Posted on 03/04/2016 1:03:57 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
why don’t you dazzle us with your brilliance and point out why it’s clueless, instead of engaging in yet another trumpeter hit and run attack the messenger post?
If trumpeters were half as smart as they thought they were, well, I guess they’d be forced to choose a candidate commensurate with that intelligence...instead of the one they are supporting.
This helps. I've been wondering over the past week or so where I fit in, because I can live with Trump if I have to, but only because the alternative is incomparably worse, like supporting Jehu in the time of Elijah but only because the alternative was Jezebel.
There are enough of us, I think, who think of Trump, not as the Savior of the Nation, but as the opportunist who knows exactly the pulse of the public, and is exploiting it for his own power grab--except that his power grab is less likely to destroy the nation than the power grab of our most likely opponent, Hillary Jezebel Clinton.
So here is my problem. I despise Romney's pusillanimous attempt to "Operation Chaos" the primaries--as a Floridian, I will not ever again vote for Rubio--and Glenn Beck's call for a Cruz/Rubio ticket is absurd on its face--even Trump/Cruz make more sense, though Trump in his own tactical stupidity destroyed that possibility after Iowa. All this makes me less undisposed to Trump.
But at the same time, I am sick to death of the general argument of Trump supporters, which is not, "He is the best candidate in the race, and here is why," but instead is, "Get with the plan, stupid, the train's leaving the station!," which makes me less disposed to support Trump rather than more, because to be a conservative is to think rationally, to think logically, to see human nature for what it is and not give in to its worse side.
So I cannot stand with the anyone-except-Trump side, and I cannot stand with the nobody-but-Trump side, and for this we are reviled by most on our side, and everyone in the opposition. I wonder at times, as a supporter of Cruz on conservative principle, if Cruz does not feel a little like Elijah, who was convinced that he, he alone was left. But God reminded Elijah that there were 7000 who had not bowed the knee to Baal--and the Baal of our time is the oversized government, which Hillary and Bernie promise to grow, and Trump does not promise to shrink--and there are still those of us who long for an America freed from the twin Baal/Ashtoreth idols of big government and identity politics, who will, if the tide does not turn soon, have to wait yet another four years, or eight, or perhaps until His return.
The GOP is the stupid party.
I agree! Is this a good thing? When will Ted disavow the GOPe?
Well, I figured it was obvious and not in need of explaining, but I guess not.
First off, he assumes that the GOPe is against Trump because they’re concerned for the party and are afraid that Trump would lose in the general election. The truth is the complete opposite. They don’t care about the party or losing to Hillary as long as they maintain their personal power. And it’s precisely because they know Trump would beat Hillary that they want to stop him. Trump is not a threat to the party but to them, personally.
Second, the idea that the GOPe fears Cruz for the same reasons they fear Trump is also wrong. They fear Trump because he is an existential threat to their power. The truth is, while they dislike Cruz, they don’t fear him. They don’t dislike Cruz because he’s an outsider like Trump. They dislike him because he hypocritically plays the outsider and publicly trashes them for political advantage while being as much a part of the establishment as they are.
I disagree but thank you for being more than the usual shoot the messenger, engage in zero constructive dialog trumpeter.
And I mean that sincerely.
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