Posted on 06/11/2022 7:12:24 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
While Trump has earned the right of first refusal giving him the right of first look, he should not have an unchallenged right of return unless he can persuade us that he learned something from his first time around and will behave differently next time.
When will Donald Trump account for his colossal missteps and acts of omission during his first term? To wit, in case you weren’t paying attention:
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“Senate DOESN’T confirm his appointees?”
Both ways between who and whom? I was referring to whatever is "owed" between the candidate and voters. The way I see it, he and every other candidate running for the nomination have to earn our votes in 2024, regardless of what happened in 2020.
I believe in Trump, and I really like DeSantis. I’ll vote for whichever one runs. If they both run, I’ll have to really pray about it, but since Trump was cheated out of his second term, he deserves it. It’s a really hard choice for me.
Honestly, DeSantis hasn’t proven anything to me.
You conservatives who want to close the books on Trump sound like closet never-trumpers.
I used the wrong phrase. Trump did accomplish a lot in terms of policy that advanced the MAGA agenda, from the wall to trade policy to energy independence, and more. What I was trying to say is, he could have done even more if he hadn’t hired so many idiots. Maybe it’s closer to say “great leader but lousy manager”, per the old axiom that “leaders do the right things, managers do things right”.
Trump could change, and if he runs I hope he will. Even if he doesn’t I want him to continue in the role of great leader while someone else manages the day-to-day implementation of his vision.
yeah he defiantly made mistakes hiring folks, but ive made mistakes choosing friends over the years too- they seem nice when you first meet them, seems like there is a lot in common, but sometimes they just don’t reveal how rotten they are till later-
He isn’t going to run. He has said so numerous times. Why do you even imagine he is? Trump, however IS going to run. Knock the candidate and get a dem.
No, it’s not just Democrats.
Haven’t you noticed that every person who achieves greatness brings the egomaniacs out of the woodwork? In this case, they think they are smarter and better than Trump, or else believe the only way they can make people think so is to criticize him. Why go after an easy target?
Always take that into consideration when reading the mouthings of disparagers—including the seemingly thoughtful ones who are “just trying to be objective.”
The main problem with the 2020 election fraud scenario is that Trump was the President of the USA, with all the power of that position, and he was unable to marshal the plan or the resources to stay in power in the face of a fraudulent election. All he could do was appeal to the voters about the fraud. He needed to have his lawyers contest the fraudulent election in a meaningful way. As it is, all he does is complain about it in vague terms, seldom is he specific. I think he just doesn’t have the capability to operate on the high level needed to fight the Democrats and the RINOS.
The other things that the article mentioned, Trumps failures, was spot on:
1) Trump allowed America to burn by BLM and Antifa in the summer of 2020, and all he did was tweet about it. He should have declared marital law and suspended habeous corpus in the affected areas, and sent in federal troops to maintain order, and sweep up the Antifa and BLM members and tried them under military tribunal. Under martial law, he could have arrested and jailed the Democratic leaders in Oregon, Washington and Minnesota, and restored order. But frankly he lacked the capability and the heart to do what is needed.
2) Trump did not get the wall built. Why?
There’s more, but I think this is enough. I voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, and would again in 2024, but I hope and pray he will step aside and allow Gov. DeSantis to run, or at least, add DeSantis to the ticket as VP.
The part I wrote about martial law and suspension of habeous corpus—this is a course that will be needed in the future, since the Democrats/Marxists/Communists are so entrenched in the USA. Lincoln did this successfully in the Civil War and it needs to be done again to purge America of its internal enemies. I hope the next Republican President has the heart to so what needs to be done, or we are all toast.
President Trump EARNED my vote already. Anyone who says that Trump hasn't "earned" their vote had their head up their ass or in the sand between 2016 and 2020, or their agenda isn't to improve America.
He should have been elected in 2020. I voted for him. I will vote for him again if he gets the nomination. It is his competence and willingness to fight.
I am sick of smooth speaking politicians. Sick to death of them. I am damned sick and tired of "My esteemed colleague on the other side of the aisle..." BS. It is one of the things that drove me to detest George W. Bush, his unwillingness to recognize the war we are in against domestic enemies and defend himself and his actions.
Screw to HELL the "dignity of the office". The "dignity of the office" brought us to where we are now. Too many on this forum, and too many on this very thread want to stick their heads in the sand and hide behind the "Trump is too mean and uncivil" fig leaf.
They don't want to recognize that we are in a struggle for the survival of this Republic, and that the enemies of this Republic, foreign and, most specifically, domestic, have no such code of civility. They illegally unleashed the organs of the government against the political opposition (him and us) and have no plans to roll that back, and he is one of the very, very few who has shown fight.
So my future vote I pledge to him if he runs isn't based on some idiot "cult of the personality" as so many want to characterize it, including many right here on this forum (and do so as if they were directly parroting CNN, NYT, etc).
Trump has my vote RIGHT NOW because when he was in the breech, when he had the responsibility, when he was in charge:
His competent accomplishments during his term in the face of the sniveling whiners demanding he supplicate himself with explanations of his missteps (and who have zero intention of voting for him, sometimes even if there is no other choice) wimps whose sensitivities are offended by his mean tweets (otherwise known as truth-telling) and people of all stripes and all parties who have attempted to tear him down both legally and illegally, from the head of the FBI right down to posters on this very forum override all the naysayers.
See my post above, especially the reference to George W. Bush.
I am sick of POS doormats whose agenda is not to make the state of improving America the business of our government, but who want to get along and be nice Conservative Dhimmis.
I live in a blue state, probably the bluest of them all, and I had to go to a town meeting this morning, and one of the items I got up to protest was an article to make our town carbon free and tackle “climate change” at all levels of town discussion.
It was nauseating. It easily passed. Measures to make this town a sanctuary for illegals and vaccine passports were only narrowly defeated last year. It is so far Left I can’t stand it.
The is my only recourse. To stand up and make myself heard, for what it is worth. I am stuck here, not leaving for a variety of reasons I don’t control. And that is all that I can do.
I want someone who will fight my fight, speak out AGAINST the unspeakably corrupt Leftist ideology for me, do it loudly, caustically, and at the highest level possible.
“I knew he was the right candidate when he insulted McCain’s “heroism.” “
I’m a vet, and I have many vet friends. When Trump said McCain wasn’t a hero, I thought, this coming from someone who didn’t serve. I didn’t like McCain’s politics, but to say someone who spent five years in a North Vietnam POW camp, was tortured repeatedly, and didn’t give anything of value is disgusting. I almost didn’t vote for him because of that statement. I know vets that didn’t vote for him because of that insensitive statement. But, you think it is a plus......unbelievable !
Appreciate it. Love the sonnet. They’re not easy to write.
Maybe some people think it's great that he insulted McCain's service, but the reality is that is only going to lose you votes. And in the end, you can't do what needs to be done if you can't muster the votes.
Carbon free? Does that mean getting rid of all people too? :- )
Glad to hear you stood up and protested. Good for you. And many silent voices at the meeting I’m surely heard your disgust and you earned new respect from them.
Sometimes all we can do is fight the good fight — and live to win another day. Thank God you still have Proposition 2 and a half in Massachusetts. That one over-ridding restraint has kept the State from flying the hammer and sickle.
Thanks, stanne. Somehow or other the invisible Muse revealed a nice end to the sonnet. Cheers.
Who other than Desantis do we have waiting in the wings? I for one like Rand Paul but he hasn’t gotten his last two campaigns off the ground.
This may be a crazy presidential nomination on the Dems side. Our country is a political train wreck in the making. This is the Nixon era redux.
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