Posted on 01/14/2016 8:37:25 AM PST by Theo
If any other Establishment candidate was drawing the crowds and had the momentum Trump has the media would have made hie the defacto winner already. But continue wallowing in you self pit and TDS.
Mongo just pawn in game of life.
I “KNOW” no such thing. I am willing to admit he might win. But only a fool calls a race ‘over’ damn near a year out.
“Still, a roll of the dice is better than no chance at all, right? “
IMHO, it’s all we have. I don’t trust Cruz on legal/illegal immigration, and I take absolutely no pleasure in saying it.
Replace Trump with Bush, let the coronation begin.....
Pragmatism’s danger is revealed in Chesterton’s Fence, paraphrased as the wisdom of examining what something is designed to prevent before dumping it. Cutting to the chase may release the hounds of hell. On the other hand, if we try to prevent everything that’s preventable we end up with things like the Federal Register, the annual growth of which is measured in pounds, not pages.
Put me down as a pragmatist who believes in sun-setting laws to reduce the proliferation of barnacles that reduce the potential of the economy from a speed boat to a barge.
I don’t ‘trust’ per se, either of them in immigration. They both have taken some crappy positions and changed them.
I just trust Cruz more overall. As much as one can ‘trust’ a pol anyway. And having Trump say flat out - ‘Sorry Conservatives” - on the very subject that nearly had me singing backup in the Choir invisible 10 months ago did not make me a fan.
Fanboism isn’t helping any of us.
I get it. Either way is a crapshoot. I haven’t voted for a R candidate for POTUS since I walked away from GHWB. I voted for him the first time, not the second. Reagan was our last POTUS, the rest were all scum, in one way or the other.
My thing is people use pragmatism as an excuse to push their personal ‘thing’. Not as a method to achieve an acceptable outcome.
IE: “I voted for a guy that BBQs dead, shredded babies his own laws created. For profit. No matter what”.
Thats not pragmatic. Thats evil.
I disagree.
I will not vote for someone who supports any kind of future amnesty for illegals. It doesn’t matter if he is correct on every other issue. Frankly, I would like to see legal immigration halted for maybe 10 years.
The only exception that I make to this rule is that if he is the best I can get.
So far, it is Trump. But that is subject to change. It will never be Bush, and that is not. I’m perfectly willing to pull the 3rd party trigger.
Some posters here pretend to be conservatives when they actually are Obama supporters. When they cannot argue with ideas they resort to attacks on the person’s appearance. While some accuse the left of forcing uniformity of ideas and being in lockstep, they tolerate nobody who says something they disagree with. I admire R. Reagan, for example, even though I totally disagree with his amnesty decision and find it a huge mistake. I like S. Palin even though I was offended with her support for leftist John McCain during his last reelection.
Are you aware of his touchback amnesty? Because he intends to let them back in. That’s not me fanbooi backing Cruz. That’s Trump’s position.
Obama was a better option than Romney? Really?
Get a grip. You know damn well I was talking about on the GOP ticket.
That’s right. When you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger as a “Cruz flak.”
Well we know that standing on principle on FR has been frowned on by CANCERvatives since 2011. So clearly excuses must be made!
People create their own culture. While the Communists, Nazis & Social Democrats, as well as well as reason compromised Republican embarrassments, have all embraced the fallacy that collectivist social engineering can change people for the better & make them indistinguishable culturally, the history of America, the study of the demographics of different communities, and the observations of the rational throughout human history, all demonstrate the idiocy of such notions.
Ann is not always right. Who is? But she understands the preeminent importance of this issue.
RIGHT: Fear and desperation often trick people into making shortsighted, bad moves.
I "had" to vote in 2012's presidential race because I had a choice, was informed, and people have shed blood for my right to vote. I have a moral duty to vote if I am informed, and in 2012, I was informed.
So I used my vote the very best way I could to weaken leftism: I voted for a plurality, so that whichever main party functional leftist went into the White House, whether it was the Democrat or the Republican, would enter office as vulnerable as I could make him. By giving my vote to a third-party candidate, it reduced the popular mandate and vote count of BOTH leftist major party candidates.
That is what I HAD to vote for in 2012. You may have intended your vote to advance conservatism, but the action of your vote advanced leftism in the Republican party.
Be willing to OWN what you vote for, or else stay out of the polling booth. See my tagline.
“In the general election? Some ‘options�€™!”
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