Posted on 12/22/2015 6:19:19 AM PST by COUNTrecount
We want a president we can loathe all of the timeânot support some of the time.
Dear fellow conservatives:
Let us now pledge to elect Hillary Clinton as the 45th president of the United States.
Letâs skip the petty dramas of primaries and caucuses, the debate histrionics, the sour spectacle of the convention in Cleveland. Letâs fast-forward past that sinking October feeling when we belatedly realize weâre going to loseâand lose badly.
Letâs move straight to that first Tuesday in November, when we grimly pull the lever for the candidate who has passed all the Conservative Purity Tests , meaning weâve upheld the honor of our politically hopeless cause. Letâs stop pretending we want to be governed by someone we agree with much of the time, when we can have the easy and total satisfaction of a president we can loathe and revile all the time.
Letâs do this because itâs what we want. Maybe secretly, maybe unconsciously, but desperately. We want fourâand probably eightâmore years of cable-news neuralgia. We want to drive ourselves to work as Mark Levin or Laura Ingraham scratch our ideological itches until they bleed a little. We want the refinerâs fire that is our righteous indignation at a country we claim no longer to recognizeâruled by impostors and overrun by foreigners.
We also want to turn the Republican Party into a gated community. So much nicer that way. If the lesson of Mitt Romneyâs predictable loss in 2012 was that itâs bad politics to tell Americaâs fastest-growing ethnic group that some of their relatives should self-deport, or to castigate 47% of the country as a bunch of moochersâwell, so what? Abraham Lincoln once said âIf you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.â What. Ever.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
He was an ardent nonsmoker, vegetarian and health enthusiast. He loved animals even to the extent that he arranged for the care and adoption of people's pets who were shipped off to detention camps, as they called them in the early days of the war and prewar years.
Western journalists, for the most part, gushed over these qualities and sold them to a worldwide audience. It wasn't until Crustal Night, just a few weeks after the Munich Agreement was inked, that a few of them begin to rethink their positions.
I agree,I have been saying for years that the progressives are the real flat earthers.
“If the lesson of Mitt Romney’s predictable loss in 2012 was that it’s bad politics to tell America’s fastest-growing ethnic group that some of their relatives should self-deport, or to castigate 47% of the country as a bunch of moochers’ well, so what?”
That’s not the lesson of Mitt Romney’s loss...
I lost most of a night of sleep after discovering that all the bookies have Hillary as the predicted winner right now.
Bret is a complete sell-out to the open borders cheap labor express.
Let me know. I am in.
Here's the modern problem solution
It's on TV all the time
Just shut up! Obviously you are NOT a conservative, so you don’t understand the conservative fervor this time around.
Thanks!
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