Posted on 07/08/2016 9:19:08 AM PDT by xzins
In the ideal world imagined by some of our friends, Hillary Clinton would have been indicted and knocked-out of the race for President and Donald Trump will be replaced at the Republican National Convention by an as yet unidentified perfect conservative candidate whom the voters will anoint as the next President of the United States.
Of course none of this ever was, or is, going to happen, but some of our conservative friends can’t seem to stop wishing for the election they want, instead of concentrating on winning the election they have.
However, despite this lack of ability to focus on winning, the tools to win are actually there, in a way they haven’t been available to Republicans in the past several presidential election cycles.
First, and perhaps most importantly, we have a candidate – Donald Trump – who is a fighter and who will take the fight to Hillary Clinton and the Democrats in a way John McCain and Mitt Romney never would or could.
Second, we have the makings of a new and energetic conservative – populist coalition that clearly represents majority opinion on major issues that move voters; securing our borders, winning the war Islam has declared on the West, rebuilding our economy and creating jobs, and standing for law and order, to name but a few.
Third, in Hillary Clinton we have an opponent who has just been labeled by the Director of the FBI a liar who was extraordinarily careless with classified national security information, and who remains under multiple investigations for that and the corruption of her eponymous Clinton Foundation.
Fourth, Republican political alignment is stronger than it has been in generations: Republicans hold 31 governorships, and 54 Senators and 247 Members of the House of Representatives are Republicans, this is the strongest the Republican national party has been since the 1929-1931 election cycle.
Fifth, the Democratic Party has moved far to the Left under Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. It is now the party of same-sex bathrooms, same-sex marriage, government paid abortions, gun confiscation, open borders, job killing trade deals and the endless importation of welfare-dependent aliens. These policies are deeply offensive to millions of Americans who can be motivated to vote for change if they are presented with a change agenda – which Donald Trump is doing, despite the criticism and opposition of the Republican establishment.
Finally, and perhaps second only in importance to Trump’s willingness to take the fight straight at Hillary Clinton, is his commitment to confront the elitism that is poisoning our society and to fight for America’s forgotten working families.
Trump’s speech in Monessen, Pennsylvania, not only included a number of sensible policy prescriptions, it also included a politically powerful message to Americans who have been intentionally left behind by today’s political elite:
"Many Pennsylvania towns, once thriving and humming, are now in a state of total disrepair. This wave of globalization has wiped out totally, totally, our middle class. It does not have to be this way. We can turn it around and we can turn it around fast.
"But if we are going to deliver real change, we’re going to have to reject the campaign of fear and intimidation being pursued by powerful corporations, media leaks and political dynasties. The people who rigged the system for their benefit will do anything and say anything to keep things exactly the way they are.
"The people who rigged the system are supporting Hillary Clinton because they know as long as she is in charge, nothing is going to change. The inner cities will remain poor. The factories will remain closed. The borders will remain open. The special interests will remain firmly in control. Hillary Clinton and her friends in global finance want to scare America into thinking small. "
People in “flyover country” are starting to understand they’ve been the victims of a politician-made disaster. The destruction of America’s middle class, wrought over the past two decades and continuing today, wasn’t caused by some inevitable, pre-destined economic force – it was caused by the leaders we elected and entrusted with our government.
And Donald Trump is the only candidate for President talking about it and prepared to rectify it.
Clearly, it does not come naturally to Donald Trump to speak the language of cultural conservatives, politically active Christians, the Bible and the Constitution.
But, just as clearly, we have him looking our way on a number of important issues; judicial appointments, matters of conscience and religious liberty, government paid abortions, gun confiscation, open borders, job killing trade deals, the endless importation of welfare-dependent aliens and reining-in the use of government enforced political correctness to stifle Christian witness in the public square.
We know there’s no negotiating on our issues with Hillary Clinton, so it is to Trump that right-of-center voters will have to look if our country and constitutional liberties are to survive, and it is to us that Trump must look to find the votes necessary to win the election.
The future of our country is at stake in this election. It’s time we conservatives stopped wishing for an election that was never going to be and buckled down to winning the one we have.
Trump has already demonstrated that he is a true Conservative. Nothing that affects or threatens the well-being of America is off limits; and the primary issue of this campaign is making America & the Americans first.
Suggestion: When you get a fund request from one of the fake Conservatives, reply with some clause denouncing their refusal to support Trump in the subject line. Perhaps if enough of us do that, they will finally get the message that we are not buying their crocodile tears over our candidate.
“then those who want to fight against us were never on our side to begin with.”
On our side? We should have met them on the field of battle during the Carter regime.
“Those “people” are NOT true conservatives...They use it as a label...”
IMO, intelligent conservatives immediately recognized Trump as the deus ex machina that we needed.
Trump already has my vote. There are several things for him to do if he wants me to LIKE him, too.
Is it a crime to send an email with vulgarity in the subject line...yet?
Paul Ryan is number one on the cleaning list.
How could they have been? The corruption of Clinton is a clarion call for honest people to unite. Those who would make some arcane point of conservative purity by allowing Clinton to win are themselves liars in my book.
Yes.
We all know that when Jane Fonda went to Vietnam to give aid and comfort to the enemy, and John Kerry, while still under the aegis of a military obligation did the same, the concept of treason was dead.
The leftists know it, and we know it.
Hillary Clinton certainly knows it.
I know a surprising number of life-long Republicans who are ready to vote for Hillary Clinton because of their dislike of Donald Trump. There is a much better option than to protest Trump by voting for someone who stands for everything that is wrong with our nation: don't vote for President. There is no requirement that you have to vote. Withholding your vote has no impact on the outcome unless you live in a purple state. I have convinced some that is a viable option.
After 40 years of voting for Republican presidential candidates, having never missed an election, I couldn't bring myself to vote for Mitt Romney and voted for a third-party candidate. I couldn't bring myself to the defiling act of voting for Romney (voting for Obama was never an option). I don't want to say I told you so but anyone who did their homework on Mitt Romney and the Romney Family should have known that he is a snake and wouldn't be surprised by his involvement in the Never Trump Movement. I still haven't made up my mind about whether I'll vote for Trump or not but Hillary will never get my vote.
See the link at #33
“But we do not need to use vulgarity in telling them off.”
Mark Twain said, “Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”
Cheers!
I am not voting for anyone. I am simply voting against Hillary by casting my vote by trumps name. I just can not stomach a Clinton on the white house again, especially after the Obama regime.
Bottom line:
Vote for the Republican nominee or else you will have elected the Clintons.
Ross Perot, anyone?
...some of you Bush haters did that to us in 1992.
Thx.
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