If Your Child Behaved Like Donald Trump Would You Be OK With It? (This op-ed belongs in News)

Townhall.com ^ | February 29, 2016 | Kimberly Fletcher

[Kaslin]

As Super Tuesday draws near and Americans from 12 different states choose their candidate, I want to make one final plea to my friends, fellow tea partiers, patriots, conservatives, and Christians, who will be voting on Super Tuesday.

I know you're tired of losing. I am too. I know it feels good to have someone voicing our frustrations and be heard for a change. I know it feels like voting for Trump will send the establishment, the media, and everyone who has ignored us for the past eight years a powerful message. I know it feels good to finally feel like we can win. But please, for one moment, before you mark ballot, consider what we're winning. And ask yourself, if your child behaved like Donald Trump would you be okay with it?

Before you jump on the "You're just a Trump-basher" bandwagon, I ask you, as one of you, to please hear me out.

I know how frustrated you are. I've been on the frontlines of freedom fighting this fight for 16 years—a mere fraction of the years many of my friends have spent—and I can assure you, we are extremely frustrated. I was thrilled in 2009 when the liberty movement emerged and so many Americans became engaged. It was absolutely exhilarating to see Americans start to search their history and study the Constitution. The National Center for Constitutional Studies has been teaching Constitution Seminars for decades. I only needed 30 people to hold one but I couldn't ever find enough people interested. In the fall of 2009 I had 200 people sign up—and a waiting list, because 200 was all the room would hold. I hosted several more seminars after that including one in the Ohio State Capital building for State Legislators. It was energizing and inspiring. And while I loved seeing rallies overflowing and rooms filled to capacity, I knew it was only a matter of time before people started going back to their lives and stop paying attention again.

It's not a criticism; it is just a fact of life. We all have families, jobs and obligations. We don't have time to march on D.C. every time our elected leaders ignore us. And really, what good does it do when we take time out of our lives and money out of our checkbooks to fly to Washington D.C. by the hundreds of thousands –twice—and are still ignored?

So now, after putting our hope in the Supreme Court—only to be disappointed; and then in the 2012 election—only to get Barack Obama for four more years, we find ourselves angry, frustrated, fed up—and putting all our hopes in one man. Though I know you neither want to hear it nor believe it, if you put all your hope in Donald Trump, I assure you, you will be disappointed once again. The tyranny and oppression in our country is too wide and too deep for one person to fix it—no matter how loud or aggressive they are. Our state legislatures, city councils and school boards are just as bad, sometimes worse, but we completely ignore them. An election cannot make America great again. Donald Trump cannot make America great again.

Only you and I can make America great. So I have to ask again, if your child behaved the way Donald Trump does, would you be okay with that?

Would you be okay if your son called a girl ugly? Would you be okay if your child used vulgar language, made fun of other people or behaved rudely? Do you want your children to grow up thinking the measure of a person's worth is how much money they make? Do you want them growing up believing something is only worth fighting for when you win? Do you want your child to be popular no matter how they gain their popularity or do you want them to be a good person even if it means they stand alone?

We are sending a message to our children folks. They are watching us. What message does it send our children when we say it's okay to vote for someone who is rude, abrasive and vulgar as long it's directed toward someone we're mad at?

What message does it send our children when we support someone who says, "I could shoot somebody and wouldn't lose any voters."

What message does it send our children when we vote for someone who publically and unapologetically cheated on his wife, uses vulgar, degrading language, and openly advocates a sexually immoral lifestyle?

Rebecca Hagelin wrote an excellent article on Townhall.com addressing Donald Trump's promotion of the porn industry in his hotels, his playboy behavior and his current wife's nude modeling.

"That's right,” says Hagelin, "if the GOP continues down this path of madness we will have a presidential nominee that degrades women, has bragged about his adultery, has made money off of strip tease shows, and a First Lady that has posed totally nude."

What message are we sending our children when this is who we are supporting? What message are we sending when we ignore everything we know to be true simply because we want to win for a change?

The people we elect are a representation of who we are ourselves. Is this really who we want to represent us to the world? Is this really who we have become as a people?

Neil Postman said, "Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." What message are we sending?

If you would not be okay with your children behaving the way Donald Trump does then why would we want him to be our president?

Heaven help us if this is the message we decide to send our children.

[Kickass Conservative]

Thanks for the clarification.

My believe my Draft Status was 1-A when I signed up for Selective Service. I have to see if I can find my Draft Card.

They held the Lottery and my number came up 207. I don’t recall if they changed my Classification after that.

I was never even called up for a Physical, but I turned 18 in 1971 when the Vietnam Draft was winding down.

[CyberAnt]

Well, before people pass judgment, maybe they should listen to Donald Trump JUNIOR.

Out of curiosity, I took the time to watch a video of a speech(with answered questions from audience), given by the JUNIOR.

I was actually very impressed. He talked more like Ted Cruz; very straight forward, no hedging, had complete answers and stated several times that, yes, his Dad was really going to do certain stuff.

All in all, I felt better about Trump; even though I still remain in support of Ted Cruz.

[Flick Lives]

confederacy of dunces known as the GOPe and the Democrats...

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Perfect phrase for that cabal.

[higgmeister]

I understand your view, but there over 54,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians killed in Southeast Asia. Not all of them had the financial influence to receive a 4-F deferment. Marching against the war like Sanders or the Clintons, act of treason like Jane Fonda are to me no different than buying a 4-F deferment.

Look I know you only know about Viet Nam by what your daddy told you. My draft lottery number was 213 which was so high I would never have been called. You have no idea what it was like back then. I will never forget, while we were still in high school, the short conversation in a good friend's driveway about what we would do if it came down to it.

A couple of years later I was married and laid off from my job so I enlisted. You are still far to young to say an act of treason like Jane Fonda's is no different than so called "buying" a 4-F deferment. Not even close.

[higgmeister]

She is engaging in a particularly nasty bit of slander playing on the fact that only males in our 60s will catch on to her lies.

Do you think if her daddy were still with us he would set her straight on that? I think yes.

[onona]

If my child behaved like any politician I would be saddened, and I would be looking at myself and how I had failed them.

Damn. There's an eye opener !

Just counted my blessings and thanked God. Guess I didn't do so bad after all.

[MagnoliaB]

Yes because talking all mealy mouthed and wimpish worked out sooooooooooo well with McCain and Romney didn’t it?

[MagnoliaB]

“cutting waste, fraud and abuse where ever it is found”

This makes me wonder if this isn’t what most of these people are so worried about and why THEY are freaking out and throwing the kitchen sink at him. Do insider trading laws even apply to these people? I remember reading something about how Pelosi’s family knew things were coming so they would create a company run by family to bid on the government jobs. So it’s not their direct pocket getting greased but ..............No telling what this gang of ‘good ole boys’ have been up to. They are proving that Trump really is the outsider.

[scooby321]

If I had a son like Rich Lowry he would be out of the House.

[surroundedbyblue]

Acted like Trump how??? Doesn’t take anyone’s crap? Works hard?

If my daughter grew up to stand up for what’s right, put her money where her mouth is, and didn’t take bee ess from anybody, yeah I’d be pretty happy.

If she grew up to be a pro-death lying Marxist like Hillary, I’d be devastated.

[Jack Hammer]

If my kid made billions of dollars in real estate and then ran for President of the United States?

Wow, if only, huh?

Better than winning the lottery.

[trebb]

As in comparison to what the schools and unwitting parents are turning out these days - the ones that think winning is for losers because it's a bad thing to differentiate between winners and losers - that it's normal to have to Moms or Dads and that makes one special - that there's really no important difference between the sexes ....

I'd prefer to see some Trump in my child's attitude any day.

[Kaslin]

Are you really that ignorant? Do you ever watch his behavior? Like when he makes faces to the other candidates in the debates, Or last week for instance, when he mocked Marco Rubio with a water bottle. Or take this for example?

Obviously you think it is okay for someone who wants to be the leader of the world to behave like that. Have we sunk that low?

[Jay Thomas]

So being like every other family is a bad thing now? Who knew!

[Nickname]

Trump’s just emulating his supporters.

[Jay Thomas]

Wow. I’m speechless..

[1Old Pro]

We do not want the nation to be full of PC groupthink sheeple. We want people to stand up and express their opinions regardless of PC.

[Pelham]

“Do you think if her daddy were still with us he would set her straight on that? I think yes.”

I certainly hope so.

Falsely accusing someone of buying a 4-F exemption is serious slander and I hope her dad wouldn’t stoop to that. And then trying to wrap her accusation in the Vietnam dead.

[PreciousLiberty]

‘It is repulsive when a man who’s run on the theme of “Make America Great Again” is repeatedly trashed and criticized by people who should want exactly that very thing.’

Running on a slogan is one thing. Making it happen is entirely another.

Given Trump’s history, personality and intellect, I have grave concerns about him.

[A_Tradition_Continues]

Read the entire thread...I was not referring to Trump but the posters comment about his son emulating Trump’s rather sorted past. He (the poster) finds that type of behavour acceptable.