(cross out Lil' Jebbie, insert Cruzich)
Posted on 04/27/2016 10:27:56 PM PDT by Neil E. Wright
I have a message for all the Trumpsters. Your behavior and antics in the past couple of months, and the antics of your "savior", The Donald, have made my decision about who to vote for, and who NOT to vote for in November easy.
If your guy is the nominee for the Republican Party, he WILL lose in November, and YOU WILL OWN IT. Because I will NEVER vote for that statist socialist, parasitic, steaming pile of obama.
Now, I've been told that JimRob is banning anyone who states publicly that they will not vote for trump. So be it. I have enjoyed Jim's friendship for many years, and I'll be sorry to lose it, but I WILL NOT surrender my principles that easily. Herewith is an article by Herschel Smith, that encapsulates my thoughts.
I have said for a very long time to my family and others that the experience of parents having and raising children isn’t really about the children. God will handle the children as He sees fit. It’s about the parents, and there are two experiences that test your mettle more than any other: marriage and children. It’s one of God’s way of sanctifying His own, but it has the opposite affect on others.
One reason I care about the election cycle isn’t because I think we can make a difference. Oh, we can in some ways, we can’t in others. We can make a difference in the medical care situation in the country, but we can’t in the global financial system. This discussion is saved for another time. But one thing the individual vote does at one and the same time is affect the soul and show the content of the soul of the voter. It’s a deeply moral act that has eternal consequences for the one who is given stewardship of the vote.
Now let me turn for a moment to a recent commentary by Jonah Goldberg. Sometimes I disagree vehemently with him, but other times he hits on all cylinders. This day the engine was running to perfection on the dynamometer.
This week there have been some cracks in the façade. Trump’s attacks on Heidi Cruz unsettled even Ann Coulter. And his abortion remarks are still sending tremors through the granite foundations of Trump can-do-no-wrong-ism. Joe Scarborough and Breitbart’s John Nolte are talking about what a bad week he’s having and gravely warning Trump to get his act together. As Jim Geraghty has been writing, the problem with such second thoughts is the assumption that something is amiss with Trump or his campaign. This is Trump. This is his campaign. The Trump we see before us is the same Trump. It’s a bit like when Barack Obama said that the Jeremiah Wright he saw denouncing America wasn’t the man he knew. That was nonsense. Obama knew exactly who Wright was, having attended his church for 20 years. It was only when Wright’s act moved to a larger national stage that all of a sudden he became inconvenient to Obama.
The analogy isn’t perfect, of course. But the basic point is the same. The Donald Trump of the last week is the exact same Donald Trump many of us saw a year ago or five years ago. He’s always been full of sh*t. He’s always been a total ignoramus when it comes to public policy, lacking the simple sense of patriotic duty to do his homework on the issues. He’s always been a nasty and boorish cad. He’s always pretended to be a conservative while working on liberal assumptions of what conservatives want to hear.
His “punish the women” comments were of a piece with his refusal to condemn the Klan on CNN. It’s not that he wants to punish women who have abortions — I’d bet he’s paid more abortion bills than he will ever sign — it’s that he thinks that’s what pro-lifers want to hear. It’s not that he’s a Klansman or that the pillowcases at Mara Lago come with eyeholes cut out in advance. It’s that Trump thinks lots of his fans like the Klan and he wants to pander to them. I have heard first-hand stories from people who’ve worked with Trump about how he disparages women’s appearance routinely. That’s who he is. If you’re attacking him because he retweeted a bad picture of Heidi, that’s not you being principled, it’s you getting cold feet. Indeed, I am sure that the same opportunism that has caused so many supposedly principled conservatives to hitch their wagons to Trump is now causing some of them to question their choices, not because Trump has changed but because the climate might be changing around them. By all means, if Trump continues to unravel (a huge if), please abandon Trump. But don’t think for a moment that the rest of us will automatically take your word for it when you say this or that statement changed your mind about the man. He hasn’t changed, your calculations have.
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Like all demagogues, he’s using his lies as a loyalty test for his followers. He’s exploiting his popularity and abusing the devotion of his fans to force them into going along with his fictions, until they are in so deep psychologically, they have no choice but to carry on. It’s an ancient psychological tactic of authoritarians, Mafia dons, and the like: Force your followers into sharing the blame for your misdeeds so that they can’t break ranks.
Jonah is right. He thinks we want to see women who have gotten abortions in the town center in stocks and chains. He’s pandering to the social right, but he missed on this, and he missed badly. His other positions – support for the second amendment, advocacy for closed borders – can only be assumed to be pandering as well.
Not to worry, though. Just about as soon as he said it, he triangulated his position again, to something like abortion laws are already set and we have to leave it that way. Trumps views on abortion aren’t the topic here. Trump is the topic. He is a mirror in which everyone sees what he or she wants to see, its just that the mirror has to be adjusted based on the onlooker and Trump isn’t really as good a triangulator as he is made out to be.
And that brings me to the conservative voters who have already cast their votes for Trump in the primaries heretofore. Do you remember when socialized medicine was the most important thing about the Obama administration, the holy grail of the progressives? It still is.
And yet, you have jettisoned that most important piece of your world view to support a man who sees things far differently than you, who supports socialized medicine, and who has said that the only thing he would change about the current system is to allow it to cross state lines.
Trump has woven you into his deception, his lies, his evil. And when socialized medicine is codified and solidified for you, your children, and your children’s children to the tenth generation of your progeny, when you see that your seed will hate you and this generation for what has been done to the country, it will be far too late.
Open wide, and suck it down. This is what you voted for, whether in the end it’s Hillary or Trump, or some replacement for Hillary. Own it. It’s yours. The Mafia don asked you to pull the trigger and do the deed. It’s no longer about him. Now it’s about you.
Your either with us or your agin us! Clearly your agin us.
Bye?..don’t let the freeper trap door hit ya in the hind parts on yur way out.
A YouTube link is not a reply.
Either man up and tough it out here, or join your zotted buddies at their new hangout.
Just quit whining about it, already.
You can save yourself the trouble of posting links to videos to me. I’m not interested.
I’m so glad to have read your response. My wife is a good friend of Jeff Beck and visiting those links made me see just how good some other guitar wizards actually are.
(cross out Lil' Jebbie, insert Cruzich)
Many of the people here have.
We've changed only in that we changed our mind about Donald Trump as a political force.
That change is logical and reasonable.
Many of us have also changed in what we think of Ted Cruz and his GOPe benefactors.
Again, this change is logical and reasonable.
It is the Cruz fanboys who don't understand when the game is over, and who are the ones being fooled.
If you choose to be willfully blind & cling to a failed and inferior candidate, it is you who have also have changed, and for the worse.
Your righteous indignation and disdain is misplaced.
You Cruz fanboys are the ones who are failing to process objective reality.
You're technically free to hate and slander Donald Trump.
Whether you're entitled to do so in this community, where you now function as de facto GOPe propagandists who want to sabotage this Revolution, is an entirely different and legitimate question, and one which only the site owner, Jim Robinson, can answer.
Vote Trump
But back to politics.....
Happy trails.....
“Some months ago I looked at both Cruz and Trump as acceptable candidates, even though they are very different.
Cruz has run a horrific campaign since then and many of his supporters need someone to blame. Cruz has only himself to blame.”
What baffles me, is how so many of them fail to see what’s painfully obvious to the rest of us. I could run down the list of all the things that have soured voters on Ted, but they’ve been discussed here, ad infinitum.
If a person is still 100% in the Cruz camp, they simply haven’t been taking stock of all the damning information that’s spilled all over cyberspace about Ted.
The man simply isn’t anything close to what we thought he was at the start of the race.
No thanks. Check out the video at 96.
Unlike ANYONE else who has/is running for president, he and he alone doesn't need the money, the power, nor the "fame".
Like many of us, he has sat and watched total nincompoops run for office/be elected and become crapouts, useless, incompetent idiots, and/or sellouts and said to himself and perhaps to others: "I COULD DO A BETTER JOB OF IT THAN SO-AND-SO !".
Unlike us, he has the money, the connections, and the guts to actually go for it!
Like the FFs, he has put his business, his family, his money, his peace and comfort, and yes, his very life and those whom he most loves lives on the line to "save" this nation, which he loves, from the brink!
HIS IS A BRAVE, SELFLESS ACT OF LOVE AND COURAGE !
Your post is a perfect example.
Of why I’m going after 18 years.
I’m glad you enjoyed the links. You probably should thank the person who posted them.
Cruz should have given up his Senate seat when he started his attempt to run for President.
You are blinded by your hatred and bias, refuse to see and hear the truth, and though you too shall prosper from a Trump presidency, I fear that you’ll continue to condemn him.
It’s just a live acoustic guitar performance of some very mellow sounds.
Definitely easy on the ears.
We could all use more music these days.
No offense but that kind of guitar playing would drive me to drinking more than I do. I’ll take Jeff Beck, Al DiMeola, Tony Iommi, Frank Marino and Robin Trower.
“...he has that knack with politicians, too!”
Big time! He’s ripped the masks off the whole rotten DC cabal. It’s why we love him.
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