Posted on 09/26/2016 5:19:56 AM PDT by xzins
Not long from now, the American people will go to the polls to elect the next president of the United States. We face tremendous challenges — a stagnant economy, racial tension and growing threats from radical Islam.
Voters increasingly feel the American dream is slipping away, that their children will be worse off, that the system is rigged against them and is not working for them. The vast majority of Americans — as many as Gary Bauer Hail Hillarytwo-thirds of us, according to the latest polls — know we are on the wrong track. We need a change.
In this election, Hillary Clinton represents the status quo — more scandals and more Barack Obama. I believe we have had enough of both.
But more importantly, I believe this election may be the last chance we have to stop Obama’s fundamental transformation of America, and restore our nation and the values we cherish.
In the choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, some Republicans say they may stay home or vote for third party candidates. Some say Trump really is not conservative. But I believe Donald Trump is, on a number of issues, BETTER than what passes for conservatism today.
For example:
• Trump has directly confronted the smothering, debate-ending left-wing dogma, euphemistically called “political correctness.”
• He has said he supports a litmus test on judges. His Supreme Court appointments WILL BE pro-life.
• He has made corruption in Washington, D.C. a major theme of his campaign.
• He rejects nation building in the Middle East — a utopian, not a conservative, adventure that ignores Islam’s incompatibility with the basic tenets of freedom, including religious liberty and the equality of women.
• He exhibits Ronald Reagan’s caution on the use of military force, coupled with Reagan’s firm belief that when we do use force, we fight to win.
• Trump is confronting the putrid globalism that believes secure borders are passe and that all cultures are equal. He believes in American exceptionalism and the rule of law.
• Lastly, but certainly not least, Donald Trump’s selection of Indiana Governor Mike Pence to be his running mate was a grand slam home run. Mike Pence is a Ronald Reagan conservative who describes himself as “Christian, a conservative and a Republican — and in that order!”
I will not guarantee that conservatives will applaud everything Donald Trump does. But I can guarantee that Hillary Clinton will do nothing conservatives might applaud.
Conservative voters who doubt Donald Trump can trust Hillary Clinton to do everything she promises, such as:
• Impose a massive amnesty far beyond what Obama has done.
• Appoint pro-abortion, left-wing judicial activists who will gut the First Amendment and effectively repeal the Second Amendment.
• Put a lot of coal miners and other energy industry employees out of work.
• Increase the flow of refugees from Muslim nations by 500%.
• Raise taxes by $100 billion a year.
• Continue Obama’s foreign policy of appeasement, allowing nations like China, Iran and Russia to expand their influence while America retreats.
• Empower extremists on the left, such as the radicals in the Black Lives Matter movement and the anti-Israel fanatics on America’s college campuses.
What on that agenda appeals to any conservative?
This November, voters who cherish faith, family and freedom have a very clear choice: Voting for Donald Trump gives us a chance to restore America. Not voting or dividing the conservative vote by supporting a third party candidate only empowers the left, and likely means the end of conservatism in America.
Gary Bauer is the founder of the Campaign for Working Families (CWF), a political action committee dedicated to electing to federal and state offices “pro-family, pro-life and pro-free enterprise” candidates. He is also the president of American Values, a non-profit organization “committed to defending life, traditional marriage, and equipping our children with” conservative values. An alumni of the Reagan administration he served as President Reagan’s Deputy Under Secretary for Planning and Budget in the United States Department of Education, from 1982 to 1987, and as an advisor on domestic policy from 1987 to 1988. Author's titles and affiliations are for identification purposes only.
Gary Bauer, founder of the Campaign for Working Families
They are fighting to save their lives tonight through their champion, Hillary Clinton.
Arrayed against Trump will be the heart of the UniParty establishment: the Republican leadership + the total democratic establishment and party, the media, the chamber of commerce, the globalist economic and charitable trusts, and finally the globalist social ideology.
Trump has a daunting task. They will have their minions on the web and on the air immediately to declare Trump errors and Clinton victories.
We must counter that. If we don't, no one else will.
We must not forget the point of the Trump win. We oppose the corrupt establishment.
They are fighting to save their lives tonight through their champion, Hillary Clinton.
Arrayed against Trump will be the heart of the UniParty establishment: the Republican leadership + the total democratic establishment and party, the media, the chamber of commerce, the globalist economic and charitable trusts, and finally the globalist social ideology.
Trump has a daunting task. They will have their minions on the web and on the air immediately to declare Trump errors and Clinton victories.
We must counter that. If we don’t, no one else will.
So many fakers-
He’s up to a 42.9% chance on the “polls plus” section in 538!
Closing in!!!!
Exactly! This needed to be said.
It’s coming down to Colorado in that particular methodology....a few more good polls in Colorado, then, boom.
Nate will show Trump winning.
Then libs will really start to howl and the wheels are going to come off!
There has not been a real conservative candidate since Ronald Reagan. Trump might win the election in a landslide on novelty alone. People have seen liberalism/progressivism in all its loathsome fury. Enough of them may want to give real conservatism a try for once.
Sums it all up in a nutshell.
Excellent summation. Trump could mop the floor with Hillary tonight, but you won’t see or hear it on the post debate analysis on the alphabet network and cable news shows nor will you read it in any of the papers or their blog sites. In the post debate I’m going to every site with a poll and I’m going to post statements everywhere. You’re right Trump has a daunting task and we certainly have to do our parts to help him.
I agree. That was the major money quote in the article in my opinion.
The Bushes have been forever outed. They might as well reregister as democrats.
Conservative procedures at this point will not work as the current administration took radical steps to ensure the next president could not succeed. $20T debt (that we know of) and the unfunded liabilities 6 times higher than that require the next president to take radical action. That’s just for starters on that one front. Many front battles have been initiated with near certain defeat all lined up for the next president. When Genghis Khan hordes are cresting over the hills and you being blinded by the Sun glinting off the waving cutlery, you don’t start planting wheat.
Her is also the first candidate I have heard ho is willing to dump Johnson Rule that muzzles ministers, priests and rabbis.
Yep. It makes sense that religious conservatives support that gesture from Trump.
At the same time, and church that muzzles their pastor doesn’t understand the law. Their pastor can preach whatever God lays on his heart.
What they cannot do is have the church administrative body endorse a candidate.
Trump is on a roll.
If he is even vaguely perceived as a winner tonight by watchers, then this race might be his to lose in terms of the electoral college.
agreed
(even so, the state by state still matters...and it appears that Colorado is the current tipping point....)
Conservative is as Conservative does
Conservatism died with the first George Bush
We have been played for fools for 28 years
I see no reason a church should be taken to task for endorsing a candidate. Supposedly, it is because they have a ‘tax exemption’, but a church must be exempt from taxes based on the first amendment. Taking a church’s money is saying they can only have 90% free exercise and not 100% free exercise.
So, I agree with you that even that is unconstitutional.
Most folks think it means that pastors don’t pay taxes. Trust me (I am one.)...we pay taxes. MORE than the average citizen actually, because we have to pay on income as if employed, and on benefits as if self-employed. IOW, we have to pay 14% social security and not just 7% on non-income parts of the pay package. I have no idea how the IRS arrived at that logic.
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