Posted on 05/11/2016 1:10:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Our overriding mission on Free Republic is to preserve, protect and defend (conserve) God, family, country--and all that that entails (refer to the Declaration, Constitution, and our Judeo-Christian American heritage for details).
Our most immediate task we must undertake at this time is keep corrupt, godless, treasonous, America-hating communists like Hillary Clinton out of power.
Our very survival as a free nation depends upon it.
That means FR is going all in to defeat Hillary/Bernie, et al, by supporting our America-first nominee Donald Trump to the hilt.
Very sorry if your favorite candidate did not win the nomination and sorry if you cannot understand or agree with our mission, but those who can't live with our immediate goal need to either keep it to themselves or sit it out (from FR) for the duration. Anti-Trump activities and NeverTrump trolling and recruiting efforts are not appreciated and are unwelcome on FR.
The time for fighting about who may be best on our side for the job is over. It's now time to consolidate and concentrate our firepower against our common enemy.
Our intent is to do whatever it takes to defeat the commies in November and if you do not wish to be part of this effort, please sign off now. You can always let me know by email if you wish to rejoin us.
Thank you very much.
Will be missed by this member of the class of “98”
How lame. I’ve been here a long time. Never saw that name before.
Yawn.
“hypocritical folly “
Like Cruzers claiming Obama wasn’t eligible yet Cruz is?
“Our intent is to do whatever it takes to defeat the commies in November”
So that’s what happened to political debate around here. I was
wondering why people were being so nasty to anyone with
concerns about Trump. It’s a pro Trump jihad. Ok I’ll curb
(self censor) my comments about Trump until after the election. By the way, I was never anti or against Trump.
I was and always will be conservative. But your right,
we need to win and holding my nose and voting for Trump
isn’t nearly as bad as it was for Bush 1, Dole, Bush 2,
McCain and Romney.
Adios and save your venom for your beloved Never Trump site.
Your account has been banned or suspended by Jim Rob!
Okay
Make America Great Again!
Thank you! Reaffirmation of American Values in a time of National distress.
NAFTA was to the second of the world’s 5-7 regional trade zones. The EU is a mess with un-elected officials and immigration issues. The US followed suite, but screwed things up the Pipeline and everything else a democrat could touch.
Daxton Brown is right. Those of us who didn't agree with Trump need to remember what happens if Trump loses this November. If we think eight years of Bill Clinton were bad, we can barely begin to imagine how much worse eight or even four years of Hillary Clinton will be.
There are not many people who can say they worked harder than I did to oppose Trump's nomination. I stayed quiet on Free Republic — around here, it was obvious that the anti-establishment sentiments were unified, and the debate was which of several anti-establishment candidates were better — but I spent a lot of political capital and goodwill in my own county arguing that we can do better as Republicans than Trump. I wasn't sold on Cruz, but I eventually decided he was the best anti-establishment candidate, and spent a lot of time arguing that the people who were backing Trump needed to be backing a candidate, whether Cruz or some other conservative, who had a better shot at winning in November.
But I said — ALWAYS — that I can think of at least two good reasons to vote for Trump. One of them is named Hillary and the other is named Bernie.
The “Never Trump” movement is, put bluntly, crazy. They have no viable path to success. The only way they can have even the remotest possibility of gaining traction would be if Mitt Romney spends tens of millions of dollars to win Utah, plus maybe Idaho and a few other deep red states, for himself or some other third-party candidate with the goal of sending the election into the House of Representatives.
Does anyone on Free Republic who doesn't like Trump **REALLY** think Romney is better?
That dog don't hunt.
Look, I'm not happy with the nominee. But he's a WHOLE lot better than the alternatives. I've been unhappy with several prior Republican nominees as well, but the alternatives were worse.
A final point for the “NeverTrumpers” who are reasonable and serious and capable of being reasoned with — the number one legitimate concern has been what kind of Supreme Court justices Trump would appoint.
Trump has addressed that with his list of Supreme Court candidates.
Seems to me that the one area where Trump could do real damage beyond his presidency — nominating numerous “sleepers” like Justice Kennedy — has now been addressed.
So for all the people out there who, like me, supported some other candidate: Go read some Hillary speeches. Go read some Bernie biographies.
Then come back and explain to me why you want to get one of those two people in the White House by backing some third-party candidate rather than Trump.
I'll give Trump credit where credit is due. He understands that the way to beat bullies is to face them down, refuse to give in, and smash “political correctness.” Too many Republicans want genteel dinner-party debates, not realizing the radical extremists who have captured the modern Democratic Party want to crush dissent. Look at Mizzou and Prof. Click — the Red Guard wannabees are waiting for a President Hillary, though they'd prefer a President Bernie.
That simply **MUST** be stopped.
Maybe Trump's blunt in-your-face abrasiveness is the way to do it. Maybe not. But as the Republican nominee, he is the only one who has any possibility of getting the job done. Any other alternative is dreamland induced by a California (or Colorado) high, and the “Never Trump” people are fools to even think their way can work.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3372955/posts?page=109#109
Key quotes:
“I'm willing to vote for a non-evangelical. The biblical standards for civil rulers are not the same as those for church office. King David was not deposed for his actions in the sphere of the civil magistrate, but would have had to be deposed for his actions in the sphere of the church.
Trump is better than a number of options on the Republican side, and far better than any of the Democratic options.
But if Trump becomes the conservative candidate of choice, we're going to have to have a long, hard discussion about how a man who grew up under the politically conservative and pro-business preaching of Norman Vincent Peale can interact with the Christian conservative base of the Republican Party.
Let's be fair. Trump grew up in what, by the standards of upper-class elite New York City society of the time, was a fairly conservative church. I know more than a bit about what it was like to be in elite upper-class Protestantism of the era when Trump was growing up. I know the Reformed Church in America quite well; even in its liberal East Coast regional synods, the RCA of that era was not really a traditional liberal Protestant denomination, though it has become so in more recent years. In the days before the demographic collapse of the mainline denominations and the rise of the modern evangelical movement, mainline churches were sometimes surprisingly biblical in what got taught by average members in Sunday School even if the preaching was problematic. And again, Marble Collegiate Church, by the standards of post-World War II New York City, was NOT a liberal church. It was not evangelical, but Trump's family could have found far worse places to worship.”
None of this is new. I said basically the same thing four years earlier that Newt Gingrich, if he became the only remaining alternative to Mitt Romney, should be supported by social conservatives.
Four years ago many of the same arguments I made for backing Gingrich once Santorum dropped out apply now to backing Trump once Cruz dropped out. But they're even more important now that the alternative is not Gingrich vs Romney, but rather Trump versus Hillary or Bernie.
In the classic sense you are correct in your assertions. Where you are wrong is the fact that this is a privately owned site, the opinions and expectations of the owner are laid bare for all to see as well as the rules to post here. Freedom doesn’t give one the liberty to shout fire in a crowded theatre but it does allow you to choose where you will exercise your free speech.
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