Posted on 04/27/2016 10:27:56 PM PDT by Neil E. Wright
I have a message for all the Trumpsters. Your behavior and antics in the past couple of months, and the antics of your "savior", The Donald, have made my decision about who to vote for, and who NOT to vote for in November easy.
If your guy is the nominee for the Republican Party, he WILL lose in November, and YOU WILL OWN IT. Because I will NEVER vote for that statist socialist, parasitic, steaming pile of obama.
Now, I've been told that JimRob is banning anyone who states publicly that they will not vote for trump. So be it. I have enjoyed Jim's friendship for many years, and I'll be sorry to lose it, but I WILL NOT surrender my principles that easily. Herewith is an article by Herschel Smith, that encapsulates my thoughts.
I have said for a very long time to my family and others that the experience of parents having and raising children isn’t really about the children. God will handle the children as He sees fit. It’s about the parents, and there are two experiences that test your mettle more than any other: marriage and children. It’s one of God’s way of sanctifying His own, but it has the opposite affect on others.
One reason I care about the election cycle isn’t because I think we can make a difference. Oh, we can in some ways, we can’t in others. We can make a difference in the medical care situation in the country, but we can’t in the global financial system. This discussion is saved for another time. But one thing the individual vote does at one and the same time is affect the soul and show the content of the soul of the voter. It’s a deeply moral act that has eternal consequences for the one who is given stewardship of the vote.
Now let me turn for a moment to a recent commentary by Jonah Goldberg. Sometimes I disagree vehemently with him, but other times he hits on all cylinders. This day the engine was running to perfection on the dynamometer.
This week there have been some cracks in the façade. Trump’s attacks on Heidi Cruz unsettled even Ann Coulter. And his abortion remarks are still sending tremors through the granite foundations of Trump can-do-no-wrong-ism. Joe Scarborough and Breitbart’s John Nolte are talking about what a bad week he’s having and gravely warning Trump to get his act together. As Jim Geraghty has been writing, the problem with such second thoughts is the assumption that something is amiss with Trump or his campaign. This is Trump. This is his campaign. The Trump we see before us is the same Trump. It’s a bit like when Barack Obama said that the Jeremiah Wright he saw denouncing America wasn’t the man he knew. That was nonsense. Obama knew exactly who Wright was, having attended his church for 20 years. It was only when Wright’s act moved to a larger national stage that all of a sudden he became inconvenient to Obama.
The analogy isn’t perfect, of course. But the basic point is the same. The Donald Trump of the last week is the exact same Donald Trump many of us saw a year ago or five years ago. He’s always been full of sh*t. He’s always been a total ignoramus when it comes to public policy, lacking the simple sense of patriotic duty to do his homework on the issues. He’s always been a nasty and boorish cad. He’s always pretended to be a conservative while working on liberal assumptions of what conservatives want to hear.
His “punish the women” comments were of a piece with his refusal to condemn the Klan on CNN. It’s not that he wants to punish women who have abortions — I’d bet he’s paid more abortion bills than he will ever sign — it’s that he thinks that’s what pro-lifers want to hear. It’s not that he’s a Klansman or that the pillowcases at Mara Lago come with eyeholes cut out in advance. It’s that Trump thinks lots of his fans like the Klan and he wants to pander to them. I have heard first-hand stories from people who’ve worked with Trump about how he disparages women’s appearance routinely. That’s who he is. If you’re attacking him because he retweeted a bad picture of Heidi, that’s not you being principled, it’s you getting cold feet. Indeed, I am sure that the same opportunism that has caused so many supposedly principled conservatives to hitch their wagons to Trump is now causing some of them to question their choices, not because Trump has changed but because the climate might be changing around them. By all means, if Trump continues to unravel (a huge if), please abandon Trump. But don’t think for a moment that the rest of us will automatically take your word for it when you say this or that statement changed your mind about the man. He hasn’t changed, your calculations have.
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Like all demagogues, he’s using his lies as a loyalty test for his followers. He’s exploiting his popularity and abusing the devotion of his fans to force them into going along with his fictions, until they are in so deep psychologically, they have no choice but to carry on. It’s an ancient psychological tactic of authoritarians, Mafia dons, and the like: Force your followers into sharing the blame for your misdeeds so that they can’t break ranks.
Jonah is right. He thinks we want to see women who have gotten abortions in the town center in stocks and chains. He’s pandering to the social right, but he missed on this, and he missed badly. His other positions – support for the second amendment, advocacy for closed borders – can only be assumed to be pandering as well.
Not to worry, though. Just about as soon as he said it, he triangulated his position again, to something like abortion laws are already set and we have to leave it that way. Trumps views on abortion aren’t the topic here. Trump is the topic. He is a mirror in which everyone sees what he or she wants to see, its just that the mirror has to be adjusted based on the onlooker and Trump isn’t really as good a triangulator as he is made out to be.
And that brings me to the conservative voters who have already cast their votes for Trump in the primaries heretofore. Do you remember when socialized medicine was the most important thing about the Obama administration, the holy grail of the progressives? It still is.
And yet, you have jettisoned that most important piece of your world view to support a man who sees things far differently than you, who supports socialized medicine, and who has said that the only thing he would change about the current system is to allow it to cross state lines.
Trump has woven you into his deception, his lies, his evil. And when socialized medicine is codified and solidified for you, your children, and your children’s children to the tenth generation of your progeny, when you see that your seed will hate you and this generation for what has been done to the country, it will be far too late.
Open wide, and suck it down. This is what you voted for, whether in the end it’s Hillary or Trump, or some replacement for Hillary. Own it. It’s yours. The Mafia don asked you to pull the trigger and do the deed. It’s no longer about him. Now it’s about you.
Very bad case of Sore Cruzerman.
Cure: 4-8 years of Trump Presidency spent fixing what ails our country, and recovering from the Obama regime’s trashing of America.
Trump will Make America Great Again.
Sorry Cruz turned out to be such a craptacular GOPE candidate.
Sorry that you are too damn dumb to see it.
Must be a tough time for you.
Do whatever makes you feel better.
Many of the Cruzers and Trumpets have been over the top. Personally, I like both men, but from all I’ve seen, more vitriol is directed against Trump than Cruz. I think that both sides should take a deep breath, step back and look in a mirror and engage brains before mouths. All this childishness is totally unnecessary. It is quite alright to disagree with someone without throwing friends under the bus.
Attacking the supporters of Cruz or Trump is not helpful. Try to understand where your political opponents come from. ...And keep them as friends. Shouting and yelling at each other generates more heat than light.
IOW, stop acting like progressives.
Neil no one cares, get over yourself, Cruz is a NWO globalist no different then any of the the 3 stooges, Bush I , Bush II and Bush III.
So goodbye already.
Sorry to lose you... Well, not really.
Why is it that Freepers who have been here for the better part of twenty years are prepared to trash their record (or Opus out), with vicious attacks on someone else’s candidate? I know we’re a big dysfunctional family but we’re still all conservatives, of various hue. So why would you offend intentionally offend other Freepers - and in this case, JimRob - when all that would do is harden their views?
It’s simple really. Regular folks are being manipulated by professionals in this campaign. This is psychological warfare going on and a lot of people can’t see the forest through the trees. I put the blame squarely on Ted “Only I am the true conservative” Cruz. Now that he has lost his supporters have no way out of the corner they have painted themselves into. Sad, really.
Sorry to see you so twisted up about Trump. He’s a much better man than what you think he is. It’s why he’s killing it in this election.
I can only hope that you’ll find it in your heart to give him credit when credit is due, as he does what must be done to save this nation.
Let it also be said that JimRob is still your friend, even if you disagree with him about this election’s front runner.
If you want to vote for Marjoe Gornter, go right ahead. You don’t need an opus to tell us that. I hope your Anointed One gets the nomination because after all, that’s why Justice Scalia died, right? So Marjoe could carry the torch and sell prayer cloths along the way?
I have some advice for you Neil..why don’t you go feed the cats or something...take you mind off of things for awhile. Stay away from television, radio, newspapers, and more importantly, the internet for a few weeks and everything will stabilize. Quickly, Neil, the cats are clamoring for their food, all 32 of them.
I would like just one Cruz supporter to explain how his actions are supposedly helping. I just do not get it.
Frankly, I just do NOT understand HOW they can completely ignore, now, everything about Ted, his family, and his actions, is beyond me. *shrugs*
Which one of them had clothes manufactured in China, Mexico, and Bangladesh? Which one employs illegal aliens and bashed Romney for being too tough on illegals?
Bingo.
Conservatism, ultimately, is a philosophy of personal responsibility. Vote for him, don't vote for him. Whatever. The only person responsible for any given vote, ultimately, is that specific individual.
No one needs to bellycrawl towards them, sniveling and whimpering for their sweet forgiveness. They are responsible for their own actions. If they decide, ultimately, to support the she-beast -- either actively (by casting their votes for her) or passively (by pouting and sulking at home) -- that's on their heads, and theirs alone.
No time for fragile li'l special snowflakes. Got a nation to save. ;)
Oh really?
"Fact-checking Donald Trump is like picking up after a dog with diarrhea."
-- Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard, on Fox News (See "A is for Ape")
You think the MSM is trying to save the country?
If that is true, then he won't get zotted.
First comment in over a month and its this???
You left out former Cantor aide Doug Heye calling Trump an abortion on CNN multiple times.
Calm down, step away from the rail. Everything is going to be alright. You just forgot you medication. Let me get your pakalolo for you
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