I hope Trump grows up but it's getting late for that.
Posted on 02/03/2016 1:57:45 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Q: Why are the voters rebelling?
A: The leftist progressives have been treading on our constitution and our liberty for at least the last 100 years and consequently we've suffered a long train of abuses and usurpations: The income tax (16th amendment), ending state sovereignty/concentrating power at the federal level (the 17th amendment), the Fed, heavy-handed/unconstitutional regulations, socialized retirement, socialized health care, restrictions on religious liberty, legalized abortion, federal mandated homosexual marriage with the heavy hand of the federal government enforcing it over the objections of the states and small business operators, the illegal alien invasion, the subversive Muslim invasion, the last 8 years of lawlessness under a Marxist/Islamofascist usurper, and a totally ineffective Republican opposition party that caves in or actually goes along with much of the above.
The tea party rebellion rose up several years ago to try to fight off the most recent Marxist assaults on our liberty and was quite effective at electing Republican majorities in the House and the Senate and in the majority of the states, but all to no avail.
The professional political elites entrenched within the Republican establishment co-opted our newly elected tea party representatives and or otherwise blunted their efforts and continued allowing the Marxist democrats to have their way over us. Even a rebellion against the Speaker of the House did no good. The new Speaker is as weak as the old Speaker.
And so the situation is ripe for rebellion. And we had a great Christian constitutional conservative tea party leader poised to lead it, Ted Cruz. And we were happy to jump on this young lion's bandwagon and push him through to triumph over the Marxist Democrats.
But the entrenched GOP establishment would have none of it and they (the GOPe and related Super PACS and their allies at FOX News and the cheap labor/open borders lobby) lined up behind the malleable open-borders Jeb Bush whom they could control and amassed a vast 100 million dollar plus warchest with promises of millions more to come. With the help of the "free" press, their anointed one was all but nominated. No way would a first term upstart and senate outcast like Ted Cruz overtake their anointed prince.
But then jumped in an older, long-maned alpha lion who's been around the block a couple times, roaring his way to the top of the hill. Trump's hard-nosed, no-nonsense, non-politically-correct, take no prisoners approach quickly grabbed the attention of the masses of fed-up voters. Trump single handedly slew the establishment's Prince Jeb, the media and the establishment itself and completely rewrote the rules of engagement.
His bold pronouncements that he would build a wall, enforce the law and deport them all was the exact right message at the exact right time and immediately vaulted him to front-runner status. And he added to that that he would end sanctuary cities, end anchor babies and even slap a moratorium on Muslim immigration. Again, exactly what the masses wanted to hear.
Now, many of us feel that these twin invasions (illegal aliens and Muslim infiltrators) were and are existential threats to our national sovereignty and were thrilled to have a mighty warrior like Trump who takes no guff from the media or the establishment to lead the charge.
The media, the establishment and even many so-called conservatives immediately objected with "you can't do that." It's unconstitutional and un-American. It's not who we are as Republicans.
That last one was especially telling. "It's not who we are as Republicans."
Ain't that the truth. And that's our entire problem in a nutshell.
Trump's huge rallies attracted thousands and thousands and his polling numbers soared for months. He was leading in most of the national polls and in most states.
But there was a growing counter-insurgency rumbling beneath the rebellion. Trump's history is strewn with contradictory and potentially fatal landmines. Too many of his past pronouncements and activities were on the NY liberal side and some are too much for Christian constitutional conservatives to bear or forgive. He swears that he's now a pro-life, pro-family Christian, but he has also stated that he's never asked for forgiveness. That's mighty hard for Christians to accept, but who are we to judge what's in a man's heart.
So here we are. The rebellion is roaring. The people are massing. Torches and pitchforks at the ready, but we are divided on who should lead it. And not just divided, we're scratching each others eyes out fighting about it. And as we do, the establishment's second choice (Gang of Eight traitor Rubio) is making inroads.
Personally, I'm all in for the Rebellion no matter who leads it. And I've often stated that Cruz is my favorite because of his constitutional conservative stance, but if Trump wins the nomination I'll enthusiastically support him in the general. Why? Because we cannot possibly allow yet another American-hating communist to follow Obama into the White House to complete the job of totally destroying our free Republic. End of that story. It's a no-brainer and my picture is in the dictionary under that term.
I absolutely love Trump's bold stand against illegal aliens and his call for a moratorium on Muslim immigration and believe it's even stronger than Cruz's past positions. I also love Trump's Reagan-like tax plan. Cruz's flat tax proposal is also interesting. I believe they both want to cut regulations, cut spending, cut government, return education to the states, etc, build a powerful military and fight against terrorism and make America great again.
Cruz is stronger on life and marriage and probably on choosing judges, but Trump says he's a pro-life, pro-family Christian but that's always a gamble anyway. Even Reagan and GWB blew a few judicial nominations.
The important thing here (IMHO) is that we save our nation. I'm not ready to rule out either of these candidates. Cruz is off to a great start and is up by one delegate over Trump and together they're double the GOPe's second choice. But it's a long hard grind ahead.
I say we should let the candidates fight it out and not be so eager to trash either one of our leading candidates. Digging up and publishing dirt and rumors on either is not doing our side any good and is potentially destructive in the long run.
And trashing our fellow FReepers is something that should never be done. This is going to be a long fight and we do not want to lose too many of our friends.
Meanwhile, let the rebellion gain strength. We're all in it together to save our nation. Please save your ammunition and your venom for the true enemy on the left.
Oh, I almost forgot. If you haven't already done so, please get your donation in. We're gonna need it to survive this fight.
“the GOPe’s are gonna serve us a steaming hot plate of bubble boy unfortunately”
Sure can’t argue about that! BTW by “bubble boy,” assume you’re talking about the GOPe’s “$hit Sandwich Du Jour!”
Welcome back Libbylu. I missed you.
You have a great afternoon and evening...
True words well spoken
Thank you, Jim.
That wha eim sayin'.
Bash candidates, not Freepers.
Crybaby loserboy.
Who the hell do you think you are?
Donald Trump got cheated in Iowa. Cruz lied about Carson and ran a voter shaming campaign.
Donald Trump is not rolling over, he’s fighting back.
All POS Republicans roll over. Over and over.
In the General, the Democrats are going to:
- Bus in the homeless
- Register ExCons
- Encourage voting more than one
- Encourage MILLIONS of Illegals to vote
- Rig the polling places
- Rig the touch screens
...and you’re telling me a candidate who is unwilling to take it and instead fight to the death to take what’s rightfully his/ours is a bad thing?
May the best man win, as long as its Trump.
There is only one way to tell what a candidate wants in this regard - which talk of restoring the government to its Constitutionally mandated role?
“Crossover” votes are the mirage in the dessert of empty hopes.
Jim,didn’t you post this before? That didn’t stop the posters from going at each other!
And Ted was saying nothing about illegal immigration or the border until Trump made it an issue
Ted doesn’t want to stop immigration from Muslim countries
The candidates are leaders. When one (or, say, the other) trashes, it encourages supporters to trash.
Somehow, supporters must resist (yes, we much) the temptation to mimic the trashing at the candidate level.
Indeed, I don't want the leading candidates to trash each other at all. It should be issues debated, and that's ALL.
Personally, I’m all in for the Rebellion no matter who leads it. And I’ve often stated that Cruz is my favorite because of his constitutional conservative stance, but if Trump wins the nomination I’ll enthusiastically support him in the general.
VERY well written editorial! This sums it up for me.
Thank you for setting the exact right tone!
Yep, well, you don’t need to sweat them with Cruz.
Congrats.
For the next couple of hours...Rick Santorum!
Sigh...
You post this on the thread where Jim admonished all not to bash fellow Freepers?
That's high profile right there...
I hope Trump grows up but it's getting late for that.
My take on it is that the establishment will use Cruz to try to take down Trump, then turn on Cruz, who they actually hate more.
After they have demonized Cruz, and pushed Rubio up in the media swarm, they will release negative info on Rubio, leaving Jeb! standing as our only choice.
Then, business as usual. because they really don’t care who wins as long as they can be controlled by the status quo.
Therefor, I am sticking with the loose cannon, who has a chance to attract voters from both sides, but, I do recognize the risk involved.
Trump is not a perfect candidate. The question we have to ask ourselves is - can our preferred “perfect candidate” get elected?
If not, can anything done to clean up the mess we are in?
“The new Speaker is as weak as the old Speaker.”
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
That's why we have to judge what he says and does.
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