Posted on 02/16/2016 6:29:36 AM PST by Col Vit
To all patriots who support Trump and who watched the Republican Presidential debate the other night in Greenville, South Carolina. I speak to you as a conservative who is as frustrated with Obama and the Republican elite establishment as you are.
That said, I am having great difficulty understanding the rational for the continued Trump support after the debate.
Do you really think that a Republican was the reason for 9/11?
Do you really believe Trump when he said Bush lied on purpose about Iraq?
Do you really believe Trump that Bush lost the Iraqi war instead of the truth which is that Bush won the Iraqi war and then Obama walked away from an Iraqi victory and it is Obama’s failures that brought about ISIS?
Trump has made charges that even the hardest of all Democrats are unwilling to make. We don’t advance and win the White House by agreeing with the Democrats in their wild conspiracy theories.
What about Trump’s stance on foreign policy? We see the impacts to our national security from Obama leading from behind. Trump’s vision is similar to Obama’s. He wants to make other nations fight our interest and wants to allow Russia to continue in its fight against the interest of the United States. Trump cannot even recognize the obvious that Russia is not attacking ISIS. Is Trump that naive like Obama? Great, the same Americans that flocked to support Obama now race to Trump with the same results being achieved.
I was giving Trump the benefit of the doubt until the other night when he quickly shed any pretense that he was anything but another liberal clone. For any conservative who supports Trump, wake up. Trump is not a conservative and no Republican should be snickered to think otherwise.
We are mutually tired and sick at our Republican Party establishment that has failed to stand up against the Obama juggernaut. Obama was elected by mainstream media that built him up to a God celebrity status. Trump is another renowned celebrity king and once again the entertainment mind-set is predominate and runs amok in our pick for our next President.
Wow, after the Obama disaster, why follow and place your dreams on a man of little statue, integrity, honor, or character to our highest office. I just don’t get it. I agree with some of the arguments of Trump, but I don’t trust his character or his integrity to follow through on his promises. Already he has backtracked. He speaks in platitudes when he is not heaving personal attacks against a fellow Republican. He has little capacity of the historical facts to take great advantage of Hillary or Bernie during a debate.
Trump incessantly speaks about his negotiation skills. Yes, we are mad as heck about our Republican leader’s failure to fight Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, but if you listen to Trump, his great asset he states is his negotiating skills with Democrats. Really? He said he would not use the Executive Privilege to force his opinions and he has repeatedly attacked conservative Republicans like Cruz for fighting against Obama. So then what can we really expect from a Trump negotiation with a potential Democrat controlled Senate after 2016? Do you really think Trump will fight for conservative principles? Keep dreaming?
Heck, think about the reality of the Supreme Court under a Trump Administration. He recently stated that former liberal Republican Senator Brown would be a good Supreme Court candidate. That said, in your heart, how do you reconcile the notion that Trump will appoint a conservative legal scholar on the Supreme Court? Please, stop being delusional and don’t place dreams upon Trump that he will not meet for a second. Go ahead and nominate more moderate to liberal Supreme Court Justices and you can kiss away your prosperity, gun rights, religious freedoms, freedom of speech, and equal justice under the law. Oh yes, you must like the abuses of the EPA, IRS, overzealous governmental regulations, etc. Keep with Trump and you are guaranteed to live your future in Obama’s transnational system.
It is time to smell the roses my friends instead of being led to the privy. Our nation cannot stand or afford another failure of a President. We cannot elect a Marxist like Bernie, a criminal like Hillary, nor another narcissist like Trump who bellows and attacks across the wide spectrum but under that false facade, there is an empty suit.
Please, let’s not bet our nation’s future on a liberal who turned conservative and then sways with the wind when it suits his interest.
The time for reflection is upon us. Do not be swayed by me, the media, or Trump’s lofty words. Think historically of what the Presidency stood for and the caliber of the man elected to that esteemed office. Obama subverted our constitution and failed the leadership test. I beseech you, do not allow yourself, my fellow Americans, to chase in vein the same pipe dream and failed entertainer leadership.
Obama and all our establishment elites on both sides of the isle destroyed our view and respect of government. Let’s not now resort to the same type of flaw character choice for President. Please do not let your short memory abate your duty to this country to elect a President who will secure and protect our liberty, our rule of law, our prosperity, and our national interest.
Here are the results of a google search.
Click on the first hit. It’s written by the Congressional Research Service. In my opinion, the next President will put a halt to what is has been pretty much a rubber stamp process. Is it any wonder the judiciary, especially in Democratic controlled states are so liberl? Cruz is the only candidate that will fight for conservative judges in the US District Courts.
You are welcome; and I do appreciated your interest in asking for information backing up my statement. It’s an indication of your intellectual honesty.
The Clinton administration prevented the CIA and the FBI from communicating intelligence. That was largely responsible for 9/11.
Forget the labels. Trump is a conservative on the issues that matter most, i.e., national security, immigration, trade, and fiscal prudence.
Cruz has accomplished nothing while in the Senate, He is a grandstanding, first term gadfly who is a pariah among his own colleagues. Should the remote possibility of Cruz being in the WH happen, he will have to compromise and make deals in order to get something accomplished. It is great being the maverick and the rebel as a senator, but not as President.
Too late Colonel the tribe has spoken. :-)
Trump thought TARP was great and didn’t go far enough. Yeah, that’s real conservative.
Trump thinks Hillary was a great Secretary of State. I guess you do, too, since you support Trump.
Trump is for touchback immigration reform. That’s conservative?
Trump has not stated any details about his security stance other than to say it would be great. Isn’t past time for him to articulate a few details? Reality is, he doesn’t have clue. On top of that, he thinks Putin is a gret guy. Just more arrogance nd hot air from Trump.
I agree, but Republicans did control the legislative branch for a good period of time while Clinton was in office, so they bear some portion of the responsibility for what was going on.
Republicans did not control the Clinton administration, and it was the Clinton administration that put up the barriers between the CIA and FBI as is related to foriegn intelligence.
Congress has a zillion “oversight” committees that are supposed to be helping keep the executive branch in check. I agree that Clinton and his gang are the main culprits, but Congress does bear some share of responsibility when the executive branch does stupid things.
As if Clinton ever cared about following the law. He was certinly no Obama in that area.
Trump is a private citizen. He had no vote on the issue. Guess who voted for TARP? TARP was proposed top-down by the Bush Administration and passed on a bipartisan basis by the Democratically-controlled 110th Congress. In the House, 171 Democrats and 91 Republicans voted for it. In the Senate 40 Democrats, 33 Republicans and 1 Independent voted for it.
Paul Ryan voted for it. The Rep House and Senate leadership voted for it. Bush signed it.
Trump thinks Hillary was a great Secretary of State. I guess you do, too, since you support Trump.
Trump has called her the worst Secretary of State except maybe Kerry since he negotiated the Iran deal.
Trump is for touchback immigration reform. That’s conservative?
Wrong. Do you any idea what touch-back amnesty is? Do you know who originated it? Do you know the details of how a touch-back amnesty would work? I do having worked on the immigration issue for nine years as a member of grassroots immigration gropu that lobbies on the Hill.
Trump has not stated any details about his security stance other than to say it would be great. Isn’t past time for him to articulate a few details? Reality is, he doesn’t have clue. On top of that, he thinks Putin is a gret guy. Just more arrogance nd hot air from Trump.
What kind of details are you talking about? Give me an example.
Thank you and I accept.
I am believing we’re being tempted. Nations face the ‘full measure of their sin.’
I have not been a strong supporter of Cruz, but as we are all human, a perfect candidate isn’t going to be had. The more I see of Cruz...well, the worse our choices seem.
I can’t fully explain my gut reaction about Trump, other than he really scares me. So did Obama in 2004, and it is that kind of inexplicable danger fear.
God put a whole bevy of candidates in front of us, I believe the right one is there, I also believe we need to step away from the edge(s) and see God’s hand at work. I pray everyday for God to bless our nation with his wisdom this election cycle, but that verse haunts me these days.
The Democrat Party left God in 2012, we all witnessed that betrayal live on TV.
Trumps responses to the idea of confession or forgiveness...
Cruz turning out to be quite sleezy...
God raises up humble men to greatness, who is that out of all our choices? I just don’t know right now...and I am not will to hurl myself off a cliff for the pot of gold.
Pure BS. The Gang of 8 bill passed the Senate 68-32 with 14 Reps voting for it. I was on the Hill lobbying against the bill, which was never taken up by the House. Jeff Sessions led the fight against the Gang of 8 bill preparing a briefing paper for each GOP member of the House and meeting with them Cruz helped in that part of the effort, but he was not by any means a leader.
What really killed the Gang of 8 bill was the defeat of Eric Cantor in the primary by Dave Brat, someone I worker with and helped. We made over 40,000 robocalls to Reps in the district. Cantor's defeat essentially killed the bill. We came very close to losing. If Boehner had just allowed an up or down vote, a combination of Dems and Reps would have passed it easily.
Cruz likes to take credit for a lot of things he didn't do.
Cruz has always said he worked with Sessions to kill the bill. Cruz has never taken full credit for it. He has always said he worked with others to kill it.
It is funny that all these conservatives Now say they opposed that war.
4. An attention wore with no core beliefs.
Of course I’d vote him over Hilary but I just think he will be a Romney repeat.
A stone cold fact, and Cruz absolutely tries to give the impression he stopped it as does many of his supporters. Although Cruz makes with the Clintonian weasel words for easy deniability.
It’s just dumb luck Boehner waited to take that final vote. They had the votes for it to pass in the bag, but he waited for to make double sure before they voted. We were literally hours away from it passing.
And the whole “fought to kill the bill” spiel is highly debatable. Neuter maybe, but never tried to kill it.
Letter signed by Cruz, “we want immigration reform to pass..”(with our provisos)
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/files/S744DearColleague.pdf
You have nailed why Trump is so popular. He speaks in incomplete sentences and simple words. What he says is not clear when you analyze the exact structure of what he says. Thus people read into his verbiage whatever they themselves think, and believe Trump agrees with them. Thus he says (to them) what they believe is true.
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