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
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Balanced? It is the old bromide of the lesser of two evils. VDH does not treat Trump very flatteringly. In fact, he demeans him time and again.
VDH participated in the dedicated, entire NR issue that called for the defeat of Trump. He is changing his tune now that Trump is the nominee. The alternative is far worse for conservatism. The question is, "What took you so long to arrive at that conclusion?"
In retrospect, none of the other 2016 candidates were really competing for the disillusioned voters that Trump sewed up so clearly. For a time I thought TCruz and Trump were competing for the same voters. While TCruz may have been better on religious freedom and pro-life, his H1-B stand hurt him badly. TCruz in time became almost Bush-like.
So many truly bought into that mantra!
By that measure, what is 0bama? What is Clinton (pick one)?
It is because those effete academics consider Mr. TRUMP to be one of those “ROUGH MEN WHO STAND READY IN THE NIGHT TO VISIT VIOLENCE ON THOSE WHO WOULD DO US HARM”.
Just as the Lib/Prog/Transi/NWO/Demo/Socialist/Communists hate the police, the military, and the average American Citizen.
In their eyes we are all uncouth, uneducated, rough, violent men, not deserving of respect.
They have to hate him; just as they hate us, it’s in their education, upbringing, and their DNA.
Trump lives in that grey area between "alpha male" and "alpha hotel"*.
To some people he looks more like the latter than the former. He reminds me of some folks I have worked with over the years, who insist on being the Big Man In Charge of the Project even when they should by all rights be back-benchers. They're annoying, and I don't like them.
But that's irrelevant; we're voting for President of the United States, not best friend, team-mate, coworker, or whatever. Trump is flawed. Hillary is evil. The distinction should be obvious.
* For those of you in Rio Linda, that's an abbreviation for "Ass Hole".
You mean, folks like McConnell, Graham, Ryan, Boehner? How 'bout that Hero of Party Unity, Rinse Preibus?
Why thankee!!
Sub-human trash
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