I posted this near the end of a different thread last night, and I hope Freepers will forgive me for posting it again here. This second time will be the last, thanks all for letting me speak my piece.
I’ve lurked on FR since Bush vs Gore but only posted once or twice in these 15 years; in fact I could not recall my user name and password and I had to establish a new account just to post this. I first learned of the Sept 11 attacks against the US on FR, and I’ve gotten the overwhelming majority of my news from FR throughout the entire W and O administrations. So I don’t have any credibility as a poster here but I’ve been a reader for quite some time.
I have unrestrained glee in seeing the Republican establishment put on the defensive in this campaign; it is long past time that rank-and-file conservative voters took control of the nominating process rather than accepting another establishment-approved “electable†moderate, willing to “reach across the aisle†to prove that we can “govern responsibly.â€
Full disclosure - I’m a Cruz supporter. I live in TX and I gladly voted for him for US Senate against David Dewhurst. No one is perfect, certainly not Ted Cruz, but he’s consistently done what I hoped he would do when I voted for him. I had hoped he would sit this round out since he’s in his first Senate term, but when he announced he moved to the top of my list and he’s still there.
Like most people I didn’t take Trump seriously when he announced, and like most people I’ve been proven wrong about his staying power and the support he’s gained. In my book he deserves full credit for putting illegal immigration front and center in this campaign and forcing it into the spotlight. When Megyn Kelly turned against him in the first Fox debate I began to distrust Fox for the first time, and I stood and cheered when Trump rocked the Clintons back after Hillary accused him of sexism. I cringed a bit at some of his statements, but I realized my problem was his choice of words rather than his meaning. I’ve frequently said that Trump was not my first choice but if he were the nominee I would have no problem voting for him.
None of you will care, but I’m not saying that anymore. Insulting Carly Fiorina’s face, making fun of a handicapped reporter, re-tweeting juvenile twitter messages from neo-Nazis, and midnight twitter storms full of gratuitous personal insults are not behavior I can respect in a man asking to be elected President. Clinton and Obama disgraced the Oval Office with every breath they drew in the White House; Trump’s megalomaniacal, adolescent nonsense would unfortunately demean whatever credibility is left behind the Resolute Desk.
I agree that the Republican establishment has no credibility and we need to replace them; in fact I stopped considering myself a Republican when the 2010 House majority proved ineffective. Although I don’t find Trump’s late-life conversion to conservative values credible, I can give him the benefit of the doubt on that. I’m sure he’s a fine manager and would be decisive in dealing with a crisis, and I certainly appreciate that he fights to win. But frankly he is behaving like an ass and I cannot imagine supporting an ass for President.
Trump had, and perhaps still has, the ability to bring together a broad, winning coalition, honestly more so than my guy Cruz. But Trump is now alienating much of the base that would be inclined to support him. Does anyone believe he is not also alienating others who would have been more skeptical of him in the first place?
If he can do that, and I believe he will, we will have the right man fir the job.
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Nope, I’m loving him stomping all over every single sacred cow there is; I love him bypassing the media with his tweets; I love him mocking the hell out of a reporter who thought that political correctness would let him get away with anything.
Being polite has gotten us nowhere. I WANT an ass as President, and I want him to be an AMERICAN ass. I’m going to keep on Trumping; after you take into account all the stuff that Cruz has pulled lately (and more significantly, the stuff that he very notably HASN’T pulled), none of the other candidates are worth a bucket of warm spit. And I say this as a person who still likes Cruz.
To put it simply, this post is dangerously closer to reading ‘concern troll is concerned.’