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.
I know, I heard that ‘Trump is really gay’ rumor too.
Maybe they swapped the other way, Trump got Bill
That certainly WASN'T meant for you. I apologize.
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Ahh yes
I have a new tagline
That's all the NE cited with their unsourced rumors , and Trumpeters claim its solid proof to this day.
Bill has way too many STDs...I can’t see The Don taking that risk even if he was gay, LOL.
You did it, you astounded me. You actually said that Trump would do GOP bidding, and would be a sellout! What an amazing lack of credibility on your part, or ignorance. The REASON Trump is self-funded is that he would NOT be a GOPe lackey, which is why they do not want him to win. If Trump wins, the GOPe life as they know it will forever change.
I must be mistaken. You could not have meant what you just said, because that would make you an idiot, and I would never want to say that about anyone. Tell me I am wrong about your statement.
Maybe Bill was the receiver.
Aside from Texans and the operatives, the Cruz base is gone from FR. Yep, looks like Cruz has alienated most the people right here. The FR daily Caucus has his support under 15% right now. His numbers have always been weak. Ted has basically won only Wichita and Texas, that’s all folks.
Cruz would have had zero chance if not for shaming voting/ballots and secret counting systems. Ted specializes in very overly-representative delegate states that eventually become the lowest electoral college vote states. None help in the GE, but Texas. He holds marginal wins, no major help for the REAL election (with the exception of Texas).
Cruz’s 8 states vote totals (380K) is less than the population of WICHITA for crying out loud. He had the worst showing in Texas in 50 years. And if he didn’t have his staff of profile schemers sending out a posse to locate favorable voters he’d be long gone. And if Ted wasn’t from Texas, he’d have <5% of the vote and he’d be long, long gone. Yep, God barely blesses Texas for Ted and he’s sittin’ on most of the Texas delegation.
What happened to all that ‘armor of God?’ There is no reason why an ‘evangelical Christian’ wouldn’t have won The South, but Cruz got shut out. Southerners see through his overly rehearsed pious demeanor. And if he can’t win Florida, Ohio, & Virginia and the South, there’s no path to victory.
All Cruz can do is cajole, bribe, deceive & coerce his way to Cleveland. Unless he’s planning on some major league cheating (computerized vote reversals) he can not win. And if he’s succeeds in doing this, you can be guaranteed that the GOPe will back-stab Cheatin’ Teddy at the 2nd ballot.
Read the 57 delegation rules: some delegates are pledged through to the winner to the 2nd or 3rd round. And some delegations can DQ Cruz since we’ve never had a foreign born as a president. el Cubano de Canadian demonstrates how little he really regards our Constitution by even running.
Tricky Teddy = Dirty Teddy = Lyin’ Teddy = Cheatin’ Teddy
No worries. Have a nice weekend!
Not convinced, but thanks for the sane response.
You may wish this to be so, but the people that are voting for Trump are intractable.
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Democrats, Independents, and Republicans have had enough of the fundamental transformation of America.
Thats what you said and I agreed that he would do that.
Tell you what, when only 60% of women hate Trump, we could consider him again
So because we believe it important to actually adhere to the conservative principles that are going to be required to pull this country back from the brink, we’re freaks? Interesting....so you’re telling me this is NOT a conservative site?
You are right, that 3% of the population sure are noisy.
show me where I said it...I will wait......tap tap tap
But that's not how it works. Like alcoholism, drug use, which is a BEHAVIOR will be reclassified as a disease and the rest of us will pay through the nose.
But that's not how it works. Like alcoholism, drug use, which is a BEHAVIOR will be reclassified as a disease and the rest of us will pay through the nose.
That, plus the fact that Trump didn't pay his party dues, get in line and wait his turn.
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