objection to sometimes-troubled candidates like Donald Trump is that God would be angry at Christians for choosing Donald Trump, whose life has moral problems, as “their leader.”
I’d like to point out that there is an invalid assumption being made here. Christians shouldn’t be electing any presidents at all as their leaders. That’s the post of pastors. What they should do, is to exercise the prudential choice offered to them by the privilege of voting to choose the stewards of secular affairs who will be the easiest to work with. It could be worse — there might not even be a vote. Surely nobody is claiming that this would be a more virtuous state of affairs!
In the end, when choosing secular stewards, it is a question of “least bad.” But also to remember that they WILL be secular stewards. They are NOT stewards of our souls!!
Hillary: “Ya gotta convict me first, nyaa nyaa!”
Excellent article. Wish the uppity “elites” in the party understood this at this point.
Backstabbing Townhall now pretending they back Trump
Excellent point.
To use the cliche, we’re not electing a pastor in chief, we’re electing a commander in chief, of our secular government.
We are not electing someone to whom we turn for counsel or spiritual guidance. We are electing someone to be at the top of our secular governmental structure.
This is Kevin McCullough, not “Townhall” per se. “Townhall” has hosted authors of many points of view.
*Reminder* State Department Lacked Top Watchdog During Hillary's Tenure ... among other illegal acts while at State.....
This is a valid role for Christians; it is an advisory role to a secular body rather than an attempt to construct any kind of theocracy.
The early church stumbled when it got into bed with Roman emperors. The Roman emperors may have wanted theological authority to be merged with secular state. But that wasn’t the model propounded by the biblical writers, and in a do-over, the church ought to refuse that model. All manner of ungodly confusion results.
Legally that is the way the country works. She can be voted down, but she can’t be forcibly deposed on grounds for which she has not been convicted.
If Clinton was ever brought in front of a jury, they'd have to convict. Of course, there's the tricky part - finding someone who will ever make her be accountable.
And possible violent revolt if Hillary.
She would make a future violent revolution, a 2nd American revolution likely.
In reality, only the states - or, if they have so delegated (as they all do), the people of the states decide who is eligible to hold the office of POTUS or any elected office.I wrote my state legislator, asking why the state allows someone on the ballot who has violated the constitutional provision that
I got a reply - but not really a response.
- Article 1 Section 9:
- No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state
I ask how they can fail to vote against Hillary, who is worse than Trump on every moral count they can name--and that Trump is, unlike the Clintons, who live for money, a patriot?
Many reply that Hillary will screw things up so badly that someone good will win in 2020. What if there is no one better in 2020? Will you just ignore your duty to make a decision then as well. And I point out that the Democrats and the illegal-immigration media don't intend to have elections in any recognizable sense in 2020.
What would you say to such people? They are simply stamping their foot that the choice confronting them isn't the one they wanted, exactly.
So far, I point out that we're not hiring a butler who needs to have perfect manners, but a general who needs to win the war. Did Grant really drink a lot, as his rival Union generals claimed? Who cares?
I probably don't need a witty riposte, but a way to draw them out by respecting their (naive) opinion and leading them somewhere else. Suggestions will be appreciated.
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