Sorry #NeverTrumpers But You Don’t Get To Dismount Your High Horse Today

The Last Refuge - The Conservative Treehouse ^ | FEBRUARY 1, 2017 | SUNDANCE

[onyx]

Sorry #NeverTrumpers, but you don”t get to dismount your high horse and celebrate the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch today. This is NOT your victory, this is ours!

There is a gobsmacking level of pontificating self-righteousness visible from the collective proletariat within your crony-conservative movement who made the decision to formulate their political argument from a position of opposition.

Perhaps it would be different if you framed your antagonism from a position of advocacy, but that wasn’t the direction you chose. No, you chose a specific position of opposition as clearly evident within your chosen mantra “Never Trump”.

Perhaps it would be different if you ever had a come-to-Jesus moment and apologized immediately following the November election. Then again, when your opinion of your own self-importance is this high, those humble words are just as foreign as your understanding of the movement that won.

You don’t get to frame the entire construct of your argument around opposition to a team, and then claim benefit to the outcome of victory. Stay on your high-horse, move along and ride off into that proverbial land of irrelevance; you’re dead here.

Save your dismount for another defining “conservative” assembly where you can gather at CPAC again and give a standing ovation to House Speaker Paul Ryan a month after he eliminates the debt ceiling and passes a $2 trillion OmniBus spending bill, funding all of the progressive priorities you hypocritically claim to oppose; you’re good at that.

That particular circle of crazy just doesn’t sell here any longer.

Save up your fiscal hypocrisy, you’ll need it. Because in less than two months our victorious bastard will deliver a budget that cuts a trillion “per year” out of the federal coffers…. and there is no doubt the beneficiary of your prior applause will be counting on your fiscally conservative sensibilities to protest for more spending on his behalf.

Oh, and keep your newest VAT tax construct. We’ll bring the sledgehammer, save your gilded and monogrammed tweezers for a swamp audience stupid enough to believe it – Thank you.

Oh, and don’t go getting all pearl-clutchy. This isn’t anger directed toward you, this is far, far worse. This is a very targeted and deliberate Cold Anger surrounding you and the swamp creatures of your affiliation. This sensibility never forgets.

You had a choice. You chose a direction, you lost; and you damn near lost the entire friggin’ country. Just because the team you ridiculed and attacked has overcome all opposition and gained victory, that doesn’t mean you get to backtrack now and expect the bruised and bloodied recipients to forget those who launched the stones and arrows.

Save your wine-spritzers and crust-less triangle sandwiches. We didn’t have well financed high-horses, we launched boots, well-worn boots, scratched, clawed and advanced despite your hoighty-toighty principles, intransigence and unwillingness to cuss or get your hands dirty.

Good grief, your insufferable sensibilities were frightened of frog memes, FROG MEMES!

It was our deplorable and calloused hands that volunteered, opened our piggy banks, and held firm to support each other and our vulgarian candidate against all opposition. You were part of that opposition.

While we were getting bloodied in Chicago, Virginia and California your ilk were worried about our tone and political sensibilities. But worse than that, much much worse than that, you #NeverTrumpers broke the cardinal rule of grassroots camaraderie, you aided the other side.

While our candidate was wearing a friggin’ bullet-proof-vest to deliver Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, you took every opportunity to broadcast your litmus-test purist antagonism in every outlet you could muster.

Your arrogant self-righteous efforts not only didn’t help, but they actually opposed our common sense objective. You were as much a benefit to Hillary Clinton and Mitch McConnell as Media Matters and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, perhaps even more. Lest you need a reminder:

VIDEO!
GROUP OF CONSERVATIVES UNITE TO STOP TRUMP / THE KELLY FILE

No, today you don’t get to rejoice in victory – it isn’t yours. You are worse than the enemy. At least a righteous enemy claims opposition from outside the wire, wears identifiable uniforms and looks you in the eye. Your choice of opposition was to lay toxic land mines inside our own territory, obstruct us at every engagement, and sit back gleefully predicting our defeat.

This victory today is ours. The victory belongs to all the Donald Trump supporters who absorbed your constant ridicule as fuel. The team who battled through the ridicule of the media and the ridicule of the elitist class, and stood in cold Virgina fields at 2am because we knew we needed to keep moving forward despite your efforts.

You #NeverTrump crony-constitutional purists were then, and are now, just as much a part of the problem as before – there is no place for you here, we’re deplorable. Put on your pussy hats and just go join the other side. We didn’t get your support in 2016 and we won’t need it in 2020.

Shut up. Be thankful, quietly.

We’ve got this, and much more yet to come…

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Happy Birthday Andrew !

 

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting my first reading of this new month.

What a great article/oped! I really don’t need to finish my coffee after reading this article of truth. My heart rate is up and I am ready.

Boycott all of these so called conservative talk show bullies and the east coast/DC pundits pictured in this oped.

Elect our people to replace the Never Trumpsters in Congress and at the state levels from Governor down to the Sheriffs.

MAGA from the Deplorables!

[V K Lee]

WOW~

“OH! What a Beautiful Morning!”

What a way to awaken. This post puts a smile on the face which will last for such a long, long time.

The battle was fought and won. Now time to move to the next hill and fight the next. May the Lord again bless our Country with His Goodness and Grace.
Amen.

[Flint]

Boy Beck and his side kicks are back filling today, big time! He apologised for saying that President Trump wouldn't honor his list of Court picks or something along those lines. Now they are all on board with the SC pick.

He and company seems to forget they spent a year slamming him, denigrating him, condemning him and saying he was incompetent. Didn't qualify to be President and would be a disaster if elected.

[Rennes Templar]

Lindsay Graham walking around in the crowd after the announcement of Gorsuch looked like a lost puppy.

[Hostage]

> “They almost sent me to the psychiatric ward”

LOL!!!

Somewhere in the conservative ether, there’s a medal for heroism with your name on it!

[Stentor]

He had to wear a bullet proof vest? We need to take up a collection to buy him a pair of pearl handled pistols to wear on his hips.

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent addition/reminder for us:

Those are just the ones who WEREN’T already considered GOP-E. In WaPo, NYT and NPR circles names like David Frum, Jennifer Rubin and David Brooks passed for conservative. They spend most of their times apologizing for real conservatives and attempting to instruct them as their betters.

[nikos1121]

I note that Ted Cruz is no longer on that list. They should follow his lead.

[Stentor]

Any new Nordic Noir coming out that I can “acquire”. (If you hate TV, I apologize.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Every time I hear a Never Trumper writing about Trump post-election, I go back and read the Weekly Standard article, “The Loser” by loser Bill Kristol. Its Kristol at his arrogant best, confidently and almost joyously predicting Trump’s loss, on October 31. Its absolutely wonderful reading:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-loser/article/2004996

[ScaniaBoy]

Not too up to date on our TV series but here is one that was released 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU5pgC54yt0

[Stentor]

Have it in the queue. Thanks. (:>))

[Angels27]

Personally, if #nevertrumpers want get on board the Trump train, I think it is fine.

Sometimes, a person has to prove himself to someone. I was very cool about Trump for much of the primaries. I felt many his political positions in the past were worrisome. I didn’t trust him on what he was saying. I got behind him once it was clear he was going to be the nominee and supported him wholeheartedly. Yet I was still skeptical. But know Trump is in office and he is proving himself to be willing to take the country in the direction it needs to go.

If some #nevertrumpers have been won over, then great. Welcome aboard.

[lone star annie]

Great read! I will never forget these nasty people. All of them must admit they were wrong and apologize publicly to Trump or I will continue to change the channel when any of them come on! A pox on all of them!
The worst:
Mark Levin, Glen Beck, Dana Loesch, Jonah Goldberg, Katy Pavlich

Most disappointing:
Thomas Sowell, Brent Bozell, Col. Ralph Peters

[Jim W N]

“Liberals” and “Conservatives” are outmoded confusing terms.

It is “Leftists” versus “Americans who love freedom, the Constitution, and limited government”.

Replacing “Liberal” with “Leftist” is easy.

Replacing the vague, confusing, and misdirected “Conservative” term isn’t so easy. I quit calling myself a “conservative” a long time ago.

Politically, I identify myself as a freedom-loving American who is fighting for the re-institution of the Constitution against the feds. Too long a term I guess, but it seems that all the shorter, seemingly relevant terms for this have been hijacked and perverted. Guess I’ll just leave it at that for now.

[Just mythoughts]

Now is not the time to harden their, or our, hearts in opposition. They will come around, and we ought to encourage that. Many of us were initially skeptical of Trump, what conservative wasn’t? I still don’t agree with everything he says or does, but I didn’t agree with everything Reagan said or did either. The bottom line is, I voted for him reluctantly as the lesser evil of the two available options, but he has won me over through his actions. Why was I so slow to come on board? A small but vocal, and often obnoxious segment of his supporters bear a great deal of the responsibility for pushing me, and many others, away. Remember Reagan’s words: “The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally – not a 20 percent traitor.” Live that, and bring those people around, don’t ostracize them. That is how we build the coalition necessary to retain power now that we’ve won it.

You signed up last November 2016. Trump spent his own money on a campaign that he worked tirelessly across this nation... That is a hallmark of a 'conservative'... How strange it was to hear a man speak past the PC bull of both parties. The above toadies believed the internet prank pulled on Wilson, and they all waited with baited breath for the 'dirty dossier' to get revealed...

The Bush name is forever tainted because they were exposed as being 'compassionate' conservatives for the left. All of the above have done nothing to break through the lawlessness of the Clintons and Obama... NONE of them took a stand in protecting and defending our Constitution.

I resent your needing to rag out what you view 'obnoxious segment of his supporters'. We do not need any shrinking violets, in the 'war' against the insane, lunatic, half baked left. The above are the laziest people on God's green earth and well past their expiration of value date.

I will NOT be forgiving these turds, NOT a one of them. Most especially those that claimed in front of God and all watching, they would support the nominee, and then made complete donkey buns out of themselves. This bunch did all they could to make the wicked witch of the west our 'queen'. In this election there was NO lesser of evil.

[Strac6]

If some politicians would stop trying to claim that they, and only they, deserve credit for President Trump’s election, we would move forward faster.

We won that battle. While some are crowing about the importance of their contributions to this victory, the Far-Left Democrat Socialists are working hard to minimize and even deny the spoils of that victory.

It’s time to stop puffing out our chests about the election, and get to work to ensure the election produces results.

[Just mythoughts]

Are you over Megan Kelly yet?

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

My dear onyx THANK YOU so much for posting this piece, it brought tears to my eyes and this writer brought it ALL HOME for me!!! It is QUITE AMAZING that WE WON against ALL ODDS!! Most of ALL this writer is SO DAMNED RIGHT against our OWN SIDE!!! The battle is NOT over but the fact that WE WERE RIGHT and they were WRONG revenge is SO SWEET TODAY yes indeed it is!!!! I LOVE OUR NEW POTUS MAGA!!!!!!