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.
If the Republican party was what I would hope it is, Trump’s polling would drop to 0% after saying planned parenthood is anything but a baby killing parts selling coven of witches.
Don’t tell me how to vote.
Go Trump!!!
Agree. This sticking up for the Bushes is ridiculous and the idea that Cruz has a snowball’s chance in the general is just as ridiculous.
This is all about Trump now, don’the deflect
Amen to what Tucker said in post 18.
No more sleazy attorneys for me.
Trump is too much of a narcissist to listen to anyone because he thinks he is smarter about every subject than everyone else; and that includes choosing Supreme Court Justices.
What are you attempting to say? Sorry I actually don’t understand the comment.
“Iraq was never really won because we could not leave ever.”
Good point.
And that is where you and your cohorts are so very wrong. This is about shutting down the GOP-e. And the over-the-top Trump bashing threatens to open a rift for the GOP-e to exploit.
We have the RINOs on the ropes, but are merrily snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
If Trump wins the nomination, I will support him. If Cruz wins, I will support him.
There’s no reason for Trump to “get desperate”.
He has this thing sewn up.
The rest of the also-rans are the only ones getting desperate, as are their supporters. Like you.
Yes, just imagine how desperate he’ll be when he is leading polls by 25% instead of 15-20.
There’s always more than three possibilities, which is why the country is in the pickle its in.
To set the record straight, I don’t think Bush intentionally lied to get us into Iraq. I think he was grossly misled but equally wanted to be. Why he went there I cannot fathom as WMDs were as much a threat from Iraq as from any of a host of countries and Iraq did not employ them in the first gulf war. In fact, there is some evidence the US helped supply some of the ingredients when Iraq was fighting Iran but that is for another debate. If we should have invaded anyone, it was where most of the attackers came from. That is my two cents.
You missed option 4
4: Trump is telling the truth. W is a dupe for the Neo-cons and believed their lies.
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We have a winner.
Trump just opened up a Republican referendum on the Neocons. What will the party faithful decide?
Nation Building War party or not?
If you are a Reaganite, just say no.
I’m not sure why you think you are all knowing? Maybe because you have a military history and are accustomed to people taking orders from you. I believe most people on the Freerepublic threads are smart enough to make their own decisions. Obviously not everyone will be in agreement. I can’t change your mind, and you cannot change mine. My family has a strong military background as well. Several generations graduated the Naval Academy and went on to serve with pride. My brother chose the Marine Corps. His name is on the Vietnam Memorial Wall. My son served with great distinction in the Marine Corps. Not one of them would feel so entitled or to be so boastful to tell others not to vote for someone.
I’m sincerely sorry to say that the people that run this board, ask posters for donations and moderate, do not care. The positions of Trump are meaningless, even when they conflict 100% from conservative values.
Seems the (free) republic is dying.
Trump can’t win, he defeated himself.
He has to get over 50%, he is done.
Even Hillary Clinton wouldn’the have made the claims he did.
Article from Sept 4, 2015. Desperation?
If you trust the Bushes, you are right where the globalist two color jerseys uniparty want you to be. Hate one color, revere the other, that puts you right in their servitude.
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