Posted on 11/04/2018 10:51:33 PM PST by Kaslin
The midterms are tomorrow, and the Never Trump conservatives’ latest collective self-own is their insistence that we vote for Democrats because of … get this … conservatism. Well, “ahoy” to that, you cruise-pushing goofs.
Pardon me if I doubt the savvy political insights of the guys who told us, “You know who’d make a great candidate? Jeb!” I just can’t get my mind around anyone who thinks Jeb! is the answer to any question except, “What political superstar has three letters plus an exclamation point, blew a couple hundred million bucks for like one delegate, and will have ‘Low Energy’ carved on his tombstone?”
Here’s what I think happens Tuesday, and I could be totally wrong – though being wrong would entitle me to be an honorary Never Trumper. I think we take three or more seats in the Senate and keep the House. I think we keep power in Washington in the hands of the conservative party. And the Never Trump conservatives think this would be a terrible outcome.
They are the worst.
Shockingly, Never Trumpers are still a thing, at least in DC, New York and the nether regions of the internet, but no one is sure of why. It’s certainly not by popular demand; nobody likes them except weirdos, loser, mutations, and MSNBCNN bookers.
Of necessity, they have abandoned their old grift – “We are totally committed to winning victories for conservatism!” – in the wake of Trump singlehandedly fulfilling all the conservative fantasies that had previously graced the letters section of The Weekly Standard and its cruise-curious ilk: “I never thought it would happen to me, but then my president ditched the climate scam agreement and cut taxes! Hot!”
But Trump made our erotic right-wing dreams come true after decades of Fredocon teasing. And now no one calls the Never Trumpers anymore, and when they try their old pals, they get a text back: “New phone who dis?”
So now they have their new grift. They are the keepers of the conservaflame, the True Conservatives™ who plan to rescue us from the success of the Trump Era. And as part of that plan to get their principled conservatism on, they have stumbled onto a bold and innovative strategy: Help liberals win.
Im skeptical, but Chet thinks that’s a clever move. Chet is, of course, my unicorn.
Now, they have tried this bold gambit before. Remember how in 2016 we were instructed that real right-wingers must vote for Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit because…reasons? Here’s how that cunning stratagem was supposed to play out:
Vote for Hillary instead of Trump. Liberals finish their fundamental transformation of America into Venezuela del Norte. Hey look, a squirrel! Conservatism is victorious.
Shockingly, people seemed resistant to this kind of outside-the-envelope thinking. But that has not stopped the Resistance Right from going for round two.
At least Wile E. Coyote learned not to stand under the same Acme anvil twice.
So now the kept-cons on the pages of the New York Times and the tiresome trolls on Twitter are again demanding that tomorrow we vote against conservative candidates and in favor of liberal ones to somehow make conservatives win. Hmmmm. I have several questions, among them, “What the hell is wrong with you people?”
But hey – Libs eat up the Benedict Kristol act and the conservaquislings get plenty of TV hits from their pals in the media dumping on actual cons. Isn’t that the important thing?
Not to actual Republican voters, but then we were never really important to these clowns.
It’s so transparently dumb that you wonder if they actually expect anyone to fall for it. In what world is giving Claire McCaskill another term going to help conservatism? How, exactly, is that supposed to work? Is letting her and her pinko pals run rampant over our civil liberties and America’s standing in the world going to get us Republicans so motivated that we … wait for it … elect someone who will do all the conservative things that Donald Trump is currently doing?
I’m not sure they have thought this out. It’s like merely posing a conservatives is enough. Isn’t it kind of alarming to realize that a significant portion of the allegedly intellectual wing of conservatism has bought into the idea of ideological participation trophies, yet here we are.
Or worse, maybe they have thought this out and just don’t care. They used to sneer “But Gorsuch!” at us when we pointed to that huge victory, as if success in advancing conservatism was not the only metric that mattered. But what matters to these people, these more-conservative-than-thou dopes who somehow convinced themselves that you can actual win by losing, is their own puny stature.
Maybe they want us to be defeated because they figure that if the movement loses, like it used to, we will turn on Trump and cast him out, leaving a vacuum that needs to be filled. And who would they propose fill that void? Oh wait, I have a guess. They imagine we’ll trash our own party and come crawling back to them, begging them to take their rightful places again on the bow of the cruise ship S.S. Conservative, Inc., shouting “I’m the king of the world, or at least of my little corner of it here at my desk in the Center for Conservative Coalitions of Liberty ‘N Eagles ‘N Families!”
All we have to do is take their advice and lose.
Nah.
I’m not worried that our voters will take their advice, because as my new book Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy, explains we Normals are woke to this particular nonsense,. The failure of their failures to do anything but fail will not fail to ensure that they fail at talking us out of voting our self-interest, just like they’ve failed at everything else, except failing.
I should mention that his opponent’s endorsement list is far worse.
“I honestly suspect that most of these Congresscritters are raging alcoholics so it is actually pretty easy for Trump to get ahead of them. Must be like taking candy from babies.”
The DO NOT want to have to work. They have been coasting. Now, Trump will make them work for their pay, so they hate him.
But it does expose the Neocons as being “deliberately disingenuous”.
Indeed it does.
You hold your nose and vote for the R's. On wednesday you can start talking to everyone you know about finding a suitable candidate to run in the primary in 18 months.
It really solidified my hatred for TC and I’m not in Colorado. I think it was the Romney wing that was guiding CO.
Can we at last begin including names in these articles? Bill Kristol is it???? 10 names should be the minimum.
Your choice here is to vote for the GOP candidate because he sucks the least, and we need the numbers in the HOR.
“It really solidified my hatred for TC....”
The thing is, “hate” has never been the word I would use to describe my feelings about Ted Cruz - not even when he refused to endorse Trump at the convention.
For whatever reason, he’s always been a real turn off for me. I admit it is mostly subjective and superficial on my part - the way he looks, the way he talks. He comes off as oily and sermonizing. And lately, he’s been using that fake gruff voice, like the one that Al Gore used to fake.
So, my for Donald Trump was in part a vote again Ted Cruz, but not because I hated him - it’s just that I thought he could never in a million years win a general election, and therefore would be a horrible nomination.
Again, I never hated him. I never doubted his conservatism, and I appreciate that he is genuinely supporting the POTUS - it can’t be easy to put aside all that butt-hurt from 2015-2016 - it shows true statesmanship - and for that alone, I wish him all the best.
There WAS a MAGA candidate in the 2018 primary. I voted for him, but he lost badly.
You’re right. Disgust is a better word choice. If I were a Texan, I would campaign actively for him and absolutely vote for him despite my personal misgivings. R trumps D, 99.99% of the time.
The planned destruction of candidate DJT from multiple outside sources may have been directing much of the unscrupulous activities within that campaign. We will likely never know who was acting or whom was in charge in some of these instances.
And ‘hatred’ goes way beyond personal attacks, it’s more about huge financiers that stand to lose millions or billions of dollars due to PDJT’s stance on multiple issues. They were acting from greed and fear of devastating financial losses.
God willing we can save our country the easy way - rather than having to fight for every inch if dems take too much...
Exodus 18:21
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
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