Yeah, real classy, eloquent, principled, moving conservative Rick is.
Posted on 02/24/2016 7:58:33 AM PST by C19fan
Many on the right have come forward in the past few days to outline why they will never vote for Trump, and their reasons are articulate, principled, eloquent, and moving. If it wasn’t already abundantly clear from the last eight months, let me join the chorus; I will never vote for Donald Trump.
Never.
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I think the never Romney or never McCain crowd who sat out were the ones who were the first to be disgusted at the GOP establishment calling the shots - so they sat those elections out.
Effectively helping to elect Obama.
I think those same voters are still giving the middle finger to the GOP establishment and they are voting Trump.
That’s what I am seeing and hearing on the street.
I don’t trust Trump at all on pro-life, pro-marriage, religious liberty, First Amendment, Tenth Amendment, or Supreme Court nominations.
Trump is worse than McCain or Romney.
You trust Hillary more?
Yeah Trump is going to take you guns away and weaken the military. That is your logic I see.
Extremely well stated Bruce. I can attest to similar reactions from Republican voters where I live.
The GOP establishment has repeatedly argued that we should vote for their big government moderate, temporarily advocating conservative positions, because he is not the Democrat candidate. Now the Trump campaign is arguing that we should vote for a man with a long history supporting Democrats and liberal positions and no discernible concern about big government, who is temporarily advocating a few conservative positions, because he is not the Democrat candidate. At least the GOP establishment didn’t actively insult us and behave in a way that would make us ashamed to vote for their moderate candidate.
Trump and his campaign continue to alienate many of the voters they will need, but since their campaign is purely an expression of belligerent attitude they can’t dial it back.
Yeah, because both Bernie and Hillary want to build a wall, right?
How does it feel to be a flat-out liar?
Or don't you even notice anymore?
We are not supposed to be electing a ruler, we are supposed to be electing a servant. Is there a single candidate who qualifies?
Most people don’t know how bad the Gang of 8 bill was. Not only did it legalize immediately 12 to 20 million lawbreakers with a path to citizenship, it also tripled legal permanent immigration to over 33 million in a decade and doubled the annual influx of guest worker\s to 1.4 million a year. This at a time when we have the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years. It is pure insanity.
He'll lose the white liberals, many older females who identify with Hillary, and he'll overwhelmingly lose the 24% of voters who are single females. He'll win white men, and do well among blue collar men in particular. But Republicans have been winning that demographic for years. Obama got crushed within that demographic. Heck, Obama won despite getting only 39â„… if the white vote.
For any Republican to win is going to be difficult. So to say that the votes of a lot of Republicans currently disenchanted about Trump aren't needed is simply foolish. An unenthusiastic, reluctant vote for him ultimately counts the same as the vote of a die hard supporter.
“But I understand nothing anyone says will change the minds of those who hate Trump, not even the fear of a Hillary presidency.”
Exactly. Their hatred of Trump, and even his supporters, for whatever reason, has gotten the better of them, and they are now being ruled by their emotions.
How many times have FReepers declared they will not vote for anyone but a conservative candidate, then run screaming to Trump, probably the least conservative of the remaining five?
Wow - scum of the earth like he accuses Trump of being.
What a shocker.
Lets face it. Not much difference between the two parties. One just has it’s foot a little harder on the peddle in the bus to hell. Not really certain which one.
Yeah, real classy, eloquent, principled, moving conservative Rick is.
Neither Romney nor McCain was my dream candidate. I voted for them because they were the best alternative available the general election, and because they made efforts to try to pull us conservatives together. But Trump....
I don't yet know if I can vote for him, and I'm virtually begging people to dial it back a bit and not be so "us v. them.". And instead, what I hear in response is " screw you, we don't want your stinking votes anyway.". It's a mob mentality, and I don't know if I want to have a hand in electing that.
I've never seen anything like it -deliberate alienation of potential supporters.
He should take his 14 mil and go shut the ef up.
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“It is pure insanity.”
Or a deliberate, carefully thought out, orchastrated plan to undermine, and fundamentally transform the United States.
“Is there a single candidate who qualifies (as a servant)?”
Well, I don’t know, but if Trump moves in to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in January 2017, there’s no candidate who would be making a greater sacrifice (money, lifestyle, enterprises) than he.
Maybe he really loves America.
Your idea of "articulate, principled, eloquent, and moving" are very different than mine.
Crap like "even if it means he forms a third party and runs as the narcissist sociopath he truly is" doesn't sound articulate to me, and stuff like "he's a pro-gun control, pro-single-payer health care, pro-eminent domain, pro-abortion, and pro-statism liberal who will immediately revert to form when he's finished selling his fauxservatism to people he patently views as rubes" doesn't sound real eloquent either.
But, thanks for the wonderful advice... I'll file that in the appropriate receptacle.
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