Conservative ideas don't belong to republicans alone, it's a set of principles, beliefs and goals. I'm not going to throw out a possible good president because he only agrees with me 85% of the time instead of 100. Hell, I'd vote for a conservative democrat that agreed with me 85% of the time, if I could find one. Instead, you'll hold out for a guy that agree with you 100% and get only 2 votes, yours and theirs. Isn't Scarborough a RINO anyway though? Why are you watching his show if he doesn't agree with you 100%?
I'm supposed to disdain liberal/moderate Republicans, yet support a man who admits he's at least partially a Democrat at heart? Never happening.
So do you have issues you disagree with Trump on, or are you basing it all on what he calls himself instead of what his actual positions are?
Two---Terry McAuliffe, one of the lowest bottom-feeding, scumsucking, filthy, corrupt liberals of all time currently sits in my governor's mansion. Donald Trump contributed $25,000 to help put him there. Only a liberal Democrat would have done that.
Agreed McAuliffe is a liberal democrat and the rest, and you are certainly entitle to deny support to Trump based on that alone. But for the rest of us, who and what Trump was in the past aren't as important as the positions he's taking now. His immigration and tax reform are enough in my book to overcome these, and if he changes after the election, well that's what most of politicians do anyway("Read my lips, no new taxes" "I'll have the most ethical administration in history", etc.). However, if we elect a bunch of like minded people who agree with most of our positions to congress, it's lot harder for him to renege on these promises later--but that will be really hard to do if all of them have to agree with you 100% on everything.
Yeah, the old purity argument was used to try and shame people into voting for McCain and for Romney, too. Well, go ahead and jump off that cliff again, but I’m not going with you.
There is no candidate that will ever agree with us 100%, and you are well aware of it, even as you drag out that well-worn strawman. I’m not looking for perfect because it doesn’t exist. But I’m not going with a self-described Democrat whose history and past are liberal.
Am I basing it all on what Trump calls himself? Re-read the first sentence of my post.
Yes, I know. You and others are willing to ignore Trump’s liberal history, even the almost weekly verbal slips he makes which reveal the Democrat beneath, because his talk makes you feel good. If we’ve reached the point of not caring about a candidate’s history, then we’ll never vet any of them again, because nothing matters except the line they feed you on the campaign trail.
This is nothing short of amazing to me. Amazing, and very disturbing.