You just pouting because Steyn is just destroying you “100%er only small tent” Republicans arguments.
Reagan has words for the #NeverTrump Purity Choir. This idea that if they just keep shouting they will get a 100%er elected to do everything they want is a fools notion.
Reagan:
“A man 75-80% on my side is a valuable friend and ally, not my enemy:
I know this falls on deaf ears with 100%ers but the fact remains, We are a Constitutional Republic that rests on the notion that the people’s Representatives in Government know how to compromise and negotiate.
This feeling that Cruz will ride into DC and dictate the Conservative Media’s 100%er terms to everyone else there is simply wishful thinking. What is more probably is Cruz would be a GOP Carter.
Carter was the same sort of religious political puritan who went to DC and assumed he would dictate his political dogmas to everyone there. The record shows how badly that idea failed.
“Conservative” politicians talk a good game and then go to DC and accomplish nothing. After 30 years of fail, it is time to try another solution. The winning candidate is “GASP” going to have to cut DEALS! And some times those deals require..compromise!!!
Another fail point for the “Principled Conservatives” is they think only as far as the election. Then once they win their purity candidates go to DC and fail against the inertia of the DC/Media political machine. 1994-2000-2010-2014 are all example of where this “Next election” mindset has failed.
Trump is merely the 1st wave of a multi wave assault. Cruz might do for a follow up wave, he is not a 1st wave candidate.Without Trump to lead the way, the Cruz boat would of either been ignored because it was irrelevant, or been shelled into oblivion by the 10s of millions of GOPE attack ads.
The 1st wave job in any assault is to shatter the defenses and open the road for the follow up waves. No matter how flawed you think the vessel is, Trump is the best 1st wave political assault team we have had to hand in my lifetime.
We need to use Trump for all he is worth to shatter the corrupt, “my party right or wrong” mindset that grips vast swaths of the electorate. Break that inertia, get the people thinking outside the party label box and real change is possible. Do not an we slide into a stagnate European style decline that will not end in my lifetime. Cruz shares that agenda point but is not as well equipped by background and media following to achieve that break through as Trump
We either win this now or we have little chance of ever doing it again politically. Once we win we must relentlessly stay on the attack election wave after election wave until we are dead.
I am really not willing to leave this fight to my kids and grand-kids. We have let the ship of state drift since Reagan in the hands of the “smart people”. We failed and most redeem that failure.
This is our generation’s “go” time
Not sure what you mean by “destroying me”.
If conservatives are so insignificant, then why does it matter to you if they don’t vote for Trump? If Trump needs conservatives, why is that different than Cruz needing Trump supporters? Since Cruz is a conservative, why not encourage everyone to get behind Cruz instead of stumping for a leftist like Trump?
If you like Reagan, why not like Cruz, who is the closest to Reagan that is running for President?
How can we remain a Constitutional Republic by electing Trump who has absolutely no understanding of the Constitution and actively works against it?
What do you mean by “religions puritan”?
There is a difference between people who call themselves conservatives and people who actually are conservative. Just because some people lie to get elected, that’s no excuse to reject conservatism and vote for a leftist like Trump.
Actually, it is Trump supporters that don’t care what Trump is going to do in office. They often express the idea that just having Trump in office will make their lives happy and America great again. When it is pointed out that most of Trump’s policies are identical to Hillary Clinton’s, that Trump will further destroy the economy, and that Trump will put leftists on the bench, they simply ignore it. After the election they will simply unplug from politics contented that “they are winners”.
Trump may make it impossible for anyone but a leftist to ever be elected again. With his single payer healthcare system in place and a court packed with leftists, the country will have no choice but to lurch left. The only thing Trump is going to lead is further decline of America.
What Trump supporters don’t see is that Trump is part of the establishment. He spent his life and money funding most of them. He has given what they want to “make deals”. Trump is an insider.
Only a conservative can “shatter the corrupt” because the opposite of corruption is conservatism. Trump’s leftism cannot shatter corruption, instead Trump will embrace it. Like Trump embraces the crony capitalism (ie corruption) of ethanol subsidies so much as to make them even higher than Obama ever did, all so Trump could get some votes.
Our kids and grand kids will live in poverty and violence, because that is the state of places that don’t have conservatism.
Sadly, it IS falling on deaf ears.