Posted on 08/12/2016 4:38:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
August has not been a good month for those of us who are actually interested in preventing a Hillary Clinton presidency.
The left was always expected to be an obstacle, aided by willing handmaidens in the dominant media culture. But we have been additionally thwarted by Republicans unable to achieve clarity on the necessity of this mission. Throw in our candidate’s self-inflicted wounds, and moods have darkened.
Not mine.
This is a thoroughly winnable election, still more than twelve weeks away. We have a candidate who is far superior to Hillary Clinton on national security, taxes, job creation, gun rights, health care, rebuilding the military and the vital issue of Supreme Court choices. If we can spend more time celebrating his skillful deployment of those comparisons and less time cleaning up his messes, we will win.
That is a sizable if, but I plan to spend every day until the election doing things that bring about the defeat of Hillary Clinton, while pointing out the hazards of failing to do so.
However, the air hangs thick with residual NeverTrumper discontent. This has sparked discussion over whether foot-dragging Republicans will actually be to blame if he loses. If we shuffle off to nightmare-filled sleep November 8 after a Hillary Clinton win, will we have contrarian politicians and pundits to blame?
The answer is: it depends.
Any allegiance to conservatism requires fending off the disaster of her presidency. The only sensible choice is for the malcontents to get with the program, unify and help return this woman and her husband to private life permanently.
But if they do not, and Trump loses, is it their fault?
It will be if he brings us sufficient focus and discipline to deserve victory. If we blaze a trail to November 8 spending relatively few days explaining what he meant in his latest shoot-from-the-hip brushfire because he has done a laudable job of showing America why he is an infinitely better choice, then yes, it will be time to inform the NeverTrumpers that they own every stinking day of the ruinous presidency that will then unfold.
If Trump does pleasantly surprise us with a home stretch short on crises, maybe some of the recalcitrant know-it-alls will shrug and get on board. But many will not. They have made clear that they are fine with a status-quo establishment dichotomy, even if it features a presidency we have spent a generation dreading, and the country be damned.
Those die-hards are unmoved by the logic that they will have enabled a Hillary presidency, because they simply do not care. They have proven it.
But I believe there are many Trump skeptics who will thaw as November 8 draws nearer. They will see that a corrupt President who has alternately sacrificed and monetized our national security is a far worse prospect than any vagaries the Trump years may bring.
If they do not, then yes, we should long remember their betrayal as we endure Obama’s third term.
Unless…
What if Trump is just getting warmed up in the unforced errors department? What if September and October are a wheels-off catastrophe dispiriting to even enthusiastic supporters? This, by the way, is the firm prediction from the camp of his haters.
If they are right, he will lose, and it will not have been because of Susan Collins, Ben Sasse and Bill Kristol. It will have been because he screwed it up.
But here in mid-August, there is no way to know which Trump we are going to get. As such, it is the duty of every conservative to join the fight to at least give America a shot at a rescue from a continuation of the worst policies of our lifetime.
If our candidate does not sufficiently cooperate, at least we will have done our part. The Hillary presidency will not unfold because we lost focus. There will be at least some shred of peace from that as our liberties blink out in the coming years.
As someone passionately fighting for a Trump win, why am I spending time musing over the scapegoating landscape in the event of a Trump loss? I offer it as motivation, an appeal to any shred of objectivity that may be reachable in the minds and hearts of the Trump-haters.
If he runs a terrible campaign, they can say their initial predictions were correct. Good for them, we will award brownie points as we await the collapse of the economy and the Constitution.
But if he runs a good campaign, winning over enough votes to forestall a national calamity, what a tragedy if he loses one necessary state by a slim margin because NeverTrumpers denied America the life preserver of their cooperation.
RINO's Everywhere, especially the RNC.
Vote Trump, The American people and the American Republic live on in greatness & security. Vote Clinton....and, the American Republic dies!!! It’s quite simple. Your choice....folks!!! Me.....DJT is my man!!!
Low-info voters.
Fraud on an unimaginable scale
The Never Trumpers. They put up lame candidates all these years since Reagan and everyone united behind them all these years to only watch them be submissive to Democrats and enablers to illegal immigration that is destroying us and radical Islam they won’t confront the root cause of the terrorists so that our country is on the verge on complete destruction. They will own all the blame for this treasonous behavior on what they leave behind in 10 years and beyond. Of all the elections to play these games and what they don’t offer it’s going to be a bad legacy on their parts.
Low info voters. Yes
True, but Trump deserves the blame too. He should have realized the MSM and RHINOs would be against him to the bitter end. He is also too easily bated, IMHO.
Win or lose its on him. Hillary has ridiculously high unfavorables....right direction/wrong direction is ridiculously in his favor...he’s beating her on trust an economy...all he has to do is pivot and act Presidential. He should still talk about her record - pay for play...sending arms to jihadists...he should talk about how much trouble Obamacare is in etc...he can do those things without making the squeamish middle go all squirmy on him
NEVERTRUMP scumbag quisling that’s who.
The millions of Democrats & Independents who crossed over to vote for THE WORST candidate out of the bunch...
The GOP for allowing THE WORST candidate to run as a Republican...
The candidate HIMSELF who can’t go 48 hours without tasting his own shoe leather...
IT is only August
What other candidate would be way ahead...
The millions of Democrats & Independents who crossed over to vote for THE WORST candidate out of the bunch...The GOP for allowing THE WORST candidate to run as a Republican...
The candidate HIMSELF who can’t go 48 hours without tasting his own shoe leather...
The GOPe, who if they were half as conservative as they pretend to be, Donald Trump would NOT be where he is.
I think you inverted the priority in your list.
I really do hope that Trump eventually spends his $$ on TV ads. It is kind of amazing to me that Hillary is up bigger considering:
1. How much she is spending/has spent on TV ads.
2. She has the MSM cheerleading for her 24/7.
3. The number of Republicans that seem to be supporting her.
WE held our noses and voted their RINO candidates for far to many election cycles, Romney lost because our side did NOT show up evangelicals had had ENOUGH!!! Romney had NO crossover appeal and with the evangelicals staying home he lost!!! Evangelicals WILL be out in FULL FORCE for Trump because of the Johnson Amendment Trump may not be an evangelical BUT they BELIEVE him they BELIEVE he is honest!! Trump has HUGE crossover appeal, SO these DAMNED RINOS who can’t keep their damned mouths shut will have NO effect on this election the more they fight him the more his support WILL RISE!!!! Trump WILL take this election in a landslide he WILL OVERCOME the MSM, UNIONS, RINOS, PEOPLE ARE PISSED!!!!
It’s an unreasonable question. Trump will win!
Get a grip... I was responding to the original post...
The truth has no agenda...
Many in the GOPe will try to take CREDIT for averting the disaster of citizens taking back some power from the elites.
Many of those will spend 4 years trying to avoid blame for the courts, ISIS, budget and other Hillary actions. And while publicly denying it will privately accept credit (e.g. donations/jobs) for massive increases in cheap US labor at the same time there is an export of jobs.
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