Posted on 03/02/2016 1:55:39 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Even as major Republican donors coalesced Wednesday around a last-ditch effort to halt Donald Trump's march toward the GOP presidential nomination, resignation was setting in among some onetime Trump critics.
"It is too late," Republican media strategist Alex Castellanos, who had unsuccessfully urged top GOP contributors to back an anti-Trump campaign earlier in the cycle, wrote in an email. He went on:
"If our self-indulgent Republican party establishment had really wanted to prevent a takeover of the GOP, they should not have gorged on political power while they failed to do anything to prevent the decline of the country. Our leaders could have led. They could have done more than say 'no' to Democrats while offering no alternative."
"They should have stood up for the change Donald Trump is bringing now but they didn't."
Now, Trump has earned the nomination. He won it, fair and square and we should respect that. Donald Trump whipped the establishment and it is too late for the limp GOP establishment to ask their mommy to step in and rewrite the rules because they were humiliated for their impotence.
"If Trump is going to be our nominee, as I believe he is, it is our mission to support Trump and make him the best nominee and president possible."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Well at this point it looks pretty likely Clinton/Trump will be the only options available.
Europeans are in shock that their leaders willingly and knowingly invited jihadis into their country. They live in fear for their lives and the lives of their children.
Our country’s “leader” has invited these same Christian-hating murderers into our country.
Are we, as a people, able to discern between an immediate threat and longer term secondary principles? I pray so.
My ancestors were murdered by these creatures who said “Convert or Die”.
I will gladly vote for the candidate who promises MOST STRONGLY to eradicate this enemy and make our country as safe as it was before the invasion.
There is no other issue at stake for the moment. If we are murdered, there is no standing true to whatever principles one may possess and perceive other candidates to possess. We’ll be...........dead.
I vote SURVIVAL.
Well, it's not like that slimeball from the National e-Spew yesterday lied about the money Trump raised for the veterans in Iowa, when he skipped the debate...
Oh, wait - the guy lied like a rug, on the day of the primary...
PREDICTION - When Trump starts to lose he will fake being sick rather than accept defeat.
(If by chance he does win the primaries and the polls, like they do now, say Hillary is going to wipe the floor with him, THEN he will fake sick rather than admit defeat.)
In other words, I see Trump faking an illness. The only reason he would do that is so he could say he WOULD HAVE won had he not gotten ill - and in his own mind it will become the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
When an African with Ebola can walk right into a hospital in Texas and start infecting nurses and your entire Government shrugs their shoulders and says “nothing can be done” you have SERIOUS problem.
No wall, no future.
Fortunately, I personally know quite a few people that will outweigh the attempted gift to the Democrats. :)
Historically, the hardcore conservative prefers The Perfect over The Good. :)
Specious? Facts! Refute any of the points I made about Cruz. Also, you never pointed out anything .teump had done against the citizens of the US.
Why? I’ve done that dozens of times and it’s a waste of time because Trumpophiles don’t want to know the truth
The GOP also requires a candidate to win 8 states with a simple majority, and nobody
Actually Trump has a simple majority in nine states and Cruz in four, Rubio one. A simple majority requires the winner to have one more vote than the second place candidate. An absolute majority requires fifty percent plus one.
When did they say no to the democrats ? I must have missed it .
2. He has said he would not fund Planned Parenthood as long as they continue abortion procedures.
3. He favors a major simplification of the tax code but believes the richer should pay more.
4. Why do you believe cuts to Social Security and Medicare or a good thing?
5. He says he is a strong supporter of the second amendment, his sons are avid hunters, so maybe he once supported that ban. I don’t believe he does any longer.
6. He believes there has to be safety nets for healthcare. He does not believe in a one size fits all healthcare system. He does support catastrophic coverage for people.
6a. He believes in most favored nation for drug prices which neither .cruz nor Rubio supports.
7. You claim he does not fully support supply side economics. I don’t either. I am pro American worker not pure free trade destroying jobs in this country.
8. I am tired of us trying to solve all the world’s problems and nation building. We helped support create the mess in the Middle East and he helped overthrow the Ukranian government and the new government is not strong enough to stand on its own. Not somewhere we should be expending a lot of capital, human, monetary, or political.
9. He hates the Iran deal and unfortunately people like Cruz and Rubio voted for the Corker amendment that allowed Obama to do what he did. They sold out Israel and the US..
10. I disagree on his stance on ethanol and believe Kelo is a slippery slope.
In my opinion the Cruz supporters do not accept that he sold out to the GOPe too many times to be credible.
“Hard core” is your term not mine.
I am a conservative because I believe conservative leadership is the only way this country can survive and maybe even prosper.
Trump is NOT a conservative; Not in the “purist” sense, not in any sense. He is a populist/pragmatist and that is a dangerous combination in a leader.
So you want Hillary to appoint the Scalia replacement?
You are no conservative.
Aren't you just the cutest thing?
The Media DeathStar would obliterate Cruz, or any real conservative leader, in an instant if he were the nominee.
You saw what happened to Trump just now, before yesterday's primaries - The Media DeathStar didn't hit him full beam, but it was over half strength.
Suddenly, in the blink of an eye, Trump was a KKK enthusiast, and a racist Jew-hater.
The National e-Spew piled on with an article that was a COMPLETE lie - that Trump somehow purloined the donations from his Iowa veterans fundraiser.
That's what the Media DeathStar is. It ripped Palin to shreds in 2008, and makes most of the Republicans crawl on their hands and knees to Kiss The Ring.
You ain't gonna get no "conservative leadership" till we destroy the Media DeathStar.
A bunch of other parties out there, and some states do write-ins
“I won’t be voting for Trump.
But I don’t support what the GOP is trying to do to him.”
But, if he turns out to be the nominee, and you don’t vote for him then, you will at that point, in plain fact, be supporting slimeball knee-in-the-groin tactics to try and take it away from him.
I don’t see how you can spin it any other way.
If Trump survives GOPee crap at the Convention, and does get the nod as the GOP Candidate for President, people who DON’T support him in November — whether as a matter of conscience, principle, or whatever — will be casting a vote by abstention for every dirty trick the GOPee may try to knock him out of contention. The only valid tool the GOPee has is to run other candidates against him in the Primary to try to get voters to choose their guy, instead.
If the voters choose Trump, and he gets through the convention process, failure to get behind him becomes a de facto vote AGAINST the whole Primary process; a vote AGAINST the will of all those who cast votes for Trump in the Primaries; a vote AGAINST the foundational component of our Representative Republic: the right to vote.
How do you get to where you’d oppose that as an avowed conservative?
I mean, I’m open to your best-reasoned argument, here; I just don’t see a route from “Conservative Opposing Trump In The Primaries” to “Conservative Abstaining In The General Election In Protest Of The Candidate Fairly Chosen By The Votes Of The Enfranchised.”
1.”He has said he would not fund Planned Parenthood as long as they continue abortion procedures.”
That is a lie....he said he would continue funding Planned Parenthood except for abortion related services which is current Federal policy.
2. Essentially correct....he believes in a Progressive Income tax which is the current position taken by most of the left.
3. Because it’s going broke.
4. Regardless of what he “says” concerning the 2nd ammendment....he supports an assualt weapons ban and longer waiting periods to purchase ALL firearms.
5.In his own words he has stated “and look it up if you don’t believe me” I support health insurance for all Americans” And who would pay for it? “The government”. Essentially he’s talking govt financed Single payer which is what Hillary proposed.
6.Essentially correct. And there we differ. I’m talkinglevel playing field, he’s talking protectionist policies and those rarely have the desired effect.
7.Being the leader of the free world does not mean military invlovement. Either you lead or you don’t. If not be prepared to live with a lot of other countries priorities/values.
8. That is a lie. Cruz used every trick in the book to derail the Iran deal. Your listening to and believeing the propaganda. Trump hates it but won’t repeal it. That’s a cop out. Cruz WILL repeal it.
9.Don’t forget the support for Bank bailouts.
Hey I gave you honest answers, you want to be a dick about it....go pound salt.
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