Posted on 09/20/2016 10:03:38 AM PDT by Perseverando
The Republican dilemma
ny Republican has a difficult pathway to the presidency. On the electoral map, expanding blue blobs in coastal and big-city America swamp the conservative geographical sea of red. Big-electoral-vote states such as California, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey are utterly lost before the campaign even begins. The media have devolved into a weird Ministry of Truth. News seems defined now as what information is necessary to release to arrive at correct views.
In recent elections, centrists, like John McCain and Mitt Romney – once found useful by the media when running against more-conservative Republicans — were reinvented as caricatures of Potterville scoundrels right out of a Frank Capra movie.
When the media got through with a good man like McCain, he was left an adulterous, confused septuagenarian, unsure of how many mansions he owned, and a likely closeted bigot. Another gentleman like Romney was reduced to a comic-book Ri¢hie Ri¢h, who owned an elevator, never talked to his garbage man, hazed innocents in prep school, and tortured his dog on the roof of his car. If it were a choice between shouting down debate moderator Candy Crowley and shaming her unprofessionalism, or allowing her to hijack the debate, Romney in Ajaxian style (“nobly live, or nobly die”) chose the decorous path of dignified abdication.
In contrast, we were to believe Obama’s adolescent faux Greek columns, hokey “lowering the seas and cooling the planet,” vero possumus seal on his podium as president-elect, and 57 states were Lincolnesque.
Why would 2016 not end up again in losing nobly? Would once again campaigning under the Marquess of Queensberry rules win Republicans a Munich reprieve?
The Orangeman Cometh
In such a hysterical landscape, it was possible that no traditional Republican in 2016 was likely to win, even
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Romney and McCain are human trash. McCain especially.
Trump is FEARLESS and he THINKS BIG!!! He does BIG THINGS and he's NOT AFRAID to go into the LIONS DEN!!! He has BALLS!!!
“It may be discomforting for some conservatives to vote for the Republican party’s duly nominated candidate, but as this Manichean two-person race ends, it is now becoming suicidal not to.”
It’s the GOPe that are showing the greatest discomfort.
nevertrumpers are merely today’s feckless Whigs. Good riddance. Never again.
Another fine work by VDH. Fair and balanced and, ultimately, on the right side of history.
VDH has certainly not shown himself a fan of Trump in the past. This one, though, is very interesting. One might not expect a billionaire real estate mogul from New Yawk and a California grape farmer who is a Classics Professor to be a likely ideological mating anyway. Here VDH makes the case that a choice between a flawed Trump and an extremely flawed, corrupt, and downright dangerous Hillary is not really much of a choice after all. If that’s as much as we can get, it’s more than I hoped for.
VDH is one of the only voices of sanity at NRO.
He hit back rather then curling up in the corner crying.
I don't get why that is considered wrong.
Yes. Rush is reading from this article right now.
Absolutely A Number 1 and he never mentions my biggest reason to vote Trump - the likely 2-3 Supreme Court Justices!
Boutique corporate multiculturalism was always driven by profits while undermining the rare American idea of e pluribus unum assimilation — as the canny multimillionaires like Colin Kaepernick and Beyoncé grasped.
Bwahahahaha
Never Never Trump =
These intellectual types(and I am a YUUGE admirer of VDH)can be awfully slow on the uptake sometimes. Thanks for finally catching on VDH. I had faith in you. Now, how about knocking some sorely needed sense into those thick GOPe skulls at the NRO...
The RINOs gave us a list of their fair haired boys and in state caucuses and primaries the voters rejected them. Finally the people have had enough of the Washington power brokers and their cronies running the country.
You and me both. What the heck is wrong with my fellow citizens? What is wrong with a visionary fighter? These are the people who made America Great. Never giving up, never giving in and giving as good as he gets.
“Perhaps it is because I am not an effete academic who sips my tea with a raised pinkie but I don’t get what they don’t like about Trump.”
He doesn’t belong to the club. It’s like every teen movie out there where the new kid in town winds up accidentally embarrassing the bully and the rest of the movie they do everything they can to defeat him.
Donald Trump is our Daniel in Karate Kid.
Self-ping.
Long rant, but Victor comes around with this reality:
“It may be discomforting for some conservatives to vote for the Republican party’s duly nominated candidate, but as this Manichean two-person race ends, it is now becoming suicidal not to.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440198/never-nevertrump-not-voting-trump-republican-suicide
Welcome to the Trump victory march, Victor!
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