Posted on 04/11/2016 2:49:53 PM PDT by markomalley
A man who changed his position only two years ago cannot be trusted to not change his position again in the next two years.
I really want someone who has had a lifetime record of support for conservatism. But then we never really get what we want.
That candidate is not out there.
You guys are gearing up for a really big and nasty fight at the convention that will go beyond words. Let's see how the Cruzers handle that.
That’s why I am praying for a contested convention. Maybe someone will come out that has those qualities. That person is not running now. Frankly I would like to have a president who never sought the office in the first place. I think George Washington was the only one in that category.
You will know the name of the anyone coming out of the convention. You will be disappointed.
It is not a Christian gathering.
The delegates to the Republican convention are the ground troops in the primaries. They are more often than not more conservative than the candidates they support. When the convention is opened up, they are going to go right. They are not going to go for the establishment candidate. Especially if almost all of them are anti-establishment Trump and Cruz supporters. I have little fear that an establishment candidate would emerge from a contested convention. But I am in the minority here.
I totally agree with you, it’s criminal what has become of this forum— the nastiness and the invective hurled personally at fellow freepers.
I don’t think that’s realistic, P-M.
I think they are the republican leaders of precincts, republican clubs, etc.
They are not who you think they are. A friend of mine is one of them, and a former member of our church until recently moving back to the city to be near his kids and grandkids.
He voted for Kasich, a thoroughly wasted vote in Ohio, and not because he was supporting Cruz or Trump.
She could name like-minded Sara Palin to the board.
BTTT
“Phyllis Schafly, a great Reagan supporter. I wonder, I really wonder if Ronald Reagan was alive, and saw all of this mess, which ring he would toss his hat into.”
Yes, Phyllis was a great Reagan supporter. My mom was a friend, supporter and contributor of hers. Mom in her 50s loaded up a station wagon of activists (some who were later Freepers) from Mpls and joined Phyllis to march on Washington to protest President Reagan on his Supreme Court appointment of Sandra Day O’Connor, a rare mistake for him. I will bet Reagan actually appreciated that.
Phyllis is great and brilliant. I have long disagreed with her on her opposition to free trade. Trump leans that same way and so support of him is shocking, but explainable.
Phyllis was still fully sharp and healthy when we saw her a couple of years ago.
Her conflicts on her board are probably no different than the divide that has developed here and elsewhere over Trump. He is a divider.
Reagan was not among the conservatives suspicious of free trade. Back to your point, if Reagan were here today, he would not, in my opinion, be with Trump who is quite his opposite in many, many ways.
If Reagan was young now and running, Trump along with the Trump supporters here would be ripping him ruthlessly. I hate to even wonder what name Trump would have put on him.
God is in control.
No matter who we vote for in this election He will choose our next leader and undoubtedly he will give us the leader we both want and deserve.
I have one vote in this election. I must choose wisely and with a prayerful heart in hopes that the future will be brighter for my children and Grandchildren on this earth.
I am a steward of the vote that God has given me. I will cast it in the way I believe would be most pleasing to him and most beneficial to my posterity.
I would never argue with that. Ever.
The bottom line is that it is your vote.
No doubt doc, I can only shudder to imagine how deep it truly goes -
It’s off the charts irrational hatred - I’m anxious to see when and where the crack finally breaks this whole thing wide open. Nature requires it - imho
The words you post, are well chosen. So many times here at Free Republic, it seems people just want to shout and be nasty. You look at the real world. and understand it must be a hard choice for a mom like Phylis of the Eagles Forum, to take a hard stand on an issue she believes. You understand Ronald Reagan, and in many ways he had the Cruz Gene of bearing hard and sticking to the Constitution, and less government, and at other times he had the flare and charisma of an outsider, like Trump. A bit of the positive characteristics of both men. We do hope the process is clean, and no under handed forcing upon the people the will of an elite party system. That is how we do it in Mexico, it is party rule, not the rule of the people.
“Not only has he ruined the chances of a Republican victory in November but he has pretty much destroyed this forum. It literally pains me to open up this forum and read some of the vitriol directed at anyone who doesn’t worship at the altar of the Trump tower.”
I’m going to bump that too. I don’t think he’s totally ruined November’s chances (because I think Hillary, while still dangerous, is exceedingly weak at this time) but everything else you wrote I agree with.
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