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.
My thoughts exactly! Add that there is a secret DEM percentage who are part of the silent majority coming over. They despise Hillary!
Let’s see. who would we blame. Let’s start with Ted Cruz, Glen Beck, John Kasich, Jeb Bush. And we add the Career RINO Politicians and the #Never Trumper’s. Plus the MSM and Leftist/Liberal/Socialists.
22 posts so far and yours is the only correct one. Prepare for incoming.
“Self-inflicted wounds”
This is the meme of the MSM, the GOPe and its own enablers - those calling themselves conservative from the media. That assertion I quoted is wholly a fiction created by media propaganda. If people do not have the intestinal fortitude to utterly reject these fictions but entertain their validity then that is a serious problem
The “truth” is that if Trump hadn’t entered the race, Jeb would have been the candidate.
Yeah, because a lying POS globalist sellout like Ted Lying Cruz would be doing so much better.
After Trump wins all of you Hillary enablers can tell us just how that shoe leather tastes.
What's a GOPe. If Trump is not elected, they are done. We may have a one party dictatorship, but at least we will know who the enemy is, but GOPe is and will be done.
It WILL be because of people just like you if Trump loses, I am sure you voted for Romney with NO PROBLEM !!!!
“It’s an unreasonable question. Trump will win!”
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I’m with you. This thread is pointless.
Countless millions of people are keeping their presidential preference to themselves this election cycle, and their preference is Donald J. Trump.
The blue collar guys and gals love Trump, and they are going to jump ship from that Titanic known as Hitlery Rotten Criminal and the democrat party in droves.
The Anti-Trump movement is sort of like one of those insane ex’s “If I can’t have the party, NO-ONE can!”
They’ve once again sabotaged anyone who doesn’t drink their brand of Kool-Aid.
Trump has been spewing, and a fair amount probably has to do with both sides of the aisle trying to destroy him. Nonetheless, even in his spewing there are some good points to be made. One is certainly to compare the ISIS comment to Clinton claiming that Republicans are racist, especially given the appalling findings by the DOJ about one particular democratic stronghold recently.
We could be using things like this to help national dialog begin to be less divisive and full of B.S., but noooooo!!!
The Anti-Trump movement is sort of like one of those insane ex’s “If I can’t have the party, NO-ONE can!”
They’ve once again sabotaged anyone who doesn’t drink their brand of Kool-Aid.
Trump has been spewing, and a fair amount probably has to do with both sides of the aisle trying to destroy him. Nonetheless, even in his spewing there are some good points to be made. One is certainly to compare the ISIS comment to Clinton claiming that Republicans are racist, especially given the appalling findings by the DOJ about one particular democratic stronghold recently.
We could be using things like this to help national dialog begin to be less divisive and full of B.S., but noooooo!!!
Who deserves the blame?.....
1st.) Conservatives who were stupid enough to nominate an untested, unprincipled, lifelong Democrat to represent the Republican party in the most important election in the history of the nation.
2nd.) Republicans who wouldn’t get on board once Trump became the only thing standing between Hillary and the White House.
Indirectly, barring fraud, it will be low-info voters.
Having said that, those same low-info voters have been marched to their decision by the corrupt media.
Imagine, for a moment, if the media was actually reporting the truth. Then imagine (this will take some effort) if the media slanted conservative rather than liberal. Those same voters would be going Trump.
JEB and the gaggle of Bush hangers-on who gave $150 million to his awful campaign. They are seeking revenge for their disastrously bad investment and want conservative Republicans to be beaten and humiliated for opposing them and their chosen one, JEB! They don’t believe that this would mean the end of the Republican Party, but it will be.
Here come the NeverTrumpers wearing with their Cruz/Jeb butt-hurt shirts pulled up over their heads.
I’m going to do everything I can to kill what’s left of the GOP if Trump loses. Despicable hypocrites all.
Agree. It's like there's a huge target painted on the side of a big ugly old barn but he runs around it shooting off like Yosemite Sam. Whether or not he manages to hit the barn to any great degree remains to be seen.
There is only one man who can keep Trump from being elected:
Donald Trump
That is true
Agreed, if he loses it will be his own damn fault. The press is a close second though.
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