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No. Come back to her thinking? Are you nuts?

She is a big supporter of the cronyism, and the SuperPACs behind all of it, that is destroying the Conservatives.

The following is from Sundance at the Conservative Treehouse:

If you look back closely at the history of the last few election cycles you will see what Trump is fully aware of, and what few have EVER paid attention to.

The Citizens United Supreme Court decision was reached in ’09. Obama famously railed against it in his 2010 State of the Union speech.

Most, conservatives and Republicans saw the CU decision as a win for our team; a win for free speech; a win to push back against the scope of the Labor Union money that supports the leftist political apparatus...

...what was not thought through was how the Citizens United decision would evolve, and be used by the establishment Republican class, against us.

In 2010 we defeated dozens of incumbent Republicans in both the House and Senate, replacing them with more conservative representatives. Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservative Fund, a traditional political action committee (PAC), was a key element in supporting Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Rand Paul, etc.

Mitch McConnell and the establishment republicans were furious.

If the 2010 election process was allowed to repeat again in 2012, the power of dozens of professional republicans was at risk. The very influence of Tom Donohue and the CoC was at stake. Billions of dollars hang in the balance. Something needed to be done to stop the vulgarians.

In late 2011 and early 2012 the Wall Street and K-Street lobby groups formulated a plan to stop conservatives from steamrolling their preferred candidates, Super-PAC’s.

Super Political Action Committees were formed, using the Citizens United decision, to pour BILLIONS into very specific election processes and subvert the traditional dependency on campaign financial support from the electorate.

In essence the construct of the Citizens United decision was used to pump political gladiators with Wall Street steroids. This approach would be how the professional class would defend their seats, their place at the trough.

This would be how Mitt Romney would be nominated despite the will of the electorate.

We were too slow to respond, because we did not understand the scheme.

In 2014, the process took on new levels of political maneuvering. We caught on to the constructs, as well as the overall goals, of Donohue to 1.) keep Obamacare, 2.) get immigration reform to include amnesty, and 3.) establish Common Core federal education standards.

Late in 2013 we began ringing the alarm bells. Few could believe what we were saying.

It came to pass in 2013, 2014 when establishment Super-Pac’s funded by Wall Street and Tom Donohue, and directed by the power brokers alongside Mitch McConnell, destroyed conservative challengers like Ken Cucinelli in Virginia, Matt Bevin in Kentucky, and most obviously Chris McDaniel in Mississippi.

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Wardaddy — do you understand what is going on now?

She is working for the establishment, and against freedom.

Hillary Clinton is campaigning against Citizens United - all liberals are.

Citizens United v. FEC In the case the conservative lobbying group Citizens United wanted to air a film critical of Hillary Clinton and to advertise the film during television broadcasts in apparent violation of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (commonly known as the McCain–Feingold Act or "BCRA"). Section 203 of BCRA defined an "electioneering communication" as a broadcast, cable, or satellite communication that mentioned a candidate within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary, and prohibited such expenditures by corporations and unions. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia held that §203 of BCRA applied and prohibited Citizens United from advertising the film Hillary: The Movie in broadcasts or paying to have it shown on television within 30 days of the 2008 Democratic primaries The Supreme Court reversed this decision, striking down those provisions of BCRA that prohibited corporations (including nonprofit corporations) and unions from making independent expenditures and "electioneering communications". The majority decision overruled Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce (1990) and partially overruled McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003). The Court, however, upheld requirements for public disclosure by sponsors of advertisements (BCRA §201 and §311). The case did not involve the federal ban on direct contributions from corporations or unions to candidate campaigns or political parties, which remain illegal in races for federal office."

I think it’s quite possible that a lifelong Republican who has deep feelings for the Party, and doesn’t understand how bad it’s gotten, to want the GOP to reform itself from within.

Reagan did it, and he had a much longer record as a conservative, even though he once was a Democrat.

I think since then the game has been rigged against another Reagan from within. I think that’s what Ted Cruz wants to be, but his detente with Trump may indicate he’s thinking that might not be possible.

The election is a long way off. If Trump is the real deal, he’ll win the majority of the dyed-in-the-wool Republicans over. Probably a bunch of folks who only pull the lever for Democrats, too.

To be honest, I’d much rather be voting for a Republican, but if it’s GOPe or Trump, Trump has my vote. If it’s Cruz as the Republican, it gets a lot harder to choose. Maybe Trump throws his support to Cruz or vice versa and I don’t have to choose.

My parents were proud Republicans, and my mother was very active in local races. I’ve manned phone banks for Republican candidates.

I kind of sensed they’d crossed the line from happy losers to collaborators when they turned on Palin, but it’s still hard for me to say I’m not a Republican. But, as somebody I admire once said, the party left me.

Not everybody who hasn’t gotten to that point is an enemy.