Posted on 12/17/2015 4:26:22 PM PST by VinL
Are you a conservative? Are you rocking so much conservative street cred that you chose to stay home rather than vote for Republican nominees Mitt Romney in 2012 or John McCain in 2008 because you consider them undercover liberals, a couple of donkeys outfitted with fake trunks? Do you look at the big government left and the big government right and have trouble telling them apart? Do you currently support Donald Trump?
If you answered "yes" to the above questions, this intervention is for you.
I don't want to make you angry. I don't want you to make you scream at me on Twitter. I don't want to make you call Rush Limbaugh and tattle on me. I just want to show you how your support for Trump is affecting the people who care about you and what the consequences will be.
According to the Mayo Clinic, you can't argue with facts or with my "emotional response to the problem," so I'm going to try to do this using Mayo Clinic intervention-approved "I" statements.
I was upset and hurt when you supported Donald Trump because ...
No real conservative has emerged from a Republican primary since Ronald Reagan. George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney — let's face it, the establishment has dominated the primary for a long time. No surprise. That's whom it was invented to cater to.
But now — thanks to President Obama's incompetence — the pendulum is swinging hard to the right. According to the Realclearpolitics average, only 43 percent of Americans approve of the job the president is doing. This is finally the time!
Right now, you, the conservative base of the Republican party, have the best candidate they've ever had. Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) is smart, he's a great debater, he isn't afraid to mention Jesus in his ads and he never backs down on his positions. He's Voldemort-level character in the minds of most Democrats (Voldemort is the bad guy from that book you probably told your grandkids not to read. They read it anyway).
Cruz outshined every other candidate in last night's debate. He was strong on foreign policy without promising to trample the Constitution. You love the Constitution! Remember?
Cruz schooled Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) on illegal immigration:
There was "a time for choosing," as Reagan put it. Where there was a battle over amnesty and some chose, like Rubio, to stand with Obama and [Democratic New York Sen.] Chuck Schumer and support a massive amnesty plan. Others chose to stand with [Republican Alabama Sen.] Jeff Sessions and [Iowa Rep.] Steve King and the American people and secure the border.
He outlined conservative priorities:
Cutting taxes, cutting regulation, unleashing small businesses and rebuilding the military to defeat radical Islamic terrorism — our strategy is simple. We win, they lose. We've done it before and we can do it again.
Cruz is the first bona-fide conservative candidate I've seen in my lifetime who stands a chance of making it all the way to the White House. But, instead of seizing the opportunity to elect a true conservative, you have chosen to cast your primary vote for Trump.
I was upset and hurt when you supported Trump because ...
Trump wants to grow the size of government, spend massive amounts of taxpayer money and trample the Constitution.
He uses Democratic Party talking points to attack true conservatives. Last week, he called Cruz a "maniac." Last night, he walked it back, but only because it gave his conservative supporters a glimpse of who he really is.
Cruz believes what you believe. Trump pretends to believe some nasty caricature of what polling data told him you believe.
I was upset and hurt when you supported Trump because ...
The big-spending establishment Republicans failed us. The politically correct, identity-politics-obsessed bigger-spending liberals failed us. In 2016, America will finally be ready for a conservative voice, but that voice won't be there. Instead, we'll hear the voices of Trump and probably Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton arguing over whose version of single-payer universal healthcare is better. There will be no conservative voice and, ironically, it will be you who silenced it.
I don’t think that folks who prefer Cruz over Trump should go to war with Trump and/or his supporters.
I don’t think that folks who prefer Trump over Cruz should go to war with Cruz and/or his supporters.
Trump and Cruz are natural allies in the struggle with the establishment (’RAT-lite) Republicans and in the struggle to return America, its laws, its economy and its culture to its Constitutional Republic roots. Accept that reality and save your fire for the ‘RATS and the GOPe—we’ll be better off.
And Cruz hasn’t been trashing the establishment? For years now? That must be why he’s so loved in the Senate. Your really should get out more.
All trump has been doing is flapping his gums pitching his woo at you. Once you marry him, the wife beaters coming out and you’ll be looking for the nearest battered woman’s shelter.
I don’t think the party, if you mean the GOPe, would ever stop that, just look at how they used it to their toxic advantage in Mississippi.
I agree that’s what Ted has done. Good for him. He’s a good man. I also agree the Trump supporters are angry. I share some of that anger but disagree on the remedy.
A few months ago some FR Cruz supporters were using the thug approach. Now it is the Trump supporters. It serves no one well in the end.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Donald_Trump.htm
Trump wants to grow the size of government, spend massive amounts of taxpayer money and trample the Constitution.
I DID get out and vote for both McCain & then Romney. - I
will get out, crawl over rough gravel to get to the polls
and vote for TRUMP, if he endures to the election. After
Barack Hussein, the bar is pretty low. Now that the GOPe is
pitchforking Trump, I’m actually beginning to see him in
the George Washington outfit standing at the helm of that
boat - and the photo of Donald Trump in his little
military academy uniform is SO cute.
“I don’t think that folks who prefer Cruz over Trump should go to war with Trump and/or his supporters.
I don’t think that folks who prefer Trump over Cruz should go to war with Cruz and/or his supporters.
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Exactly. I was hoping it would be a Trump/Cruz ticket.
If you have a problem with that.. then suck a fart out of a dead dog’s ass.
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Was that directed at me, or the author? Just asking.
“Cruz believes what you believe. Trump pretends to believe some nasty caricature of what polling data told him you believe.”
What a bunch of insane, childish garbage. What is this person... ten?
That was pretty good.
I will tell the truth-I do, though I will vote for him if he’s the last Republican standing after the primaries. He will do more right than any ‘rat candidate, and I can’t bear the thought of one or two more terms of the continuation of Hissein’s administration, probably worse, because the ‘rats will be so cocky after that they will steamroll conservatives if they have to set the Constitution on fire on national teevee. I can’t bear the thought, I really can’t.
But I hope I get to vote for Cruz.
This guy’s name is Zipperer? Really? Well I’m a Zipperer too, most days. Other days I’m just a buttoner.
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LOL — You should know that neither Zippers or Buttons are plain...and using either mark you as proud. At least, that’s what some of my (somewhat distant) ancestors believed.
Yes, but not to buy power. It was to fight for freedom against tyranny. It was everyone. It was not one guy buying the most powerful office on fill-in-the-blank promises. It is not the same at all, in my view.
I agree that right now the GOP is corrupt and broken. That is why I appreciate what Trump has done. I think, though, in office he will end up selling out the people who support him. You will get your wall. Everything else is up for grabs.
That would be so ideal that I can hardly believe it’s possible in the country which elected that mush-headed puppet whose strings are pulled by the enemies of America-twice.
You make a very good case in post 31. I don’t know yet what I will do in the general. It’s hard to say. I do hope Cruz wins the primary.
Cruz or lose. America!
The Hill asks that question? They don't even know what a conservative is!
Does it not bother you that on almost every one of the issues on your link, there appears to be a fairly significant “change” in what should be core guiding principles (if he were actually a conservative) that coincidentally appear in 2015....
It should
Now I can like that post HG!
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