Posted on 12/20/2015 3:19:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Not since I voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 have I been so excited about the prospect of a true conservative as I was for 2016. With the likes of Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 94% there was plenty to be excited about. What I didn’t realize was the depth of disgust and anger that the base had for the establishment republicans. It wasn’t so apparent to me given that I have been living with RINO’s and turncoats up here in Massachusetts for decades. Then enter Trump.
I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams that base conservatives who are the salt of the political earth would cast away all their convictions and support a man like Donald Trump. We here at Red state and others on talk radio have scolded Rubio for his gang of eight move. We have criticized Cruz for not attacking other candidates and we failed to support Perry when he rightfully went after Trump. We talk of second amendment rights and those of the unborn and rightfully so. Yet almost without hesitation many of us have fallen behind a man as odious as Trump....
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No.
It IS interesting.
Even if un Latino is VICE president, it will bring out the Hispanic vote...what few there are actually REGISTERED to vote.
I don’t think so.
” I have been living with RINO’s and turncoats up here in Massachusetts for decades.”
It shows.
Hahahahha! Not a chance!
Power abhors a vacuum; and there has been a real vacuum in the leadership of the Republican Party the past ten+ years, the latest evidence of this is the disastrous Omnibus bill Ryan pushed through last week. Trump’s brilliance is that he sees the vacuum, knows the Base of the party is sick and tired of being put down by our ineffective and disloyal party “leadership” with absolutely NO representation or defense of our positions, and exploits it well. Why would any conservative consider voting for Jeb Bush, Kasich, or Lindsay Graham? Yet these are the people the party “leaders” love.
What movie is that from?
Here we go again. Another Red State loser piping the same old crap.
Ya aren’t shaming me dude. Get a life.
Mrs. Bill is so popular she may yet even win AR and LA, not that she needs them at all, with her 250-vote starting-out electoral vote lead.
Misses the point of Trump.
1) His stated positions are mostly very Conservative. The only major reason to disagree with him is because you think he’s lying. And that is a concern for all of them.
2) Trump is angry at the status quo. That is a big deal. Everyone else IS the status quo. Trump is the only one who isn’t.
I agree with what he says and I know he will shake things up. The writer thinks he isn’t a Conservative? I don’t care.
I’m going back to the thread on Schoolhouse Rock.
The point is that he sees Trump as basically a stalking horse for Hillary - either by original intent or because all other candidates have been knocked out by conservative infighting, while at the same time taking Hillary’s crimes off the front page. He sees Trump and Hillary as pretty much the same policy wise.
Hillary Trump, and Jeb are also pretty much the same - the only real difference I see is that Hillary will sell the country out in a heart beat for cash. True conservative or not any of the GOPe guys are far better for the country than Hillary on her best day - sitting home or not voting for whomever the GOP candidate is, it is a sure fire way of anchoring the US as a third world country and a third rate military power, while at the same time growing Islam at a prodigious rate in the homeland.
What worries most us us not backing him is not what he’s saying now.
It’s what he has said and done all the years prior.
This logic from the RINOS has become more than tiresome. It’s the same intellectual dishonesty as we see elsewhere. “Trump can win the nomination but he’ll never win in the general.” And McCain did? Romney? The false argument that Trump is not conservative is nothing more than an attempt (a weak one) to save some face and win the argument. He is the most conservative on the issues we need someone to be conservative on. Immigration…he’s so conservative that he’s causing daily firestorms in the media. Same with gun control, ISIS etc. Tired of the bullish*t. He is even more conservative than Ted Cruz, Ted is not as far right as Donald on immigration.
I don’t think being “Mrs. Bill” is going to be enough to pull her through, at least on it’s own. Who thinks of Bill when they see Hillary?
Trump or Cruz
The Cheap Labor Express candidates will all lose, even to the Hildabeast
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