Posted on 11/13/2015 9:45:56 AM PST by conservativejoy
I don't want someone who supports single-payer government run health care. I don't want someone who wants to dramatically increase the size of DHS. I don't want a big-government populist, whose primary differentiation from Obama is his belief that he can do big government better.
I don't want someone whose policy prescriptions sound like he did his homework on the bus on his way to the stump speech. I don't want (another) petulant narcissist who attacks his "fellow Republicans" like a fifth grader on the schoolyard. I don't want a president who shows up at a debate looking like the dumb jock who accidentally got put in the AP class.
I don't want "hope and change" with a fence.
In other words, I don't want Trump.
But then again, I'm a principled conservative, unlike most Trump supporters, who lap up his bull in the chyyyynnuh shop shtick. I'm not deluded into thinking the most liberal candidate in the field is the only "authentic" conservative, because he eschews political correctness as he spews his half-baked caricatures of Republican issues with no real solutions other than his ridiculous assertion that he's the first guy who thought to hire smart people.
Ironically, it is the guy who claims he will facilitate his non-plans by hiring smart people, who is currently leading in the polls because of the gullibility of dumb people, his followers, who are less educated, and if their social media posts are any indication, far less intelligent that the supporters of all the "GOPe" candidates they attack, oblivious to the reality that virtually every one of those candidates is more conservative, and gives us more grounds to believe that they are conservative, than Trump himself.
They got their “Dream†candidates in 2008 and 2012.
The question is “How did it work out for them?”
The answer is “They got who they wanted in office.”
They’ve been afraid since Trump announced. That’s why they wanted him to promise not to run third party. That way they could wipe him out in the primaries then not have to worry about him. So far that ain’t working.
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It truly is all about the money. Nothing can be done, at least nothing that the American people could bring themselves to support.
The only time that happened was Sen. James Buckley, R-C-NY but he was a one-termer.
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