Posted on 08/01/2020 6:40:37 AM PDT by Moseley
For years, #NeverTrump activists were pushing the challenge to Trump supporters on social media: “Is there anything that Trump could do that would cause you to stop supporting him?” It was one of the primary “Orange Man Bad” themes.
The morality test is that Trump supporters are abandoning all principle by worshipping Donald Trump as our Messiah and engaging in a cult. Leftists in both parties have lied about Donald Trump, hurling smears and invective, accusinng Trump of saying things that Trump never said and doing things Trump never did. And yet it just isn’t working.
Why don’t any of their attacks on Trump succeed? It cannot be because the #NeverTrump arguments are dishonest, unfounded, and unpersuasive. It has to be because Trump supporters are mesmerized. Trump has fooled us all into thinking he is wonderful.
Never will #NeverTrumpers reexamine their arguments.
The correct answer is obviously: “No, there is nothing that Donald Trump can do to lose my support, because I am not judging the 2016 or 2020 elections based on Trump’s supposed perfection.” Because any intelligent person’s necessary support Donald Trump has nothing to do with whether Trump is flawless or not, Leftists are wasting their time. Donald Trump being without faults never played any role in our decision.
In 2012, the Republican Party made a fatal mistake. (Well, many, actually.) The main message of the Republican presidential campaign from those trying to drag Mitt Romney across the finish line was “Obama bad.” Not “Mitt Romney better.”
But voters don’t vote that way. The voters, I believe, were ready to concede that in many ways: “Obama bad.” But… were the voters convinced “Mitt Romney was better?” No.
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I am convinced that in 2012 many voters agreed “Yes, Obama is troubling, but would Bain Capital’s Mitt Romney drive the economy into another 2008 meltdown? Do I want to take that chance? Maybe re-electing Obama is the less-risky choice.”
The GOP failed to counter attacks. Defending yourself wouldn’t be polite. A gentleman just allows people to lie about him. It would be unseemly to point out your opponents’ lies. The GOP never to this day (I mean the party officially) rebutted the lies about the 2008 economic mortgage-collapse crisis or explained the Democrats’ guilt in creating it.
Why would I ever vote for any Democrat, especially Joe Biden? I was Christine O’Donnell’s campaign manager briefly when she ran against Biden in 2008 for the Delaware U.S. Senate seat, helping her win the Republican nomination along with Gretchen Ellixson, John Feroce, and others. I created a website “The Biden Quiz” documenting in precise detail (after Christine argued it) that Joe Biden was among the most far-left U.S. Senators.
Biden has never been a moderate. Worse, Biden is a chameleon, a voiceover actor who simply memorizes talking points and delivers them like a narrator in a TV commercial. Biden doesn’t actually believe in anything. But he does echo precisely whatever the far Left says or wants.
All Joe has had to do for decades is repeat the talking points popular at the moment and collect applause. In his left-wing bubble, when Joe could say no wrong, it ceased to matter what came out of Biden’s mouth.
Rich Lowry’s National Review actually launched the #NeverTrump hysteria with its landmark 2016 edition “Conservatives Against Trump. Within two years, Rich Lowry tried to retreat from the mania. Writing in Politico, this week, Lowry tried to build common ground between the #NeverTrumpers he championed and Trump voters, without the benefit of a map. In “The Folly of the Never Republicans,” rather than deconstructing the reasons for the chasm, Lowry merely warns that burning down the Republican Party by electing Biden will not create a better outcome. Lowry concedes that Trump is an unacceptable boor -- suspiciously like what critics said about Winston Churchill and uncultured frontier woodsman Abraham Lincoln. But Lowry urges #NeverTrumpers to step back from the cliff.
#NeverTrumpers can point out a thousand faults of Donald Trump -- none of which are true, but let’s focus on the point. The alternative candidates are worse.
One cannot point the finger at Trump when the candidates they are pushing are terrible. That includes the polite, dignified Republicans who think that letting the Democrats win makes them the better man. Or maybe they think that if they attack their own party, the alligators will eat them last. Haven’t we already tried those type of Republicans for decades? What could possibly make anyone want to back to those “dignified” Republicans? They are the problem, not the solution.
Trump is not a democrat. He will not bring in millions of bearded welfare recipients. He will not sell the country out to China. He will not sell out Whites. For all his quirks, he is the best thing for this country.
Let me put it this way: I am voting against Biden and all other Democrats.
I vote against rats period....Trump has earned my vote...
President Trump is the leader we need right now. God Bless President Trump.
I’m sure it’s already been done, but if not, would someone please photo edit Trump’s head on a picture of Sylvester Stallone where in one of the Rambo movies he tells some evil guy who asks who he is, “I’m your worst nightmare!”. I think it was a Rambo movie...
Of course. He could act like a Democrat or a GOPe clown.
I will vote against President Trump when Hell freezes over ....... or Buffalo wins the Stanley Cup this year. Whichever comes first.
I can tolerate the occasion unhelpful tweet.
Biden would embrace the destruction of every element of the Constitution and our economy.
Or even worse, the George W. Bush philosophy: "Good people will see through the lies."
Maybe they would have in 1950. Trump gets immense criticism from the GOPe for what they consider his simplistic Tweets and almost childish repetition of themes - but he knows his audience.
Yes, agree.
I have never prayed for a President, Vice-President and Christian’s serving in government everyday...until President Trump. We pray for his family who is also under constant attack. President Trump is here ‘for such a time as this’ which is a gift from God and an abundance of answered prayers.
II Chronicles 7:14....God WILL provide!
George Washington himself would have to come back, reincarnated and run for President as an Independent for me not to vote for Trump.
For the third time in my life, I’m enthusiastically supporting a presidential candidate with my vote.
Reagan in 1984 and Trump.
What is the old adage, you cannot replace somebody with nobody.
This was used most successfully by the elder Richard Daley of Chicago for years, until he had the bad judgment to die and leave the office of Mayor vacant. For years “reform” Democrats and some feeble Republicans put up token opponents, but “Da Mare” managed to run up some impressive victories.
“Or even worse, the George W. Bush philosophy: “Good people will see through the lies.””
YES! I forgot that ! Great quote. Great catch !!
if he quit... would end my hope.
Yes. If it is proven he is having an affair with Nancy Pelosi.
Maybe I’m a Pollyanna, but I see the possibility that part of the 67% of Biden voters could be converted, depending on Trump’s message.
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