Posted on 01/26/2016 4:58:34 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
I hear public figures in the conservative movement - including those who don't support Trump - say the following thing all the time: "The Establishment caused Trump." This is a ridiculous non sequitur and I wish people would quit saying it. It isn't true, and it gives people an excuse to support a man who represents all the worst abuses of the Establishment.
Let me state this as simply as I can: Mitch McConnell's liberalism is not a good excuse to vote for a liberal. Now let me break it down a little further.
I completely get the anger over the perfidy and spinelessness of Republicans in Congress. But the problem with Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, et al is not that they weren't insulting enough, or that they weren't juvenile enough, or that they didn't have half a dead fox on their forehead.
The problem was that they were liberal. Or more specifically, that their conservatism did not stand up to opposition. More specifically, the argument is that they used their offices to enrich the pocketbooks of themselves and their friends, and protected their own interests ahead of those of the country...
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Vote for Trump!
:D
How about tell me why I should vote for (whoever) instead of telling me who not to vote for?
If you or Red State can post any trascripts or archives of Trump sponsoring or signing lefist legislation while holding elective office, or eagerly working with Democrats, I will discontinue my support for him.
The actual text of the Constitution, the intent of its drafters, 2,000 years of western civilization, logic, common sense, and the previously accepted rules of statutory construction are all now utterly irrelevant.
The Constitution now says whatever the Hell five out of nine Supreme Court Justices currently want it to say. IMHO, this is the primary issue in the election.
Four sitting Supreme Court Justices will be over 80 years old this year (Kennedy, Scalia, Ginsburg and Breyer). Of the remaining five Justices, two are young far left-wing Obama appointees who will be legislating from the bench for the next 30 years (Sotomayor and Kagan), two are reliable conservatives (Thomas and Alito) and the other is a flipper (Roberts).
I am betting that Obama will get to replace at least one of the octogenarian Justices (Ginsburg) and possibly two (Breyer) before he leave office. Ginsburg will step down immediately after the current Court term and if at least a couple of RINOs join with the Democrats to confirm Obamaâs far left-wing replacement then Breyer will announce his retirement so that Obama will get to pick his far left-wing replacement as well. That would leave only two octogenarian Justices (Scalia and Kennedy) for the next President to replace, and four young, reliable far left-wing Justices firmly planted on the Court.
If any three of the four octogenarian Justices are replaced with liberals then a far left-wing oligarchy of Supreme Court Justices will rule over every aspect of our lives for the next generation to come. Say goodbye to the Second Amendment, free speech, and every other right that is currently hanging on by a 5 to 4 thread.
On the other hand, if any three of the octogenarians are replaced with strict construction conservatives, then they can join with Thomas and Alito and reverse Roe, homosexual marriage, Obamacare, and every other liberal Supreme Court decree over the past 40 years.
So, our only chance is for the Republicans to hold on to the Senate AND for us to elect a Conservative President who will only nominate Conservative judges. If Chuckie Schumer controls the Senate OR if we elect a President who appoints liberal or moderate judges, then our nations is well and truly screwed.
"Don't look now, but while our best conservative is running a political campaign, Trump is leading a rebellion. Not as a liberal or a conservative politician, but as a successful red-blooded, can-do American capitalist.", Jim Robinson
Kind of a stupid argument. I agree with not voting for Trump in the primary, but disagree that the Republican establishment didn’t have a hand in his popularity. The establishment helped create the vacuum.
Sucks to be you. Trump is going to be the runaway winner. :-)
The level of cognitive dissonance in this statement is extremely disturbing.
This guy should definitely not be allowed to own guns.
Is Eric the Red Ericson still trashing Trump?
Lol
The premise is completely wrong.
People aren’t voting for Trump because of the establishment.
The talking heads don’t have a clue why people are voting for Trump.
And Trump isn’t a liberal.
GOPe gave us Bush, Bush, McCain, Romney, and Dole.
We’re done with that.
Why don’t you look at the campaign contributions and explain his 23 Democrat donations, especially to Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton?
“It’s just business” doesn’t count. He gave to Democrats.
And he continually attacks the best conservative candidate the Republican Party has fielded in thirty years from the left. Of course he hasn’t held elected office. He doesn’t need to for people to see what he really is.
The establishment caused Trump. And to I am sending him to hurt them back. And sorry Eva Braun, I will use any reason I damn well please.
The Establishment absolutely caused Trump! They treated voters like children telling us who we shouldn’t consider legitimate, and voters responded in kind with a full blown raspberry.
You Mad Bro?
Trump 2016. I can’t wait to listen to whatever plans he has on Thursday night. Finally on Friday we won’t hear about the stupid kiddy debate and will hear all about Trump’s momentous Thursday evening. Trump is brilliant. I wish you would get that through your head. You are being very stubborn about it.
Trump did not donate to Clinton or Emanuel or any Democrats directly.
Again, let me make the statement: If anyone has any archives or transcripts of Trump co-sponsoring, sponsoring, or signing leftist policies while in elective office, please feel free to post them and I'll immediately discontinue my support of Trump.
Amen.
Destroy the establishment.
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