The truth is our country has turned from God in so many ways.
Posted on 05/01/2016 4:50:43 PM PDT by Calpublican
As a 5th generation Republican and Lifelong Conservative the political events of recent years have been frustrating. None are more frustrating than this election cycle.
We prayed and hoped for a real Conservative to counter the leftward pull of Obama. We wanted someone to pull the country to the right so we could possibly be, at least, center America, where we typically like to land in national politics.
We have had several Conservative candidates this cycle, but many who have called themselves "Conservative" have coalesced behind a man who is the farthest thing from Conservative as is imaginable and why? Because of FEAR.
Fear of the other, fear of violence, fear of immigrants. These are valid fears, but when fear turns to hate judgement is clouded. That is what has happened. Instead of standing by principles, "Conservatives" have been drawn to hateful rhetoric. Even after Trump has disavowed his own rhetoric to the NYT& others, the seed has been planted. If one wonders how despots rise to power, this is how. Exactly.
Trump's positions are all Liberal/Leftwing, some experts speculate Neo- Proto- or Ur-Fascist as well . He did not magically become Conservative and he has given ample evidence of this---repeatedly. But the fearful will not or cannot hear it.
If Trump is the nominee which Liberal will I choose? I choose Hillary and will, for the first time in my life, vote for a Democrat for president. Why? Because if Trump wins, pretending to be Conservative, he will destroy Conservatism for 20 yrs. He is not pulling down-ticket Conservatives so his administration would be Liberal to the max.
It is a difficult choice but I am absolutely convinced it is the correct choice. If I have to vote Liberal, I vote strategically Liberal.
I know lot of independents and democrats who plan to vote for Trump.
Your vote won’t be missed nearly as much as you think.
In case you haven’t noticed it, were fast turning into a 3rd world country with 3rd world problems.
And your solution is to vote for crooked Hilary. Yeah, that will show them.
Conservatism has been a failure for a very long time.
Conservatism destroyed itself because it stood for nothing and more to the point has no offered any alternative to the last 8 years of Obama.
Sad to say that the country, as a whole, really does not want small government. Too many getting some kind of benefit and over 50% pay no income tax of any kind.
There is no candidate that can or will be able to turn this country back Right.
The hope of Trump is that he may bring common sense and pragmatism to the problems at hand. Voting for Hillary will only hasten the end and lead to even more larger problems. My personal fear is that she will start an even bigger war in the ME so that she can prove how tough she is and that she has a penis. Trump, at least, has taken the opposite view that we should stay out of things that don’t concern is and put our own country first.
Make your own choice.
Drink up then
I’ll make this short and not-so-sweet.
You choose Hillary?
Adios asshole.
Yea, fixing ILLEGAL is so hateful.
You're just willfully ignorant. Trump has called himself conservative since the 80's. He's a capitalist free enterprise candidate...the opposite of a liberal. He's campaigning on overwhelming conservative policies. Look at his website. Listen to his speeches. The ONLY reason you think he's liberal is that somebody long before you culled some selective quotes from his thousands and thousands of public quotes and cobbled together a narrative that he was liberal. It's much easier to cobble together quotes that show the real narrative. He's more conservative then Ted Cruz.
BS.
You should practice up on your opus’s.
They are not very good.
Bye.
Trump is imperfect but on national sovereignty and on economics he is rock solid.
Clinton, on the other hand, is an open criminal.
So that should be an easy one. They aren’t often that easy, but this one is.
Au revoir.
The vote hasn’t been cast yet and I wager it won’t be.
This is the just the anguished cry of defeat. Threats, bargaining, it’s all part of the process for some.
It’s a long time until November.
Plenty of people said similar things about Romney’s nomination and ended up voting for him.
ILLEGAL immigration
There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON that would EVER justify a vote for Hillary — NONE!
Does anyone know what state this individual was from?
Cal could mean California or something else.
Dude, how wrong can a person be?
You are lost and rather than grasp at straws
you grasp an anchor.
Perhaps FR will still be here when Hillery! is done
but I have my doubts.
Flame out Bigger!
People say the silliest Things !
The truth is our country has turned from God in so many ways.
Go “F” yourself.
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