If the election were held today, who would be your first choice for President of the United States?
Posted on 04/01/2016 12:55:57 PM PDT by crazylibertarian
I’ve resented anyone telling me how I should live my life since I was a teenager. I’ve always felt that you should be free to destroy yourself with alcohol, drugs, sex or gambling, just don’t require me to support the disasters that result. Any obligation I have in that regard comes from my relationship with God, not from any contract drawn up by man.
I waited for 16 years from Barry Goldwater’s defeat to Ronald Reagan’s victory for a supposedly true conservative to take over the Oval Office. In the meantime, I had to make due with William F. Buckley’s largely symbolic campaign for Mayor of New York and Richard Nixon’s rediscovery of his own conservative roots.
Ronald Reagan went to Washington vowing to terminate the brand new Departments of Education & Energy. Their original staffers have now long since retired with full government pensions paid by guess who?
Supposedly conservative Republicans have given us the EPA & BATFE, though it had antecedents, RICO, civil forfeiture & Medicare Part D. We have also long since passed the point where there are more people employed by The Department of Agriculture than there are working in farming.
I worry when someone can have his property seized before he’s found guilty of a crime. I worry when a prosecutor opines that the only limits to application of the RICO ACT is his imagination. I worry when a stockbroker can draw a longer sentence for a securities fraud than for vehicular manslaughter. I worry when it’s estimated that the average citizen commits three felonies a day simply by getting out of bed, going to work & coming home. I worry that a citizen like Martha Stewart can be sent to prison for one wrong statement to one FBI agent once, while government officials blithely incinerate 80 people, including many children, at the compound of a weird religious sect in Waco, Texas.
So why vote for Trump? Look what eight years of Ronald Reagan’s making nice with Thomas ‘TIP’ O’Neill did. Reagan regarded opponents as misguided. They weren’t & aren’t. Reagan pushed hard for tax reduction but the Democrats refused to reduce spending, hence our soaring deficits and national debt.
Maybe rank & file Democrats are misguided but the party leaders are committed socialists and to bringing as much of American life under government control as possible. If there is any human problem, they regard it as within government’s purview to solve it and if there is no obvious problem, to find one; hence Hillary’s warning about the ‘silent crisis’ of day care. It was so silent that no one knew about it. Progressives have no principles other than that.
The exact limit for government is debatable but Richard Nixon, as astute a political observer as ever existed, said that we must never reach a point where taxes are more than 50% of income. If the Democrats have their way, that limit is sure to be tested.
What has alarmed me most about this campaign is not the candidacy of declared socialist Bernie Sanders but the lack of protests about it. There has not been a peep from any Democrat nor have the media asked him about it. No one has used the term socialist with the opprobrium it deserves.
No one has brought up the early socialism of Benito Mussolini which evolved into his Fascism nor the National Socialism of Adolf Hitler, the Soviet Socialism of Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin, Josif Stalin & Nikita Khrushchev nor the socialism of Fidel Castro. They should be nailing Sanders about it.
No one has challenged Sanders to differentiate himself from them. Worse, Democratic National Chairman Deborah Schultz Wasserman couldn’t herself differentiate the Democrats from the socialists. She descended into incoherence. That is understandable; progressivism & socialism are one & the same.
I anticipate Donald Trump will make the socialism of the Democratic an issue & that he will hang it around the necks of the Democrats, no matter whom they nominate. This is very long overdue. You can’t make nice with them. Progressives aren’t nice people. Republicans have played this game a way too long.
Freedom should be the issue. Prosperity is the result, not the goal. Without private property, inviolate of government intrusions, freedom and prosperity are impossible. The entire agenda of progressivism and the Democratic Party, has been the destruction of freedom and private property. Prosperity is impossible under their aegis.
If all you do is obstruct new programs and not challenge the old ones, you just legitimize them and they become permanent fixtures as so many are now. This has been the M.O. of the Republican Party for decades.
I don’t know if Donald Trump can do much about this but I’m tired of voting for people who say they will & their ‘solutions’ wind up co-opting more of my freedom. I’m tired of Republicans citing that they ‘saved Medicare & Social Security’ for their campaigns. I want challenges to their very existence and that of the EPA, EEOC, OSHA, BATFE and even the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.
I don’t know if a President Trump will do it but the other ‘Republicans’ have had their chances & failed. I want progressives to have to negotiate with him. It doesn’t pay to be nice to liars, thieves & thugs.
THE OTHERS HAVE HAD THEIR CHANCE
Trump just blew his on Hardball last week.
In before the TDS FReaks!
Darn.
In a nutshell, that’s a bug factor in my vote as well...The politicians have had their chance for many years. Let a citizen in the private business industry take a stab at it. Regardless of what Cruz says he will do, we have to realize he is a senator and will say whatever it takes to get votes. In one of his stump speeches a month ago he actually said we are going to build a wall to the crowd...gee, wonder where he got that idea from?
Well said.
I agree with most if not all of your points.
Hardly!!!
GO TRUMP
My candidate has a consistent record that I largely applaud and agree with. Despite the recent character assassination campaign against him, I still, based on his record and based on what I've seen of him for years, think he's a good man who is committed to Constitutional principles. Our Constitution served us well until we started deviating from it.
I am not comfortable with a pig in the poke just for the sake of shaking things up. Trump has, frankly, said a lot of leftist things, supported a lot of leftist causes, and even in the midst of this campaign, even within the last week, has had to backpedal something he's said or done because he's not a conservative in his heart and doesn't know what conservatism is in his head. It's only after he's stepped in it that his handlers fill him in on what his desired voting group really thinks and wants to hear him say.
Change for change sake seldom works out well.
Thumbing your nose at political correctness is refreshing, but isn't indicative of presidential material.
Mob mentality is not a way to pick a president.
Its over for Trump.
He cant save himself from his dumb statements , so how could he possibly ‘save America’ ?
Only in your dreams.
Trump needs to pull out now for the good of the country.
What’s gonna happen if the Cruz scandal gets out and it’s real? What happens if Cruz is our nominee and the scandal bubbles up while he’s running against hitlery? I hope a good man like Trump isn’t shot down by a Chrissy Matthews for a dumb answer to a hypothetical question about abortion. As I said before abortion is not going away any time soon as much as we despise it.
Would you care to give a short description of what Trump said on "Hardball?"
All change is not growth...
People will be severely disappointed, Trump’s instincts are for top down solutions where the ‘best and brightest’ design the solutions.
That is his limitation. People project their hopes on him the way people did w Obams.
No he didn’t, only if you wanted him to fail. 90% of his interview with Chris Wallace was fine, very good in fact, the last 4 minutes fell into chaos, and here is why it was a set-up:
Attached is a link to the interview, it’s the last 1/4 of the interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hThp4XM17h8
In it Chris Wallace states that he accepts the church’s Moral Authority for a pro-life stance, but is pro-abortion, but would not make a choice personally as to a penalty to women, rather leave it up to the law.
Trump then stated that there IS law on the books, not good enough for Wallace, he wants Trumps personal view. Trump stated that “if it was illegal”, then there should be penalties.
That is why its a gotcha question.
Listen for yourself and comment.
Buy Depends. Very soon you’re going to be wetting yourself very regularly.
The complete opposite of what he said an hour later
Is that short enough?
Hillary would having him 180 degrees on illegals if we cant stop him now.
I agree with much of that.
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